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When I was younger, I drove fast, perhaps even recklessly and never did I think that it might be the day my life could be taken. These days I drive the speed limit, I watch my mannerisms. I’m more afraid of police than I am road rage. When I travel for work, I try to get the most nondescript rental, I obey traffic laws. I don’t call attention to myself. So many of us do all that and still don’t make it home. Is anyone listening? How loudly do we have to cry to be heard? I’m so, so tired. ..3

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The Second Amendment was never intended to permit mass slaughter.

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Complete absurdity from a Gannett newsroom: We think comments on articles are great but we're not going to invest the energy or care to keep them civil. Kindly go to social media, where "you can still have discussions..."

Yeah, that'll keep it civil...

lohud.com/story/news/2023/01/2

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As we’re hearing “stay peaceful” refrain, I’m here to remind everyone, BLM protestors were.

Summer of 2020, they were infiltrated by the far-right, in an effort to smear protests as “violent” and out of control.

Far-Right Boogaloo Admits Shooting Up Cop Station Amid Floyd Protests

thedailybeast.com/far-right-bo

Also this longer piece:

Leaked Documents Show Police Knew Far-right Extremists Were The Real Threat At Protests, Not “ANTIFA”

theintercept.com/2020/07/15/ge

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Esther Crawford is being pushed as the public face of "hardcore" Twitter.

And this photo of her sleeping at Twitter HQ is being lauded as some sort of "hero" event.

But she grew up in an abusive cult, and now she's working in an abusive cult.

This is incredibly sad.

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“Police officers are not Navy Seals, Army Rangers or Marines. They do not have the training, leadership, traditions, ethics and discipline of the US Armed Forces, let alone the most elite combat units. The militarization of American policing has been a disaster.”

open.substack.com/pub/stevesch

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Blatant antisemitism, now infiltrating Mar-a-Lago, LGBTQ+ hatred including a mass shooting, AR-15s at protests -- the U.S. right has never been more dangerous

That's because they're losing

Pro-democracy Americans can't let up now. My new column inquirer.com/opinion/commentar

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Colleges bow to lil’ tyrant Ron DeSantis’ will and halt diversity training. DeSantis won’t stop there. He’s already violated the 1st and 14th amendments and removed publicly elected officials

Fascism is winning

A reminder, DeSantis was a Guantánamo lawyer and administrator

His job was greenlighting torture , as per Mansoor Adayfi

This needs to be a bigger story.

mronline.org/2022/11/26/i-was-

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JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. — Now more than ever.

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1. Across the country, school districts are removing books with LGBTQ characters and themes from school libraries.

Now, a high-ranking legislator from North Dakota, Mike Lefor, is proposing the inevitable next step: banning these books from public libraries.

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jilldennison.com/2023/01/29/ti I’m tired of feeling helpless to change any of the things I’m tired of. I’m tired of being ashamed of this country I’ve lived in for almost 72 years now, tired of wishing I were almost anywhere but here. My vote is my voice, but it is a very small voice, made even smaller with such tactics as gerrymandering that dilute my voice

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Court records since 2011 show how police in some US states used digital data, like text messages, search history, and emails, in abortion-related prosecutions (TechCrunch)

techcrunch.com/2023/01/27/digi
techmeme.com/230129/p7#a230129

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The next time you hear Republicans in Congress complaining about the debt ceiling, remember that approximately 25% of the total national debt was incurred during the Trump administration.

The notion that Republicans care about the debt is one of the biggest lies in politics.

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You know what the world needs right now?

Sacha Baron Cohen to interview George Santos.

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Operating in the dark (in response to how public records revealed how “some people” tried to undermine 2020 election results) is anti-democratic and anti-American. But it is the Arizona state Legislature. #FirstAmendment #RighttoKnow #publicrecords #transparency
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

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Remember when Republicans stood in front of the American people and claimed "We want more TrANspaRuhnCEEeE!"

Just throw that claim on the ever-growing pile of bullshit that spews from their mouths.

#Arizona #Republicans #AZPol #transparency

"Arizona’s GOP legislators vote to shield themselves from public records laws"
nbcnews.com/politics/politics-

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hiring more cops to address rising homelessness is exactly as stupid as punching someone over and over again in the hopes that it will somehow cause them to own a house

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"DeSantis decided to deny the potentially life-changing class and effectively censor the freedom of our education and shield us from the truths of our ancestors," said prospective plaintiff Elijah Edwards.

crooksandliars.com/2023/01/stu

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