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"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
The EPA Responded to a Respiratory Virus by Relaxing Pollution Controls - Major polluters were deemed 'essential.' Under EPA policy, environmental and safety inspectors were not. https://inthesetimes.com/article/epa-pandemic-environmental-pollution-regulation-enforcement-rollback
Healthcare Workers Are Leading the Largest Strike Ever at the University of Illinois-Chicago https://inthesetimes.com/article/healthcare-workers-strike-university-illinois-chicago
OTOH, they do target a lot of self-proclaimed Democrats...
Progressive solicitations really need to lose the practice of using clickbait headlines. The only message those convey is that you think your donors are a bunch of rubes.
A Progressive Prosecutor Faces Off With Portland’s Aggressive Police https://theintercept.com/2020/09/16/portland-protests-prosecutor-police/
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Climate Change Is Now Killing Birds in Midair
https://earther.gizmodo.com/dead-birds-are-falling-out-of-the-sky-in-the-southwest-1845076744 #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate
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Burying the lede: "AT&T engineers are creating 'unified customer identifiers,' [AT&T CEO] Stankey said. Such technology would allow marketers to identify users across multiple devices and serve them relevant advertising." #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/att-wants-to-put-ads-on-your-smartphone-in-exchange-for-5-discount/
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Protests Against Police Brutality Spread in Colombia: Across the country, youth set fire to at least 60 police facilities, vehicles, and motorcycles belonging to the National Police.
#Colombia #Cali #medellín #Bogotá #bogotá #Resistence #BlackLivesMatter #anonymous #GeorgeFloydProtests #protests
Whistleblower Reports High Number of Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Facility https://theintercept.com/2020/09/15/hysterectomies-ice-irwin-whistleblower/
Indigenous Activists Arrested and Held Incommunicado Following Border Wall Protest https://theintercept.com/2020/09/16/indigenous-activists-border-wall-protest/
US corporations file for bankruptcy and lay off workers. Why do execs still get bonuses? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/16/us-corporations-file-for-bankruptcy-and-lay-off-workers-why-do-execs-still-get-bonuses
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Tonight the president is coming to speak in #Philly and people are going to protest against him.
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@fribbledom report but continue: partial backup is still better than no backup.
BUT the "report" must be very clear and prominent (even annoying) so ppl know some file was NOT backed up.
This is the default behaviour of DejaDup, btw.
We need to remember that this isn't just Trump. The whole of the GOP and much of the Democratic Party isn't behind taking the science seriously.
'Trump Scoffs at Plea to Take Climate Change Seriously Amid Fires, Mocks Science Instead' https://theintercept.com/2020/09/14/trump-scoffs-plea-take-climate-change-seriously-amid-wildfires-mocks-science/
Melinda Gates talking up inequality, but don't expect her to start fighting capitalism. This is thinly disguised advertising for their foundation.
This article misses the deeper message of fighting socialism that the GOP is probably trying to convey with such images. The idea that Joe Biden is somehow deeply invested in Bernie Sanders ideals and will bring about 'Red Dawn (1984 version 'natch)' invasion. Boo kiddies!
Black churches say Donald Trump election ad incites 'white terrorism' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/15/black-churches-donald-trump-election-ad-white-terrorism
The ‘invisible voting bloc’: US postal service cuts threaten ballot access for inmates https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/15/usps-cuts-threaten-ballot-access-inmates
Reaching into the GOP election year playbook...Trump threatens to retaliate to any Iran attack with '1,000 times greater' force https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/15/trump-iran-retaliate-1000-times-greater-force
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So the largest consumer cooperative in Canada is being sold to a private investor firm without anyone asking the members?!
Sign this petition to stop this.
https://www.change.org/p/mountain-equipment-coop-stop-the-privatization-of-mountain-equipment-co-op
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
