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Timely reminder that it's worth maintaining a principled stance against the death penalty even when it comes to people who deserve the most fiery pits of hell. They will find their way there eventually with or without our help
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The state should not have the power to execute, period. That power should be beyond its purview, period.


Okay this is the first wet blanket thing I will say about the Luigi love, it does freak me out a little to see sainthood killer jokes just because that's SUCH a trope of the terrorist incel and terrorist neo-Nazi far right

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I don't even know what Aaron did this time, I just know I do not trust him or feel safe with this Jesse Singal stuff and so am here for any and all dogpiles


Here's the thing: You are correct that INDIVIDUALIZED consumer choices are not going to make or break corporate policy. But organized, COLLECTIVE consumer choices-- like boycotts-- can and do impact corporate decisionmaking.

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That's why I asked if there was a boycott call. I don't worry about "ethical" purchasing bc I think it's mostly a marketing scam, but I will absolutely honor organized calls to boycott or show spending preferences, especially when they come from workers. Because that really does work, sometimes.


Got my blood tests back and I am no longer immune to measles or mumps! Take this as your sign to get your antibodies tested and get vaxxed as necessary now, before RFK Jr. opens Pandora's box



Hey, for some reason I'm just seeing neofetch. Looks like it's not supported anymore but looks really cool! Any words of yay or nay??? #Slackware #Linux



Breaking: Elon Musk promises Donald Trump “an important role” in the upcoming presidential administration, with “specific areas of responsibility to be worked out.”


A note to say that any shutdown in the US due to the *Debt Ceiling* is entirely arbitrary, optional, it would only happen if they choose to do it, they can always spend whatever they choose to spend. #macroeconomics #uspol #politics



Yeah this definitely won't make people think he's even more of a badass. Stellar optics work, agents of capital

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I am heartened by this. Not by the crisis we face, obviously, but by reading stories of people putting on their oxygen masks in preparation and doing the work of survival and perseverance in concrete ways. Survival is resistance. We need to remember that.

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Someone in the piece talks about making sure her family is okay so she can make sure other families are okay, and that's exactly where I'm at. Through 1/20 we are in a holding pattern, and now is the time to do or set in motion what we can to be okay ourselves. So we can take care of others.
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Bad things will likely move FAST once Trump takes office. And if we are not positioned to sustain our care of ourselves and our families, we are not going to be able to summon the stamina we need to fight back and take care of others.


Weird, it's almost as if we live in a world so deeply in denial about a continuing and unaddressed respiratory symptom-linked pandemic that we will latch on to just about anything we can to explain the symptoms

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Remember when he drowned the sister of Trump's transportation secretary with one of his cars and everybody shrugged

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I don't think incarceration is a humane way to practice accountability. I do think there are folks who do not belong in society with the rest of us and that shunning and exile has its place, but the vast majority of people imprisoned do not fall under that category.

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It took me a long time to come around on prison abolition because when it was first introduced to me as a concept it was in conversations that felt facile and by people who seemed unwilling to talk about the realities of accountability needs. So I get having a dubious response.
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I do believe there is a need for unrepentant violent abusers and predators to have space to themselves and/or with each other to exist outside a context where they can do continued harm to the rest of us. But there are a lot of ways to create that separation that aren't prison.


I am a prison abolitionist and also I believe all of these men should be sent to an uninhabited island that is in imminent danger of getting swallowed by the sea

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I would guess they're more than happy to see generics become inaccessible if they can extract promises that newer proprietary drugs are left untouched.

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