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mishi

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There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. #Abolition #Vegan #Anarchy Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. . The day will come when all these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks & then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.

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mishi, to random
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American healthcare is so strange, bizarre and troubling. My healthcare has a “rewards program.” Rewards programs are offered by companies who overcharge and then pretend they’re giving you (your own) money back. I don’t want to know how this particular program works. That it exists at all, for my healthcare, is really fucked up.

mishi,
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@skinnylatte

Is that a real thing? Capitalism is so messed up, it probably is real.

mishi,
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@skinnylatte

In the states, healthcare is a privilege, not a right. It’s important we post the bizarro American healthcare information so folks in other countries fight for their healthcare funding, and don’t follow Americans down this privatized path of despair.

Even with good insurance American healthcare is the worst. It’s also 10 times more expensive than anywhere else in the world.

mishi,
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@skinnylatte

Is it though?
Even super wealthy people lose out when the commons is under funded. So a rich woman with cancer can build her hospital a new wing and get great treatment. (I know a lady who did that. She still died of cancer). If her housekeepers, chef, gardeners, fitness, instructors, & manicurists had access to the same treatments, there would be more doctors practicing these things & gathering data. The quality of her care would go up too.

DoomsdaysCW, to NativeAmerican
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BREAKING: Federal court greenlights destruction of

vows to appeal decision to U.S. Supreme Court

By Apache Stronghold, Censored News, March 1, 2024

WASHINGTON – "A divided federal court (6-5) today refused to protect an ancient sacred site from destruction by a multinational giant, putting the case on a fast track to the Supreme Court. In Apache Stronghold v. United States, a rare 'en banc' panel of eleven judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal government can transfer the Oak Flat to , a foreign-owned mining company that plans to turn the site into a massive mining crater, ending Apache religious practices forever. (Watch the short video linked below to learn more).

"The decision was by a bare majority, with five judges vigorously disagreeing and writing that the majority 'tragically err[ed]' in allowing the government to 'obliterate[e] Oak Flat' and prevent the ' from ever again' engaging in their religious exercise. With the help of Becket, Apache Stronghold has vowed to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"Since time immemorial, Western Apaches and other native peoples have gathered at Oak Flat for sacred religious ceremonies that cannot take place anywhere else. Known in Apache as Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, Oak Flat is on the National Register of Historic Places and has been protected from mining and other harmful practices for decades. These protections were eliminated in 2014, when a last-minute provision was inserted into a must-pass authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, a foreign-owned mining company that plans to turn the sacred site into a two- mile-wide and 1,100-foot-deep crater. The majority owner of Resolution Copper, Rio Tinto, recently sparked international outrage when it deliberately destroyed 46,000-year-old rock shelters at one of ’s most significant cultural sites.

"'Oak Flat is like to us—our most sacred site where we connect with our Creator, our faith, our families, and our land,” said Dr. Wendsler Nosie of Apache Stronghold. “Today’s ruling targets the spiritual lifeblood of my people, but it will not stop our struggle to save Oak Flat. We vow to appeal to the Supreme Court.'

Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/federal-court-greenlights-destruction.html

Link to video:
https://youtu.be/Zh68xOn0B_8?si=428-0_7qDRrLgQm7



mishi,
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@DoomsdaysCW

Save Juristac too. Similar thing is happening in Santa Clara County, California. Developers want to exploit (& ruin) sacred Indian land but have been thwarted for years by activists. Environmental Impact Reports, with lots of public pressure, have paused development at Juristac (for now).

igd_news, to random
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Yesterday, water protectors and forest defenders shut down construction against the Mountain Valley Pipeline in .

mishi,
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@igd_news

Red necks are beautiful! (Folks are called rednecks because Appalachian union workers wore red bandannas.) Solidarity forever 👊

sidereal, to random
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So as far as I can tell 99% of all gas stations in American cities used to be either stables or streetcar power transformers. And a huge amount of the first-gen supermarkets were built inside of old streetcar barns.

mishi,
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@sidereal

I like to imagine gas stations transforming again to electric/solar/green stations. We could bring streetcars back too. Transportation infrastructure for public transportation, not more cars.

sidereal, to random
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So do any of you have any tips on decluttering a space

mishi,
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@sidereal

I keep a donation box & add to it regularly.

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, (edited ) to random
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In case people I really like are wondering why I unfollowed them, it's always because you called (or boosted someone else calling) Jewish people Nazis. I will not use the Holocaust Inversion Trope, not even against fascist, genocidal Zionists, because it hurts Jewish people who are not fascist or genocidal or Zionist to see it, and I care about the requests of the Jewish diaspora not to do this. Nazis, by definition, want to exterminate Jewish people. What is happening in Israel is not about killing Jewish people, meaning the genocide that is actually happening is not towards Jewish people. Talk about similarities all you want to, due to the shared characteristics of fascism, genocide, imperialism, and an ethno-state. But both of us are not Jewish, so we do not have the right to dabble in antisemitic tropes as insults. I was sad to see you go.

Edit: Holocaust Inversion includes "Final Solution" appropriations.

mishi,
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@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs

My close Jewish friends are not speaking out against what is happening in Gaza. It is a conversation that hasn’t happened in 30+ years of friendships. One of these friends is Zionist, most of them are not. They call our Zionist Jewish friend a “hardliner”. Hardliners, like Bibi, have a far right mindset.

I have a lot of respect for Jews who speak out against what is happening in Gaza. It takes courage to stand up against imperialism.

violetblue, to random
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Envisioning a future as one of the last remaining people who've never had covid and being hunted like an animal for my bone marrow https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-elusive-immune-cells-hidden-niches.html

mishi,
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@superdilettante @violetblue @LeftistLawyer

My blood type is O- and I have twice caught Covid, both times with symptoms.

violetmadder, to random
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Censorship of Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation video angers me.

By all means put all the warnings. Don't let children anywhere near it. If it will hurt you to watch it, don't. Don't click on it in the first place, or look away when you need to. Unless you feel a strong conviction to do this, unless you know this is a constructive way for you personally to handle these situations, do NOT look.

But we should get to make that CHOICE for ourselves.

Those of us who wish to give him our respect in this particular way, those of us capable and willing for whatever reason to serve as witnesses, don't need a bunch of squeamish nannies getting in the way. This muffling, this covering up, this sanitization... as if the horrors become any less if we just don't see. As if it makes the world better, to hide reality. The turning away, the hiding, the denying and ignoring and papering over, is part of what got us here in the first place.

Like the "beauty screen" of trees the loggers leave along the highways to hide the clearcuts, so motorists can pretend the forest is still there.

Gaslighting makes me feel like I'm covered in ants. Every so often, I need to stand up and rip aside the cobwebs and fucking LOOK the monstrosity of this world right in the face. There's a calm, quiet place in the pit of my guts where I feel centered... a cathartic reality check. Yes. It's this bad. Yes, we are screaming.

Yes, this is intolerable.

If you had survived this, Aaron... maybe you would have regretted doing it. Maybe you would have changed your mind, and not wanted people to watch after all. I certainly hope your parents never see or hear it. I can't imagine what they are feeling now.

But the choice was made, and can't be taken back.

I can serve as a witness. I don't know why or how I am capable of watching this so calmly. This is NOT something I'm bragging about or a thing to emulate-- it could definitely be argued that I'm only wired in this peculiar way because there's actually something really wrong with me. I'm not going to judge that one way or the other. My peculiar perspective has its advantages and its costs. When I can find an advantage, I'll use it.

I'd really rather not, though. None of this should be happening. I'd rather that LillyAnarKitty was still with us.

The word "martyr" makes me feel ill. Glorifying the destruction of life and beauty always sickens me, even if the sacrifice can be said to have accomplished something.

Just because a shocking act might trigger events that show up in the news, doesn't mean it's worth more than what that life fully lived could have accomplished in ways we won't hear about from some viral fluke.

I can understand why someone would choose to do something like this. I can respect it. But if I had any chance to talk to them ahead of time I'd beg them not to do it. Don't. Please, please don't.

Your heart and skills are needed. The world is better with you in it.

We need to STOP the burning.

mishi,
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@violetmadder

He had no regrets. What Aaron Bushnell had is courage, integrity, & empathy.

igd_news, to DC
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Yesterday, Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty member of the Air Force and an anarchist, set fire to himself in front of the Israeli embassy in , in what they called an "extreme act of protest" against the ongoing genocide and ethnic-cleansing of by the state of Israel.

Bushnell was involved in various mutual aid projects.

Already, far-Right grifters and pundits have attacked his anarchist beliefs as signs of him being mentally "disturbed."

Bushnell's death comes as Israel prepares to invade , where over a million Palestinian refugees have been pushed into tent cities.

Read our report here: https://itsgoingdown.org/active-duty-air-force-member-aaron-bushnell-final-act-protest/

mishi,
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@flypaper @thetechtutor @igd_news

Or how about the Tibetan monks protesting China’s genocide of Tibet. Were they mentally ill too?

I think not. Their courage was infinite, and they gave everything they had.

charliejane, to random
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People who claim private companies are more efficient than the government have never tried to talk to their insurance company

mishi,
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@charliejane @toddhorowitz

Out of network… Capitalism has given American healthcare a whole new language that people in other countries, do not have, and hopefully will never have to have.

Privatization is exploitive. It creates both billionaires and homelessness.

jeridansky, to Medicine
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Dr. Ruth Gottesman, on donating $1 billion to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine so all students can attend tuition-free:

Dr. Gottesman’s husband died in 2022 at age 96. “He left me, unbeknownst to me, a whole portfolio of Berkshire Hathaway stock,” she recalled. The instructions were simple: “Do whatever you think is right with it."

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/nyregion/albert-einstein-college-medicine-bronx-donation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YU0.xHcm.KGd5ffmXFPes&smid=url-share

h/t @deborahh

mishi,
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@jeridansky @deborahh

She’s doing the right thing. And yet…the burden shouldn’t be on individuals, but on governments to ensure people can attend university tuition free.

indybay, to random
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Monday 2/26: Pink Slip Pelosi with Codepink; Nancy, It’s Time To Go! https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/02/26/18863489.php

mishi,
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@indybay

“Nancy Pelosi is a right-wing oligarch whose power comes from her fundraising ability for the Democrats. She is a heartless, bloodthirsty, ignorant, delusional, and vindictive woman whose reign as queen of San Francisco is at an end.”

Yaas. Glad to see it!! It’s about time Pelosi be held accountable for her war mongering.

miriamrobern, to FiberArts
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My friend found this and posted it elsesocial so I'm posting it here because it is glorious.

mishi,
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@miriamrobern

We are still fighting for pockets. The front pockets in my levis are only 3” deep. They are ridiculously shallow. You’d think levis would get it right.

Binder, to random
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The most outlandish part of Ready Player One is the ludicrous premise that a video game could ever ship in the form originally envisioned by the game’s designer.

mishi,
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@Binder

You haven’t played Balders Gate 3 yet. :)

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, to random
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    mishi,
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    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs

    We’ve been raised within a capitalist system. It’s going to take a lot of re-education to let it go. Events like Rainbow Gatherings give people an experience of barter systems & anarchy, while Maker Fairs show us how to fix & re-use things.

    Reading Kropotkin’s Conquest of Bread has good ideas about unplugging from corporate food sources.

    We have to seek these things out. Capitalism is not inevitable. It’s a system that must be destroyed.

    Binder, to random
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    Rating hot sauces by how much I blow my nose for the hour after consuming them.

    Area 51: on the order of 30 Kleenex required.

    mishi,
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    @Binder @Subumbral

    Global warming is freaking the plants out. They are producing a lot of pollen. Peoples allergies are off the charts.

    My grandmother used to scream sneeze, and it drove me nuts. Now sometimes I find myself doing that. Oy vey.

    TonyStark, to random
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    Republicans force women and girls to give birth to babies from rapists and deny women desperately wanted babies by making IVF effectively impossible.

    That’s what’s happening.

    It’s not too late to elect a whole lot more Democrats before this gets worse while many will be fighting this in the meantime.

    Alabama's largest hospital pauses IVF treatments after court ruling that embryos are children |
    https://fortune.com/well/2024/02/22/alabama-birmingham-ivf-court-ruling-embryos-legal-status/

    mishi,
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    @maddad @TonyStark

    I’ve read Orwell, 1984 a few times and that is not in the book.

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    mishi,
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    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs

    The music was made for Democracy Now!. It is their theme song. Music & art are essentials for activists. Amy Goodman is really great about infusing fresh music into each day news.

    Amy is there every day reporting on terrible things. I have watched her for a decade. If there was sad music, we’d all be in tears. I think the music is appropriate. We need stay uplifted & hopeful no matter how dark & heavy the world is.

    MnemosyneSinger, to random

    One must imagine Sisyphus horny.

    Rock hard, even.

    mishi,
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    @MnemosyneSinger

    Between Scylla and Charybdis :)

    Strandjunker, to random
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    Here’s the deal: We stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential.

    mishi,
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    @Strandjunker

    Always punch up.

    sidereal, to random
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    Seeing a lot of people saying things like "why don't Americans protest more." I'm not exactly sure how to respond because:

    1. In 2020 America had the largest sustained series of protests in world history. Americans protest plenty.

    2. American activists are shot by police at a very high rate. Don't forget this.

    Americans protest at a very high rate already. We don't protest more because so many of us have been murdered and our police are very dangerous. Hope this helps.

    mishi,
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    @sidereal @LukefromDC

    Agreed. But Minneapolis wants to rebuild a much larger precinct to replace precinct 3. This cannot happen.

    https://m.startribune.com/minneapolis-third-3rd-precinct-new-police-station-minnehaha-ave-opening-timeline/600340026/?clmob=y&c=n&clmob=y&c=n

    mishi,
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    @sidereal @LukefromDC

    Wouldn’t it be lovely if our resources went to unhoused people and children, healthcare, education, & mobility justice instead of cops?

    We burn one precinct down, they build more precincts plus new cop cities. Bright new, expensive, shiny precincts & cop cities with our tax dollars.

    This is an asymmetrical fight. It’s class warfare. Abolitionists say do not allow our communities to build new precincts or cop cities. It’s like they think we live in a democracy.

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