the washington county, VA sheriff's office has issued a press release about their deputy, austin lee edwards, who was killed in a shootout with police in california over the weekend. he had murdered the family of the teenage girl he traveled to california to abduct.
Today's Rec Read ballooned out into a short essay when I decided to use two recent media examples to demonstrate everyday people are seeing through capitalist propaganda about the climate crisis:
"Recommended Reading: Mass Response"
https://t.co/8xFkfn21kc
A hard-right faction took control of the 4th-largest school district in South Carolina last night and immediately got to work smashing anything that wasn’t nailed to the floor.
I took notes so you can be prepared when they come for your schools. https://t.co/YF3YwDmmwd
calling 911 and demanding a swat team come to my house to look at the cryptowallet where my apes used to be, but they can't come over because the left defunded the police
In a complaint filed Wednesday that reads straight out the Great Depression, the feds requested a temporary injunction on a sanitation company that’s accused of employing children as young as 13 in “dangerous” overnight shifts at food processing plants. https://t.co/3IWPKYxrpO
I sifted through too much trash media analysis to find a piece asking the important question about the US Midterms - if the GOP underperformed & Americans rejected fascism again, how are Republicans taking over the House? The answer is judicial fascism:
https://t.co/KXpLV48bay
Reviewing @AndyBCampbell 's "We Are Proud Boys." I won't spoil the verdict, but it's safe to say my opinion of Campbell as a journalist was greatly bolstered by his work in We Are Proud Boys. Check it out on NIDC below:
"Bookish Bits: Proud of Our Boy"
https://t.co/xkr7MRIQk4
journal about why calls to expand the fascist police state in response to stochastic violence are not only absurd, but will likely result in tooling up the new Gestapo just in time to suppress people who won't kneel to fascism.
"No More Murderpigs"
https://t.co/eluQ3p3sNv
I dunno, maybe actively working to present a false moral equivalency between teenagers chalking up your sideway to fight climate change, and deranged reactionaries who're breaking into politician's houses with hammers, was not the smartest idea in human history.
#Spitballin
A dark day for trans youth.
Florida Board of Medicine has just voted to ban gender affirming care for all trans teenagers.
They cut the hearing early and told activists to "email them."
I cry for Florida's trans youth. This was a sham hearing with fake experts.
today on Insta we're talking about America's legacy of right wing political violence surrounding elections and why armed fascist poll watchers are by no means "not the America I know."
Check out "A Legacy of Right Wing Political Violence" on Instagram:
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