isaac
Posting about electricity and how we can care for one other. @publicgrids.org. SF. they.
Latest: “Utility justice is a place we can build together”
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- SCOOP! We have secret Project 2025 documents laying out plans to drastically restructure domestic law enforcement -- from the feds on down -- under Trump's command. It's ostensibly about deporting immigrants. It could be used for more. At @phoenixnewtimes.com, from Beau Hodai:
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- Unitary Executive Law Enforcement Theory
- SCOOP! We have secret Project 2025 documents laying out plans to drastically restructure domestic law enforcement -- from the feds on down -- under Trump's command. It's ostensibly about deporting immigrants. It could be used for more. At @phoenixnewtimes.com, from Beau Hodai:
- One more thing before I get back to grading: social justice movements without the threat of violence, or the recognition of violence as a tool, are a relatively modern invention and one peddled by the interests of power to maintain powerlessness.
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- New from AP: "The Debt Collective says it’s striking how many older people dial into the organization’s calls and attend its protests. Many of them, he says, should have had their debts cancelled but fell victim to a system “riddled with flaws and illegalities and flukes.” apnews.com/article/stud...
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- This week's episode of Movement Memos is for activists and organizers who need to think about safety and security planning during these times (and that's all of us). I am grateful to Che Johnson-Long for this thoughtful, caring, and practical conversation. Audio + transcript:
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- The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.
- A late addition:
- Time to prepare, beloveds. If you are considering stocking up, remember that these pills do expire eventually, and *do not* discuss your actions online or via unencrypted communication. Take no shit, and leave no trace. www.plancpills.org
- Raise your hand if you predicted they would come for birthright citizenship within six months and then got sneered at by people who have yet to die of shame, I know you're out there
- Tomorrow, SCOTUS will hear arguments in a case regarding the nationwide injunction on the unconstitutional effort to end birthright citizenship. @fwd.us President Todd Schulte explains what’s at stake, what the Constitution says, and why protecting birthright citizenship matters for all Americans:
- Capitalism is so fucking stupid we are literally setting the planet on fire and spending tons of money mitigating climate disasters and recovering from them because a couple oil capitalists decided we should all die for money 😀
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- I just want to reiterate that fighting fascism includes the “cultural war.” Anyone who tells you otherwise is a fool.
- ANDOR
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- My theory - that everyone in America exists in a thick miasma of nihilism, panic and despair, to the point that the subsequent cognitive impairment is becoming measurable, and we have existed in this state for almost a decade now - stays winning
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- I haven’t forgotten about the union brother who was kidnapped and sold to El Salvador.
- so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?
- Their own members have been threatened with arrest and they haven't called an emergency meeting to address this in their caucus. If self-preservation doesn't move them to action, not sure what will.
- the narrative with ‘white genocide’ lately isn’t an accident, this is an intentional effort to continue pushing the overton window as far as they can to completely reverse all social progress. these people are genuinely sad aparteid ended
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- Absolutely devastating news at the bodega while I was getting quarters for laundry. I've been friendly with a homeless trans woman who lives in my neighborhood, and I just learned she was killed. Hit by a bus, apparently. Her name was Angel. She was 23, my age.
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- By age 33 you should: -have $100k in an IRA -paid off your student loans -own property -be betrayed by your best friend -die on the cross -come back to life from a rock -have your teachings wildly misunderstood -drive a Lexus
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- Congratulations SEIU-USWW, UNITE HERE Local 11, and over 150 organizations across Los Angeles who have spent 2 years fighting! #UnionsForAll
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- It's official-official! LA has passed the highest minimum wage in the country. The Olympic and Paralympic Wage will ensure that tourism workers are making $30/hour by 2028. The ordinance will come back for a second vote in two weeks then head to the desk of Mayor Karen Bass
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- Despite extensive media coverage of the resettlement of Afrikaners & South Africa's land reform law, the views of the rural working class, especially its Black majority, have received little attention. hammerandhope.org/article/musk...
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- As far as things we take for granted that will come to seem insane to people in the future are concerned, the concept that you are allowed to accrue literally unlimited amounts of money as an individual — even $1 trillion and more, if you can make it there — is probably high on the list.
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