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EJ Garand
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💯 years ago today…
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EJ Garand@ejgarand93.bsky.social |
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Illustrator and resident ideas guy. (He/him/his)
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EJ Garand
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💯 years ago today…
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Phil Plait
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Left-wing parties banded together in France, even though they disagree over many policies, to push down the fascist right-wingers and keep them from power. It's a template of sorts for what we should do come November.
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EJ Garand
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I will never not get over the fact that some white English parents willingly chose to name their daughter HONOR BLACKMAN and neither should you!
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EJ Garand
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“Despite its failures and limitations, the American Revolution unleashed popular aspirations to throw off tyranny of all kinds. Reviving that legacy today means challenging the arbitrary power of employers.”
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EJ Garand
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“Corporate landlords and private equity investors are overtaking the US housing system. As renters face increasingly excessive rent, a new National Tenants Bill of Rights aims to provide them with basic rights and protections.”
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EJ Garand
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“Faced with criticism of the war in Gaza, Israeli leaders cynically ask why the world worries about the Palestinians and not the Kurds. Israel’s supposed pro-Kurdish stance is empty posturing — and risks damaging the Kurdish fight for liberation.”
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EJ Garand
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Women in Cocoa Beach, Florida be like—
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Robert Reich
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Once again, I just want to say that lavish gifts to Supreme Court justices shouldn’t just be “disclosed.” They should be banned, outright. This should not be a radical position.
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EJ Garand
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“The brutal death of Punjabi farmworker Satnam Singh in Italy was not an accident. It was the result of a system that violates fundamental human rights, reducing migrants’ lives to a disposable resource that can be exploited and then thrown away.”
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EJ Garand
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Cheers to 💯 years of master sergeant Charles Norman Shay today! 🇺🇸🎉🎊🥳🎂🍾🇫🇷
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EJ Garand
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“In the 1940s, Soviet and US labor unionists arranged for exchanges between their countries to promote goodwill and help prevent a dangerous rivalry. The largely forgotten effort serves as a reminder of how the Cold War might have been averted.”
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Phil Plait
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From what I've seen of the ADL of late, I say good on wikipedia. I've said it before: do not conflate a stance against what the Israeli government is doing with antisemiticism. They are two different things, but the ADL has repeatedly made it clear they think they’re the same.
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EJ Garand
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“Many have long worried that AI and robots will replace workers. But less attention has been paid to the increasing use of algorithmic systems to manage workers — creating ever more authoritarian and exploitative workplaces.”
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EJ Garand
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“Gazan refugees in Egypt have been denied most work opportunities and cannot open bank accounts, register their children for school, or access health insurance. They may have escaped the genocide — but their struggle is far from over.”
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EJ Garand
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“It’s been an open secret for over 50 years that Israel has nuclear weapons. By failing to acknowledge and censure Israel’s nuclear program, the US has undermined the legitimacy of nonproliferation efforts worldwide.”
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EJ Garand
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New vector art has just dropped! 🥀
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EJ Garand
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“Donald Sutherland (1935–2024) projected equal parts warmth, intelligence, and menace on the big screen. But he wasn’t just a brilliant actor — he was a man of the Left who never abandoned those values.”
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EJ Garand
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“Alp Altınörs has spent years in a Turkish jail because of his support for the Kurdish-led fight against ISIS. In an op-ed for Jacobin, the jailed socialist explains why the values of that struggle should also mean solidarity with Palestinians.”
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Robert Reich
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One of the richest men in the 1920s was Andrew Mellon — an early prophet of trickle-down economics. Yesterday we learned that his grandson, Timothy Mellon, gave a Trump super PAC one of the largest political donations ever. This is how dynastic wealth works. Wealth tax now.
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EJ Garand
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So just WHERE was Yuji Naka on the 6th of January 2021??? 🤔
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EJ Garand
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“The recent ruling against the Chiquita fruit company for its ties to a terrorist death squad is a victory for workers and peasants in a country where violent repression has long been the norm.”
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EJ Garand
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This will be Lilly Gaddis in just a few more years into the conservative trad-wife lifestyle:
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EJ Garand
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“By music industry standards, Charlie Hunter is one of the most successful guitarists of his generation. But he hates the music industry. These days, he’s devoted to fostering young musical talents in a business designed to crush and exploit them.”
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EJ Garand
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In another 80 years, there will be a new religious movement that worships George Stinney Jr. as its messianic figure with an electric chair proudly adorned as its principal symbol. 🪑⚡️🛐
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EJ Garand
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“The United States has repeatedly intervened in Latin America to overthrow democratically elected governments and install right-wing dictatorships. But homegrown far-right forces in Latin America itself have often proved just as important as US meddling.”
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EJ Garand
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“The video game industry exploits its workers and abuses its market dominance, ruining the quality of games while investors rake in fortunes. Worth more than the film and music industries combined, this behemoth is a beast that needs taming.”
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Alejandra Caraballo
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The free state of Florida...
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Robert Reich
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75% of voters support a binding ethics code for the Supreme Court. They're tired of justices receiving millions of dollars in gifts from political donors, some of whom have cases before the court. So why did Senate Republicans block a SCOTUS ethics bill yesterday? Hello?
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EJ Garand
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Wait, they made a GOOD Hitman movie???
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Phil Plait
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There is a spectrum to humanity, and the Federalist is at one end while Dolly is way, way off to the other. These small-minded bigots don't deserve a single molecule of air, while Dolly deserves the highest praise we can possibly heap upon her.
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🏴☠️ Maddox 🏴☠️
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The same government that's powerful enough to pull off 9/11, the JFK assassination, global "covid scamdemic," etc, is also powerless to silence Alex Jones and has to go through long, protracted legal battles in court resulting in a gradual liquidation of his assets. Weird.
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Robert Reich
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Conservatives say raising the minimum wage would drive up inflation. But the federal minimum wage hasn't gone up since 2009. Average CEO pay has gone up about 60% since 2009. Who's pay is contributing to inflation?
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EJ Garand
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Well worth the $50 that I spent some 8 years ago… 🤑
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EJ Garand
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The recent System Shock remake from Nightdive Studios is amazing! 👾
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EJ Garand
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You guys still have E3?
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C. Robert Cargill
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For sale. Baby shoes. With feet.
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🏴☠️ Maddox 🏴☠️
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Social media is the only product where the creators acknowledge the negative impacts it has on your mental health and still promote it, grow it further and use it.
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EJ Garand
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I never said that such things were linked to specific countries, FYI.
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EJ Garand
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One of the great tragedies of our modern education system is the blatant lack of courses that teach general semantics to a wide audience…
youtu.be/7-hqP0H-lSw?...
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EJ Garand
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So you’re just needlessly arguing semantics, otherwise you’d have to answer what about Tiananmen that is being “erased” by Americans without bringing up any of the previously mentioned American massacres, thereby contradicting your previous statement about the relationship being made.
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EJ Garand
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Either you haven’t closely read the inciting post or you’re just needlessly arguing semantics in what is still a false analogy:
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EJ Garand
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You can easily preserve democratic practices where you are without making a false equivalence between two countries, and I am sorry to hear that you cannot safely visit your grandfather's grave in China.
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EJ Garand
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The difference being that the US government is unable to take any action to personally stop you from talking about Kent State, Wounded Knee, the MOVE bombing, LA '92, Ferguson, Standing Rock, NoDAPL, Stop Cop City, etc.
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EJ Garand
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BTW comparing the continued cover-up and censorship of the Tiananmen Square protest and massacre to historically-documented, peer-reviewed, and government-sanctioned US protests and massacres is a false equivalency made in bad faith.
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EJ Garand
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At least the American press and public are still allowed to discuss and investigate the happenings in Ocoee, Opelousas, Tulsa, or Kent State without fear of reprisal from Capitol Hill!
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EJ Garand
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All credit for images and information goes to Human Rights in China and Tiananmen Mothers. 🕯️
#May35th #TiananmenMartyrs
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EJ Garand
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12. Yuan Li (袁力)
•Born: Thursday, July 7th, 1960 CE
•Sex: Male
•Home: Beijing Municipality
•Occupation: Electronics Engineer
•Died: Saturday, June 3rd, 1989 CE
•Cause: Gunshot wound to throat
•Aged: 28 years, 331 days
#May35th #TiananmenMartyrs
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EJ Garand
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11. Yü Di (于地)
•Born: Tuesday, August 27th, 1957 CE
•Sex: Male
•Home: Beijing Municipality
•Occupation: Assistant Engineer
•Died: Friday, June 30th, 1989 CE
•Cause: Multiple gunshot wounds
•Aged: 31 years, 307 days
#May35th #TiananmenMartyrs
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EJ Garand
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10. Xiao Jie (肖杰)
•Born: Saturday, August 31st, 1968 CE
•Sex: Male
•Home: Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
•Occupation: University Student
•Died: June 5th, 1989 CE
•Cause: Gunshot wound to back
•Aged: 20 years, 278 days
#May35th #TiananmenMartyrs
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EJ Garand
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9. Wu Guofeng (吴国锋)
•Born: Wednesday, July 3rd, 1968 CE
•Sex: Male
•Home: Xinjin County, Sichuan Province
•Occupation: University Student
•Died: Sunday, June 4th, 1989 CE
•Cause: Multiple gunshot and stab wounds
•Aged: 20 years, 336 days
#May35th #TiananmenMartyrs
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