this is yet another reason that police unions are a disaster that must be dismantled - they have built for themselves a structure that financially incentivizes pain and suffering and oppression in the name of endless overtime pay
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"In the U.S., if enough people assemble to protest something the state is hellbent on preserving, the cops will be deployed to stop it by any means necessary. All in the name of control. All so that Israel can continue murdering people in Gaza." www.discourseblog.com/p/fuck-the-c...
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say it with us folks
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I wrote for @thenation.com about what we have been watching over the past 24 hours. The people in power are terrified of the strength of this movement, and they are doing everything they can to punish students for having the audacity to challenge them. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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this is about reminding people who runs the world, and punishing them for thinking they get to have a say
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these people do not seem to realize that by cheapening the memory of the holocaust in this way they are doing much more to make violence against jews possible than any protesters against genocide ever could
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Truly disturbing that "people are protesting because genocide is bad" has not crossed the mind of some of our top so-called observers of politics www.discourseblog.com/p/the-sociop...
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framing these protests as an illness is a hell of a choice www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/w...
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just thinking about how the legislature can very easily curb the power of these psychopaths in multiple ways if it chooses to but probably never will :)
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we're seeing such clear echoes of the tactics that governments across america used to suppress the 2020 protests. to have the movement for palestine even be in the neighborhood of representing that kind of threat to the us establishment is a remarkable development.
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I'm bowled over by the beautiful response to Lujayn's piece. There's a ton of attention on the amazing student movement right now. Let this piece be a reminder of what that movement is about: ensuring that people in Gaza like Lujayn can live in peace and freedom.
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ok tysm!!!
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30-50 feral hogs
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hi hi â if possible could you email me at jmirkinson at the nation dot com? (i want to ask you to write something but I don't have your email!)
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"Lujayn describes an increasingly common tactic of the Israeli military in her narrative: bulldozing buildings with people still inside. In addition, Lujaynâs story serves as a warning to the world about the dangers of Israelâs threatened invasion of Rafah."
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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