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I’m homeless guys. I got into an argument with my narcissistic Christian mother and she got a protective order from the court. The police came to the house last night and they kicked me out. I’m staying at my brothers house for now. I have to go to court On April 2nd. My Mom will most likely ask the court to kick me out of her house for good. I’m going to start looking for a pet friendly room to rent for me and Challa. Also my phones service is wacky and my brother doses not have wifi. So getting ahold of me might be difficult for now. Any funds that are sent to me will help me to find affordable housing for me and Challa. $SophiaChes PayPal Sophiachester@hotmail.com and my venmo is Sophia-Chester-1
I’ve found a room to rent that’s in my price range and also accepts pets. Any funds sent will go towards the $400 I need to put down to rent the room and also first months rent. I would appreciate any help because I can’t go back to my mothers house.
Honestly I want to set a rent goal of $2,800 because that will pay for my rent for the next 4 months and will give me the chance to find a job.
@ororomunroedontpullout can you share this please.
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Greater United States on the cover of Daniel Immerwahr‘s best-selling book How to Hide an Empire
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Hearing the whole “Americans didn’t beat the nazis” thing is so exhausting and counterproductive. Spoiler alert: America isn’t the only country affected by Trump, so this could apply to literally any allies in WW2 (which is more than you think, lots of countries fought alongside Britain and we’re eternally indebted to them). Also even if America failed to rid the world of Nazis in the past until like the last moment where they joined the allies, then surely now is simply an opportunity for them to do it earlier?
History is there to learn from, not to replicate in its entirety. Beat them back earlier this time, America. The rest of the world believes in you.
I think you missed the point of that adage because you are leaving off the second part: which is the fact that the US and Europe not only saved Nazi officials and scientists, but let them keep positions of power in Western Germany and even let some into NATO.
America didn’t “fail” to beat the Nazis, it wanted them in the fight against Communism. This is openly admitted.
You are also conflating America joining WW1 late versus America joining WW2 two years after it officially broke out, on top of the fact that WW1 Germany was NOT fascist and in fact looked a lot like the Allied governments!
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ALTBro absolutely COOKED with this.
If you ever hear the phrase “fascism is aesthetics as politics,” that’s what this post is talking about.
It’s not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against “crime” as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.
It’s about performing “tough on crime” as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent “crime.” They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.
This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don’t want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against “crime” because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.
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it is funny when people act as though no transitional program for family abolition exists when cuba’s family code is right there
replacing the concept of parental custody with parental responsibility alone is like. unthinkable in most places on planet earth. it may seem contradictory that steps towards broadening and expanding what a family “is” is a step towards family abolition, but those steps both create division between strict bioessentialist definitions of the family and enshrines the dignity and personhood of (particularly structurally vulnerable) individuals within a family unit, giving children elderly and disabled persons the right to recourse when their rights are infringed upon by family members
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Guys … what if we made art of these politicians having gay sex and being trans… you know what if we made art where the whole joke is someone who I don’t like is gay and trans. I’m so progressive they should give me a medal
Im very much annoyed how art and posts about Elon trump mpreg gets more notes then posts talking about how pregnant trans men face medical discrimination and how trans men are impacted by abortion bans.
Yall will laugh and laugh at the idea of a man getting pregnant but are silent when pregnant trans men are suffering.
Guys … what if we drew male politicians in dresses!! Make sure all the ugly gross details of their face and body hair are visible. Because man in dress funny!!! There is nothing wrong with using the idea of a man in a dress to mock and belittle people and associate that with badness and bigotry. Being progressive is so easy!! Anyway #terfsdni #i❤️transwomen I’m such a trans ally !!
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there was a huge wave of grassroots organizing in the spring of 2024, students, activists, professors—the democratic base. democratic mayors and governors set the police on them, democratic congressmen sold them out to the republicans, and the democratic media lied about antisemitism. now there’s only token opposition, chuck schumer is cracking jokes about area 51 . the party is over, sorry
there was a huge wave of grassroots organizing in the spring of 2020, african americans, activists, young people—the democratic base. democratic mayors and governors set the police on them, democratic congressmen sold them out to the republicans, and the democratic media lied about violence. all the energy was co-opted into some street name changes and joe biden. the party is over, sorry
I’ll be honest, these stories could probably go on for a while
this will keep happening as long as we pay any attention to what the controlled opposition (the democratic party) is doing. they arent helping us because they dont want to, because theyre bought by the exact same billionaires the republicans are. anything we want we have to take for ourselves
theres a huge wave of grassroots organizing happening right now, in winter/spring of 2025. this time, lets not make the same mistakes
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And I know many of you might not be seeing much news updates coming from the occupied West Bank and that is because Palestinian journalists are being hunted down, their cameras confiscated, their footage erased, they are imprisoned, disappeared and killed at unprecedented rates. Israel is working very hard to suppress the truth. It is exactly why you should amplify the reporting coming from Palestine, from Gaza to Jenin, whenever you see it. These journalists are literally sacrificing their lives to keep you informed on Israel’s crimes. Don’t ever forget that. Everything that you know today about the genocide is due to their relentless commitment to the truth.
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every single discussion about the fucking signal groupchat makes me feel so insane. “what a display of incompetence! what a failure! let’s all make accidental groupchat mistake jokes now” what the fuck are you talking about. it worked. the fact that THIS is the conversation now is literally the point. jeffrey goldberg literally did it again. selling the bombing of the middle east to the public is the entire purpose of his career as a “journalist”
former iof prison guard who spent the past year fully deepthroating the genocidal boot and famously sold the invasion of iraq as something that “will be remembered as an act of profound morality”? “journalist” who literally built his career on manufacturing consent for bombing arabs “accidentally” invited to a top secret group chat about bombing arabs oh no how could this happen? what are you TALKING about. fork found in kitchen! likely place for him to be! my god
Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, has been at the center of a national story after he was “inadvertently” included in a group Signal chat with administration officials as they planned a deadly bombing in Yemen. Much of the coverage has focused on the mishandling of military secrets, rather than the impact of the bombings themselves, targeting the poorest country in the Middle East, which the United States has helped bomb and blockade for over a decade. Goldberg is not just an observer: He is contributing to this disregard for Yemeni lives, and his dismissiveness sheds light on why he was an administration media contact to begin with.
In an interview that aired on March 26, Deepa Fernandes, one of the hosts of NPR’s “Here and Now,” interviewed Goldberg about the “group chat heard ‘round the world” that included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and Vice President JD Vance. During one portion of the interview, Fernandes did something few other journalists are doing. She asked Goldberg about the Yemeni people who were killed in the bombing, which took place on March 15.
Deepa Fernandes: There’s little talk of the fact that this attack killed 53 people, as we mentioned, including women and children. The civilian toll of these American strikes. Are we burying the lede here?
Jeffrey Goldberg: Well, those, unfortunately, those aren’t confirmed numbers. Those are provided by the Houthis and the Houthi health ministry, I guess. So we don’t know that for sure. Yeah, I mean, obviously we’re, well, I don’t know if we’re burying the lede, because obviously huge breaches in national security and safety of information, that’s a very, very important story, obviously. And one of the reasons, you know, it’s a very important story is that the Republicans themselves consider that to be an important story, when it’s Hillary Clinton doing the deed, right? So that’s obviously hugely important.
But yeah, I think that covering what’s going on in Yemen, the Arab and Iran backed terrorist organization, the Houthis, that are that are firing missiles at Israel and disrupting global shipping and occupy half of Yemen, and all kinds of other things in the US, you know, and the Trump administration criticizing the Biden’s response and Europe wants Trump to do more. I mean, yeah, there’s, there’s a huge story in Yemen. But Yemen is, as you know, is one of the more inaccessible places for Western journalists. So maybe this becomes like a substitute for a discussion of Yemen. I don’t know.
Goldberg not only seems unconcerned about the death toll and eager to cast doubt on its veracity, but he also appears unprepared for the question. It’s as though it didn’t occur to him that the substance of the Signal exchange itself—the bombing—might be a legitimate topic of conversation, and he seems eager to move on.
This is despite the fact that there is evidence in the exchange itself that the United States hit a civilian site in the bombing. Waltz wrote in the Signal chat that the US military had bombed a residential building. “The first target—their top missile guy—we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed,” Waltz wrote in the chat, to which JD Vance replied: “Excellent.”
Yet, as Nick Turse noted for The Intercept, “So far, however, there has been little focus on the specifics of the attack, much less discussion of the fact that one of the targets of the March 15 strike was a civilian residence.”
The story of US belligerence in Yemen should be a huge one. Since 2015, the US-Saudi coalition has used American manufactured bombs to hit wedding parties, factories, a school bus, and a center for the blind. It’s difficult to know the exact death toll, but around three years ago, the death toll from direct and indirect consequence of war surpassed 377,000. Direct bombings by both the Biden and Trump administrations threaten a wider war, and have occurred in lockstep with US support for Israel as it has ruthlessly bombed and attacked Gaza since October 7.
Goldberg, of course, was included in that group chat because he was a contact of someone on the administration’s thread, and his history of laundering the US military’s mass atrocities is a good indicator of why. In the lead-up to the US-led war on Iraq, Goldberg was central to peddling the disproven conspiracy theory that Iraq had ties to al-Qaeda, a key lie of the George W. Bush administration, used to justify the invasion. One month before the US started the war, he went on NPR to discuss “Possible Links Between Iraq and al Qaeda and Evidence That the Iraqis May be Trying to Evade Weapons Inspectors.”
Goldberg has a long career of uplifting the media narratives of the United States and its allies, including a big piece in 2010 where he floated justifications for a possible Israeli war on Iran. Like many of the Iraq War pushers, Goldberg’s lies about Iraq did not harm his career, but marked its ascent. Under his tenure, the Atlantic has shut out Palestinian voices and stories, as the US has helped Israel wage genocide in Gaza.
Goldberg’s dismissal of Yemeni deaths is not a small detail of this blockbuster story, but a central component. One way to get on the speed dials of high-level officials is to have a proven career of doing their bidding.
As we see wall-to-wall coverage of the Signal leaks on supposed liberal networks like MSNBC, it’s important to remember that the primary scandal is the bombing of Yemen, a reality that the network has long obscured. As The Column’s Adam Johnson noted in July 2018, at that point it had been a year since MSNBC had mentioned the US backed destruction of Yemen. Yet during that same period, MSNBC had done 455 segments on the Trump-Stormy Daniels affair. As media reports and House Intelligence Committee hearings ignore the human toll of US military attacks, we continue to see the ascent of those who have built their careers on directing public attention away from the people the United States kills.
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