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@gallopingqwerty

Seattle-based cheese aficionado who's into hopepunk, art, and leaving the world a better place. Here to connect with folks and hold a candle against the darkness.

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Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

Great info for how to leave Big Tech behind.

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

01.03.2026 22:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Truth!

05.02.2026 00:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What Can We Do? A Hierarchy of 20 Ways to Fight Fascism The Internet is teeming with (often great) advice, but it’s all blobbed together. You get advice like “don’t comply in advance” in the same listicle as “learn gritty survival skills involving bowie kn...

There are many options for actions to take here, if you need ideas.

chriscookie.com/2025/04/30/w...

27.01.2026 00:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Today feels like a good day to spotlight the recent appeal made by Kurihara Toshio, one of the preeminent Japanese reporters on the war memory beat, to journalists covering war today.

Its drawn from his research on the failures of Japan's media establishment in the 1930s:

apjjf.org/2025/9/fedman

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Stop the Military Escalation with Venezuela (UPDATED 1/3) ⭑ 5 Calls Updates January 3, 2025: The Trump administration ordered military strikes on Venezuela and captured President Maduro and his wife to charge them in …

Please call your Members of Congress today to protest the illegal invasion of Venezuela - 5 Calls makes it easy!

5calls.org/issue/trump-...

03.01.2026 21:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Art credit: José y María by Everett Patterson

25.12.2025 03:50 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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How NSPM-7 Seeks to Use "Domestic Terrorism" to Target Nonprofits and Activists | ACLU What President Donald Trump’s latest memorandum targeting civil society does, does not, and cannot do.

More details on NSPM-7 in case you missed it when it was signed. www.aclu.org/news/nationa...

09.12.2025 00:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Journalist Reveals FBI Is Offering a “Bounty” for Reporting “Anti-Trump Thought” A leaked DOJ memo directs the FBI to review records from the past five years, says Ken Klippenstein.

Concerning, but hardly surprising. Anyone who bothered to even just skim Project 2025 saw this coming. AG Pam Bondi has ordered the FBI to compile a list of Americans who oppose MAGA, referring to them as “domestic terrorists," under Trump’s NSPM-7 directive.

truthout.org/video/journa...

09.12.2025 00:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Are you surprised that this is happening in one of the few blue cities in NC but not any of the red ones? Me neither.

16.11.2025 19:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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SPD out here on Northgate shutting down the taco stand between 8th and Roosevelt due to "multiple licensing and health code violations" that they wouldn't provide anymore info about.

08.11.2025 06:52 👍 84 🔁 16 💬 8 📌 28
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Trump’s Campaign to Defund the Arts—and Rewrite History "The campaign to defund the arts, capture our museums, and rewrite our history is a prelude to silencing dissent."

The campaign to label art "too woke" or "too liberal" has dark historical echoes. In my op-ed, I draw the parallel to Nazi Germany's "Degenerate Art" exhibitions and the Soviet doctrine of "Socialist Realism." When a government dictates what art is acceptable, we are on a dangerous path.

26.10.2025 13:59 👍 409 🔁 173 💬 22 📌 6

This is how they claim you were 'over the line'. They pull you over and start the riot for themselves.

27.10.2025 01:36 👍 563 🔁 284 💬 19 📌 4

starving over 40 million people right before major holidays + massively upping healthcare costs does strike me as a rather bold move this early in the authoritarian consolidation game for any given fascist regime, but I guess we’ll see what happens

27.10.2025 01:46 👍 1915 🔁 436 💬 43 📌 21
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I still can’t wrap my head around anyone who supports this type of action.

26.10.2025 21:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Let's see how that government ban on White House demolition photos is going.

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

21.10.2025 18:02 👍 766 🔁 281 💬 29 📌 28

Trump destroying Eleanor Roosevelt‘s legacy (the east wing) feels a little on the nose.

21.10.2025 19:36 👍 5529 🔁 1081 💬 211 📌 30
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Analysis: Why Trump’s sudden East Wing demolition is extraordinary – and dicey | CNN Politics When President Donald Trump reflected last week on the looming construction of his White House ballroom, the longtime real estate developer was practically giddy about the lack of red tape. He noted h...

More details: www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/p...

22.10.2025 22:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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They’re doing this while keeping the government shut down to force deeper cuts and avoid releasing the Epstein files.

Obama built a kitchen garden and converted a tennis court to play basketball while negotiating Obamacare with an uncooperative House and Senate.

They. Are. Different. Sides.

22.10.2025 22:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Image of a group of people wearing inflatable frog costumes at a protest.

Image of a group of people wearing inflatable frog costumes at a protest.

Case in point 😁

11.10.2025 19:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Text - LA: we will fight you. Chicago: We will fight you. PDX: We will make you endure week after week of improv theater.

Text - LA: we will fight you. Chicago: We will fight you. PDX: We will make you endure week after week of improv theater.

In these scary times, it’s important to remember that humor is also both a weapon and armor when it comes to fighting fascists. They can’t rule with fear if we’re laughing at them. Keep Portland weird!

11.10.2025 19:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

09.10.2025 20:23 👍 55914 🔁 22626 💬 1875 📌 2154
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Si. Este es el camino. 😁

11.10.2025 18:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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23.09.2025 07:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sharing in case you need quick access to the Spanish version of these guidelines.

06.09.2025 20:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Heads up Boston!!!!!! Know your rights, record everything, use your white privilege if you got it, stay safe, and use the @iceblock.app and Waze apps to report ICE activity to help people avoid them if needed!!!!!! We keep us safe, remember that!!!!! RESIST ✊✊✊✊✊

06.09.2025 19:52 👍 105 🔁 58 💬 4 📌 3
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I have no words. Yes, this is a real post.

06.09.2025 20:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0