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lets put our lives in common// face challenges together// steadily accumulate small realities// reassemble livable worlds from the ruins of this one 🏴🌱
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We'll see if i ever use it, but I've just created an account on the fediverse (what a horrendous name):
@counterapparatus
@autonomous
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Richard Spencer just walked into a cafe filled with anti-fascists and got chased back to his car. Get the fuck out of East Lansing, no coffee for you
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If you do one thing today, read this powerful piece about Tortuguita, the protester murdered in Atlanta as part of a coordinated campaign of state terror against the movement against the construction of Cop City.
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If Northern Gaza was a city in the US, it would be the 10th most populous. Imagine the population of Austin, Denver, San Francisco or Seattle being told to completely evacuate in 24 hours or die, to understand the genocidal magnitude of Israel’s demand
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This is allegedly the letter Willem Van Spronsen left before he attacked the transportation infrastructure of the Northwest Detention Center.
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The Or L’Simcha Synagogue that was attacked today was attacked not just because it was a Jewish synagogue but because it understood Judaism to entail care for migrants, stateless people and people fleeing oppression.
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@dusttodigital
Here's another video of Saliou playing the Casen Casen. Filmed by Nick Jennings who is making a documentary about the music of Senegal (follow him on insta: musicofsenegal)
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All these international artists come to Mexico and want to do something related to Jumex. Little do they know that the true intersection of art, proletarian struggle, and juice is Boing!
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Nice constitution you have there. Would be a shame if there were multiple convergent and nonlinear factors that provoked a juridically irreconcilable crisis where politics would be revealed as anarchic and groundless sovereign decision based on pure calculus of violence
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The campaign to defend the Atlanta forest is, IMO, one of the most interesting and important struggles in the US right now, and this article is a real gem — deep historical context, analysis of the movement and its limits, and concrete ways to get involved. Everyone read it!
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Are there any good memoirs/books about Palestinian guerrilla training camps in the 70s and 80s? Absolutely wild to think of sandanistas, lakotas, members of bader meinhof, and god knows who else all hanging out. Truly an unparalleled story of internationalism
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One precinct burned to the ground seems to have been more effective than voting for countless reform candidates.
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Secondly: the Judaism under attack isn’t one wrapped in the Israeli flag but one that bases itself in an ethical tradition shaped by a historical experience of diaspora and seeks to value the lives of refugees.
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Just a few blocks from the Angel de La independencia in Mexico City, the Casa de Chiapas — the representation of Chiapas state — has just been occupied in solidarity with the Zapatistas and against the repression against their communities.
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The last few days has seen a series of raids, arrests, and harassment of activists in Atlanta. As activists scramble to understand who is arrested and what charges are being filed, one thing is clear: there are comrades who will need support in the coming weeks and months.
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The same person who uploaded the letter just uploaded this photo taken while Emma Durutti (Willem Van Spronsen) was recording her final audio manifesto, confirming the authenticity of the letter.
“It’s not ‘all good’
It will be”
- Emma Durutti
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Anti-mask legislation -- wherever it occurs -- is always a means of criminalizing dissent to provide a pretext for police repression of movements. We resist such moves not because we paradoxically want legal dissent, but because we recognize that legality is a means of repression
Days after a teenage protestor was shot in the chest, the Hong Kong government is using emergency measures to suppress activists. via
@lausanhk
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My dad now reads
@commune_mag
and just called me because he was very confused about family abolition
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onion really comes through on their “Tips for Dealing with a Difficult Landlord” Article
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The letter links to this Audio Manifesto, which is beautiful, haunting, and deeply human :
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Truly sad to hear that David Graeber has passed away. Reading Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology and Direct Action: An Ethnography set me on the path I’m on.
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As the eyes of the world turn to Georgia, I want to encourage everyone to donate to the
@ATLSolFund
. Trump or Biden, the social movements at the front lines of struggle will continue to need material support to face state repression.
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TIP: If you live near a university or college, the dumpster in student areas will be filled with high value items that students who had to leave quickly threw out
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This article about Pete Buttigieg is about so much more than than the election — it’s about the totally vapid, shallow, unselfconsciously unaware elites who, shaped by myths of meritocracy, become the henchmen of capital :
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As 100s of Jewish activists are arrested for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing forced displacement, collective punishment, and attempted genocide, the NYTimes should retract their story furthering antisemitic notions that Jews are unified in their support of Israel
BREAKING: HUNDREDS were just arrested blockading
@SenSchumer
's street, including high profile public officials, rabbis, politicians, scholars, and descendants of holocaust survivors — ages 20 to 80.
We demand an end to the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Never again is today.
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Two points here: this incitement to violence was clearly fueled not just by rabid antisemitism but the xenophobia that has reached a fever pitch in relation to the migrant caravan.
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To respond to this attack, we need to affirm a refutation of antisemitism but one that connect antisemitism to xenophobia, that connects the historial struggles of people fleeing violence and stateless people.
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Here are his posts right before the shooting: he was looking to attack a synagogue that participated in the National Refugee Shabbat
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I don’t really have any real way to verify it — it was posted on a Facebook thread by a leftist from Tacoma who said he was Willem’s friend.
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I just got out of jail in queens after I was arrested in a mass arrest in the Bronx. It was a large uneventful protest call for and led by black organizers in the Bronx. We marched through public housing and folks cheered for us from the windows
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There are two competing visions of the world: One of borders & walls, pipelines & militaries keeping oppressed populations in open air prisons as the planet warms. Another of people acting in concert to bring about a just and livable world for us all
We also take action today to name the connection between MVP & the genocide unfolding in Gaza.
MVP would supply gas to the Pentagon and the Radford Army Ammunition Plant, which is operated by BAE Systems - a corporation that supplies Israel with white phosphorus & other weapons.
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In 2013, I organized the first protest against the Cayuga Power Plant. Today, it burned its last load of coal. No longer will people have to live below it’s toxic plume, a testament to the power of organized communities to overcome the hold extractive industry has on our lives
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Around 40 people arriving for a demonstration at the home of Frank Weber in Austin,Texas. As the CEO of Workquest, Weber has directly overseen the inhuman sweeps of homeless encampments in recent months.
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Their website describes them as a “traditional, progressive, and egalitarian community.” And looking at the shooters posts, it was precisely this that caused him to attack them.
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Can’t wait until WeWork goes bankrupt and we turn their offices into a sprawling network of ungovernable squats
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I can’t help but think of end of an essay by the poet June Jordan about the attack on a synagogue: “I am moving on an irrepressible wish that all of us will: All of us will build that circle of our common safety that all of us deserve.”
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The notion of “following leadership” is a form of liberal counterinsurgency aimed at undermining the capacity of movements to think for themselves. “Leaders” are often just self-promoters who become favored representatives of politicians
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If you condemn James Corbin’s shooting, one of the most immediate and material things you can do to combat the hate that gave rise to it is to host something in your community that builds that circle of common safety: Jews, migrants, trans folk, poc, women, all those under attack
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How do you see hundreds of police show up to a non-violent march with long guns, crowd control weapons, police dogs with goggles and armored personnel carriers and think "What these police really need is more resources and state of the art military training" ?
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June Jordan reminds us that our struggles are intimately connected, that those who attack our caravans and communities recognize that even if we don’t.
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Hope the cops burn a few more autozones tonight, maybe loot a target or lead a successful breakaway march and throughly destroy the Mall of America
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An oil painting from the compArte in San Cristobal. From the CNT to the YPG & EZLN
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This statement is an open announcement of a plan for the ethnic cleansing of an entire city, a form of totally out of control collective punishment that is on an unimaginably larger, more immediate and crueler scale than I have seen in my life
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A detail missing from the US weapons debate is that the manufacture and sale of military grade weapons is arming the para-state actors in Mexico & fueling an incredible wave of counter insurgent violence that functions to control territories and further resource extraction
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@princessmlokhia
@jamesdgreig
Pretty dope to chant when you push past a line of riot cops and take a street. Plus a lot of indigenous land rights are about usfruct so you can rest easy and not worry that your 10 minutes of overtaking the shrine to the automobile is somehow originary colonial violence
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"The Dawn of Everything should be interpreted as developing a partisan grammar for sensing constellations of struggle for freedom across time" ... "people have been escaping and disobeying and remaking from the beginning"
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¡Tortuguita vive vive, la lucha sigue sigue!
Sending love, solidarity, grief and rage to Atlanta from Austin
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A marxist crisis theory reading list that starts with .... volumes 1-3 of capital.
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Don’t let them tell you your rage isn’t valid. Find others who are angry, take to the streets, mock and ridicule those police your feelings && modes of expression. Materialize your collective rage, make the consequences of an attack on bodily autonomy of this magnitude apparent
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My favorite Foucualt moment is when he refers to the death of Franco as a "minor but joyous event"
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If anyone wants a really deep dive into Boing!, Cooperativa Pascual and this lesser-known story of juice and class struggle,
@DBautistaPaez
wrote a wonderful masters thesis about it called "Los Patos Rebeldes" :
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"You don't give us no healthcare, this is what we do."
Empty the prisons now.
An exclusive virtual tour of the multi racial prisoner rebellion taking place in Lansing Correctional. Prisoners can be clearly heard demanding free healthcare and safety from coronavirus.
#5demands
#GeneralStrike
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An off duty officer from the Austin Police Department shot Alex Gonzales Jr. in front of his two year old child. The officers will face no consequences for their actions.
The APD says that the officer acted "according to their training". A good reminder what "training" means.
THREAD: APD Chief Chacon has decided that the two police officers who shot Alex Gonzales Jr. in 2021 will not face discipline.
"The officers involved acted according to their training and APD policy," APD said in a statement.
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When you see news articles about injured cops, the main reason is not that the media is biased but because the cops have public relations officers. If you or someone you know is injured in a protest, consider sending a press release to local media with photos of your injuries.
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To keep yourself and other protestors safe:
- wear protective gear that covers all visible tattoos
- don’t wear anything that can be easily traced
-don’t take pictures of people doing things
- don’t , and I really mean this one, talk to the FBI
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In the middle of the night, the city uses “public health” to evict members of the indigenous triqui occupation that has existed for about a year in the center of Mexico City.
#AlMomento
Policías de la Ciudad de México cercan el campamento de triquis en el Eje Central. No hay ninguna explicación para los desplazados indígenas, que temen un desalojo.
Reporta:
@Isavel_a
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The slippery hyper reality of the Internet is often made intelligent through the spatial imaginings of colonialism
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The Cooperativa Palo Alto, one of Mexico City’s oldest and most iconic informal settlements/housing cooperatives, faces eviction today by the National Guard.
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Shout out to the collective tactical intelligence and new forms of popular justice on display in Chicago tonight. insurgency and redistribution as popular retaliation against police killing despite a concerted effort to co-opt legacy of minneapolis
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"There is an urgency to make work that makes worlds, that subtends art and politics for communicating the proliferating urgencies and techniques of survival." -- Lauren Berlant (1957-2021)
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Here is a great video about the protest in the summer where I was trapped, beaten and arrested by the NYPD. The City of New York has dropped the charges and now I, along with many other protestors, am suing the city for the egregious violence of their police officers.
New 12-minute video from
@hrw
&
@situ_research
shows how New York City police carried out a plan to trap, assault and arrest over 250 protesters in the South Bronx on June 4. And then they spread misinformation to try to justify their actions. Watch here:
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During the arrest I got a baton to the head and lost my glasses. I’m fine, but fuck the police, now more than ever. Let’s disband them and take their pensions.
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I wrote about how an autonomous housing cooperative in Mexico City allows the urban poor to construct a dignified communal life in a city that otherwise offers precarity and sociopolitical exclusion for
@NACLA
. (Thanks to
@urbandemos
and
@HeatherGies
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With an excellent introduction by
@dawn_
,
@illwilleditions
just published a new translation (by
@dawn_
and
@masondeese
) of Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar's Letters to My Younger Sisters about the Patriarchal Pact
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If there was any doubt, the curfew is entirely designed to criminalize dissent. Fuck the NYPD. Repression breeds resistance. Everyone arrested was talking about hitting the streets again.
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If you think your getting kettled, it’s important to keep looking for escape routes. Maybe there is a fence you can jump, maybe that line of cops that was behind you now has a hole in it.
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Today, over 30 years later, Boing! has grown, opening new factorys, all the while remaining a worker's cooperative -- the only wholly Mexican owned juice company (Competing with the exploitative corporate FEMSA and grupo Jumex)
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@PatrickIber
Exactly. Professor wouldn't let me give my student who moved home to raise her siblings because her parents got deported half way through the semester an A, but somehow now that it's a crisis, we are allowed to understand that this punitive system doesn't reflect learning.
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Extremely pleased that the article I co-wrote with Alan and Vanessa about the Panchos and destituent power is finally out!
It’s been a long time coming and I’m thrilled that it’s finally in the world.
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JOBS:
- A TECHNOLOGY OF THE SOCIAL WAR
- HOSTILE TO THE COMMONS
h/t
@rushkoff
#refusalofwork
#platformcoop
#commons
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Really inspired by this campaign out of Chicago. Rather than getting distracted by electoral politics, they are focusing on the v. real ways in which the current administration is punishing the poor && building what seems to be a very timely campaign
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Plot twist: everyone accusing protestors of being cops are themselves... cops
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When he said beyond politics, he meant managed by a consulting firm made up of Harvard graduates who run the Post Office according to a globally circulating set of practices employed by similar competitive enterprises aiming to maximize profits.
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Several Austinites died during the Arctic Freeze because they didn't have shelter. Join houseless organizers for a memorial and a march to mourn those who were lost and to let the city know who was responsible. Sunday, 4pm at the Homeless Memorial Tree at Auditorium Shores
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@yungneocon
Woke climate denialism is arguing that any micro-analysis of individual lifestyle contributions is neoliberal and any macro-level analysis is eco-fascist.
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The idea that the entire Jewish diaspora, Jews who actively decided not to live in Israel, are unequivocally in line with the actions of a deeply unpopular far right government is absurd. as absurd as thinking that the million children in Gaza are part of the al-Qassam Brigades
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Perhaps, and this is just an intuition, building an internationally despised militarization facility and killing protestors who oppose it is not a way to drive out of state recruitment
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This interview was easily the best thing I listened to all year, now in readable, distroable form. The centrality of struggle to communism is something I’ve probably thought about every day since I’ve heard it
“Every real communist is baptized in sweat, blood or tear gas.”
A wide-ranging interview with members of
@chuangcn
on statecraft in China, mutual aid, communist organizing during the pandemic, the place of humanism and naturalism within revolutionary theory, & their new book Social Contagion, out now with
@kerrbooks
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@commune_mag
Truly sad to see that
@commune_mag
is ending. The issues have been a beacon for those struggling to confront systems of violence and build lives worth living. Hopefully, moving forward we will all learn to have robust forms of accountability in all our collectives.
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“The best form of resistance to violence is not to confront it alone. It is rather to come together and create collective forms of life and reproduction, strengthen our bonds and thereby create a network of resistance truly capable of putting an end to this - Sylvia Federici
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Security cameras thrown thru bank windows they are meant to protect
Riots against an internet villian
This graffiti
reality is now cyberpunk
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Drawing together the book shield and a farewell to two great communist thinkers (LeGuin & Moishe Postone),
@outsidadgitator
sets the tone for
@commune_mag
- erudite and accessible, grounded in the materiality of struggle, committed to communist possibility
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We were kept in the van for 5 hours. Some folks were from the Bronx and told stories about daily harassment by the NYPD. One said, “they always got us looking over our shoulders, scared. We ain’t scared any more.”
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Next thing I know he’ll be self-abolishing the category of dad
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@AmazonFCCarol
Wouldn’t it be great if you were able to organize with other workers at Amazon and be able to have more paid vacation time to spend with your parents and earn more money to support your family?
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To help the workers, hundreds of artists including Rufino Tamayo, David Alfaro Siqueiros, members of the Taller de Grafica Popular and more donated works to be sold to help the workers raise the money.
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@cholulagosh
@MPHProject
I think she is saying she lived there for seven years, but now no longer, though she still owns a house there (aka, she’s a landlord)
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"Communism here is not a telos of historical necessity, as it would later be conceived; communism is less the solution than “a riddle whose solution is missing,” the question: “where will you find a community?”
A project I’ve been working on since 2015 is finally in the world, in 3 parts (intro, translation, essay).
It concerns a hidden story: the mysterious first-ever use of the word “communism,” emerging from a conversation at dusk between Hölderlin and Hegel.
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@postcyborg
def going to try and swing some sort of decadent hang out in the hill country under the pretext of a book called "reading marx in new braunfels" now.
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love when the cop with a body camera and implicit bias training smashes you with a billy club before taking you to a public prison
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