Greg 🌹 @Greg@social.coop

I love this project: a riverbed in Amsterdam was drained and the ~700,000 found objects dating from the 1300s to present were photographed and presented online:

https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondsten

So remember how I said I wasn't going to show up for their ridiculous speeches?

The march was supposed to start at 12:30, which is when we got there. By 1PM the DSA said fuck it and started marching and we and thousands of us went to actually march.

The official march never happened. They let so many people give ridiculous speeches that they went over time and never did the important part of showing up to ICE.

I'm tired of saying I told you so about these things.

My opinion is that giving speeches for multiple hours to people who already agree with you is ridiculous when there are viable actions you can be doing like actually showing up to ICE and not letting them get their work done.

MoveOn.org decided that hearing from Eric Garcetti and Cher was more important than marching to ICE?

🙃

We marched over to ICE, did a bunch of shouts and chants with thousands of people, then marched BACK OVER to city hall where they were still doing speeches. And then they had to give up and not march because the police were clearing the streets.

It feels like a bunch of politicians just used brown kids in concentration camps to get stage time in front of tens of thousands of people..? 🙃

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/06/twitter-is-a-garbage-company-and-jack-is-fawning-at-the-feet-of-fascists/

Just so you know, Twitter is a fucking garbage fire.

RT @Alison_Kinney@twitter.com WASP ladies: in order to get suffrage, your grandmas derailed trains. They burnt down dozens of buildings. They planted bombs. They smashed the windows of banks and businesses. They RIOTED, for your tone-policing asses.
Don't talk about civility when everybody else needs rights.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Alison_Kinney/status/1012060958863179776

This is unbelievably awesome
RT @neuroecology@twitter.com Amsterdam drained a canal and put everything they found online, organized by time from 1300 - present day... from pokemon tokens, to pipes, to guns, to human bones https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondsten

Five people dead after a man opens fire at a local newspaper office in Annapolis, Maryland http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-gazette-shooting-20180628-story.html

Journalists are still working to get tomorrow's paper out.

Online, many people are discussing how the far right, including the White House, have stoked hatred towards the press, and the threats many reporters regularly face.

So, I'm having a conversation about the value of #FairTrade with a fellow who is advocating for the "nice capitalists" to swoop in and do a better job. He shared the linked research from London on the fair trade coffee's impact on African growers. Anyone know anything about the study, the agency, etc?

(Side note that I didn't know so many people hated Fair Trade. Curious as to why.)

https://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem93228.html

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Are there any recorded cases of a nation's populace identifying a growing fascist movement before it fully took control, and then successfully rooting it out without resorting to civil war? Asking for a friend.

Only the NYT editorial board could be this deep in denial. What does it mean that #socialist Alexandria Ocasio Cortez unseated the #4 most powerful #liberal in the country with a dominating, 2-digit lead?
"The liberal base is fired up"
Sure, they think they are liberal and want to be the winners here, yet they are so far right they couldn't even bring themselves to print her key policy, to abolish ICE, euphemizing it as "more liberal immigration laws."
http://archive.is/1gc3I

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