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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-27 at 23:11

a professional boxer educated my ass, way back in 1967, when he refused to register for the draft during the Vietnam war.

this is one of my favorite quotes from the Greatest:

"Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-27 at 01:36

Content moderation was never about eradicating fake news

https://www.salon.com/2025/01/26/the-on-fake-news-has-backfired/

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-27 at 01:33

Senate confirms completely unqualified puppy-murderer as Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/25/g-s1-44753/immigration-senate-kristi-noem-confirmation-vote

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-27 at 01:32

'...in southern Lebanon, Israeli troops opened fire on protesters who were urging them to pull back from the area.

Under the terms of a separate peace agreement signed with the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah, Israeli forces were supposed to have fully withdrawn from Lebanese territory Sunday.

Lebanese emergency officials said more than 120 were injured and 22 people killed.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/26/nx-s1-5275452/israel-gaza-ceasefire-hostages-lebanon-trump

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-26 at 00:30

trump's entry and speedy cashout on cybercurrency infuriates older players in teh field, who had almost convinced the public and government that it was not just all that much of a bullshit scam...

'It makes it all look corrupt'

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-cash-grab-crypto/

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-25 at 23:53

Elon Musk Rushed To Hospital After Attempting To Impregnate Toaster

https://theonion.com/elon-musk-rushed-to-hospital-after-attempting-to-impreg-1851106889/

[#]swasticar #musk #spacekaren

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-25 at 01:18

Why no one should support Elon Musk's Twitter/X

SFGATE columnist Drew Magary on why he finally left X:

Because Elon saluted Hitler.

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/why-i-left-twitter-x-drew-magary-20054112.php

short, sweet, to the point!

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-24 at 01:41

hellfukkenyeah!

welcome!

bring your friends and family!

immigrants more than welcomed!

make yourself at home here, even if you don't have one IRL!

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-24 at 01:36

portland mayor keith wilson 'bravely' announces plan to repeat the failed attempts to brush aside any attempts to help people experiencing homelessness by embracing more of the failed policies of the past.

https://katu.com/news/local/portland-mayor-keith-wilson-unveils-blueprint-to-end-citys-unsheltered-homelessness

what a completely clueless coward!

[#]keithwilson #homeless #homelessness #pdx #portland

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-18 at 01:23

One of world's largest lithium battery plants ablaze in Moss Landing

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/lithium-battery-plant-ignites-moss-landing-fire-20040198.php

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-17 at 01:42

Patricia Crone on 9th Century Muslim Anarchists

https://robertgraham.wordpress.com/2022/12/02/patricia-crone-on-9th-century-muslim-anarchists/

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-17 at 01:41

We (Must) Keep Us Safe: On Repression, Trauma, Security Culture, and Revolutionary Solidarity

https://itsgoingdown.org/we-must-keep-us-safe-on-repression-trauma-security-culture-and-revolutionary-solidarity/

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-17 at 01:39

Girl strangled by her own wheelchair as bus monitor texted, checked Instagram

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/girl-strangled-by-her-own-wheelchair-as-bus-monitor-sent-34-texts-checked-instagram/

'According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 3,308 people were killed by distracted drivers in 2022 alone—and "texting is the most alarming distraction."'

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-17 at 01:34

Financial Surveillance in the United States: How Federal Law Enforcement Commandeered Financial Institutions to Spy on Americans

Page Count: 56 pages

Date: March 6, 2024

https://publicintelligence.net/us-house-financial-surveillance-report/

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-17 at 01:33

The regime is dead, the legacy of Omar Aziz is alive!

Omar Aziz told his friends:

“If the revolution fails, my life and that of my whole generation would be devoid of meaning…

all that we have dreamt of and believed in would have been mere illusion.”

https://rememberomaraziz.net/index.php/the-regime-is-dead-the-legacy-of-omar-aziz-is-alive/

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-17 at 01:30

Festivals of Resistance planned for this weekend:

https://sub.media/festivals-of-resistance/

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-17 at 01:29

Protests Spread Throughout Central Valley Following ICE Raids in Farmworker Communities

https://itsgoingdown.org/protests-spread-throughout-central-valley/

'Border Patrol has stated they have targeted individuals involved in drug and human trafficking and “are not targeting local farms or fieldworkers,” writing on social media they were going after “bad people and bad things in Bakersfield,” while promising future operations in Fresno and Sacramento, the capitol of California. Locals on the ground, labor unions, and activist groups have rejected these claims however, stating that authorities have specifically targeted hard-working community members through racial profiling, “targeting anyone that’s Brown.”'

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-17 at 01:23

Report from Los Angeles as Mutual Aid Hubs Mobilize in the Face of Historic Wildfires

https://itsgoingdown.org/report-from-los-angeles-mutual-aid-hubs-fires/

'Since the fires broke out, there have been several reports of sweeps of houseless encampments, ongoing ICE raids, increased police surveillance and profiling, prioritization of aid for the rich, detainment of people attempting to retrieve things from their homes, and the ticketing people for distributing food and supplies.'

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-15 at 01:05

a vigil is planned for tomorrow night, at city hall.

apparently, it is forbidden by the folks at StS to list the time and location.

i can tell this much - it will be visible from city hall, around 6 p.m. give or take an hour.

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Written by outsiderPDX on 2025-01-09 at 02:00

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