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Last Notes npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "The practice of designating an internet platform and service provider as a terror group — rather than those pursuing violence themselves — has “huge” implications for the future free speech on the internet, warned Jillian York, the director of international freedom of expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation." npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ [Please read this first person account of the floods in Nepal caused by the melting glacier. It's heartbreaking.] npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ Petition: https://www.change.org/p/rename-nashville-international-airport-to-dolly-parton-international-airport-d234875f-d5aa-4c57-8027-99bfd2594721?signed=true npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Trump briefly addressed the day’s honorees—Reed Weisman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, & Jeremy Hanson ...— before rambling about how he’d inherited his love of space “genetically” from his uncle... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Trump has his sights on taking over two #Pacific island countries: Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ Ripley is giving us a blep. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ Always read the footnotes: npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ " #USDA Sect Brooke Rollins confirmed a second New World Screwworm detection... She posted the announcement... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "McLaughlin claimed [he lied] that an unnamed ICE agent, fearing for his life, had fired a defensive shot while on the ground because he was being beaten with a shovel. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "It’s not because these [US tech] companies are so fantastic or that their products are so amazing npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ Long, but worth reading:👀 npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @nprofile…7dzr npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ The above article makes me think of the quote from Cory Doctorow @nprofile…ugpy : npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Developers talk not just about how the #AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the #job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes. More concerning, developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves and losing their ability to do their #jobs as well as they used to." npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @nprofile…wmhr npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "We are hated as a nation now. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "We have ourselves a Dunning-Kruger president, one who is supremely confident in his abilities on a range of topics where he is completely ignorant. And now he has taken us into a Dunning-Kruger war, defined by that fatal combination of ignorance and confidence." npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Here’s another thing #ICE officers aren’t doing while hanging around #airports facilitating absolutely nothing in terms of expedited security screenings: wearing masks... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @nprofile…l70y npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ More protest signs from npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ Signs range from poignant to funny to critical at 'No Kings' protests npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "protests with the Revolutionary-era call against #DonaldTrump ...had the broadest geographic reach of any single-day #protest in the #UnitedStates in more than a half-century. They included not only... #NewYork & #LosAngeles & #Austin but also communities in all 50 states & every congressional district, including #rural & #Republican areas. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "More than 8 million people protested against the #Trump admn at more than 3,300 #NoKings events across the #US and in more than a dozen countries on Saturday... It’s the greatest number of protests in a single day in US #history... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ Robert Hubbell has collected a number of photos of #NoKings protestors and protests from across the USA and around the world. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "The first No Kings #protest took place in June of 2025... roughly 2,100 separate rallies & approximately 5 million participants, making it one of if not the largest protests in our #history. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @nprofile…3ugy npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Gabbard & Ratcliffe also testified that the #WhiteHouse received #intelligence assessments before the #war that, if it was struck, #Iran would be likely to retaliate with attacks on #energy sites in the #MiddleEast & threaten commercial shipping in the #StraitOfHormuz, with possible fallout for #oil prices & the global #economy. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Overall... the information #Trump gets about the #war tends to emphasize #US successes, with comparatively little detail about #Iranian actions. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Each day since the start of the #war in #Iran, US #military officials compile a #video update for #DonaldTrump... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Miller just met with #Texas state legislators and... discussed the idea of ending state public funding for the #education of undocumented children... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Has #DonaldTrump finally figured out that Stephen Miller’s #fascist cruelties have become a niggling political liability for him?... #Trump may be moving to marginalize Miller’s influence. But Trump appears to think the difficulty can be cured by a few optical tweaks... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ “The problem is he[Trump] can declare victory all he wants but, if he doesn’t get the ceasefire, he’s got nothing. And he’s not going to get a ceasefire... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "The #Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a disclaimer of opinion on the U.S. government’s FY 2025 financial statements — the 29th consecutive year it has been unable to determine whether the statements are fairly presented. This is primarily due to serious, ongoing financial management problems at the 👉 Dept of Defense👈 [which failed EVERY audit ever given it] and weaknesses in accounting for interagency transactions" npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Importantly, the $47.78 trillion in reported liabilities does not include the unfunded obligations of social insurance programs like Social Security & Medicare... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "The U.S. #government is insolvent. That’s not hyperbole — it’s the conclusion drawn directly from the #Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025, released last week to near-total #media silence. The numbers: $6.06 trillion in total assets against $47.78 trillion in total liabilities as of September 30, 2025." npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "The regime quietly spent over $128 million to buy a million-square-foot warehouse in Social Circle. It’s a conservative town of just 5,000 people... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "It’s not boots on the ground. It’s blood on the ground. At the whim of one man, the blood of thousands has already been spilled. No matter who it belongs to, all blood is precious. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "It was 2am when a bus carrying dozens of #US deportees heaved into this sweltering city in southern #Mexico... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ Watch this hilariously brilliant video from #Norway about #enshittification: npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "“We want her under oath because we do not trust her. Why don’t we trust her? Because she’s a liar.”... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "March 18, #Bondi & Deputy AG Todd Blanche appeared at that “briefing,” a closed-door hearing... in which they were *not* under oath. #Democrats asked repeatedly if Bondi intended to comply with the subpoena; she refused to commit. When Summer Lee (D-PA) asked Comer if he would compel Bondi to comply and hold her in contempt if she doesn’t, Comer told her she was “bitching.” npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "After yesterday’s revelation that the Dept of Justice (DOJ) is blocking the release of a memo related to a Drug Enforcement Agency investigation into sex trafficker #JeffreyEpstein and 14 co-conspirators, Attorney General #PamBondi added more evidence to the idea that the #DOJ is engaged in covering up the relationship between members of the #Trump administration, including President Donald J. Trump himself, and #Epstein." npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "how maddening it is to see the #Trump administration treat Iran’s clampdown of the #StraitOfHormuz as if it’s some unfair trick the Iranians pulled and not one of the most singularly obvious strategic choices the regime could make under the circumstances—the other being Iran’s decision to attack other Gulf states... But by Trump’s own admission, the very fact that #Iran retaliated in any way has caught him completely flat-footed." npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Trump has gone from begging for #European naval support to free the #StraitOfHormuz to having those requests punted back in his face to spiraling out on Truth Social about how he didn’t actually need anyone’s help in the first place... Meanwhile, countries like #France and #Italy are simply working on side deals with #Iran to be allowed to use the strait." npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @nprofile…xney npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @nprofile…7tww npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "voter suppression is nothing new to Democrats [Not a democrat, an Independent] in the Deep South. In fact, it defines the landscape. Examples range from mailers targeting Black voters that tell them their day to vote is the Thursday after an actual election to last-minute changes to... impossibly long lines to inadequate ballot deliveries... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ I can confirm this. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "On Tuesday in #Texas, Democratic voters in #Dallas & Williamson Counties, Texas, had their work cut out for them if they wanted to vote. They had to figure out, on the day of, where their polling places were. That’s because the local Republican parties backed out of the years-long tradition of holding joint primaries, and that information wasn’t communicated widely. One voter reported showing up at his polling place & being sent somewhere else" npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @nprofile…suvt npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Epstein rewarded his preferred doctors with hefty payments, Apple Watches, introductions to celebrities and vacations on his private island and his #NewMexico ranch. One cash-strapped dermatologist asked the sexual predator to co-sign his car lease." npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "He directed women to get pelvic exams, liposuction & mole removals... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "A plastic surgeon... closed a young woman’s head wound with 35 stitches on #JeffreyEpstein ’s dining room table. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Prolonging conflict, in part to avoid elections and accountability processes for his corruption, has been his pattern. His continuation of ethnic cleansing in #Gaza... Bibi’s prolongation of that #war was making #Israel less safe. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Trump is unilaterally dragging this nation into an illegal and unjustified #war with #Iran without congressional authorization, without a clear objective, and without any imminent threat to the #UnitedStates. This is a reckless abuse of power... for a conflict the American people do not want... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Donald Trump, reeling from the Epstein #pedophile scandal, soaring #inflation, and rotten poll numbers, launched an unprovoked regional war without congressional authorization — let alone a coherent rationale for the strikes across Iran. #Iran retaliated with strikes on #US forces and US military assets across the region." npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ " #DonaldTrump did not consult #Congress. He did not seek a declaration of #war. He did not invoke the War Powers Resolution... He posted a video on Truth Social at two-thirty in the morning and announced that the #UnitedStates #military had begun major combat operations against a sovereign nation. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "I do not protest this war on behalf of the Iranian regime. The Iranian regime deserves no sympathy and will receive none from me. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "A war is a time when we will be told not to ask questions. But a war is actually when questions must be asked.... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Gulf Arab states who oppose Iranian power have generated extremely generous packages of compensation for companies associated with Trump personally & with members of his family. The United Arab Emirates... The Saudis... The Qataris... The list is very long. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ " #Iran on the one side and... #Israel on the other... a far more durable element of #politics than the wavering and contradictory statements of the #Trump administration, it is a good place to start. And where does it lead? npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "The claim that #Iran was about to build a nuclear weapon has not been established. It is all the odder as a justification for #war given that this administration has already claimed many times to have destroyed the Iranian nuclear weapons program. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "From the #UnitedStates, the most plausible angle of view is domestic #politics, not foreign policy. Wars are a tool of undermining and undoing democracies. Given that we have multiple examples of this from both modern and ancient #democracy... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office announced Saturday that it is conducting an investigation into the police response to a walkout by Quakertown High School students who were protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions." npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ The student protest in Quakertown, #Pennsylvania was peaceful until the #police showed up -- Including the police chief in plain clothes -- and started grabbing students and tackling them to the ground. The chief put a young girl in a choke hold. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "however bad you think it is, the reality is far far worse.... two emerging problems — ICE’s reliance on #surveillance technology and the looming crisis of its concentration camp-style detention facilities.) npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ You can watch my full testimony on YouTube here [ https://www.youtube.com/live/Cu7uMFfFpIk?t=1995s ], and the text of testimony follows below. I also prepared an exhaustive 50-page “Statement for the Record” [ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y0imESAshp__eDWlXM9Y0_kGr1Y6spWy/view ] that draws on much deeper specific detail about each of the problems I mention in my verbal testimony." npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Criminality is so rampant inside #CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "I was called as the commission’s expert witness on the history of problems, corruption, and training within #CBP and #ICE ... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ Look who I just found in my foyer. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Can we agree that moms driving SUVs on their way back after dropping their 6-year-old off at school and a nurse who stepped in to protect a woman from harm, don't deserve to be shot dead on the street by the people we are paying to protect us? npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @nprofile…a3vu @nprofile…crwg npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Would you think a candidate who talks about ICE that way is even a little bit bothered, much less outraged, by #ICE murdering #ReneeGood, kidnapping #children off the streets, and harassing and assaulting people for engaging in constitutionally-protected #FreeSpeech? npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Amundson could hear the agent’s tongue and fluids blocking his airway. She asked to be uncuffed. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "the agent in the front passenger seat said out loud that he wasn’t feeling well. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "100 #clergy members were arrested while protesting federal #immigration enforcement outside #Minneapolis -St Paul international airport today... by members of the airport staff and local law enforcement... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ More photos of the Minneapolis protest and march from The Guardian. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Thousands march through Minneapolis as anti-ICE protests continue npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "A large group of protesters gathered outside Terminal 1 at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport this morning. They alleged a connection between the airport, Delta Air Lines and ICE’s enforcement actions in Minnesota. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Hundreds of shops, restaurants and cultural institutions are closing their doors Friday and activists are urging Minnesotans to stay home as part of a #protest against the federal deportation operation now in its eighth week. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Today, general strikes are rare in the #US largely because they are difficult to coordinate. But lawmakers and the courts for decades have also restricted the power of #unions. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Minneapolis was home to a landmark #GeneralStrike nearly 100 years ago... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "A #GeneralStrike is a work stoppage across multiple industries. The overall goal is to pause #economic activity to compel change. General strikes are uncommon in modern #America but were once a staple of #protest politics and are still frequently employed in #Europe. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Friday may be the largest worker action in the state’s history, said Christa Sarrack, president of a labor union... Ms. Sarrack said some of the #union members’ employers had decided to close for the day, while others were allowing employees to not come to work. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Charles Booker, a #Democratic candidate for the US Senate in #Kentucky, praised the organizations for showing solidarity in the face of a crackdown by federal agents. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "More than 50 #Minnesota labor unions, nonprofits, and other #community organizations have signed onto a January 23 Day of Action, which calls for a complete “economic blackout” in the state. “No work. No school. No shopping,” its posters declare. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Tomorrow, tens of thousands of workers in #Minneapolis are expected to take to the streets in a mass #GeneralStrike. The “Day of Truth and Freedom” has been endorsed by all the major #labor organizations in #Minnesota. Every major #school & cultural institution, as well as hundreds of restaurants & small businesses, are expected to close. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "growing #strike movement across the country against ICE's occupation of #Minneapolis. So far... there are Minneapolis #GeneralStrike solidarity actions in at least 215 cities across the #UnitedStates. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "the action has been endorsed by some #Minnesota labor unions, including the #Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, St. Paul Federation of Educators, Unite Here Local 17, SEIU Local 26, Unidos MN, and ATU transit union. Additionally, the Minnesota Nurses Association backed the event in an announcement on Jan. 17. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ ‼️ Anti-ICE strike‼️ npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Most of the #government programs that were cut last year to pay for this ICE surge ... have not gone into effect yet. But they are coming... npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "But it’s not a tragedy when you spend a decade telling lies about #immigrants to win political power that you then use to fund a masked paramilitary force to hunt people based on their race... It’s not a tragedy when one of those crusaders kills someone who objects to the assault on their #community. It’s not a tragedy when you’ve ignored & attacked everyone who told you that this would be the inevitable consequence of your public policy" npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "The legislation that #Congress passed last year at Trump’s behest tripled the size of ICE, and the agency has been purged of any leadership that objects to the extreme vision of #StephenMiller & the #MAGA regime. More than 30 people died in ICE custody last year, & multiple others have been shot by ICE agents on #US streets. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Right now feels impossible, and unfortunately there's a lot of impossible still to come. There's no fast fix, no one easy trick to defeating #fascism. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "The time to organize for that is right now. Talk to friends, talk to family, have a plan. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "They have come to the Twin Cities with 2000, 3000 troops & the people of #Minneapolis St Paul have answered back with tens of thousands more. The call for help goes out, and it gets answered by so many... Everywhere you look there are people—regular-ass people like you, like me—standing up to literal troops, everyone knowing full well how it could go and doing it anyway. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "Every single of one them has had abductions happen on their block, to their neighbors, right in front of them. Their kids have seen their classrooms empty out, remote school instituted like there's another plague. They all know the smell of tear gas, the burn of pepper in the air. One described the number of abandoned cars, windows smashed. Another described a neighbor screaming out. All of them talk of helicopters, the endless helicopters." npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "To be clear, we're not "protesting" here in Minneapolis. We're resisting an occupation." npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "The President won’t rule out military action against #NATO allies because he didn’t get a peace prize. npub1fhxavrh6g7d6vs6rea5k8f4q6jxm2y4343qcfnrzhnq65df390dstwtl83 Zhi Zhu 🕸️ "But here’s what’s actually happening: basically everyone in a position to do something about this is pretending everything is fine.
