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Wow.

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Among so many injustices

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❌BREAKING NEWS❌

Atlanta Police Walkout In Protest Following Murder Charge Against Officer Who Shot Rayshard Brooks

The head of Atlanta’s police union confirmed Wednesday June 17th, 2020 that officers from the Atlanta Police Department in Zones 3 and 6 walked off the job Wednesday afternoon.  

Vince Champion, southeast regional director of the International Brotherhood of Police officers, said that police officers had stopped answering calls midshift, in response to charges against Officer Garrett Rolfe who is accused of murdering Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta.

Police are doing what they call the BlueFlu: a strike action, especially among police officers, in which workers are absent on the pretext of “sickness”.

#WAKEUP

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A member of “The Hollywood Ten,” Ring Lardner, Jr. refused to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigation into suspected Communists and “communist sympathizers” and was sentenced to federal prison for a 1-year sentence in 1948.

After losing his appeal, Lardner reported to prison on 29 June 1950. He served 9 months.

Blacklisted since 1947, Lardner had hoped that by the time he was released from prison he could find work in Hollywood again. He could not, at least not under his own name. He wrote for a number of TV series in the 1950s and early 1960s, all under pseudonyms.

The first work under his own name was not until 1965, with his screenplay for The Cincinnati Kid. Lardner received the Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1971 for M*A*S*H (1970).

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On this day, 6 May 1933, Nazis raided the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Sexology Institute) in Berlin. Run by Magnus Hirschfeld, the institute was a pioneering organisation that supported gay and transgender rights and equality for women. Hirschfeld coined the term “transsexualism.” The institute employed at least one transgender worker and had begun offering the first modern gender affirmation surgery. A few days after the raid, the institute’s huge library was burned in the streets while propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels delivered a speech. The Nazis then stepped up persecution of all LGBT+ people, although, in particular, gay and bisexual men, and trans women were targeted, with thousands sent to concentration camps. Some of them were forced to serve out their sentences by Allied authorities after “liberation.” https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1710419902476486/?type=3

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The rich are getting more rich tho

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What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor – hence, on the changing state of business, on the vagaries of unbridled competition.

Friedrich Engels, Principles of Communism (via philosophybits)

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Subsisting in confined, barren quarters that lack intellectual stimulation or appropriate social contact seems to thin the cerebral cortex – the part of the brain involved in voluntary movement and higher cognitive function, including memory, planning and decision-making. 

There are other consequences. Capillaries shrink, depriving the brain of the oxygen-rich blood it needs to survive. Neurons become smaller, and their dendrites – the branches that form connections with other neurons – become less complex, impairing communication within the brain. As a result, the cortical neurons in captive animals process information less efficiently than those living in enriched, more natural environments.

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"Possibly one of the most damning indictments of Joe Biden and his team that has happened yet." ~~Saagar Enjeti, speaking of the Chamber of Commerce's shift of support to Biden & the Democrats

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Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the latest efforts by Senate Republicans to pass a 'skinny bill', as well as the potential impacts it may have on everyday Americans.

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Regulatory capture of a U.S. judge

Human rights activist, Steven Donziger, discusses the latest developments in his case. Donziger is accused of contempt of court, trial is scheduled for September 9th.

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Moonlight Sonata (3rd Movement) Ludwig van Beethoven, arranged for electric guitar