Repost from @fablesoren on Insta-

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"Action Alert

Show your support for Jacob Hoopes and Stand with us Against Fascism

Attend Jacob's public Hearing:
1:30pm on Monday 7/28
Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse
210 SW Main St, Portland, Or 97204

Jacob Hoopes was violently arrested in his home by the FBI weeks after protesting ICE. Attend Jacob's public hearing and say NO to the violence, fear, and terror being inflicted upon our communities.

I was informed that the federal courthouse will require an ID to enter, and removal of any mask. Please be aware.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me (fablessoren on inta) through DMs. Thank you."

We have added a new sticker to our online store: "Capitalism thrives on death—death to capitalism."

You can order them here:

https://store.crimethinc.com/products/capitalism-thrives-on-death-sticker

These are 3”x5” inches, offset printed on coated litho paper. One is included free with every order; you can order them in bulk for pennies per sticker, or download the design to print out yourself.

Supreme Court Hears Gender-Affirming Care Case

Transgender advocates converged at the Supreme Court for the oral arguments of U.S. vs Skrmetti, a case that will decide the fate of access to gender-affirming care for trans minors. UR was on the ground covering a rally near the U.S. Supreme Court Building steps.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/supreme-court-hears-gender-affirming-care-case/

We can imagine FBI agents investigating the killing of the UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson struggling to make a *short list* of people who have been wronged by the insurance company.

How did insurance companies become so hated?

Modern-day insurance has its origins in grassroots mutual aid programs such as the "Friendly Societies" in which workers motivated by care for one another would pool their resources and take care of each other. Insurance only became a racket after this model was captured by the state and for-profit corporations.

Though the proponents of capitalism and the state claim that centralization and privatization are essential for scaling up social infrastructure and making it run "more efficiently," state bureaucracy and for-profit models have chiefly served to concentrate control over everyone's lives in the hands of a few oligarchs.

And the more unevenly power is distributed in a society, the more volatile that society is bound to be.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-quarterly-of-healthcare-ethics/article/anarchy-and-its-overlooked-role-in-health-and-healthcare/B04AE2EBAC242460376400D0FBD347DD