Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
The nighttime protest at PDX ICE facility is now huge after ICE tear gassed children yesterday.
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
They are illegally 40 days late
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
Consider giving someone the gift of blogs this holiday season. And take a calendar for yourself, too.
I think there's a missing third question: do chronic pain patients receive more or better non-medical support in other countries?
Painkillers are well and good, but if keeping your insurance means persisting in the job that caused your chronic pain, maybe that's a problem
Is it worse to be a billionaire or the kind of schmuck who lies about being a billionaire?
blogged about how it is publisher's job to protect their own industry from AI and how they aren't doing it defector.com/theres-no-sh...
A powerful artist and activist. Just everything about this woman and her poetry was good and clean and straight truth. She pushed us. She’d cut you and then smile to show that she’d done it with love.
Rest in Peace and Power Nikki Giovanni.
Telehealth is the only way many disabled people and rural folks can get medical care. Take two seconds to save it
i need #8 to be true tho
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This book is an amazing read! Everyone should educate themselves on labor history. Remember, whatever is ahead of us can be conquered if we listen to those who fought before.
Do me a favor and support this campaign with a donation however small. Think of people behind bars and think what it would mean to you, if that was you, to have access to books. Thanks.
this is about 24 hours out of date now but it’s good work and if you are under the impression that House Dems are staying silent about the Mace/Johnson bathroom situation, perhaps because people keep lying to you about it, you should take a look.
Do you have trans people in your life who you worry might be losing hope? Are you, maybe, one such person yourself?
Or, are you a fan of great writing by incredible trans people and want to read what they're thinking in this historic moment?
Assigned Media's Stay With Us package launches today.
someone needs to put this in a development economics lecture
Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com if your response to coverage of even small acts of resistance from a community Trump is targeting-despite Trump voters in that community—is to tell them "why try," "you knew this is what would happen," "enjoy detention," "you asked for it". '.. you're just starting early with the obeying in advance November 20, 2024 at 9:23 AM ₫ Everybody can reply 0
deleted this because some of the responses I got that were like this were deleted with apologies (bluesky???), but leaving a screenshot because the sentiment remains evergreen:
Also a very old argument: that feminism used to be righteous/useful... "before" (before it "went too far"). This came up in the 80s-90s from folks who attacked feminism in 70s). Also see: "feminism is important, but not AS impt as XYZ; don't distract from XYZ, we'll deal w/women's right later."
"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
This isn't a culture war. This is the only trans congresswoman, ever being bullied through the press and legislation, and having only 1 of hundreds of colleagues stand up for her. They can do more than 1 thing at a time. Defending her will not take so much effort that they can't do their jobs.
International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against Netanyahu & fmr Defense minister Yoav Gallant. They’re accused, in part, of using starvation as a weapon of war. Netanyahu has called the warrants “antisemitic,” his go-to against criticism of him blatantly committing war crimes.
and the reason this is important is that politics have not stopped happening. trump is set to squander whatever goodwill he has with the voting public and this is an opportunity
I'm more or less waiting until he's in office and actually tries to put plans into action before I let a headline freak me out. I already know the broad strokes of his planned cruelty and thats more than enough for me right now.
One of the most annoying responses to the first term was people calling everything a distraction. Just because one of his actions seems clownish or evil or impossible or stupid doesn’t make it a distraction—it’s part of the whole badly planned mess, that’s all.
A viral post from Facebook about food shelves with the text crossed out and JUST GIVE MONEY written over top
Tis the season for helpful posts about what food shelves need so here's my advice:
If your kid's school is doing a Canned Food Drive or a movie theater is doing a special movie screening with a can of food in lieu of admission: give a can.
Otherwise: JUST GIVE MONEY.
Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.
