The University of Notre Dame canceled Palestinian scholar Eman Abdelhadi‘s keynote speech.
“I will never get past the absurdity of the expectation that Palestinians should silently watch our murder.”
Librarians, archivists, any GLAM-adjacent folks, if you are looking for an opportunity to help preserve LGBTQ+ history, please see below! 📚
I talked with Live Like the World is Dying host @margaret.bsky.social about preparedness, collective survival, and challenging ourselves "to let people be better."
This power grab is a major threat to the reliability of voting by mail, which is disproportionately used by Democratic voters
Justice Department deletes database tracking federal police misconduct.
Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices.
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
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TODAY: We’re expecting a House vote on the Laken Riley Act, a dangerous bill that would shred constitutional rights and let MAGA extremists gut legal immigration.
48 House Democrats recently voted for this bill, so we really need you to call your representative ASAP: indivisible.org/resource/tel...
BREAKING: A district court ruled that the FBI's use of Section 702 to conduct warrantless searches of a person's digital communications violates the Fourth Amendment.
This is a victory for our right to privacy from government spying.
“To be orderly and cooperative in a fascist state is not a virtue. We must be prepared to live and act defiantly, deriving no legitimacy from the illegitimate brutes who would govern us.”
“Witnessing and disapproving will not save us. We must be willing to act and refuse to act on the basis of what we know is right. We must build a rebellious culture of care in defiance of a death-making culture of greed. We must reject the disposal of our fellow human beings.”
“We will be expected to passively observe acts of violence… We should all be asking ourselves what rules and laws we are willing to break. What lines are we willing to cross? What are we unwilling to passively accept?“
“Absorbing each blow head-on and then performing our disapproval online is not ‘resistance’… Trump is a performer. Becoming a full-time viewer and critic of the Trump Show does not create safety or justice for anyone. It merely drives us mad.”
“Defending” women while banning abortion, limiting recourse for pregnancy discrimination, engaging in a campaign to deport families, seeking to revoke birthright citizenship. Don’t be deputized to enact their cruelty.
A must-read:
“For everyday people resisting fascistic policies… defiance must be grounded in our sense of justice, rather than arguments about what’s legal… What are we unwilling to passively accept? To create as much justice and safety as possible, we have to defy authority and disobey.”
One of the 13 core principles of @interruptcrim.bsky.social's Beyond Do No Harm Network - learn more at bit.ly/BDNHLaunch and our discussion guide section on this principle: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/bdnh-4
I was raised in a multi-generational organizing family and I can say with firsthand knowledge that 20th century organizers read theory and they studied history and literature quite closely
The need to do that hasn’t changed
If studying history isn’t part of your organizing work, change that
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Unsolicited writing advice, #17171617:
Don't just write. Read books. Watch films. Look at paintings and sculpture. Play games. Go to plays. Listen to music. Think about how these things make you feel.
Making art is a two-way stream. To make art, you have to consume art.
I used to work so hard on Twitter to separate my little shitposter alt from my “professional” account and I just refuse to do it anymore
you will get indigenous history and climate policy posts and posts about weed and vibrators, this is who I am
I hope that the people who are usually not politically engaged but worked really hard to get Harris elected wake up soon and realize that they are not the only ones who are tired of a struggle that is full of defeat & in fact they could learn about surviving from the leftists they mark as enemies
Tonight is probably one of the worst mental health crisis in the trans community I've ever seen. It's bleak. So many people are in crisis and I'm scared I'm going to wake up tomorrow and have lost friends.
Please reach out to your trans friends and family. They could use some love.
