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I am in favor of paying into a taxation funded government so long as the money is allocated in favor of the betterment of society. I want to pay for you to have healthcare.

What I am not in favor of is taxation without representation. I’m not in favor of paying taxes that enable any war machine.

who are these little ghouls that keep including newsom in 2028 "polls"

get that fucking transphobe off the list

I know this is impossible for us discuss in this current moment but... People want to do interesting, thoughtful, creative, day to day work. They want to care for each other, and feel like they are contributing to something bigger.

It should be where we start when we think about our communities.

voting to approve Trump appointees is fucking insane

We can afford to house people.

We can afford to feed people.

We can afford to give people healthcare.

The money is there. We just need to put people in office who will do it.

i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly

After revelations that companies like Ring have been selling home security footage to ICE, the most common defense of keeping a camera up seems to be, “But what if I’m stalked?”

And as a violence researcher, I’m just here to state for the record that police do not care about your security footage.

I cannot believe it is 2026 and we are still barricading Millennium Park.

Most likely outcome is that asshole dies of old age and leaves everyone else to clean up his mess, capping an 80 year run of never experiencing consequences. Only in America baby!

If you're scared of protesting or a general strike because you could lose your job, healthcare, and housing, or even go to jail, now you understand why the US has no universal healthcare or housing and no guaranteed parental leave, but DOES have the largest prison and police system on planet Earth.

Congress and the President have played the “Oh this? This isn’t an actual WAR. Those rules don’t apply,” card my entire life. Yours too if you are younger than ~82.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.

Also the people talking about pronouns too much are transphobes

Everyone else is just using them

This guy gets it.

so self-identifying as an american is all it takes?

sounds like we've got billions of dollars to save, a couple federal agencies to abolish, and many thousands of people to *free* and pay reparations to 🤷‍♀️

After reading Careless People it’s actually wild to open meta’s text-based platforms and see them try to do all of the things to me that Sarah Wynn Williams describes in the book

I think if you are gonna use Threads you have to read the book so you know the anti-democracy machine you’re sustaining

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Funding national security should mean funding housing, food, and healthcare.

For everyone. That's what makes us safe.

bsky.app/profile/tran... does great work

www.transupfrontil.com

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

I have been thinking about this, and some kind of collective, operator-owned, publication mechanism must be possible (I see you @defector.com ). But I am not an industry person, so I have the bravado of the uninformed.

Abolish ICE.

There’s no reforming it.

There’s no compromise.

There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

Race as a construct is so powerful that only now are many people saying ‘they are killing us’.

They have been killing us. We have all been us the whole time.

The thing about Greg Bovino being pulled out of the fray is that he’s not in charge of ICE. That’s Todd Lyon.

In either case we’re gonna need to Abolish CBP and Abolish ICE

If you’re Dems, please coalesce around Stephen Miller not having a job anymore.

in times of turmoil it is very easy to feel like theres nothing you can do to help, especially if you are far away, but i promise buckaroo EVERYTHING helps. there is direct action like donating money or protesting, and there is cultural action like creating art and cultivating atmosphere of change