"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive):
1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*
2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything
3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can
4. Citizens march en mass
The actual Imbolc midpoint between winter and summer this year falls on Feb 3, but it’s often celebrated today
Imbolc is about hope
Things are still cold and dark and may feel hopeless
It may feel embarrassing to have hope
But the sun will keep rising, the days will keep getting longer; hold on
Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
it would be really fantastic if some university leaders in this very blue state might send out messages that are less "we are evaluating the impact of these EOs on grant funding" & more "we value our immigrant, LGBTQIA+, and trans communities & will do everything in our power to protect them"
Trump put a freeze on hiring air traffic controllers and, on Musk’s instruction, fired the FAA chief early without replacing him.
This should be the only thing Dems are saying today. They should all be out on media saying this.
I will also add that people in Congress are not volunteers. They are being paid. They have health insurance. They have retirement. They have ONE JOB—to serve their constituents. And if they cannot figure out how to push back politically they don't deserve to be in office.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
I used to work for an elected official as the person who answered their emails. I can tell you from personal experience, if even twenty or thirty people all call an official in a day, they start panicking. This stuff does help.
are people calling you a luddite for being anti-AI? wear it like a badge of honor.
"luddites were totally fine with machines,” says kevin binfield. they confined their attacks to those who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around fair labor practices.
The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers!
Read, print & distro freely!
Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:
itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
one of the biggest and simplest ways to both do something, and FEEL like you’re doing something, is to find a small nonprofit with a cause you care about. donate, volunteer, join a board. offer pro bono skills if you have them (tech support, accounting, legal). help them fundraise. they need you
At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.
I would watch this, but also I must now write this. Thanks M-W, I’ll include you in the acknowledgements!
True
Trutone (sp?) I think does some.
