Everyone wants to be Benicio del Toro in One Battle After Another, but no one wants to *be* Benicio del Toro in One Battle After Another, you know what I'm saying?
06.03.2026 20:14
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Everyone wants to be Benicio del Toro in One Battle After Another, but no one wants to *be* Benicio del Toro in One Battle After Another, you know what I'm saying?
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Today more than other days, I need you to know that successfully fighting authoritarianism requires just 3.5% of the population resisting.
9% of Americans are union members
9% of the population is LGBT
7% is AAPI
14% are Black or African American
20 % are Latine
Go, gather your people.
Coincidentally, New Orleans east is a profound site of cross racial solidarity. Black and Viet folks banded together to fight off environmental racism in the area Post Katrina. They won.
Have we considered that the Bridgertons are a family with a fetish? There's a fine line and they're intergenerationally walking it.
Love that, "Is this AI?" is a new burn
Material and cultural change are inextricable. You absolutely cannot demand accountability for the survivors in the Epstein files without doing work to change the culture that enabled their victimization.
Someone said that show wasn't for "everybody." Agreed. It was for people who dine while sitting on plastic chairs. Who take a little coffee with their condensed milk. People who speak with accents and pay in cash. Not "everybody," just every person who's excluded from the idea of America.
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I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July.
This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!
May he never eat another good meal
-folks aren't entitled to their anger. It is to remind us that the difference between political emotions. Audre Lorde tells us, "Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change."
The most consistent organizers I know are not posting vitriol or resentment on social media, they're mobilizing. Folks who have been fighting deportations, doing harm reduction, and abolition are describing this as an "easy" moment, an "opportunity," or "the time." This isn't to say-
I just facilitated a session of folks who wanted to do something, but didn't know who they could organize with. I introduced an incredibly simple concept: you can organize anything with anyone. Your garden group? Meet your new comrades. Book club? Novel accomplices. PTA? Coalition partners.
“Ochoa had for years dreamed of working for the Border Patrol and finally landed a job there, she said. By the time the couple split in 2021, he had become a gun enthusiast with about 25 rifles, pistols and shotguns, Angelica Ochoa said.”
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Empowering them materially and then trying them to restrain them legally won’t work.
JUST IN: ICE agents in San Francisco just now drove through protesters, used pepper spray, & brandished rifles at those who had gathered to try to stop an immigration arrest.
A woman, holding onto the hood of an ICE SUV, was thrown off.
youtu.be/GQ_YGzfaQLM
The best thing we can do to support Minnesota from far away is prepare locally. If you're in the Bay, we're dominated by 501C3's and nonprofits, but this isn't their moment. Assemble the PTA, start a group chat w/ neighbors, literally call your friends. Don't let formalization stop you.
Politicians don't respond to "shame," they respond to power. Specifically, they respond to threats *to* their power from collectives of those they've robbed of said power. Shame is useful in small p politics, but not with these jokers.
Bears got a standing ovation leaving soldier field tonight after losing to the Rams and goddamn if that isn't a classy fucking city, I don't know what is
"At the end of the day, it's bigger than me. The things that are going through makes people uncomfortable, imagine how (Palestinians) feel?" he said. "That's the biggest thing. I have no affiliation, no connection, to these people - other than the fact that I am a human being. If you have a heart and you're a human being, and you see what's going on in this world, you check yourself real quick. "I'm sitting here crying about football when there's people dying every single day." Al-Shaair is the Texans' 2025 Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee.
Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Ginger cuz looks like he’s never even heard of an oblique
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At Coscto, workers organized in-store spaces so that delivery delivery app drivers can avoid ICE agents
Bicycle clubs are buying out tamale and fruit stands so that vendors can stay home
Cafes are giving away whistles for free
Hear me when I say this: you can do something and you can do it at work.
It is so incredibly important that we allow this moment to change us in similar ways. Crying more, caring more, feeling more is how we find it within ourselves to do more.
Recently a Chicago organizer told me that while they while they intellectually knew that we only have each other, this moment in which they often find themselves alone on a corner with nothing but a whistle and a comrade, has really deepened the level of care with which they do this work
At this point, knowing your rights is nice, but even if you do there's no guarantee that those will be honored. So if you all you have is your whistle, your neighbors, and nothing but your convictions that we deserve more than this? That's more than enough.
A frightening byproduct of professional activism is that average people think they need to be certain, brave, and an expert in order to go do something. You don't. Do it unsure. Do it scared. Do it without having read all the books. Showing up for your community doesn't require a degree.
To the most action averse person who is watching this “helplessly,” I say: these people have salaries, their weapons cost money, their gear, their fucking advertisements on LinkedIn all cost money. This so called institution has a budget, and your taxes pay for all of it. Tax day is April 15th.
Often, I find good liberals' primary obstacle to agitation is certainty, specifically around legality. But as the veneer of civil rights fade, these people who we've dismissed for so long, are ready and willing to supplant reformism with community safety. It's a necessary and thrilling change.
There is not enough antacid in the Midwest for the Bears to be playing like this