I think my favorite compliment that a new friend can give me is "YOU used to be a Republican?!"

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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if you're STILL complaining about the left:

1 - the actual left has no institutional support or power
2 - many leftists working on actionable things are occupied trying to keep people the center abandoned alive
3 - are you maybe confusing "all leftists" with a poster who annoyed you one time?

Looking for something you can actually DO to make a difference over the next four years?

Enter: Operation Newsstand. A grassroots project set up to widely distribute *actually* helpful literature for everything from SNAP benefits to renters’ rights to mutual aid.

decolonizationcoven.com

fascism is stopped when enough people say one of two things:
1) "nah, I'm not doing that"
2) "nah, you're not doing that"

a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one

“Climate change isn’t real.”

My 12-year-old, watching the “Popular” scene in Wicked for the first time:

“WAIT. There is literally no heterosexual explanation for what’s happening right now.”

“If you take away the [Senate’s] powers and let it all get concentrated in the Executive Branch, then you really risk those powers being used against the American people.”

This is a really helpful summary of a complex issue that can’t be summed up in a tweet.

Three incumbent city council members go down in Odessa after they institute a $10,000 bounty on transgender people in bathrooms.

This could be a strong rebuke of the acceleration of anti-trans panic in Texas we have seen and are poised to see more of.

I’m at the age where my friends’ parents are dying apace, and I’ve found the kindest thing I can do for them is help with the obituaries. If you’re someone whose job entails writing or you simply have a knack for it, offer to help write, edit, or proofread the obit. It’s often appreciated.

Yessss

If it ain’t won yet, we ain’t done yet.

Trans folks move through the world with more courage than most of us will ever have to demonstrate in our lives. It shouldn’t have to be this way.

I will be:
-Out front at the protests
-The problem child to all of my representatives
-A place of safety for the trans people in my life—especially kids

I was neck-deep in conservatism in 2014.

By 2017, I was protesting Trump’s Muslim ban at DFW Airport.

By 2020, I was working as a campaign manager for a progressive candidate running for a state-level office and had helped 9 openly LGBTQ+ candidates win their school board and city council seats.

Ohio, If you want to help your transgender, intersex and disabled loved ones but don't know where to start or are looking for an outline of sorts, please feel free to use my message to Governor DeWine as an outline. Text write-up is in the ALT text of the image.
governor.ohio.gov/contact/cont...

I know some folks in my network know someone who could speak to this. Help a journalist out?

Ob-Gyns are fleeing TX in droves. "21% said that they were either considering leaving the state or already planning to do so; 13% had decided to retire early. The report found “historic and worsening shortages...” #txlege women in this state. #txlege
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...