There are a lot of other powerful persons that are obfuscated by the circus

Pichai sundar
Ruth porat

Countless others

Don't get distracted by the rigamarole

It's what oppressors rely on

Remember how Trump said he "sent the military in and opened up the water flow" in CA? It appears he forced the Army Corps to just drain reservoirs into recently flooded farmland without telling local farmers or leaders. “In 25 years, I’ve never seen anything like this.”
sjvwater.org/decision-to-...

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

I’m sad to learn that my law school classmate, Kiah Duggins, died in the DC plane crash last night.

Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar.

I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below.

What an immense loss

Eat. The. Rich.

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.

Coretta Scott King

Bernice King

Remember the greats

Say her name

Waffle House employees say owners rob them of up to $46.8 million a year

Servers accuse the chain of wage theft, saying it forces them to do janitorial work and dishwashing for lower tipped wages

So, a story about “norms”.

20 years ago I was the rep for a small school support staff union in central Illinois. The contract language kin job vacancies was that the Superintendent had to post the job title, qualifications, and starting wage on the main office bulletin board.

Every time, though…