Rebecca Griffin
@rebeccagriffin.com
communicator + advocate working for reproductive health, rights, and justice
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
I am going to lose my mind if UC keeps calling moves like this a “natural next step” in this work rather than the truth that they’re bending to a racist, authoritarian regime that wants to resegregate this country
UC eliminates EDI department, creates Office of Culture and Inclusive Excellence - Daily Bruin
This post was updated Nov. 5 at 11:12 p.m. The UC eliminated its department of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion on Oct. 27, replacing it with the Office of Culture and Inclusive Excellence.
dailybruin.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I am going to lose my mind if UC keeps calling moves like this a “natural next step” in this work rather than the truth that they’re bending to a racist, authoritarian regime that wants to resegregate this country
when we were celebrating, my 8-year-old nephew said, “he’s for free buses, if you didn’t know”
The core problem with this is that you can't assess the popularity of policies in a vacuum.
Very few people on the left were talking about free buses a year ago but once Zohran started talking about it, it became super popular. That's less about the idea and more about his charisma and credibility
Very few people on the left were talking about free buses a year ago but once Zohran started talking about it, it became super popular. That's less about the idea and more about his charisma and credibility
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
when we were celebrating, my 8-year-old nephew said, “he’s for free buses, if you didn’t know”
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The U.S. spends over $180 billion on cops and incarceration every year. The annual SNAP budget is $100 billion.
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The U.S. spends over $180 billion on cops and incarceration every year. The annual SNAP budget is $100 billion.
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![Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.
There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.
What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.
It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lzlqyldh7nfc34pfffvd24ko/bafkreiap6asa64jdjb2vlv4c2sdritjrntsibvsv7baj6o4cgwcfgsjeny@jpeg)
October 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look…
However, they are weaker than they look…
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
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I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
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September 28, 2025 at 4:27 AM
In these dark times, I especially appreciated this reminder from @prisonculture.bsky.social about cultivating revolutionary imagination
Abolition is About Making Things...
Imagination is a Terrain of Struggle
prisonculture.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
In these dark times, I especially appreciated this reminder from @prisonculture.bsky.social about cultivating revolutionary imagination
@notalawyer.bsky.social captures the moment stringinamaze.net/p/your-mourn...
September 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
@notalawyer.bsky.social captures the moment stringinamaze.net/p/your-mourn...
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I know it's hard to do but you have to tune out the constant & I mean constant torrent of criticisms on social media re: activism & organizing. If you don't, it can stop you from trying to do any activism or organizing. Most of the critics aren't doing any organizing themselves so keep trying things
September 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I know it's hard to do but you have to tune out the constant & I mean constant torrent of criticisms on social media re: activism & organizing. If you don't, it can stop you from trying to do any activism or organizing. Most of the critics aren't doing any organizing themselves so keep trying things
it just keeps getting worse
I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!
![Issue 1
November 7, 2023
Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety(1]
Results
Choice
Votes
%
& Yes
2,227,384
56.78%
No
1,695,480
43.22%
Total votes
3,922,864
100.00%](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gouysuoxatjdb5bjcqe4sfh7/bafkreielbywjkgthjrsgp5s7na3nxbcn3wrdpwegj7vtrqswh6goqydgra@jpeg)
September 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
it just keeps getting worse
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These are the Trump Administration’s demands on UCLA, in addition to a 1.2 billion dollar fine, as reported by the LA Times today. I must note again that the Trump Administration’s attempt to use title vi to enforce conservative agenda items is flagrantly illegal.
September 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
These are the Trump Administration’s demands on UCLA, in addition to a 1.2 billion dollar fine, as reported by the LA Times today. I must note again that the Trump Administration’s attempt to use title vi to enforce conservative agenda items is flagrantly illegal.
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This vision of liberalism requires Black people to accept their humanity will always be a matter of “debate.”
This sets up an absurd standard where the only justification for criticizing Kirk is if he personally committed violence.
But the entire reason liberalism is under attack is the constant lies and endorsement of violence by prominent conservatives, not because they're doing it themselves!
But the entire reason liberalism is under attack is the constant lies and endorsement of violence by prominent conservatives, not because they're doing it themselves!
September 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This vision of liberalism requires Black people to accept their humanity will always be a matter of “debate.”
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
Join California Coalition for Women Prisoners at this amazing event celebrating 30 years of organizing across the walls of California's women's prisons. Get tickets here: bit.ly/CCWP_30
September 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Join California Coalition for Women Prisoners at this amazing event celebrating 30 years of organizing across the walls of California's women's prisons. Get tickets here: bit.ly/CCWP_30
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We teamed up with @ineedana.bsky.social to break down if there are legal risks to helping someone get an abortion
The answer isn’t simple — and that’s the point. Vague laws create fear and confusion. But there are ways to show up for someone you love.
Learn more: www.ineedana.com/blog/are-the...
The answer isn’t simple — and that’s the point. Vague laws create fear and confusion. But there are ways to show up for someone you love.
Learn more: www.ineedana.com/blog/are-the...
September 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
We teamed up with @ineedana.bsky.social to break down if there are legal risks to helping someone get an abortion
The answer isn’t simple — and that’s the point. Vague laws create fear and confusion. But there are ways to show up for someone you love.
Learn more: www.ineedana.com/blog/are-the...
The answer isn’t simple — and that’s the point. Vague laws create fear and confusion. But there are ways to show up for someone you love.
Learn more: www.ineedana.com/blog/are-the...
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If you’re in Texas, you can still order abortion pills by mail. Check out INeedAnA.com
I Need an Abortion - Find Verified Clinics, Pills by Mail, and Support | ineedana.com
How to get an abortion? Find your closest verified local abortion clinics, pills by mail, funding support, and local abortion laws. Updated daily.
INeedAnA.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
If you’re in Texas, you can still order abortion pills by mail. Check out INeedAnA.com
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this is damned impressive
They don’t know what song the DJ will play. Sometimes the dancer gets something they really know and it’s amazing — like this one where The D Soraki, a Japanese dancer who at the time was 19, got Diana Ross “I’m Coming Out” & hit every syncopated drum break. All freestyle, not choreography.
August 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
this is damned impressive
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Tell every Lyft and Uber driver in California that now is the time to sign up to join the union. They can use this link: cagigunion.org/norcal. SPREAD THE WORD.
August 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Tell every Lyft and Uber driver in California that now is the time to sign up to join the union. They can use this link: cagigunion.org/norcal. SPREAD THE WORD.
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Is it time to shout out @lilyyily.bsky.social?!
🚨 This Book Changed My Life on the FREE Earwolf feed! 🚨
🚨 This Book Changed My Life on the FREE Earwolf feed! 🚨
August 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Is it time to shout out @lilyyily.bsky.social?!
🚨 This Book Changed My Life on the FREE Earwolf feed! 🚨
🚨 This Book Changed My Life on the FREE Earwolf feed! 🚨
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Are you/do you know an Uber or Lyft driver in California? AB1340 opened a path for rideshare drivers to unionize. It would be the biggest new private sector union in history (800k drivers). Please sign up now at the link and spread the word to build this drivers movement.
cagigunion.org
cagigunion.org
California Gig Workers Union
Join California gig workers in the fight for a voice on the job. Yes on AB 1340.
cagigunion.org
August 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Are you/do you know an Uber or Lyft driver in California? AB1340 opened a path for rideshare drivers to unionize. It would be the biggest new private sector union in history (800k drivers). Please sign up now at the link and spread the word to build this drivers movement.
cagigunion.org
cagigunion.org
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"We have to define the politics of opposition. Those politics must center our shared humanity and our refusal to sacrifice our neighbors and our fellow human beings."
important read from @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
important read from @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
You Must Protect Anyone Chased by the Fascists
"We have to define the politics of opposition."
organizingmythoughts.org
August 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
"We have to define the politics of opposition. Those politics must center our shared humanity and our refusal to sacrifice our neighbors and our fellow human beings."
important read from @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
important read from @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
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THREAD. A subtle but pervasive propaganda technique is when the news adopts as the *actual* motive the *stated* motive of people in power.
August 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
THREAD. A subtle but pervasive propaganda technique is when the news adopts as the *actual* motive the *stated* motive of people in power.