Sofie Rask Karasek
@sofierkarasek.bsky.social
Building people-powered movements. Formerly comms at
@sunrisemvmt.bsky.social, co-founder
@EndRapeonCampus.bsky.social, YesMeansYes organizer, subject in #TheHuntingGround film. She/her.
@sunrisemvmt.bsky.social, co-founder
@EndRapeonCampus.bsky.social, YesMeansYes organizer, subject in #TheHuntingGround film. She/her.
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Most people want to live in a vibrant community close to the people we care about. If we want to protect the climate, we need to support good, union job opportunities in the transition.
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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In a normal political system that has strong parties, there would be a way for members to replace leaders like Schumer who disregard their preferences.
In the US, Democratic voters have essentially no mechanism to change the direction of the party leadership.
In the US, Democratic voters have essentially no mechanism to change the direction of the party leadership.
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
In a normal political system that has strong parties, there would be a way for members to replace leaders like Schumer who disregard their preferences.
In the US, Democratic voters have essentially no mechanism to change the direction of the party leadership.
In the US, Democratic voters have essentially no mechanism to change the direction of the party leadership.
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Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
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Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
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UK's Zack Polanski understands the most basic rule of messaging: if you want to touch a nerve, you have to touch a nerve. Of course they're coming after him and of course his Green Party is rising in polls and members.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The right can mock my teeth all it wants – it shows the Greens have struck a nerve | Zack Polanski
As a politician, I expect opposition and debate. But when it centres on personal insults, not policies, something else is going on, says the leader of the Green party, Zack Polanski
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
UK's Zack Polanski understands the most basic rule of messaging: if you want to touch a nerve, you have to touch a nerve. Of course they're coming after him and of course his Green Party is rising in polls and members.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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Credit where due, fucking with air travel was genius MAGA move. It impacts upper & middle class and, more importantly, a powerful business interest. Starving millions of poor people doesn't piss off Wall St.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Credit where due, fucking with air travel was genius MAGA move. It impacts upper & middle class and, more importantly, a powerful business interest. Starving millions of poor people doesn't piss off Wall St.
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How long till we learn American, United & Delta worked the phones on Senate Dems?
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 AM
How long till we learn American, United & Delta worked the phones on Senate Dems?
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
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If you don't want the #Dems to cave & allow ACA health insurance costs to explode you can contact your US Senator here: senate.gov/senators/sen...
& your US House Rep here: house.gov/representati...
Please register your concerns directly! It does matter, as did your 10/4 vote.
& your US House Rep here: house.gov/representati...
Please register your concerns directly! It does matter, as did your 10/4 vote.
U.S. Senate
senate.gov
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
If you don't want the #Dems to cave & allow ACA health insurance costs to explode you can contact your US Senator here: senate.gov/senators/sen...
& your US House Rep here: house.gov/representati...
Please register your concerns directly! It does matter, as did your 10/4 vote.
& your US House Rep here: house.gov/representati...
Please register your concerns directly! It does matter, as did your 10/4 vote.
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Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.
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my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
September 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com)
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September 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Yes, it's true. Someone did take your job. And your healthcare, pension, wage hikes and life off a single income.
It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions.
If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.
It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions.
If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.
August 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Yes, it's true. Someone did take your job. And your healthcare, pension, wage hikes and life off a single income.
It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions.
If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.
It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions.
If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.
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The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
September 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
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imo a big problem right now is the fetishism for proper procedure that grips so many left-of-center elites, which leads them to believe that the only way to resist is lawsuits. sooner or later someone must realize that you have to simply refuse (or give a countermanding order) and face trump down
August 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
imo a big problem right now is the fetishism for proper procedure that grips so many left-of-center elites, which leads them to believe that the only way to resist is lawsuits. sooner or later someone must realize that you have to simply refuse (or give a countermanding order) and face trump down
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I fell in love with this sentence Audre Lorde wrote in her journal cuz discernment is so needed right now. We can have feelings and discernment.
“My feelings are real but not always right.”
“My feelings are real but not always right.”
August 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I fell in love with this sentence Audre Lorde wrote in her journal cuz discernment is so needed right now. We can have feelings and discernment.
“My feelings are real but not always right.”
“My feelings are real but not always right.”
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be real nice if DC had an actual hometown newspaper at the moment
August 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
be real nice if DC had an actual hometown newspaper at the moment
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Gavin Newsom and Buttigege both seemingly want to be the American Keir Starmer, and Americans sympathetic to that pitch should glance over at how things are going across the pond
August 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Gavin Newsom and Buttigege both seemingly want to be the American Keir Starmer, and Americans sympathetic to that pitch should glance over at how things are going across the pond
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the other thing is that they were very invested in the idea that a "canceled" person like Cuomo could come back.
The reaction to Mamdani has been a big cipher as to what's been going on with the elites in Trump 2. Mass authoritarian power grabs? Fine, as long as there's tax cuts. Raising taxes on the super wealthy by 4%? ALL HANDS ON DECK.
August 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
the other thing is that they were very invested in the idea that a "canceled" person like Cuomo could come back.
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Katherine Clark, the second-most powerful Democrat in the House of Representatives behind Hakeem Jeffries, just admitted Israel is committing "genocide" in Gaza:
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August 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Katherine Clark, the second-most powerful Democrat in the House of Representatives behind Hakeem Jeffries, just admitted Israel is committing "genocide" in Gaza:
zeteo.com/p/second-mos...
zeteo.com/p/second-mos...
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This is actually good news. We have to get comfortable celebrating small victories where we can right now.
And while this is not perfect, it is good news
And while this is not perfect, it is good news
August 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is actually good news. We have to get comfortable celebrating small victories where we can right now.
And while this is not perfect, it is good news
And while this is not perfect, it is good news
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Anyone who has experience in an abusive household, or who has worked with people in them, or has read a lot about them, will be familiar with a particular dynamic:
Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...
Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...
August 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Anyone who has experience in an abusive household, or who has worked with people in them, or has read a lot about them, will be familiar with a particular dynamic:
Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...
Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...