I wrote about managing overwhelm during these times and about practices that can help us regulate our emotions on our own and in our organizing groups.

#OtD 3 Feb 1909 Simone Weil, French philosopher, mystic, and activist, was born. She fought against the fascists in the Spanish civil war and again in the French resistance. She died in the UK in 1943, after refusing to eat more than French rations stories.workingclasshistory.c...

A good blanket rule is never give fascists a single fucking inch on anything

This is a great piece.

"As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "Feelings of fear and powerlessness are understandable, but if we surrender to fascism in our own minds, our feelings of helplessness will become self-fulfilling as Trump’s violence continues."

ACT UP, 1990

The play that Trump just pulled, making himself look like the savior of TikTok when he's been its foremost opponent, reminds me of what he did when he put his name on the stimulus checks. Don't underestimate the ability of moves like this to trick people.

“(Mass deportation) is getting an unexpected head start from Joe Biden...Instead of reassuring and preemptively protecting many terrified families and workers among the 11 million undocumented people in the US, the Biden administration has been working on contracts for more detention beds.”