Heather I
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March 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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This is so real.
And frankly, there's a childcare-sized gap at work here.
If your organizing or community doesn't find a way to accommodate childcare needs, you end up with some very young activists and some elder activists, but no one in between.
And frankly, there's a childcare-sized gap at work here.
If your organizing or community doesn't find a way to accommodate childcare needs, you end up with some very young activists and some elder activists, but no one in between.
What Putnam misses is that we're struggling to form community because we've been forced to DIY society. Without unions or a decent safety net, most Americans are caught in precarity and have to put so much energy into paid work and unpaid care for family that they have nothing left for community.
March 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This is so real.
And frankly, there's a childcare-sized gap at work here.
If your organizing or community doesn't find a way to accommodate childcare needs, you end up with some very young activists and some elder activists, but no one in between.
And frankly, there's a childcare-sized gap at work here.
If your organizing or community doesn't find a way to accommodate childcare needs, you end up with some very young activists and some elder activists, but no one in between.
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It's December, so here are a collection of end of year digital housekeeping tasks you can do while chilling out for the holidays in order to improve your privacy and security for entering 2024 on a good footing. You don't have to do all of them, but they're stuff to consider!
December 26, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
![Engels on 'Social Murder'
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call that deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call this deed murder.
But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or the bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live - forces them ... to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence - knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual ...
Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845 [1967]), p. 126 (Panther Press)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jfcht3gt62twn3r32e7bziq4/bafkreifeiogd6watrjgxqrzfsfrujyv4765jeh4why7my2rl76nbnqr5xu@jpeg)
December 5, 2024 at 4:42 AM
The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
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"Democrats need to organize their future politics around the simple reality that the establishment media is structural hostile to the Democratic party."
Wired for the GOP
This column, by Alexander Burns, the head of news at Politico, is a rich example of the DC logic that only Democrats have agency and it’s only to Democrats that standards, norms…
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:08 AM
"Democrats need to organize their future politics around the simple reality that the establishment media is structural hostile to the Democratic party."
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I've said it before, I'll say it again:
We are not a 50/50 country. We are a gerrymandered and voter suppressed country. Should we ever resolve those issues (...), then, perhaps, we'll know the actual extent of our political divisions.
We are not a 50/50 country. We are a gerrymandered and voter suppressed country. Should we ever resolve those issues (...), then, perhaps, we'll know the actual extent of our political divisions.
The final House results have now landed as 220-215 for the GOP. That means the House majority came down to the 3 NC seats the GOP flipped thanks to its brand new gerrymander.
And that gerrymander hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022.
I wrote this last month: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...
And that gerrymander hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022.
I wrote this last month: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...
December 4, 2024 at 1:44 AM
I've said it before, I'll say it again:
We are not a 50/50 country. We are a gerrymandered and voter suppressed country. Should we ever resolve those issues (...), then, perhaps, we'll know the actual extent of our political divisions.
We are not a 50/50 country. We are a gerrymandered and voter suppressed country. Should we ever resolve those issues (...), then, perhaps, we'll know the actual extent of our political divisions.
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The single essay that I tell people to read the most often is this one from James Baldwin that is ostensibly about Jews and white supremacy but is really about how to think about oppression and how we respond to it. The last third is especially incredible.
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White
archive.nytimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 12:12 AM
The single essay that I tell people to read the most often is this one from James Baldwin that is ostensibly about Jews and white supremacy but is really about how to think about oppression and how we respond to it. The last third is especially incredible.
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
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There is one obvious way to keep anti-bigotry at the center of the Democratic Party & the broader left's identity: hammering home that prejudice and culture wars are used to divide us & distract us from the class war at the heart of American unfreedom.
November 12, 2024 at 8:57 PM
There is one obvious way to keep anti-bigotry at the center of the Democratic Party & the broader left's identity: hammering home that prejudice and culture wars are used to divide us & distract us from the class war at the heart of American unfreedom.
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Republicans spent the last 45 years building a massive right wing propaganda system across AM radio, local broadcast, cable news, and now the Internet that fills voters heads with facts-optional pudding 24/7
Democrats can't sway them until they acknowledge and find ways to counter it
Democrats can't sway them until they acknowledge and find ways to counter it
November 7, 2024 at 11:30 PM
Republicans spent the last 45 years building a massive right wing propaganda system across AM radio, local broadcast, cable news, and now the Internet that fills voters heads with facts-optional pudding 24/7
Democrats can't sway them until they acknowledge and find ways to counter it
Democrats can't sway them until they acknowledge and find ways to counter it
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I haven't seen a single "we have to understand the concerns of Trump voters" take reckons with the fact that a huge percentage of their concerns are based on false information. You cannot "address" a concern about a fake thing!
This is how I feel discussing inflation.
MAGA person: Biden doesn't care about bread and butter issues like inflation.
Me: He signed the Inflation Reduction Act and we have lowest inflation among OECD.
MAGA person: But what about inflation?!
MAGA person: Biden doesn't care about bread and butter issues like inflation.
Me: He signed the Inflation Reduction Act and we have lowest inflation among OECD.
MAGA person: But what about inflation?!
November 7, 2024 at 11:06 PM
I haven't seen a single "we have to understand the concerns of Trump voters" take reckons with the fact that a huge percentage of their concerns are based on false information. You cannot "address" a concern about a fake thing!
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In other words, the attacks and systemic dismantling of disinformation efforts by Big Tech and the Right worked.
Disturbing: A big reason Trump won was undecideds couldn't be persuaded that millions of jobs lost in 2020 and death of Roe were Trump's fault, internal Harris campaign polling showed. Biden/Ds let Trump rehabilitate himself to disastrous effect.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1882...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1882...
Why Did Trump Win? These Dems Have Discovered a Very Disturbing Answer
Are you sitting down? Turns out it proved very hard to persuade swing voters that Trump was a bad president.
newrepublic.com
November 10, 2024 at 4:21 PM
In other words, the attacks and systemic dismantling of disinformation efforts by Big Tech and the Right worked.
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The GOP relies on an uninformed/misinformed electorate. Everything going on with our information ecosystem is completely intentional. Taking over social networks, taking over major media, dismantling the dept of education. The less educated and less informed people are the easier they are to control
Talked with someone who voted Republican who was relieved that they would kill Obamacare so the ACA could work. Did not believe they were one and the same.
November 10, 2024 at 10:08 PM
The GOP relies on an uninformed/misinformed electorate. Everything going on with our information ecosystem is completely intentional. Taking over social networks, taking over major media, dismantling the dept of education. The less educated and less informed people are the easier they are to control
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Y'all know I'm going to fight. I'm going to build with communities of resistance and refusal. You'll hear from me about that, trust. But today I want to share another hot tip for survival in dark times: plan for joy. 1/x
November 7, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Y'all know I'm going to fight. I'm going to build with communities of resistance and refusal. You'll hear from me about that, trust. But today I want to share another hot tip for survival in dark times: plan for joy. 1/x
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Coping Thread!
I spend the first 30 years of life with Generalized Anxiety Disorder undiagnosed, so I have developed a LOT of coping skills.
Step 1: do not be alone with your thoughts. The thoughts are the enemy. You don't have to be in denial or blissed out, but keep yourself properly stimulated.
I spend the first 30 years of life with Generalized Anxiety Disorder undiagnosed, so I have developed a LOT of coping skills.
Step 1: do not be alone with your thoughts. The thoughts are the enemy. You don't have to be in denial or blissed out, but keep yourself properly stimulated.
November 6, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Coping Thread!
I spend the first 30 years of life with Generalized Anxiety Disorder undiagnosed, so I have developed a LOT of coping skills.
Step 1: do not be alone with your thoughts. The thoughts are the enemy. You don't have to be in denial or blissed out, but keep yourself properly stimulated.
I spend the first 30 years of life with Generalized Anxiety Disorder undiagnosed, so I have developed a LOT of coping skills.
Step 1: do not be alone with your thoughts. The thoughts are the enemy. You don't have to be in denial or blissed out, but keep yourself properly stimulated.
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white supremacy is an interest, people need to start grasping that
November 6, 2024 at 9:44 PM
white supremacy is an interest, people need to start grasping that
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Apropos of nothing at all, today is probably a good day to look into using an encrypted messaging app, especially if you think you might be going to any protests in the coming months. signal.org
Signal Messenger: Speak Freely
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
signal.org
November 6, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Apropos of nothing at all, today is probably a good day to look into using an encrypted messaging app, especially if you think you might be going to any protests in the coming months. signal.org
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Right. Here's your to-do list for the next two months to put you in the best possible position to survive what's coming:
1. Renew your passport (or apply for a passport) this week even if it is not expiring in the next four years. Renewing early will give you the maximum 10-year validity period.
1. Renew your passport (or apply for a passport) this week even if it is not expiring in the next four years. Renewing early will give you the maximum 10-year validity period.
November 6, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Right. Here's your to-do list for the next two months to put you in the best possible position to survive what's coming:
1. Renew your passport (or apply for a passport) this week even if it is not expiring in the next four years. Renewing early will give you the maximum 10-year validity period.
1. Renew your passport (or apply for a passport) this week even if it is not expiring in the next four years. Renewing early will give you the maximum 10-year validity period.
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I offer you a systems principle as you think about the US election: system boundaries.
October 28, 2024 at 8:29 PM
I offer you a systems principle as you think about the US election: system boundaries.
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One of the instructive things Sydette is saying here, haunts all progressive institutions. We put off hard tradeoffs and confrontations all the time. At our own peril. But that kinda decision making is a high interest credit card. Leave it to rot and the decision only gets bigger consequences.
Also .. you do know it's a form of fascism to pretend that it only starts with when it affects you
and to treat the people first affected as acceptable sacrifices
and then erase them
and it's one of the biggest factors that led to tonight
and to treat the people first affected as acceptable sacrifices
and then erase them
and it's one of the biggest factors that led to tonight
October 28, 2024 at 6:05 AM
One of the instructive things Sydette is saying here, haunts all progressive institutions. We put off hard tradeoffs and confrontations all the time. At our own peril. But that kinda decision making is a high interest credit card. Leave it to rot and the decision only gets bigger consequences.
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Everyone needs to share this 3Xs a day every day until Election Day
October 27, 2024 at 6:37 AM
Everyone needs to share this 3Xs a day every day until Election Day
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let me make something perfectly clear: the endorsements are a secondary issue. this is about billionaires exerting control over the editorial process. freedom of the press is under direct threat.
i think what’s so scary about the owners of major media outlets exerting control over presidential endorsements is that we’re seeing the wrath of billionaire control materializing in a fully tangible way
October 25, 2024 at 1:50 PM
let me make something perfectly clear: the endorsements are a secondary issue. this is about billionaires exerting control over the editorial process. freedom of the press is under direct threat.