Leah Hunt-Hendrix
@lhh.bsky.social
Author of Solidarity: the Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea.
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The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.
February 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.
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“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker
February 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker
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Does “Golden Age” refer to a time when planes keep crashing, eggs cost $10–15 a dozen, the U.S. is being booed and protested by all our allies, workers are losing their jobs, and Americans’ personal data is being rummaged through by unelected oligarchs and their strange crew of 20-something incels?
February 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Does “Golden Age” refer to a time when planes keep crashing, eggs cost $10–15 a dozen, the U.S. is being booed and protested by all our allies, workers are losing their jobs, and Americans’ personal data is being rummaged through by unelected oligarchs and their strange crew of 20-something incels?
It is baffling that this wasn’t the understanding from day 1
Given what we have seen from the Musk/Trump regime in last 13 days - right now voting against their cabinet nominees should be the de minimus requirement for every single Democratic Senator. If a Democrat votes for a single Musk/Trump nominee he or she shouldn’t be getting a penny of DSCC 💲. (1/)
February 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
It is baffling that this wasn’t the understanding from day 1
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Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive):
1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*
2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything
3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can
4. Citizens march en mass
1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*
2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything
3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can
4. Citizens march en mass
February 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive):
1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*
2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything
3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can
4. Citizens march en mass
1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*
2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything
3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can
4. Citizens march en mass
Incredibly disappointing
Here are 8 Dems who voted to advance the nomination of reported dog killer to be DHS Sec.
Fetterman (PA)
Hassan (NH)
Kaine (VA)
Kim (NJ)
Peters (MI)
Shaheen (NH)
Slotkin (MI)
Warnock (GA)
Kim calls himself a “progressive”
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Fetterman (PA)
Hassan (NH)
Kaine (VA)
Kim (NJ)
Peters (MI)
Shaheen (NH)
Slotkin (MI)
Warnock (GA)
Kim calls himself a “progressive”
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
January 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Incredibly disappointing
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As a rape survivor, the very thought of having a sexual abusing Commander-in-Chief and a sexual abusing Secretary of Defense makes me want to throw up.
January 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
As a rape survivor, the very thought of having a sexual abusing Commander-in-Chief and a sexual abusing Secretary of Defense makes me want to throw up.
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Marco Rubio's anti-DEI memo is aligned: note that it's hostile to "the national plan to end gender-based violence."
![Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent this internal memo to diplomats about Trump’s executive orders seeking to end DEI [lists a bunch of terms and actual executive orders they're against]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ya7gfadgypyypiva5pboi6mi/bafkreigijfukcxun2q6q5x3spj4idnoozdb5wafdkntedekukg27ikj574@jpeg)
January 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Marco Rubio's anti-DEI memo is aligned: note that it's hostile to "the national plan to end gender-based violence."
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Sure, sure, this seems fine
January 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Sure, sure, this seems fine
I'm appreciate of the faith leaders who are speaking truth to power right now. Maybe a revival of progressive Christianity is part of what we need in these dark times. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...
The Bishop Who Pleaded With Trump: ‘Was Anyone Going to Say Anything?’
Bishop Budde locked eyes with President Trump and made a plea for mercy — and the war over spiritual authority in America was ignited anew.
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I'm appreciate of the faith leaders who are speaking truth to power right now. Maybe a revival of progressive Christianity is part of what we need in these dark times. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...
100%
Guys when Chris Rufo and Trump say "We're destroying DEI, we're salting the earth underneath it" and they're talking about regulations that reach back to 1965, they're not talking about corporate diversity trainings.
They are talking about civil rights
They are talking about civil rights
January 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
100%
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So the Dems are aligned in using the Hegspeth allegations to oppose him. Dumb.
The man is not qualified for the job. That is all that matters. He has never managed more than 100 people. He won't be the actual one running DOD because he has no clue how.
And this is what the Dems focus on ?
The man is not qualified for the job. That is all that matters. He has never managed more than 100 people. He won't be the actual one running DOD because he has no clue how.
And this is what the Dems focus on ?
January 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
So the Dems are aligned in using the Hegspeth allegations to oppose him. Dumb.
The man is not qualified for the job. That is all that matters. He has never managed more than 100 people. He won't be the actual one running DOD because he has no clue how.
And this is what the Dems focus on ?
The man is not qualified for the job. That is all that matters. He has never managed more than 100 people. He won't be the actual one running DOD because he has no clue how.
And this is what the Dems focus on ?
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Just finished reading; Solidarity, by @astra.bsky.social & @lhh.bsky.social This is a really important book, and I can’t recommend it enough. It’s about politics and the history of an idea, but it’s a super easy read, and the clear prose lets the clear thinking shine through.
December 17, 2024 at 5:37 AM
Just finished reading; Solidarity, by @astra.bsky.social & @lhh.bsky.social This is a really important book, and I can’t recommend it enough. It’s about politics and the history of an idea, but it’s a super easy read, and the clear prose lets the clear thinking shine through.
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This is their goal. Privatize everything.
And by “privatize” we mean steer billions to themselves and their friends, ending programs that serve those with the least under the guise of “efficiency”.
Rural areas will suffer. Prices will rise.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
And by “privatize” we mean steer billions to themselves and their friends, ending programs that serve those with the least under the guise of “efficiency”.
Rural areas will suffer. Prices will rise.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
December 14, 2024 at 2:16 PM
This is their goal. Privatize everything.
And by “privatize” we mean steer billions to themselves and their friends, ending programs that serve those with the least under the guise of “efficiency”.
Rural areas will suffer. Prices will rise.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
And by “privatize” we mean steer billions to themselves and their friends, ending programs that serve those with the least under the guise of “efficiency”.
Rural areas will suffer. Prices will rise.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Land doesn’t vote. Stop pretending it does.
December 14, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Land doesn’t vote. Stop pretending it does.
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BREAKING: SEGA workers in California have voted 91-26 in favor of unionizing.
They span multiple SEGA of America departments, making them the first multi-departmental union at a video game company in U.S. history.
They span multiple SEGA of America departments, making them the first multi-departmental union at a video game company in U.S. history.
July 10, 2023 at 7:34 PM
BREAKING: SEGA workers in California have voted 91-26 in favor of unionizing.
They span multiple SEGA of America departments, making them the first multi-departmental union at a video game company in U.S. history.
They span multiple SEGA of America departments, making them the first multi-departmental union at a video game company in U.S. history.
Why is Jake Tapper my entire Bluesky feed?
May 12, 2023 at 3:02 PM
Why is Jake Tapper my entire Bluesky feed?
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“…the cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” - John Brown
May 9, 2023 at 4:09 PM
“…the cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” - John Brown
At a Take Back the House event with Reps Pat Ryan and Marie Gluesenkamp. Really good answers on not falling for the “culture wars” (Angie Craig’s answers not great)
May 8, 2023 at 2:45 PM
At a Take Back the House event with Reps Pat Ryan and Marie Gluesenkamp. Really good answers on not falling for the “culture wars” (Angie Craig’s answers not great)
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In May 2020, I was curious what the City of LA’s budget would look like as a bar chart, so I made this using Excel.
Now I get paid to make charts and graphics as the Chief of Staff for the LA City Controller. Hi, Bluesky!
Now I get paid to make charts and graphics as the Chief of Staff for the LA City Controller. Hi, Bluesky!
May 3, 2023 at 3:40 AM
In May 2020, I was curious what the City of LA’s budget would look like as a bar chart, so I made this using Excel.
Now I get paid to make charts and graphics as the Chief of Staff for the LA City Controller. Hi, Bluesky!
Now I get paid to make charts and graphics as the Chief of Staff for the LA City Controller. Hi, Bluesky!
Tank Twitter! I’m so excited to be out of Elon’s orbit.
May 3, 2023 at 3:51 AM
Tank Twitter! I’m so excited to be out of Elon’s orbit.
This seems right.
For folks not in media: favorable coverage like this is probably why NYT got this story. This is how the access game is played
This is what I truly don’t understand about modern day reporting. I get being sensitive to nuance and providing a voice for reasonable folks on both sides of an argument, but what is the harm/hesitation in calling out painfully obvious BS?
May 3, 2023 at 3:38 AM
This seems right.