An excellent two episodes on how to run good meetings. You need meetings to make any movement successful and while I’ve mostly spent my life in meetings for organizations this is lots of good advice from @miawong.bsky.social and @margaret.bsky.social !
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they never miss

"Abolish ICE" sounded like a radical demand to Democrats, though ICE itself only dates to 2003.

Today, it should be clear to even the most deluded liberals that if you establish institutions for the sole purpose of brutalizing people, authoritarians will inevitably use them to consolidate power.

oh for real?

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once you actually internalize that society is fake and we just made everything up and none of this is real other than the "realness" people have placed upon it, it's insane that anyone thought any of this would work in the first place

this week's substack is about not really caring about gender but being dragged into a culture war regardless

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on this st patricks day, a plea for irish americans to remember that the thing we have to be proud of is 800 years of anti-colonial resistance, not green beer.

Truly one of my favorite local events is the Really Really Free Market. We have a ton of them around here, but definitely see if there's one near you. (Or start one!) 🥳

The ideal fashion aesthetic is "Dragon Ball character on their day off", thank you for your time

I re-read Antigone and now I'm all fired up.

Is it just me or has WIRED been dogwalking the rest of the media on this story

This happened to me in Trump 1.0 when I called in and the dude said, “wow lots of calls about this issue today!” and I asked how many is a lot and he said “Seventeen!”

Motivates me to pick up the phone every time.

Here's our new episode about how Elon Musk, a stupid lying cheater, wants to make everyone even dumber than he already thinks they are.
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The FDA might not take H5N1 seriously but every Mask Bloc is stocking up on N95s.

SNAP might get cut off but Food Not Bombs will still be handing out food each week.

FEMA might get gutted but Mutual Aid Disaster Relief will still be mucking & gutting houses.

"On some level, I don’t really care what “value” fiction, or escapism, has. That sort of thinking is based on the idea that the material world is the only world with value."
💙📚 #books #anarchism
from @margaret.bsky.social

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

Ive never wanted anything to happen harder

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