Puff the Magic Hater
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Burnout Is Not Inevitable: Building Movements That Can Hold Us
“Care really should be at the center of our strategy, of our analysis, and of our practice,” says Aaron Goggans.
truthout.org
Aaron Goggans and I talk about what happens when movements start running on empty—how trauma, burnout, and dysregulation can shape our organizing, and what it takes to sustain ourselves and each other in a moment of crisis and emergency. I found this conversation so helpful, and I hope you will too.
I have to figure out if any of my trekkie followers are also big enough nerds to be going to the upcoming Chicago area Star Trek convention. Because I will be there, and I would love to meet radical trekkies.
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I have to figure out if any of my trekkie followers are also big enough nerds to be going to the upcoming Chicago area Star Trek convention. Because I will be there, and I would love to meet radical trekkies.
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Those of us who are SA survivors are used to the mass shrug in response to even the most overt evidence of horrific behavior. Epstein's crimes and the complicity of many influential figures involved have been known for decades (’05 to be exact). It's never mustered much interest or consequence.
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Those of us who are SA survivors are used to the mass shrug in response to even the most overt evidence of horrific behavior. Epstein's crimes and the complicity of many influential figures involved have been known for decades (’05 to be exact). It's never mustered much interest or consequence.
I blocked the person who posted this take and the three people who clicked like on it. Maybe they were kidding, you say? Don't care. Won't risk it. The trek fandom needs a zero-tolerance policy on Dukat apologism.
November 14, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I blocked the person who posted this take and the three people who clicked like on it. Maybe they were kidding, you say? Don't care. Won't risk it. The trek fandom needs a zero-tolerance policy on Dukat apologism.
Y'all, I am all in on The Beast in Me.
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Y'all, I am all in on The Beast in Me.
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NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."
WH claims 'inflation tamed,' per DoorDash stats. Company says that's not in its report.
It comes the same week we learned the WH would likely not release key economic reports for October.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."
In addition to being mad about the ads, I would be even madder about this ad, specifically — an advertisement that invades your kitchen to make you feel like you're *inside the show Pluribus*.
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
In addition to being mad about the ads, I would be even madder about this ad, specifically — an advertisement that invades your kitchen to make you feel like you're *inside the show Pluribus*.
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They are coming to Charlotte literally because of a few right-wing propaganda accounts on X and I am livid.
Gregory Bovino, the top Border Patrol official leading the charge on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in cities, and his officers are heading to Charlotte, according to a source familiar with the planning. That was news to city officials. https://cnn.it/49crpZT
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
They are coming to Charlotte literally because of a few right-wing propaganda accounts on X and I am livid.
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Chicago police are required by law to document every time they pull someone over. But an investigation by Bolts and Injustice Watch last year revealed the department failed to report hundreds of thousands of stops.
Chicago Police Made Nearly 200,000 Secret Traffic Stops Last Year
Chicago police are required to document every time they pull someone over. But a new investigation reveals the department is releasing vastly incomplete data to oversight agencies, even as the superintendent pledges reforms.
boltsmag.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Chicago police are required by law to document every time they pull someone over. But an investigation by Bolts and Injustice Watch last year revealed the department failed to report hundreds of thousands of stops.
Revolution(s) was incredible. There’s only about a week left in its run, and if you can get tickets, I highly recommend going. It was the best theater experience I’ve had in well over a decade.
November 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Revolution(s) was incredible. There’s only about a week left in its run, and if you can get tickets, I highly recommend going. It was the best theater experience I’ve had in well over a decade.
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A number of local Chicago reporters/journalists have truly distinguished themselves over the past few weeks and I am so very grateful. It also shows that reporting is a public service when done well. Thank you all.
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A number of local Chicago reporters/journalists have truly distinguished themselves over the past few weeks and I am so very grateful. It also shows that reporting is a public service when done well. Thank you all.
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These people are disgusting.
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
These people are disgusting.
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remember when most of Congress went hard after Backpage in early 2018 but did nothing to actually help young people who are poor, homeless, and trying to get by
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
remember when most of Congress went hard after Backpage in early 2018 but did nothing to actually help young people who are poor, homeless, and trying to get by
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I just want to note that "barely legal" and "15-year-old" are not equivalent terms, even inside the putrid logic she's trying to apply here.
November 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I just want to note that "barely legal" and "15-year-old" are not equivalent terms, even inside the putrid logic she's trying to apply here.
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They know the numbers are so bad they can't even lie about them so they're just saying the Employment Numbers Machine is broken like it's a McFlurry mixer
Kevin Hassett on the October jobs report: "We'll maybe be able to concoct something, but we'll never actually know for sure what the unemployment rate was in October."
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
They know the numbers are so bad they can't even lie about them so they're just saying the Employment Numbers Machine is broken like it's a McFlurry mixer
Reminder that I will be available this winter to Zoom with book clubs that are discussing Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. I'm already booking those chats for December and January, so pls reach out through my website if you want to get on my schedule.
Kelly Hayes
Author, organizer and educator
kellyhayes.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Reminder that I will be available this winter to Zoom with book clubs that are discussing Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. I'm already booking those chats for December and January, so pls reach out through my website if you want to get on my schedule.
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My copy came today!
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My copy came today!
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“Read This When Things Fall Apart” is a heartfelt collection that wraps you in warmth during turbulent times. Each letter uplifts and inspires resilience, reminding us we're not alone. A true gem for the weary soul. #BookSky #Books
Review: “Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis” edited by Kelly Hayes
madeofstardustandstubbornness.com/2025/11/11/r...
#BookSky
#BookReview
#NonFiction
#Activism
#Essays
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#BookSky
#BookReview
#NonFiction
#Activism
#Essays
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“Read This When Things Fall Apart” is a heartfelt collection that wraps you in warmth during turbulent times. Each letter uplifts and inspires resilience, reminding us we're not alone. A true gem for the weary soul. #BookSky #Books
Maligning basic, safe OTC medications that most people have to resort to, like acetaminophen and ibuprofen, is part of a larger scam to blame people for their health problems (or their children's health needs or problems), so that the administration can claim people don't deserve care or support.
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Maligning basic, safe OTC medications that most people have to resort to, like acetaminophen and ibuprofen, is part of a larger scam to blame people for their health problems (or their children's health needs or problems), so that the administration can claim people don't deserve care or support.
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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When the devil himself says, "But no, seriously, this is a *bad* guy."
Jeffrey Epstein: "I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body."
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
When the devil himself says, "But no, seriously, this is a *bad* guy."
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Amid everything else I had almost forgotten that even without a pardon, Trump has offered Ghislaine Maxwell amenities unexplainable by anything but some sort of quid pro quo.
Raskin on Ghislaine Maxwell: "The fact she was able to be transferred to a prison camp where no sex offenders had ever been allowed to enter before, much less live there, is an indication they've got some kind of meeting of the minds about what Trump can provide to her & what she can provide to him"
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Amid everything else I had almost forgotten that even without a pardon, Trump has offered Ghislaine Maxwell amenities unexplainable by anything but some sort of quid pro quo.
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A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy.
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say
A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers...
www.wsaw.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy.
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...
www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...