Paige
@paigegyldersleve.bsky.social
Mad scientist; yoga and meditation teacher; crafty little critter. Made largely of moving parts. Deeply involved in direct community care. No DMs unless we’re already friends elsewhere.
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I keep coming back to this list of "some actions that are not protesting or voting," a great assemblage of ways to find actions that you can take geared to your safety, positionality, and privilege.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting
Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting A list adapted from & inspired by Frontline Medics. Here was their original list of 25 actions. I’ve added a lot of things and edited other things. [Not...
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March 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I keep coming back to this list of "some actions that are not protesting or voting," a great assemblage of ways to find actions that you can take geared to your safety, positionality, and privilege.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Even a year ago I could afford to bring nutritious food in regularly for the student pantry. It’s harder to do that now but imperfect help is still help and sometimes someone just needs a full belly to get through the day. #littlefreepantry
March 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Even a year ago I could afford to bring nutritious food in regularly for the student pantry. It’s harder to do that now but imperfect help is still help and sometimes someone just needs a full belly to get through the day. #littlefreepantry
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By firing half of the staff of the Department of Education, Trump is making it harder to get resources where they're needed most: In classrooms.
Tell Congress to protect our kids and stop cuts to education!
Tell Congress to protect our kids and stop cuts to education!
Tell Congress: No Cuts To Education
The Trump administration’s plan to gut federal support for public schools and give tax cuts to billionaires at the expense of loans for students to make college affordable and health care services for...
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March 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
By firing half of the staff of the Department of Education, Trump is making it harder to get resources where they're needed most: In classrooms.
Tell Congress to protect our kids and stop cuts to education!
Tell Congress to protect our kids and stop cuts to education!
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Our labor movement will always stand up and protect public schools, teachers, staff, students, and their futures.
We won’t allow this administration to gut the Department of education without a fight.
We won’t allow this administration to gut the Department of education without a fight.
March 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
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February 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
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There's a Sustainability version of this too: Advocate for change to greener lifestyles and you'll quickly be told this has to be a "Just Transition", yet I don't recall anybody ever explaining how the status quo is just
I keep seeing the same common theme: the impossible standards placed on anyone advocating changes to our transport system. Question car dependency and you're expected to address every inequality and injustice at the same time; but support car dependency and you'll never be challenged on these issues
March 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
There's a Sustainability version of this too: Advocate for change to greener lifestyles and you'll quickly be told this has to be a "Just Transition", yet I don't recall anybody ever explaining how the status quo is just
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I cannot stress enough how a legal risk framework is leading to bad decision-making at some campuses. They are going overboard to avoid any questions out of the belief it will keep us safe. It won't! They will move the target. They will push for more based on prior compliance.
March 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I cannot stress enough how a legal risk framework is leading to bad decision-making at some campuses. They are going overboard to avoid any questions out of the belief it will keep us safe. It won't! They will move the target. They will push for more based on prior compliance.
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After Green interrupted last night, another Democrat should have done the same thing. And then another, until all of them had to be removed. Delay the speech by a few hours. Or walk out en masse. Anything.
Calling Trump an existential threat means nothing if you can’t meet the fucking moment.
Calling Trump an existential threat means nothing if you can’t meet the fucking moment.
March 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
After Green interrupted last night, another Democrat should have done the same thing. And then another, until all of them had to be removed. Delay the speech by a few hours. Or walk out en masse. Anything.
Calling Trump an existential threat means nothing if you can’t meet the fucking moment.
Calling Trump an existential threat means nothing if you can’t meet the fucking moment.
Tonight I submitted my first bylaws proposal for consideration at my union’s general membership meeting next month. It feels like a big step in my growth as a union leader. Even if it doesn’t pass, I learned from the process and I’m proud of the research and work that I did. #union #labor
March 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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is it in his power to declare this? no.
will universities use this as an excuse to further infringe on students' rights to protest? absolutely.
will universities use this as an excuse to further infringe on students' rights to protest? absolutely.
March 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
is it in his power to declare this? no.
will universities use this as an excuse to further infringe on students' rights to protest? absolutely.
will universities use this as an excuse to further infringe on students' rights to protest? absolutely.
At AFT-OR Winter School, they gave out little pots with basil seeds. Mine sprouted over the weekend! I’m going to divide them out for myself and my coworkers once they’re a bit bigger. #windowgarden #growyourfood #union #aft
March 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
At AFT-OR Winter School, they gave out little pots with basil seeds. Mine sprouted over the weekend! I’m going to divide them out for myself and my coworkers once they’re a bit bigger. #windowgarden #growyourfood #union #aft
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🚨A U.S. military fuel supplier just cut ties—because of Trump.
Norwegian company Haltbakk Bunkers refused to refuel a U.S. Navy vessel after Trump’s disgraceful treatment of Zelensky.
His reckless foreign policy is hurting our military readiness.
MORE: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Norwegian company Haltbakk Bunkers refused to refuel a U.S. Navy vessel after Trump’s disgraceful treatment of Zelensky.
His reckless foreign policy is hurting our military readiness.
MORE: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
March 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🚨A U.S. military fuel supplier just cut ties—because of Trump.
Norwegian company Haltbakk Bunkers refused to refuel a U.S. Navy vessel after Trump’s disgraceful treatment of Zelensky.
His reckless foreign policy is hurting our military readiness.
MORE: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Norwegian company Haltbakk Bunkers refused to refuel a U.S. Navy vessel after Trump’s disgraceful treatment of Zelensky.
His reckless foreign policy is hurting our military readiness.
MORE: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
The best work days are the days when I have food to bring in for the student snack pantry that I steward with my coworker. #communitycare #mutualaid #littlefreepantry
March 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The best work days are the days when I have food to bring in for the student snack pantry that I steward with my coworker. #communitycare #mutualaid #littlefreepantry
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A quick bonus thread on this---I think a lot of the reason so many universities etc. are folding to bullshit like anti-DEI orders is because university counsel are thinking "how can we minimize risk to the university over the next six months" --- but this is actually penny-wise and pound foolish 🧵
Yeah another big piece of this problem is that the incentive of in-house counsel in places like hospitals and universities is to be maximally risk-averse in the short term
March 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A quick bonus thread on this---I think a lot of the reason so many universities etc. are folding to bullshit like anti-DEI orders is because university counsel are thinking "how can we minimize risk to the university over the next six months" --- but this is actually penny-wise and pound foolish 🧵
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even a hostile federal government only has limited enforcement resources, and a government gutted of its personnel and fulled with mistrust even more so. If universities adopt a strategy of collective resistance, and mutual support for those targeted by the regime, they may well be able to protect
March 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
even a hostile federal government only has limited enforcement resources, and a government gutted of its personnel and fulled with mistrust even more so. If universities adopt a strategy of collective resistance, and mutual support for those targeted by the regime, they may well be able to protect
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TL;DR: universities, like the press and others are at war. We didn't choose that war, it was thrust upon us, but it is war nonetheless. We need to start acting like it. In a war, playing nice with the enemy does not work. And that means choosing bolder strategies, including bolder legal strategies.
March 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
TL;DR: universities, like the press and others are at war. We didn't choose that war, it was thrust upon us, but it is war nonetheless. We need to start acting like it. In a war, playing nice with the enemy does not work. And that means choosing bolder strategies, including bolder legal strategies.
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Listen and speak out. Build community, organize, and resist. Be kind to others and take care of yourself.
January 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Listen and speak out. Build community, organize, and resist. Be kind to others and take care of yourself.
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Public schools are in trouble, y’all. The Trump regime is working quickly to dismantle the Department of Education. Tuesday is a call to action against these dangerous efforts. Please help fortify our democracy and support education.
March 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Public schools are in trouble, y’all. The Trump regime is working quickly to dismantle the Department of Education. Tuesday is a call to action against these dangerous efforts. Please help fortify our democracy and support education.
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Do normal voters even know anything about this? Like, was this even on their radar? Or is it 1000% for corrupt reasons?
There it is: Trump announces the US will not be enforcing its new shell company registry, which is the single-best tool to counter kleptocracy.
March 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Do normal voters even know anything about this? Like, was this even on their radar? Or is it 1000% for corrupt reasons?
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Exactly right. The surprising investment at U.S. schools? Tens of millions of dollars on new shop classes. Turns out welders, mechanics and carpenters have a real future in the digital age. “These are secure jobs.”
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
The Schools Reviving Shop Class Offer a Hedge Against the AI Future
Hands-on skills are staging a comeback at leading-edge districts, driven by high college costs and demand for more career choices.
www.wsj.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Exactly right. The surprising investment at U.S. schools? Tens of millions of dollars on new shop classes. Turns out welders, mechanics and carpenters have a real future in the digital age. “These are secure jobs.”
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Today I kept my economic blackout going by doing my grocery shopping at the local farmers market and canceling Prime.
March 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Today I kept my economic blackout going by doing my grocery shopping at the local farmers market and canceling Prime.
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FACT: Democrats have real power to put an end to the lawless dismantling of our government by President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump. 👇
February 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
FACT: Democrats have real power to put an end to the lawless dismantling of our government by President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump. 👇
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If you’re boycotting today, join our boycott of Target indefinitely.
Since Target announced they would be eliminating DEI, foot traffic at their stores have decreased 10%.
Join us in the fight.
Since Target announced they would be eliminating DEI, foot traffic at their stores have decreased 10%.
Join us in the fight.
February 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If you’re boycotting today, join our boycott of Target indefinitely.
Since Target announced they would be eliminating DEI, foot traffic at their stores have decreased 10%.
Join us in the fight.
Since Target announced they would be eliminating DEI, foot traffic at their stores have decreased 10%.
Join us in the fight.