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Rebecca Griffin
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communicator + advocate working for reproductive health, rights, and justice
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@notalawyer.bsky.social captures the moment stringinamaze.net/p/your-mourn...
What Trump has always promised his supporters, more than anything else, is a feeling. He promised to lift them up the cultural hierarchy, not by improving their lot but by subjugating their enemies. Some of his ugliest and most authoritarian policies have served that end. Deploying troops to blue cities isn't meant to solve a real problem, it's mean to produce a certain feeling in the view: fear in his opponents, the thrill of domination in his allies.
September 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Join California Coalition for Women Prisoners at this amazing event celebrating 30 years of organizing across the walls of California's women's prisons. Get tickets here: bit.ly/CCWP_30
September 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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today’s fascism coping mechanism:

Listening to @threedomusa.bsky.social from the beginning again
Screenshot from a podcast app that reads Threedom ad-free. This was a mistake.
June 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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pathetic

ucsdguardian.org/2025/06/02/u...
Rachel Zaentz, a UC spokesperson, said the UC system is working with the Trump administration to "root out antisemitism and all forms of discrimination." According to Zaentz, the UC system "abhors antisemitism and is diligently working to address, counter and eradicate it in all its forms across the system," she said. "We have been, and plant to continue, cooperating with the Administration. Antisemitism has no place at UC or anywhere else in society." As of June 1, no formal complaints or lawsuits against the UC system have been announced by the DOJ.
June 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Check out Fund Abortion Not War and support abortion funds who are speaking up for reproductive justice for Palestinians. fundabortionnotwar.org

You can find the shirt and other merch at @shoutyourabortion.bsky.social
a woman with brown hair and sunglasses standing in front of pink flowers, wearing a shirt that says "fund abortion not war"
June 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Deadline May 1st!

Universities are folding under pressure from the Trump regime, putting our communities at risk. The University of California needs to do better. Tell them to stand up for immigrants and freedom of speech.

Sign here: tinyurl.com/UCletter25
April 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The Trump regime is grabbing students off the streets because they dared to protest for a more just, humane world.

UC faculty, staff, alumni, and students—sign to tell UC to stand up and "exhibit the bravery and commitment to justice this moment demands": tinyurl.com/UCletter25
A picture of a protester from behind holding up a cardboard sign that says "First they came for Mahmoud." The text reads Tell UC: Stand up for immigrants and free speech. tinyurl.com/UCletter25
April 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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The Trump regime is disappearing student protesters and most universities are caving under pressure.

If you're University of California faculty, staff, student or alumnus, please sign and share this letter telling the leadership to take a stand. tinyurl.com/UCletter25
Picture of a protester behind, carrying a sign that says "First they came for Mahmoud." Text reads: Tell UC: Stand up for immigrants and free speech. tinyurl.com/UCletter25
April 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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April 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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ICE has toured a shuttered prison in Dublin twice. Thanks to organizers, there are currently no ICE detention facilities in northern California.

Come out on Saturday to tell ICE they are not welcome here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 28, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Community support needed! Ulises was unlawfully and violently arrested on 2/21 in Sunnyvale. ICE’s misconduct put him in the hospital. Now he’s at risk of being detained as soon as he has recovered enough to be discharged. Use the toolkit to demand that ICE let Ulises come home bit.ly/freeulises
Free Ulises! On Fri 2/21, ICE carried out an unconstitutional arrest of Ulises, a longtime Santa Clara County resident. ICE's abuse put him in the hospital. NO, Ulises is at risk of being detained by ICE as soon as he recovers enough to be discharged. Eyes on ICE! El pueblo se defiende! Tell ICE: Let Ulises come home! Call 669-288-8735
February 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on the false narrative of economic anxiety in @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/econ...
The critical work, then, lies in building power for people to secure their affordable housing, food, and dignity via a path that does not flow through an authoritarian strongman or the scapegoating of women, minorities, or immigrants. And that trail will be blazed as it always has been: by workers’ unions, tenants’ unions, debtors’ unions, and similar groups. These efforts don’t deny identity for some abstract, theoretical universalism but rather are rooted in the real universalism of connecting people across cultural and racial differences through concrete political projects with defined goals. The answer to economic anxiety is not even more moaning about coastal elites or “wokeness”: it is durable political power built on solidarity rather than predation. The only route to true security for all — for a world that doesn’t toss aside common public interests in order to protect the narrow private interests of politicians or shareholders — is the solidaristic protection of all by all.
December 22, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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Join us in Oakland Friday night for drag, games, drinks, community, and an opportunity to fund abortion! give.accessrj.org/event/slay-bells-2024/e636647
ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE invites you to our 2nd annual Slay Bells. A night of drag, community & funding abortion December 13, 7-10pm @ Kinfolx Oakland
December 7, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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Bay Area: Now is the time to be in community and show up for abortion funds!

Join me & ACCESS Reproductive Justice at Slay Bells, a celebration and fundraiser with captivating drag performances, festive games, holiday-themed drinks, and more: give.accessrj.org/event/slay-bells-2024/e636647
ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE invites you to our 2nd annual Slay Bells. A night of drag, community, & funding abortion. December 13, 7-10PM @ Kinfolx Oakland
November 13, 2024 at 3:02 AM
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this one really got me @joshgondelman.bsky.social joshgondelman.substack.com/p/105-djs-an...
I am still crossing my fingers that President Biden uses his remaining time in office for helpful, progressive purposes: push to confirm judges who will preserve civil rights and democracy, maybe forgive some student debt, stop sending a zillion dollars worth of weapons to Israel every forty-five minutes. Part of me fears that he will simply use this time to dig up Strom Thurmond’s skeleton so he can shake his hand across the aisle one last and then pardon himself for the crime of grave robbing. SORRY FOR THE CYNICISM! I THINK I GET TO DO A LITTLE BIT OF THAT THIS WEEK!
November 11, 2024 at 5:47 PM