While likely anecdotal, the comparison overlooks key disparities in scale, cultural capital, and economic context. It does, however, underscore how regional differences in cost structure can influence access to the performing arts.

When “both sides” framing meets authoritarianism, it isn’t neutrality—it’s complicity. Platforms like NPR must reckon with how “balance” became a tool for normalizing harm. Journalism’s duty is truth, not symmetry.
#MediaAccountability #EthicalJournalism #NoBothSides #TruthOverBalance

A pause isn’t victory, but it’s a crack in the machinery. “Alligator Alcatraz” isn’t just an ecological threat—it’s a carceral project built on stolen land. Environmental justice is abolitionist work. The wetlands are alive. So are the people inside.
#EnvironmentalJustice #StopTheCamps #LandBack

Language like “valued member” reveals the architecture, not the exception. When calls for violence against state actors are met with elevation—not expulsion—it tells us who institutions are built to absorb, protect, and restore. This isn’t failure. It’s design. #Jan6WasntAnomaly #AbolitionistLens

Even gut responses are shaped by ideology. What looks like instinct is often just well-rehearsed social training doing its work. So while they may not be consciously calculating outcomes, the systems they move through are. That’s where accountability has to land.