Sanda Balaban
@sandabalabanda.bsky.social
Education aficionada and democracy devotee. Questioner, connector, catalyst.
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Hear Raquel in her voice!
Raquel Willis reminds us it doesn't have to be this way. And there's history to prove it. #history
YouTube video by Mother Jones
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March 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Hear Raquel in her voice!
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Meet Time magazine's woman of the year: Raquel Willis.
"We’re in an era of radical defiance. Organizing for me is crucial because we’ve learned from so many powerful thinkers and freedom fighters that this idea of liberation isn’t possible without the collective."
Check out our conversation here:
"We’re in an era of radical defiance. Organizing for me is crucial because we’ve learned from so many powerful thinkers and freedom fighters that this idea of liberation isn’t possible without the collective."
Check out our conversation here:
Raquel Willis on how the Democrats are failing trans people
“We all deserve the right to be the drivers of our own destinies."
www.motherjones.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Meet Time magazine's woman of the year: Raquel Willis.
"We’re in an era of radical defiance. Organizing for me is crucial because we’ve learned from so many powerful thinkers and freedom fighters that this idea of liberation isn’t possible without the collective."
Check out our conversation here:
"We’re in an era of radical defiance. Organizing for me is crucial because we’ve learned from so many powerful thinkers and freedom fighters that this idea of liberation isn’t possible without the collective."
Check out our conversation here:
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Decades from now, the Covid-19 pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today. Here’s an incomplete collection of charts that capture that break — across the economy, health care, education, work, family life and more.
30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020
It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Decades from now, the Covid-19 pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today. Here’s an incomplete collection of charts that capture that break — across the economy, health care, education, work, family life and more.
Anticipatory obedience to authoritarian overreach is deadly to democracy. Speak up, act up, protest up. Thank you, @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social, for helping lead the way.
HAPPENING NOW: members of Get Free are blocking traffic in front of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the main agency where the Trump Administration and its billionaire backers like Elon Musk have been spearheading efforts to implement MAGA’s Project 2025 agenda.
February 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Anticipatory obedience to authoritarian overreach is deadly to democracy. Speak up, act up, protest up. Thank you, @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social, for helping lead the way.
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HAPPENING NOW: members of Get Free are blocking traffic in front of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the main agency where the Trump Administration and its billionaire backers like Elon Musk have been spearheading efforts to implement MAGA’s Project 2025 agenda.
February 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
HAPPENING NOW: members of Get Free are blocking traffic in front of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the main agency where the Trump Administration and its billionaire backers like Elon Musk have been spearheading efforts to implement MAGA’s Project 2025 agenda.
“Many people say they marched with Martin Luther King Jr. No, you didn’t. And many people say they WOULD have marched with Dr. King had they been alive. No, you wouldn’t have.”—wisdom from @nhannahjones.bsky.social in her keynote address at this week’s AAC&U conference.
January 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
“Many people say they marched with Martin Luther King Jr. No, you didn’t. And many people say they WOULD have marched with Dr. King had they been alive. No, you wouldn’t have.”—wisdom from @nhannahjones.bsky.social in her keynote address at this week’s AAC&U conference.
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Trump II has begun. Many people are asking: “What can I do now?”
Here are 10 recommendations. Please let me know your thoughts, and if you have anything else you'd like to add to the list.
Here are 10 recommendations. Please let me know your thoughts, and if you have anything else you'd like to add to the list.
What you can do
Ten ways to resist Trump II
robertreich.substack.com
January 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Trump II has begun. Many people are asking: “What can I do now?”
Here are 10 recommendations. Please let me know your thoughts, and if you have anything else you'd like to add to the list.
Here are 10 recommendations. Please let me know your thoughts, and if you have anything else you'd like to add to the list.
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Thread on the almost unfathomable death and suffering that the attack on foreign aid will cause.
Trump is delivering on an agenda of grotesque cruelty and chaos.
Trump is delivering on an agenda of grotesque cruelty and chaos.
A global stop-work order on foreign aid will cost many, many lives if kept in place.
As written, it halts ALL ongoing humanitarian relief activities, except food aid, in places like Syria, Sudan, Gaza.
Also halts all global health programs.
What this will mean in human terms:
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t.co/1nCjZFfBdS
As written, it halts ALL ongoing humanitarian relief activities, except food aid, in places like Syria, Sudan, Gaza.
Also halts all global health programs.
What this will mean in human terms:
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t.co/1nCjZFfBdS
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pause-applies-all-foreign-aid-israel-egypt-get-waiver-says-state-dept-memo-2025-01-24/
t.co
January 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Thread on the almost unfathomable death and suffering that the attack on foreign aid will cause.
Trump is delivering on an agenda of grotesque cruelty and chaos.
Trump is delivering on an agenda of grotesque cruelty and chaos.
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We will have victories and setbacks, good days and bad. We must understand that this will not be over in one election or with the defeat of any one candidate. This is the fight of our generation, and it will take time. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...
Ten Things We Can All Do to Protect Democracy
From Marc | The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy.
www.democracydocket.com
January 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
We will have victories and setbacks, good days and bad. We must understand that this will not be over in one election or with the defeat of any one candidate. This is the fight of our generation, and it will take time. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...
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If you are looking for the guardrails on MAGA extremism, it does not reside in government institutions or norms. It won't be found in legacy media newsrooms where both-sides journalism is the order of the day. Nor will you find courage in the boardrooms of large corporations as they bow to Trump.
Courts Are the Last Guardrail
From Marc | If democracy is to survive the next four years, the courts will need to perform each of these functions.
www.democracydocket.com
January 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
If you are looking for the guardrails on MAGA extremism, it does not reside in government institutions or norms. It won't be found in legacy media newsrooms where both-sides journalism is the order of the day. Nor will you find courage in the boardrooms of large corporations as they bow to Trump.
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“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” T.Snyder.
January 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” T.Snyder.