"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

-- Alice Walker, born #OTD 1944

"Get up, stand up,
Stand up for your rights.
Get up, stand up,
Don't give up the fight."

-- Bob Marley, born #OTD 1945

I hate to break to Trump but Two-Spirit (trans) people have existed here in North America for thousands of years. They predate the arrival of white people and their “Christianity.” Trans people will be here long after Trump is dead and gone.

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

"You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right."

-- Rosa Parks, born #OTD 1913

BREAKING: David Hogg, a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting just been elected Vice Chair of the DNC.

CONGRATS!

When Congressman John Lewis was a child, he tried to get a library card. He was turned away & told “The Library is not for coloureds” 💔

He’s a civil rights icon, lover of books, recipient of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

“The Library IS for Everyone” 💚
#BlackHistoryMonth

Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy just sent out a memo directing staff to "give preference to
communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average"

Round one goes to Team America.

We remain in the ring until far right extremism has been completely and totally knocked out.

Because they are evil, we must stand up to them.

But because they are also stupid, we needn’t be afraid to.