Shannon Erin
@shannonerin.bsky.social
Chicagoan | Southsider | crafter, gardener, artist | she/her
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There's no dignified way for Democrats to participate in a process where their negotiating partners insist on the right to cheat and steal. And, in a bigger picture sense, there's probably no way at this point to build a working democracy through normal politics. www.offmessage.net/p/gut-check-...
Gut Check Time For Democrats
Send this to your senators.
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August 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
There's no dignified way for Democrats to participate in a process where their negotiating partners insist on the right to cheat and steal. And, in a bigger picture sense, there's probably no way at this point to build a working democracy through normal politics. www.offmessage.net/p/gut-check-...
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“The real story is that manipulative neocons exploited Trump’s jealous hatred of Barack Obama to convince him to rip up the (Iran nuke deal), precisely so we’d arrive at the crossroads we’ve reached today. He’s giving them what they used him for, because he’s exactly the mark they thought he was.”
18 Thoughts On Trump’s Maybe Iran War
No.
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June 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
“The real story is that manipulative neocons exploited Trump’s jealous hatred of Barack Obama to convince him to rip up the (Iran nuke deal), precisely so we’d arrive at the crossroads we’ve reached today. He’s giving them what they used him for, because he’s exactly the mark they thought he was.”
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The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences.
The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.
The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.
The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
June 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences.
The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.
The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.
The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
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When someone tells you buses could never be free, ask them how much they pay to take the Staten Island Ferry.
June 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
When someone tells you buses could never be free, ask them how much they pay to take the Staten Island Ferry.
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The path to the end of Roe V. Wade was paved with abortion providers being killed, and clinics being bombed and set on fire.
I'm a believer in nonviolent resistance for moral reasons, and I think it can be incredibly powerful when well-planned and sustained, but don't tell me violence doesn't work. The people successfully rolling back my rights were sending bomb threats to children's hospitals.
June 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The path to the end of Roe V. Wade was paved with abortion providers being killed, and clinics being bombed and set on fire.
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the issue is not just ICE.
we can live free and safe. or we can have police like we have right now.
we cannot do both
we can live free and safe. or we can have police like we have right now.
we cannot do both
LAPD assisted by the Huntington Beach Police just came in full force firing munitions and with Horse support. Someone was trampled. Another has a serious head injury.
June 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
the issue is not just ICE.
we can live free and safe. or we can have police like we have right now.
we cannot do both
we can live free and safe. or we can have police like we have right now.
we cannot do both
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for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle
June 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle
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Fascists can get all the power in the world and destroy all the lives they see as beneath them but you will never, ever get them to stop playing victim.
June 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Fascists can get all the power in the world and destroy all the lives they see as beneath them but you will never, ever get them to stop playing victim.
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kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
June 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
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One thing that's worth noting: This student didn't even say the word "Israel." A simple recognition of Palestinian suffering was enough for an American university to withhold this student's diploma and "pursue disciplinary actions"
Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for:
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
May 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
One thing that's worth noting: This student didn't even say the word "Israel." A simple recognition of Palestinian suffering was enough for an American university to withhold this student's diploma and "pursue disciplinary actions"
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Deep dive on mafia state enabler Merrick Garland here. Written in 2023: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...
April 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Deep dive on mafia state enabler Merrick Garland here. Written in 2023: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...
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and there is more of this for democrats to do! demand to see the other people renditioned to this prison! conduct on camera interviews with people who have lost social security, veterans benefits and medical care because of DOGE, hold rallies against the administration’s lawlessness!
Van Hollen’s trip to El Salvador is a form of embodied protest and helped put Trump’s illegal deportation of Abrego Gracia on the front page of the NYT two days in a row.
As Bayard Rustin once said, “The only weapons we have are our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn.”
As Bayard Rustin once said, “The only weapons we have are our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn.”
April 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
and there is more of this for democrats to do! demand to see the other people renditioned to this prison! conduct on camera interviews with people who have lost social security, veterans benefits and medical care because of DOGE, hold rallies against the administration’s lawlessness!
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As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.
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It is basically impossible to get people to believe that things like impoundment and extraordinary rendition and illegal trade wars are a crisis if nobody in a position of authority acts like they are.
The Senate just voted 66 to 32 to confirm Trump's investment banker, COVID conspiracy peddler ambassador to Japan.
Trump is eviscerating the constitution, and they are pretending like everything is normal.
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Trump is eviscerating the constitution, and they are pretending like everything is normal.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
April 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
It is basically impossible to get people to believe that things like impoundment and extraordinary rendition and illegal trade wars are a crisis if nobody in a position of authority acts like they are.
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We don’t have dictators in America. It’s a simple message, and an ethic that inspires many different kinds of people to act in all kinds of ways. www.offmessage.net/p/we-dont-ha...
We Don't Have Dictators In America
What's missing from the fight over Trump's tariff fiasco.
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April 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
We don’t have dictators in America. It’s a simple message, and an ethic that inspires many different kinds of people to act in all kinds of ways. www.offmessage.net/p/we-dont-ha...
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This is right. The fact that they’re doing this to “innocent people” is not irrelevant, but it’s ultimately not the point. People convicted of crimes have rights too. And you can be damn sure that if they want to convict them - or me, or you - of something, they will.
I know this sounds like pedantic scolding but I really do believe that doubling down on the idea that criminal records are a meaningful distinction is like carefully digging a pit that we can be shoved into.
April 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is right. The fact that they’re doing this to “innocent people” is not irrelevant, but it’s ultimately not the point. People convicted of crimes have rights too. And you can be damn sure that if they want to convict them - or me, or you - of something, they will.
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nightmare country. I’m compelled by conscience to add that prisoners in the us are already treated like this and worse, daily; there’s escalation here but it’s from an already intolerable state of carceral excess.
Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear.
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
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His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
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April 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
nightmare country. I’m compelled by conscience to add that prisoners in the us are already treated like this and worse, daily; there’s escalation here but it’s from an already intolerable state of carceral excess.
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The people who are running your government believe that they are immune from accountability for their actions and their lies, and they may be right, but this is evil:
NEW today from @miamiherald.com: more men sent to El Salvador on Saturday have been identified by their families, including a 27-year-old who entered legally at a port of entry in 2023 through the CBP One app and a 29-year-old father of a baby born here last year. Neither have any criminal record.
March 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The people who are running your government believe that they are immune from accountability for their actions and their lies, and they may be right, but this is evil:
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UNREAL. ICE implies in a sworn declaration that MOST of the Venezuelans sentenced to hard labor in a brutal Central American prison without charge or trial or so much as a cursory hearing had never been convicted or even charged with ANY CRIME whatsoever, not even a trivial one, anywhere, ever!
March 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
UNREAL. ICE implies in a sworn declaration that MOST of the Venezuelans sentenced to hard labor in a brutal Central American prison without charge or trial or so much as a cursory hearing had never been convicted or even charged with ANY CRIME whatsoever, not even a trivial one, anywhere, ever!
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There's something to the stereotype of the cosmopolitan elite who loathes the flyover states, the problem is that it's usually rich coastal conservatives like Habba and not "liberal coastal elites" or whatever. You see how much Trump and Vance hate regular people when they have to interact with them
If a Democrat said this it would be the single biggest scandal of the year and the person would be out of politics by the end of the week
March 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
There's something to the stereotype of the cosmopolitan elite who loathes the flyover states, the problem is that it's usually rich coastal conservatives like Habba and not "liberal coastal elites" or whatever. You see how much Trump and Vance hate regular people when they have to interact with them
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I'm starting to think of elite rationalizations of Trump's insanity as a kind of highbrown qanon. It's the fantasy that things can't be as fucked as they seem and that in reality there's a secret plan being carried out by competent patriots
March 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I'm starting to think of elite rationalizations of Trump's insanity as a kind of highbrown qanon. It's the fantasy that things can't be as fucked as they seem and that in reality there's a secret plan being carried out by competent patriots
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Left-wing censorship was a fantasy, but the right-wing censorship is real, unconstitutional, and murderous. There was no majority anti-conservative social media bias or casual forced use of words like “birthing person.” But stripping protest rights and official language is actual deadly censorship
March 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Left-wing censorship was a fantasy, but the right-wing censorship is real, unconstitutional, and murderous. There was no majority anti-conservative social media bias or casual forced use of words like “birthing person.” But stripping protest rights and official language is actual deadly censorship