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Watsonville, CA, showing up for #NoKings! Watsonville is one of California’s central communities of farm workers and immigrants, and has recently experienced ICE agents out in the streets and fields.
These young women are dancing while holding pictures of their immigrant loved ones.
These young women are dancing while holding pictures of their immigrant loved ones.
June 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Watsonville, CA, showing up for #NoKings! Watsonville is one of California’s central communities of farm workers and immigrants, and has recently experienced ICE agents out in the streets and fields.
These young women are dancing while holding pictures of their immigrant loved ones.
These young women are dancing while holding pictures of their immigrant loved ones.
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We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.
April 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.
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And note that the move is coming from men who don't qualify for their job, objectively, and so really can't stand up to comparison.
March 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
And note that the move is coming from men who don't qualify for their job, objectively, and so really can't stand up to comparison.
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I’m so tired of this. The entire opposition to what the right calls “DEI” is their belief that only white men are deserving of anything. Say that.
March 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I’m so tired of this. The entire opposition to what the right calls “DEI” is their belief that only white men are deserving of anything. Say that.
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It’s not eliminating DEI. This is about erasing anyone who is not a white man from American history. Just say that.
Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.
Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans
Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It’s not eliminating DEI. This is about erasing anyone who is not a white man from American history. Just say that.
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guys they're going to stop feeding TSA's bomb-sniffing dogs, per Fox News nat security correspondent:
March 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
guys they're going to stop feeding TSA's bomb-sniffing dogs, per Fox News nat security correspondent:
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Only five votes on the Supreme Court for Article I of the Constitution of the United States bsky.app/profile/stev...
BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES President Trump‘s emergency bid to cancel nearly $2 billion in USAID spending. The vote is 5-4.
March 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Only five votes on the Supreme Court for Article I of the Constitution of the United States bsky.app/profile/stev...
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If your country is doing things you find shameful, please find a way of channelling that shame into action. Shame makes us retreat - and that punishes the victims of our country’s actions a second time, because it renders the people who care inactive. Please don’t give cruelty that second victory.
March 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
If your country is doing things you find shameful, please find a way of channelling that shame into action. Shame makes us retreat - and that punishes the victims of our country’s actions a second time, because it renders the people who care inactive. Please don’t give cruelty that second victory.
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Re Zelensky at the WH, yet again, feminists and trauma/abuse- informed thinkers are years ahead of political analysts.
There is no acceptable affect, no way to charm an abuser, and no “deal” other than playing very very dead that would change how Trump and his flying monkey Vance behaved.
There is no acceptable affect, no way to charm an abuser, and no “deal” other than playing very very dead that would change how Trump and his flying monkey Vance behaved.
February 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Re Zelensky at the WH, yet again, feminists and trauma/abuse- informed thinkers are years ahead of political analysts.
There is no acceptable affect, no way to charm an abuser, and no “deal” other than playing very very dead that would change how Trump and his flying monkey Vance behaved.
There is no acceptable affect, no way to charm an abuser, and no “deal” other than playing very very dead that would change how Trump and his flying monkey Vance behaved.
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Black scholars argued this incessantly after the war. Britain killed 10’s of millions of Indians, Belgium enslaved and genocided the Congo, France slaughtered its Algerian subjects. Nazi Germany was the logical extension of US and European colonialism, not an aberration.
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February 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Black scholars argued this incessantly after the war. Britain killed 10’s of millions of Indians, Belgium enslaved and genocided the Congo, France slaughtered its Algerian subjects. Nazi Germany was the logical extension of US and European colonialism, not an aberration.
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One of the problems with the lawsuits is gonna be that the “policy” is going to change, daily, hourly even. It already has, today.
It’s hard to sustain a lawsuit against the premise of the thing when the facts of the thing change every minute.
It’s hard to sustain a lawsuit against the premise of the thing when the facts of the thing change every minute.
January 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
One of the problems with the lawsuits is gonna be that the “policy” is going to change, daily, hourly even. It already has, today.
It’s hard to sustain a lawsuit against the premise of the thing when the facts of the thing change every minute.
It’s hard to sustain a lawsuit against the premise of the thing when the facts of the thing change every minute.
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I often show this video in class, and students routinely have a lot to say in response.
Opens up a discussion about the linkages between structural racism, mass incarceration, labor exploitation, and climate change, among other things.
youtu.be/XM5voSl6eWA?...
Opens up a discussion about the linkages between structural racism, mass incarceration, labor exploitation, and climate change, among other things.
youtu.be/XM5voSl6eWA?...
Meet the Prisoners Being Paid $1 an Hour to Battle the Deadly Climate-Fueled Fires of California
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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January 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I often show this video in class, and students routinely have a lot to say in response.
Opens up a discussion about the linkages between structural racism, mass incarceration, labor exploitation, and climate change, among other things.
youtu.be/XM5voSl6eWA?...
Opens up a discussion about the linkages between structural racism, mass incarceration, labor exploitation, and climate change, among other things.
youtu.be/XM5voSl6eWA?...
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I’ve said it before, will doubtless say it again: These folks are going to be permanently resentful because they’re seeking political power as a substitute for cultural power, and it’s never going to give them what they actually want.
I love how far afield this is from any problem government can address. “Now that Trump won people have to like and agree with me and not tell me I suck anymore.” bsky.app/profile/yash...
2. “For the last four years, very acutely, and I know it preceded these four years as well, but there's been kind of a pressing down. A pressing down and kind of limiting what people can say.”
November 15, 2024 at 4:53 AM
I’ve said it before, will doubtless say it again: These folks are going to be permanently resentful because they’re seeking political power as a substitute for cultural power, and it’s never going to give them what they actually want.
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I know it's hard for Western countries to look to the rest of the world as role models for anything, but damn, Western politicians could really learn a thing or two from South Koreans about going all in to defend democracy
(specifically thinking of Germany & the US rn, but I'm sure there's more)
(specifically thinking of Germany & the US rn, but I'm sure there's more)
Democratic Party aides are shown spraying fire extinguishers at the infiltrating army to keep them back.
I just want to add that I am a South Korean citizen and Seoul resident and I am *extremely* proud of South Korean democracy and this president has violated something I hold sacrosanct
I just want to add that I am a South Korean citizen and Seoul resident and I am *extremely* proud of South Korean democracy and this president has violated something I hold sacrosanct
December 3, 2024 at 5:01 PM
I know it's hard for Western countries to look to the rest of the world as role models for anything, but damn, Western politicians could really learn a thing or two from South Koreans about going all in to defend democracy
(specifically thinking of Germany & the US rn, but I'm sure there's more)
(specifically thinking of Germany & the US rn, but I'm sure there's more)
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Normalize saying “I need to think about that.”
I want to write about something very stupid that happened to me yesterday. I don’t want to do it in a self-serving way but I do think it illustrates a good point. As the pardon news broke I was asked a question about it and I didn’t have a clear answer so I just said I had to think about it.
December 3, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Normalize saying “I need to think about that.”
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South Korea rn is what it looks like when people see democracy as a fragile thing that needs to be defended by all means necessary, and not as their inevitable birthright as citizens of an exceptional nation
December 3, 2024 at 4:24 PM
South Korea rn is what it looks like when people see democracy as a fragile thing that needs to be defended by all means necessary, and not as their inevitable birthright as citizens of an exceptional nation
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By and large, the best thing you can do for any nonprofit in any field is to send them a check without any restrictions.
Do you trust the organization? Then let them allocate it. Don't make it hard.
If you don't trust an organization, then send it to another one you do.
Do you trust the organization? Then let them allocate it. Don't make it hard.
If you don't trust an organization, then send it to another one you do.
Tis the season for helpful posts about what food shelves need so here's my advice:
If your kid's school is doing a Canned Food Drive or a movie theater is doing a special movie screening with a can of food in lieu of admission: give a can.
Otherwise: JUST GIVE MONEY.
If your kid's school is doing a Canned Food Drive or a movie theater is doing a special movie screening with a can of food in lieu of admission: give a can.
Otherwise: JUST GIVE MONEY.
November 17, 2024 at 10:04 PM
By and large, the best thing you can do for any nonprofit in any field is to send them a check without any restrictions.
Do you trust the organization? Then let them allocate it. Don't make it hard.
If you don't trust an organization, then send it to another one you do.
Do you trust the organization? Then let them allocate it. Don't make it hard.
If you don't trust an organization, then send it to another one you do.
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Throughout the last two years of weekly focus groups and frequent surveys with battleground state swing and disaffected Democratic voters, three things rose to the surface time and again.
November 10, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Throughout the last two years of weekly focus groups and frequent surveys with battleground state swing and disaffected Democratic voters, three things rose to the surface time and again.
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This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...
November 17, 2024 at 7:43 PM
This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...
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The idea that you *must* coexist with and listen to people who are cruel, unjust, and just plain unpleasant to be around is the logic of abusers, by the way
November 17, 2024 at 6:01 PM
The idea that you *must* coexist with and listen to people who are cruel, unjust, and just plain unpleasant to be around is the logic of abusers, by the way
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Wonder if a certain senior senator from Kentucky—who survived polio as a toddler—has views as to the importance of childhood vaccination.
November 14, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Wonder if a certain senior senator from Kentucky—who survived polio as a toddler—has views as to the importance of childhood vaccination.