jess griffiths
@takeroot.support
(they/them/theirs)
community support worker & crisis line responder in rural BC 🍁
doing what I can 🌱 where I am 🌎 with what I have ☀️
community support worker & crisis line responder in rural BC 🍁
doing what I can 🌱 where I am 🌎 with what I have ☀️
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Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature.
newfascismsyllabus.com
newfascismsyllabus.com
July 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature.
newfascismsyllabus.com
newfascismsyllabus.com
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In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.
Iran
Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...
www.ricksteves.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.
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That part.
June 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
That part.
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Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil.
It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men
It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men
June 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil.
It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men
It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men
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June 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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One of the most inspiring essays I’ve read on resistance. www.vnews.com/Column-A-tim...
Column: A time for bravery
It is no longer enough to be good; it is time to be brave.
www.vnews.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
One of the most inspiring essays I’ve read on resistance. www.vnews.com/Column-A-tim...
Do Not Comply: A Lesson from the Last Three Months of Anti-Trans Attacks
kettering.org
April 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
"It's not about labels... I'd like to have an instruction manual. I'd like to have a guide and I'd like to know why my mind works as it does."
Exactly this.
Exactly this.
April 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"It's not about labels... I'd like to have an instruction manual. I'd like to have a guide and I'd like to know why my mind works as it does."
Exactly this.
Exactly this.
"To have a hope of combating the end times fascists...we will need to build an unruly open-hearted movement of the Earth-loving faithful: faithful to this planet, its people, its creatures and to the possibility of a livable future for us all."
A huge honor to get to write something with my hero @naomiaklein.bsky.social.
We wish it was a happier topic, but it's an urgent one.
We dove deep into the apocalyptic fervor of the far right to issue a warning about the rise of End Times Fascism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
We wish it was a happier topic, but it's an urgent one.
We dove deep into the apocalyptic fervor of the far right to issue a warning about the rise of End Times Fascism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
April 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"To have a hope of combating the end times fascists...we will need to build an unruly open-hearted movement of the Earth-loving faithful: faithful to this planet, its people, its creatures and to the possibility of a livable future for us all."
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We need this energy again.
#OtD 5 Apr 1932 in Newfoundland, a crowd of 10k protested price increases and pension cuts at the central government building. Police attacked, but the mob fought back and searched for the PM, who was punched in the face. The govt later collapsed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1048...
April 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
We need this energy again.
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March 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
March 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
Happy caturday 😻
March 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Happy caturday 😻
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March 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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As we go into another week of this dystopian nightmare, please remember that…….
❌The Amazon boycott❌ goes through Friday‼️
Please boycott FOREVER if you can!
Boycotts only work if we stick together AND stick to it! 💙💙
WE the PEOPLE hold the power‼️
We’ve got this! ✊🏻💙
#starvethebillionaires
❌The Amazon boycott❌ goes through Friday‼️
Please boycott FOREVER if you can!
Boycotts only work if we stick together AND stick to it! 💙💙
WE the PEOPLE hold the power‼️
We’ve got this! ✊🏻💙
#starvethebillionaires
March 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
As we go into another week of this dystopian nightmare, please remember that…….
❌The Amazon boycott❌ goes through Friday‼️
Please boycott FOREVER if you can!
Boycotts only work if we stick together AND stick to it! 💙💙
WE the PEOPLE hold the power‼️
We’ve got this! ✊🏻💙
#starvethebillionaires
❌The Amazon boycott❌ goes through Friday‼️
Please boycott FOREVER if you can!
Boycotts only work if we stick together AND stick to it! 💙💙
WE the PEOPLE hold the power‼️
We’ve got this! ✊🏻💙
#starvethebillionaires
Seems like a good time to revisit this "fascism is capitalism in decay" video essay for some reason... youtu.be/IG8Bczss228?...
March 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Seems like a good time to revisit this "fascism is capitalism in decay" video essay for some reason... youtu.be/IG8Bczss228?...
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I’m going to show you two pictures, and I wanna see if you can tell me the difference.
As always, need and welcome your support to elevate my advocacy. Subscribe: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe
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March 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I’m going to show you two pictures, and I wanna see if you can tell me the difference.
As always, need and welcome your support to elevate my advocacy. Subscribe: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe
As always, need and welcome your support to elevate my advocacy. Subscribe: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe