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Tess
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Not a bad friend to have in your friend pocket. She/her.

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” —Frederick Douglass
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Damn. I was curious about the purported Trump-Hegseth exchange circa 2000 so I looked up where the latter was then. He was at Princeton, not yet old enough to legally drink.

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October 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
tesshoffman.bsky.social
satisfying timeline juxtaposition just now
July 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
tesshoffman.bsky.social
Immigrants’ rights are under attack—we must fight back.
Join SURJ Baltimore’s Community Care Meeting to learn how to respond to ICE activity as bystanders. Together we can stand up for liberty and justice for ALL.
Sat Aug 2 2-3:30 pm
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Info+RSVP: tiny.cc/surjcommunity
July 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
tesshoffman.bsky.social
Goose meme. In the first panel, the goose asks, "But why would it end Republican control of Congress?" In the second panel, the goose, head down and ferocious, repeats the question while chasing a coward.
July 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-13-2...
"Here’s the thing: Once you give up the idea that we are all equal before the law and have the right to due process, you have given up the whole game. You have admitted the principle that some people have more rights than others. Once you have replaced the principle of equality before the law with the idea that some people have no rights, you have granted your approval to the idea of an authoritarian government. At that point, all you can do is to hope that the dictator and his henchmen overlook you."
April 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
tesshoffman.bsky.social
At least 400 at the #TeslaTakedown in Owings Mills today, and again, super-heartening, positive response from drivers-by. Many thanks to everyone out there organizing these and showing up!
A woman stands in a crowd of Tesla Takedown protestors by a roadside on a sunny day. She is holding up a sign that reads, "Get Elon Musk out of our government and get his Tesla deathtraps off our White House lawn." At her feet is a second sign that reads, "No one elected President Musk! That DOGE don't hunt."
March 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
tesshoffman.bsky.social
Done:
Please restore transgendered people to your content about Stonewall. Editing these people out, via careful phrases like "the quest for LGB civil rights," makes a mockery of a page about the civil rights of LGBTQIA+ individuals, and it does so at a time when transgendered people are under particular attack by the Trump administration. Standing up for LGBTQIA+ rights was necessary in 1969--and it is necessary again in 2025. Be on the right side of history here.
February 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
tesshoffman.bsky.social
Elon Musk is shown, head and shoulders only, in three-quarter view facing left, wearing a suit jacket and tie. To his right, the words "Lock Him Up" are superimposed on the background of the photograph.
February 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM