Willow
@willowwillowwillow.bsky.social
Organizational sociologist and manic pixie dream girl. Research and writing on social phenomena in the realms of labor, ethics, religion, and more.
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A little reflection on chatting over at the Getting Reflective podcast!
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BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech.
The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.
The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.
April 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech.
The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.
The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.
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Do you do advocacy or direct action, and want to make sure your communication with co-organizers and community members is secure? Then watch our latest video where Gerik walks through using Signal, the encrypted private messaging platform!
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=489z...
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=489z...
How to: Use Signal for Secure Messaging
YouTube video by OutCenter Southwest Michigan
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March 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Do you do advocacy or direct action, and want to make sure your communication with co-organizers and community members is secure? Then watch our latest video where Gerik walks through using Signal, the encrypted private messaging platform!
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=489z...
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=489z...
All I can say is this: @mcbride.house.gov, you’ve now made your legacy. The first trans congresswoman, and the first trans congresswoman to throw her community in the trash after she got in a position of power. Trans folks, allies, and anyone with integrity shouldn’t let this slide.
Sarah McBride is a collaborator who will sell out the entire trans community to protect her career. She's selling us all out.
SCOOP: Sarah McBride and other Dems have discussed how the party must accept Ds with differing stances on trans rights to not alienate people
“We have to create more space in our tent,” she told me
An inside look at Dems’ reshuffling on trans issues:
www.notus.org/congress/tra...
“We have to create more space in our tent,” she told me
An inside look at Dems’ reshuffling on trans issues:
www.notus.org/congress/tra...
March 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
All I can say is this: @mcbride.house.gov, you’ve now made your legacy. The first trans congresswoman, and the first trans congresswoman to throw her community in the trash after she got in a position of power. Trans folks, allies, and anyone with integrity shouldn’t let this slide.
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Last night I stood up for those who need Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Democrats will never abandon the fight to make sure every American has a safe, healthy, and financially secure life. #ISaidWhatISaid
March 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Last night I stood up for those who need Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Democrats will never abandon the fight to make sure every American has a safe, healthy, and financially secure life. #ISaidWhatISaid
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RFK Jr finally recommends vaccination to deal with the measles outbreak hitting Texas right now.
This is quite the about face for a man who’s been spreading harmful anti-vaxx rhetoric for years.
www.axios.com/2025/03/03/k...
This is quite the about face for a man who’s been spreading harmful anti-vaxx rhetoric for years.
www.axios.com/2025/03/03/k...
RFK Jr. urges people to get vaccinated amid deadly Texas outbreak
Kennedy has a long record of sowing skepticism about vaccines, but advocated for them in a Fox News op-ed today.
www.axios.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:10 AM
RFK Jr finally recommends vaccination to deal with the measles outbreak hitting Texas right now.
This is quite the about face for a man who’s been spreading harmful anti-vaxx rhetoric for years.
www.axios.com/2025/03/03/k...
This is quite the about face for a man who’s been spreading harmful anti-vaxx rhetoric for years.
www.axios.com/2025/03/03/k...
Because the Overton Window has shifted so far right, “Moderate Democrats” are now aligned with fascism.
New: Last month, a group of moderate Democratic consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials & party leaders gathered in Loudoun County, Virginia, for a retreat where they plotted their party’s comeback.
We got their takeaways. t.co/bEwlg4jbtM
We got their takeaways. t.co/bEwlg4jbtM
March 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Because the Overton Window has shifted so far right, “Moderate Democrats” are now aligned with fascism.
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In this video, Willow talks about both self-care and communal care as forms of resistance against hyper-individualistic and so-called "efficiency"-driven ideologies. It's important to in rest and engage in "useless" activities that foster human connection.
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQu4...
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQu4...
On Restful Resistance - Advocate Oasis
YouTube video by OutCenter Southwest Michigan
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March 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
In this video, Willow talks about both self-care and communal care as forms of resistance against hyper-individualistic and so-called "efficiency"-driven ideologies. It's important to in rest and engage in "useless" activities that foster human connection.
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQu4...
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQu4...
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NYT: “DOGE deleted the top five highest savings claims on its ‘wall of receipts’ leaderboard after variousnews outlets pointed out multiple errors in its calculations…” newrepublic.com/post/191973/...
February 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
NYT: “DOGE deleted the top five highest savings claims on its ‘wall of receipts’ leaderboard after variousnews outlets pointed out multiple errors in its calculations…” newrepublic.com/post/191973/...
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SCOOP: The filing paints Musk as an absentee father and reveals new details about the duo's relationship.
SCOOP: Ashley St. Clair sues Elon Musk for custody of new son
The filing paints Musk as an absentee father and reveals new details about the duo's relationship.
www.usermag.co
February 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
SCOOP: The filing paints Musk as an absentee father and reveals new details about the duo's relationship.
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New:
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
February 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
New:
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
Update on some recent policy and advocacy work: spotlightonsociety.com/p/policy-wor...
February 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Update on some recent policy and advocacy work: spotlightonsociety.com/p/policy-wor...
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This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth.
It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.
It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.
February 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth.
It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.
It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.
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“We’ll see you in the courts, in Congress, in the streets. ELON MUSK is a NAZI NEPO BABY. A Godless, lawless billionaire who no one elected! Elon, this is the American people. This is not your trashy Cybertruck that you can just dismantle!” —Rep Ayanna Pressley 🔥
February 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“We’ll see you in the courts, in Congress, in the streets. ELON MUSK is a NAZI NEPO BABY. A Godless, lawless billionaire who no one elected! Elon, this is the American people. This is not your trashy Cybertruck that you can just dismantle!” —Rep Ayanna Pressley 🔥
I’m so pumped for this one! Social theory, technology, and my favorite books in one publication (Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot series).
February 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I’m so pumped for this one! Social theory, technology, and my favorite books in one publication (Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot series).
A little reflection on chatting over at the Getting Reflective podcast!
spotlightonsociety.com/p/podcast-th...
spotlightonsociety.com/p/podcast-th...
February 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
A little reflection on chatting over at the Getting Reflective podcast!
spotlightonsociety.com/p/podcast-th...
spotlightonsociety.com/p/podcast-th...
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same methods, different era
February 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
same methods, different era
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Oh myyy, they are the very letter of it!
January 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Oh myyy, they are the very letter of it!
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In 2025, our communities face growing threats from an overlapping trio of harmful worldviews.
There is a better path, there are things we can do — a protocol for an inclusive future that embraces the opposites of these destructive ideologies. Learn more at: www.outcenter.org/protocol
There is a better path, there are things we can do — a protocol for an inclusive future that embraces the opposites of these destructive ideologies. Learn more at: www.outcenter.org/protocol
January 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
In 2025, our communities face growing threats from an overlapping trio of harmful worldviews.
There is a better path, there are things we can do — a protocol for an inclusive future that embraces the opposites of these destructive ideologies. Learn more at: www.outcenter.org/protocol
There is a better path, there are things we can do — a protocol for an inclusive future that embraces the opposites of these destructive ideologies. Learn more at: www.outcenter.org/protocol
relaxing with adhd looks like: finishing your nails (bc you’re not doing that in one sitting) with the essential oils vaporizer next to you while simultaneously listening to chappel roan on Spotify and a video game stream in a different tab
December 7, 2024 at 3:37 PM
relaxing with adhd looks like: finishing your nails (bc you’re not doing that in one sitting) with the essential oils vaporizer next to you while simultaneously listening to chappel roan on Spotify and a video game stream in a different tab
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The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
![Engels on 'Social Murder'
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call that deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call this deed murder.
But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or the bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live - forces them ... to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence - knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual ...
Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845 [1967]), p. 126 (Panther Press)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jfcht3gt62twn3r32e7bziq4/bafkreifeiogd6watrjgxqrzfsfrujyv4765jeh4why7my2rl76nbnqr5xu@jpeg)
December 5, 2024 at 4:42 AM
The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
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intermittently fasting when i am asleep and unable to eat
December 5, 2024 at 1:24 PM
intermittently fasting when i am asleep and unable to eat
I don’t think it’s controversial to say that if one leads a business that purposefully and knowingly denies life-saving interventions to people for the sake of profit, that tyrannical person is a serial killer.
December 5, 2024 at 3:27 PM
I don’t think it’s controversial to say that if one leads a business that purposefully and knowingly denies life-saving interventions to people for the sake of profit, that tyrannical person is a serial killer.