Somehow the "We need to support policies that are popular" crowd never land on the very popular polices like "taxing big corporation more," "making health care more affordable," or "paying teachers more." It's always just "be 10% more racist."

Fox News and OAN are both doing “Free Tory Lanez” content as a cynical appeal to Black men, and it’s insulting For instance www.oann.com/video/oan-co... via @gncordova.bsky.social on another site

Undefeated

Happy Mothers Day to all the mamas. Especially mine✨

Yale University students have relaunched their encampment, renewing demands for the university to disclose and divest from Israeli interests. They are also voicing strong opposition to hosting alleged war criminals on campus, ahead of Itamar Ben-Gvir’s scheduled speaking event. *2nd video below

The FBI would have agents follow her and even tried to get people close to her to bring her heroine in the hopes that she would die of an overdose. Local police would stand in the theatre when she sang waiting to arrest her the moment they heard the opening of Strange Fruit.

Happy National Library Week! If you don't have a library card, go get one. If you have one, use it! Public goods thrive when everybody uses them. That's why they push kids to charter, home, and private schools, why they sow doubt and fear of libraries and our collections. Use it or lose it!

I think a lot about the dangers that come with the govt, corporations, billionaires becoming more confident that the vast majority of the country will sit back and watch heinous human rights violations and blatant abuses of power, with no real response beyond occasionally joining a peaceful protest.

ICE couldn’t disappear people like this if Bush and almost every Democrat hadn’t fought for it—not supporting draconian surveillance organizations in 2001 was seen as monstrous.

One of the most important lessons in life is just because someone is wearing a suit doesn’t mean they know a goddamn thing about anything.

Some of y’all need to hear this!! (It’s me. I’m y’all.)

A lot of people like to dismiss racism as insubstantial to material realities but we’re watching a nation burn trillions of dollars in wealth to entrench a racial system of domination.

Remember this whenever people try to categorize racism as the domain of poor and backwards people. The people at the commanding heights of commerce, media, and law worked to empower Trump and enable his agenda.

This is what the titans of industry endeavored to achieve. They leveraged real resources and influence to enable these goals.

I grew out of clapping for empty symbolism years ago.

The Tesla Takedown protests & boycott are working... "Tesla’s stock plummeted 36% in the first three months of the year, its steepest drop since 2022 and third-biggest decline for any quarter on record." www.cnbc.com/2025/03/31/t...

A lot of this effort to erase the achievements and the history of Black people in this country, is a direct response to people having their precious slave owner confederate statues taken down. And what’s wild is many people think these two moves are equal.

At least 80 Palestinians have been killed and 305 others injured in Israeli attacks across besieged Gaza in the past 48 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️

There are too many people who are agonizing every day over what Elon Musk is doing, who will still defend the existence of billionaires. They’re not connecting the dots somehow.

I’ll never not remind people that the New York Times called Ida B Wells a “slanderous, nasty-minded mulatresse” during her anti-lynching campaign.

Hosted an art show last weekend. We sold over 400 tickets & raised over $13K for youth arts programs & $1.4K for the WA Immigrant Solidarity Network✨ it’s a tiny drop in the bucket compared to what’s needed but it feels good to amplify art + create space for community, while supporting what matters.

I think we’re doing the press a favor by thinking they’re being duped into treating these EOs like edicts. We know that can be pedantic and rules obsessed because we just lived through them doing so with Biden.

Speaking of “decisive tests of our society,” during the 2024 election, the Biden admin armed & funded Israel as they targeted every hospital in Gaza, destroyed over 90% of all residential structures, and slaughtered children. And most of the US failed to stand up and say it was unacceptable.

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Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer. Hard mode: No villains

Israel is killing Palestinians who are attending a funeral

Wrote about the dumbest refrain in American politics: “We Need a Strong Republican Party” If you are a politician, and you keep insisting society needs your opposition, what does that say about how convicted you are in your own beliefs?

Leaning hard into genocide, and the demonization of anti-genocide protestors, with so much on the line is a political decision that will live in infamy. I still can’t believe it happened.

And understand that inclusion is not the destination — liberation is.

I don’t have words. #TeslaTakedown

These are MY leftists 🥰🥰✊🏾

It’s happening. Just the first of many victories for those who’ve been pushing for years.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the Trump administration’s defiance of an explicit court order, deporting Venezuelans to a concentration camp in a third country, El Salvador—which also happens to violate a lot of really good international laws.

In 1968, the Black Panther Party established the first Peoples’ Free Medical Clinics to combat systemic discrimination against Black people in hospitals and private medical practices. Of the 13 health care clinics they originally founded, the only one still operating is in Seattle.

BREAKING: In a landslide vote, Harvard Law student body passes divestment referendum, overcoming administration attempts to prevent and delegitimize the vote. Harvard Law students overwhelmingly vote for Justice for Palestine and divestment from Netanyahu’s regime. This is historic.

Our first post: Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Hey, can I share some historical context with you about “race-baiter” Ebrahim Rasool? When I see a South African who’s a little older, I always check what they were doing before 1990. 🧐 Found something surprising: As a boy, Rasool and his family were expelled from District Six.

And even worse for Black youth in Seattle!

“Black people in Seattle are seven times more likely than white people to experience police use of force…. In contrast, during a similar period in neighboring Portland, Black people were 1.45 times more likely than white people to experience police use of force”

I sometimes think that if a movement like the Black Panther Party existed today, mountains could be moved in coalition with white organizing groups like the DSA. They’d disagree on a lot but they’d agree on many vitally important issues—imperialism, capitalism, class solidarity. But the thing is…

I also wonder how many people feel “pushed left” because the Democratic Party has shifted to the right over the years.

Correct. I write about this history a lot, specifically because this interconnectedness and global solidarities have systematically attacked for decades. Leaders killed. History erased.

“The United States is, after all, a white supremacist nation, built on genocide and chattel slavery. Racism has always been woven into its fabric.” - @gncordova.bsky.social ( 💗 your powerful writing! ) @thestranger.com

like i said - this administration wants to "protect" jews like it is "protecting" women --

We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...