“The fusion of corporate & govt power will need to be unmade. Courts reconfigured. Market power subsumed to electoral power. We’ll have to become far less complacent & scared. To organize. No one who settles for being a consumer of democracy should expect to have a real democracy ever again.”

Oh we're just saying words now huh? Automobile grass woke doom bridges

Liberals struggle to talk about the military in a way that isn't "more female guards!!" and the biggest headline from Hegseth is that he wants the military to un-learn the lessons of My Lai, Abu Ghraib, Kandahar. This is obviously related to his misogyny/racism and shouldn't be separated from it

A decade ago, then-Governor of the Bank of England, @mark-carney.bsky.social, delivered his landmark speech calling #climatechange the "Tragedy of the Horizon" — reminding leaders that inaction today means paying a greater amount for the reaction required tomorrow.

I don’t like to be hyperbolic but every time people talk about us being “1% of the population” I can’t help thinking “who else has been 1% of the population and what would you have said to them?”

A lot of our political discourse boils down to "I have the RIGHT to say that I don't believe you are a person, and if me saying so results in you suffering the harms of non-personhood, that's not my fault, and if you try to stop me from dehumanizing you, you are discriminating against me."

Reminder to turn off autoplay for videos on this place.

things might be somewhat different right now if there had never been a DHS

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So many of weapons that were developed to police sex workers — the moral panics, the abuse of data, the manipulation of press, the claims of false consciousness — are increasingly being turned against queers, trans and disabled communities.

Trans people also invented mail in ballots, in 1798. And Hunter’s laptop. We cancelled Infrastructure Week 47 times. We hid the remote. And we’re why your phone dies at 12%. A possible shutdown is about millions of (non trans) people’s healthcare costs skyrocketing to pay for billionaire tax cuts.

Public health war is class war.

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Listening to @johnvaillant.bsky.social’s remarkable book “Fire Weather” the day after Canada’s Draw the Line protests. Every day I listen to CBC and it astounds me afresh that intensifying wildfires, extreme heat waves, and “energy policy” are treated as separate conversations.

Teenage me is trying to imagine David Duke being horribly killed on cable TV, followed by his “life and legacy” being officially honored this way, and people being fired for literally quoting his words in a not-praising-them context - and cannot fathom any of it.

👉 Support our demand to double social assistance rates: buff.ly/JVWc4SM 125+ ACORN members rallied in 6 Ontario cities to demand real raises to ODSP/OW. ACORN held poverty picnics to highlight how insufficient supprots leave communities hungry.

A wise and eloquent expression of the US urban-rural divide from the rarer perch of moving from urban to rural. Growing up in the 24st largest US city, between Appalachia and Midwest cornfields, I still feel this mutual ignorance and projection - so ripe for exploitation - so hard.

This case is especially shocking but abuse and trauma are endemic and inevitable features of youth prisons. The way to protect youth from these horrors is to phase out the practice of incarcerating youth. At every turn, the system proliferates abuse rather than preventing it.

But go on, tell me Democrats (US) and Liberals (Canada) should stop talking or trying to do anything about it.

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After 2.5 years of rallies, petitions, and non-stop pressure, ACORN members on Webster Street have WON against renovictions! ACORN’s fight against Ontario’s “King of Renovictions,” Michael Klein, forced him to withdraw eviction notices for tenants buff.ly/otbcdRG

This seems exactly as deadly-serious horrible/comically absurd as current US authoritarian politics. Though, we can’t blame British colonialism for the bad laws being used against opposition. Idk what these guys’ deal is but they’re literally locked up for this. (Unsure about the chameleon.)

"What are we to make of a man who called for the execution of the American president, and then was executed himself?" www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Hmmm.

Ran into @acorncanada.bsky.social having a “Poverty Picnic” at ODSP/OW offices today to protest below-subsistence level ODSP and OW rates. Join turn for a tenants’ rights/anti-poverty action next week if you’re in TO!

Ran into @acorncanada.bsky.social having a “Poverty Picnic” at ODSP/OW offices today to protest below-subsistence level ODSP and OW rates. Join turn for a tenants’ rights/anti-poverty action next week if you’re in TO!

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“Democracy Dies in Darkness” was meant to be a warning not a to-do list. How on earth can the Washington Post be expected to fight against government overreach in crushing dissent when it is doing Trump’s work for him?

Complete this sentence but make it about current USDOJ litigating tactics: “is it appropriate for the judiciary to countenance what amounts to a guerrilla war against [______], which consists of efforts to make it impossible for [_____] to [_____]?”

Saw this arresting film @ #TIFF. I think many critics didn’t get it. Maybe in part they don’t like or get its brand of twisted fairy-tale satire, or appreciate the stark realities of education inequality it’s allegorizing. A likely tough, perhaps resonant watch for parents and teachers. Thoughts?

Wrote some thoughts down.

This is the apotheosis of what I've called "the concentration camp tendency": the politically generated drive to remove from society and even murder whole groups deemed undesirable.

I have been BEGGING providers & institutions targeted by these subpoenas FOR MONTHS to share info & collaborate on a collective defense & advocacy groups to strongly encourage & support them in doing do. That didn’t happen & instead institutions are just going offline citing “legal environment”

The leaked Trump plan for Gaza comes directly from the US playbook for Native Americans. The plan calls for the US to take over the Gaza strip and to hold it in trust for development. Gaza’s residents would be encouraged to leave “voluntarily.”

Here is my email: If you need some inspo, I added it here on this google doc- docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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The list of Dems voting to ban trans rights: Cuellar - Texas Davis - North Carolina Gillen - New York Golden - Maine Gonzalez, V. - Texas Gottheimer - New Jersey Gray - California Horsford - Nevada Kaptur - Ohio Lee - Nevada McClain Delaney - Maryland McDonald Rivet - Michigan Mrvan - Indiana ...🧵

beware of people who want to "protect" the children but are vehemently opposed to empowering children, giving them information so they can have agency, teaching them about consent, and actually listening to them

I am calling for a complete and total shutdown on things happening until our elected officials figure out what the hell is going on.

I regret to inform you that there are still too many things happening.

Wait, I had been told that it was impossible to fight these subpoenas.

Feels like such a short distance from “all my friends at the DOJ” to “my friend who’s being indicted by the DOJ.” I just suggested Carl for a panel. Fuck.

In the 1950s, Alabama went after Civil rights lawyers in the NAACP for challenging segregation. Now they're going after trans lawyers for challenging anti trans laws. Nothing ever changes.

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This is one of the things states need to be doing right now.

Thanks to @brianbeutler.bsky.social for handing me the keys to his newsletter to talk about why the anti-Trump coalition needs to be thinking now about rebuilding the government once he leaves office -- and about why we'll fail if we're too timid or play conventional budget politics.

Just gross. I’m reminded of 2002: Jack McGeorge (a man I knew slightly, later) was outed as a leather community fixture while he was a UN weapons inspector. The Bush Admin recommended, but tried to disown him. UNMOVIC kept him on. His expertise was critical, his private life irrelevant.