Thing is, racism has made itself clear in this country many times before. I'd argue we spend less time mourning the loss of the VRA and more time building something better and more fortified.

You can resist by doing: showing up, pushing back, putting your money where your mouth is. You can also resist by not doing, though. You can: take a sick day because you're overwhelmed, not spend money, not produce, not give in to pressure. Resisting is a way of being, not a list of tasks.

Misogyny tells boys: don't ask for joy or pleasure, those are not for you. Don't be different, dress the part, always have your watch, wallet, keys. Be the rock of your family, never falter, never break down. Carry yourself tall. Misogyny tells men to stay locked up. The bars are decorative.

Capitalistic, American culture says you should always be doing, always be making, always optimize. Maybe instead, try not doing that? Sit around playing video games. Write, just because. Take a nap when you work from home. Have sex. Your humanity is about savoring what we have, and each other.

Joy is important these days. Love too. Just a reminder (to myself and well).

Dear oligarchs, nobody wants your corporate blah blah desk job anymore. But good luck replacing functional, creative, beautiful humans with AI slop, I guess?

Without context at all: today's orwellian phrase from the regime is "immutable characteristics." As in, non-DEI "immutable characteristics." We all know what you're trying to say. The irony...race is very *mutable*. Income changes toi. Where you live...very fluid. What is really immutable?

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Wow. Encouraging news. >>The group plans to release scorecards rating national political candidates on how well they adhere to the Constitution and the rule of law. The group also plans to meet with policymakers to lobby for “evidence-based leadership,” Astronauts for America said in a statement.<<

We must abolish ICE, end qualified immunity, & build an immigration system that centers dignity, humanity, & due process for all.

I think actually queer folks might save us from this hellscape. Relatedly, gay men are sexy. All of them.

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Multiply this task x100 to restore our federal agencies and institutions. And the regime of mass destruction isn’t done yet.

Communication is so much more than words. It feels like we've allowed words to dominate, we've taken statements sworn under oath or "under applicable law" to mean they are true. The regime uses that to its advantage. Laws and meaning are more than the words on a page, tho. Impact matters most.

“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

I feel like the most annoying things about this era is how blind Congress is (or is pretending to be) to all this nonsense. They are supposed to represent their voters, but they play dumb. Like, why is it so hard to legislate for things that just make sense? Why is legislation so obtuse?

My favorite part of work is when I have to turn my camera off so I can monologue all the comments I can't share out loud 🙃 To represent the agency these days is to have to cry at the absurdity, then immediately have a straight face to the outside world.

Not to give away the game, but as a marginalized person, one thing I've learned well is how to detect if someone is a genuine ally or if it's just for show. A lot of the leading dem names these days give off performative vibes. I've learned to trust action over talk, always. I wish voters did too.

It's been a bit over a year since the agency I work for lost about a third of our workforce. The thing about drp is that it forced each person to make the decision for themselves and their family, only. It was not collective, but individual. They forced us not to think collectively and won, I guess

Maybe this moment in history will finally teach us that righteous leftism isn't some, like, loud whining about nonsense. We are just canaries, sounding the alarm because we understand what it is to be belittled or told your feelings don't matter. Ignore the alarm and it will find you too.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

ICE has been really good at catching wind of these unannounced visits in other cities recently and flying all the captured migrants out beforehand. But not today. Well done catching them, Congresswoman. We should expect that all of the detention centers are this bad when they aren’t tipped off.

It'd be so nice if our collective effort could just will Congress to act, if enough loud shouts and calls and marches could convince representatives to actually represent. It'd be nice if ESP could move mountains and will people to act or change. Sadly, we have to wait for folks to wake up.

I wish dem campaigns would do less of the, like, "Things are in crisis give me money so I can fight back!" messaging these days. At this point I report these texts and emails as spam, because honestly what are you doing to deserve my money? Heck I don't even live in your district.

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So like, the normal reaction right now is to feel helpless and defeated. If you feel motivated and revved up, maybe that's anger, or maybe something else. But if you feel overwhelmed and defeated and out of spoons...That's your nervous system reacting to a shitstorm. It's healthy and working.

We can all learn a thing or two from trees. The wind may be howling and sleet and rain may be falling, and maybe you lose a branch or three, but a tree is not bothered. It stands, still, and lives. Now is the time to be, to live, to not let the wind take you.

Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

We cannot fix what’s wrong without examining the conditions that allowed Trumpism to emerge and thrive. We have to be honest that the Biden administration’s “no red line on Israel” policy is a part of what led us to today.

Rep. Ted Lieu isn't backing down.

Hi, yes, I would like to end my trial to whatever future is represented by AI and dog-search-spy-cameras and techno-fascist social media. I'm more interested in the one where we, like, get to be human and take care of each other? Kthxbye.

It must be a really fascinating time to be a linguist; meaning and language are evolving so fast. For example, after the past 14 months, the phrase "Thank you for your attention..." has gone from a nicety to basically the equivalent of "bless your heart" in no time.

The founders believed that if a madman became president, members of Congress would serve the country’s interest and remove him from office. That seemed a reliable system to safeguard the republic. Boy, did they screw up.

T.A.C.O. right?

Why are we still pretending any of this is normal? Going to work and having holidays and life just feels absurd. That feeling is real. Why deny it or try to fix it by focusing on the positive?

Bye bitch. 👋

You were lied to when they told you history is the story of powerful men. It has never been about Cesar or Martin or Nelson or JFK or FDR. These men were just the faces, the figureheads. History is instead a story of millions of individuals, working to make change. Marchers, resisters, all of us.

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Queer people are not your political pawns to be debated in the abstract. We are real, we don't make shit up, and this country needs to get on board if it wants to claim "liberty" as its principle. America, we are not ok.

The Supreme Court just gutted conversion therapy bans across America 8 to 1. The court just gave the green light to a practice the United Nations calls torture.

So like, what if every person who showed up on Saturday had 10 friends who didn't, but who are against the regime? That's 90 million people...? That's enough to win an election, no?

This is just a genuinely good justification and explanation of the process of public review for construction projects: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The area was so conservative pre-MAGA that my political awakening was my 8 year-old self’s revulsion at a pastor’s anti-gay tirade at my borderline-megachurch. I had to effectively hide my political views behind “laissez-faire” & “libertarian” labels for years IN CALIFORNIA. Today’s a win, folks.