It's uncomfortable to unpack your privilege, but it's more uncomfortable to be oppressed. Most white people can't manage the relatively minor discomfort of coming to terms with whiteness in order to ease the burden on the oppressed. It's pretty pathetic.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Many things can be true. This policy is racist. *And* transnational adoption into the US is a dying industry that has always been rooted in white saviorism, evangelicalism, predation, lies, and the exploitation geopolitical conflict or natural disaster.

A central motif throughout the drug panics has been the specter of predatory drug dealers forcing innocent young white girls into sexual slavery. Swap out “scary young Black guy” with “old rich white man” and suddenly there’s no urgency.

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

I'm 45 and my voting experience has been SCOTUS throwing an election to Bush, a couple Obama terms, and the Trump era.

Greg Bovino is back in Chicago, and ICE has been spotted in the Evanston area. The best way to keep our loved ones safe is to alert the community whenever possible. Whistles are one of the most accessible tools to warn neighbors and disrupt ICE incursions. Come pick up a whistle, if you need one!

When 13 was exploring the world as a preschooler he said ‘All boys have a penis.’ I said ‘Most boys have a penis’ and he nodded and repeated me definitively. I thought our 1st talk about gender non essentialism went well.

A long time ago on Twitter or Tumblr someone described Jewish holidays as "they tried to kill us and failed, let's eat". I can't help but think today about how the failures to kill the community still often end in dead bodies of individuals. In blood on the ground and mourning.

We library folk do a good job talking about all the free services we offer, but I don’t see many of us talking about how libraries are one or the only places where you can use services without being advertised to.

The Democrats are Republicans for people who think they aren’t Republicans. They know they would win easily if they embraced radicalism, but that’s also risks people unifying in the way Fred Hampton envisioned. And the worst fear of every US politician and industrialist is social unity.

Unfortunately, York Public Library's board of directors passed this policy. That now means York Public Library will allow discrimination in collection development and ram through the use of partisan book review sites like RatedBooks to make professional collection decisions. Absolute shame.

Reviews, recommendations, and requesting these books for purchase by your local library.

I’m ‘taking supplements for my joints’ years old.

Black people had no choice but to be the vanguard for social change for all this country’s history. No I won’t qualify that. We’re still fighting for liberation, never stopped. The wheels are stuck because the country thinks it can keep hating us & get better. Do your work because Black people do.

Evil.

Anyone who is on the other side of perimenopause who can answer a question? Do things equalize afterwards or am going to have dry skin and trouble staying asleep for the rest of my life?

Just starting to?!? 😂😂😂

I could be wrong (I frequently am) but most people who call out racism, transphobia, ableism, and other prejudices, at least in my experience, aren't trying to cancel anyone. They're asking for accountability. They want us to own our errors and be humble about them. And that's reasonable.

I heard that now they're placing people who criticize ICE under surveillance. I want it to be known to the entire world that I despise ICE to the core and I think their entire institution should be abolished. They are cruel, inhumane, and are examples of the worst of humanity Fuck ICE Fuck Fascism.

Good god, Calgary police. This is structural. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I still think a lot about the fact that Gamergate did essentially win. Not that it made the culture significantly more misogynistic or anything, but it succeeded in making a lot of the people who played games eventually casually much more anti-intellectual and incurious.

Abolish corporate welfare. US taxpayers should not be underwriting these companies' poverty wages.

Translation: Are definitely criminal, but we don't have the courage to say as much without qualification.

I’m overwhelmed at the in law’s. They are delightful people. No bigoted uncle here. But they are too loud.

My mom needs an airtag in her shoes. She wondered off and told the neighbor that her in laws threw her out of the house three times. Although she may have gone without shoes.

The destruction of the federal government disproportionately affects black women. The federal civil service has long been a good career option because of the strong equal opportunity enforced in the civil service that has historically blunted the double discrimination that black women face.

As I've said, sexual harassment is ENTRENCHED in the academy.

I have long said people don't be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts as much as they should be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts

So much of what we’re witnessing right now, defensiveness, fragility, denial, over-intellectualizing, “not all white men,” isn’t personal. It’s patterned. Predictable. Trained. It’s what happens when an entire group is raised inside a lie that centers you as the default,

This story of reproductive abuse/forced sterilization/hysterectomy is from 2020, & it's the same that the State performed countless times to Black & Native women, that Nazis did, so many eugenicists over time-- It wouldn't surprise if it's happening now, too. This is what's at stake, why we fight.

Calling all allies! **Mass call TOMORROW (11/17)**

Means testing always makes aid cost more. The cruelty is the policy.

I don’t know how to tell people this but more women/BIPOC/LGBTQ artists winning things and gaining popularity was not supposed to be a cute trend and then a return to normality. It was supposed to be progress that we continued making.

The start of the acclaimed Brothers Sinister series. Reminder: The Governess Affair is FREE just about everywhere! /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/Gover... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/... Nook: www.barnesandnoble.c...

I adore this novella; the writing is fantastic, and it's the perfect entry to Courtney Milan's writing. (and it's free!)

Two things can be simultaneously true: - It's worse for a middle-aged man to be into 5-years-olds than 15-year-olds - It's still pretty damn wrong for a middle-aged man to be into 15-year-olds!

To the online warriors who think that Bill Clinton is some kinda gotcha - I want all the sexual predators out of power. All of them. Even if it means every single Democratic candidate that ever has or ever will be. I want all of them to not make important decisions & not have the ability to harm.

I was told by a friend’s dad that I had ‘good breeding hips’ at 14/15. I was horrified but my friend just laughed it off.

"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

I never went to Starbucks before the boycott because of their union busting. That’s something I will not support if I can avoid it and Starbucks I can avoid.

JEALOUS OF ALL OF YOU RIGHT NOW

Read this story, please. Free Yaa'kub Ira Vijandre!!

Hi, I’m autistic. That guy is just being nice. He probably doesn’t even like being around me. That girl is just really friendly.

My grandma gave me The Mists of Avalon when I was a preteen growing up in very old school gendered roles kind of household. It gave me a language for how I never had fit in. My moon/only tattoo is from that book.

#tdih Veterans Day Read about African American veterans who fought overseas and, on return to U.S., were murdered in fight for democracy and human rights. Also, resources about vets organizing against war and Lincoln Brigades. ⬇️ 🧵#TeachOutsideTextbook www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ve...