Courage is always an option.

The new law prohibits neck gator, ski masks and other facial covering for local and federal officers, including immigration enforcement agents, with some exceptions.

Artemis is home, eating again 🥹🥹😸

(care) care for me, care for me said you care for me (there) there for me, there for me said you'd be there for me (cry) cry for me, cry for me you said you'd die for me (give) give to me, give to me why won't you live for me?

‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’ It was originally ‘ekename.’ ‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.” Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it. Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'

We keep each other safe. If you see ICE or if you know someone who’s been detained, call the PIRC hotline: 1-888-622-1510. Make sure you’re using the CLEAR model (Count, Location, Equipment, Activity, and Report Time) when you call.

This is a long clip, but I want you to see how BIG this New Yorkers Against ICE march was. At least two city blocks of people. You are not alone and we are going to win.

Kanopy (a free streaming service with your library card) has a helpful model for this

You know, it's okay to be scared but don't let fear shut you down. Let it wake you up and set a fire under your ass. And look, I rattle but not easily because when you're Native or Black, your very existence is a political statement, a rebellion, a threat regardless of what you do.

There's nothing even happening here. Like, nothing is going down at all.

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Still in tears over this - I felt her presence here and am so glad she got to live in comfort community and freedom and share her voice and story with us

my heart dropped

Gonna have to teach everyone from scratch that the president isn't your boss, he's your employee

The whole industry needs a large level Qualitative reset , and will avoid it because credentialism and revisionism have taken over good sense

Really cannot scream loudly enough that for the next while you will feel an urge to hunker and turn inward and that is the last fucking thing we need everyone to do. Now is the time to have weird casual conversations with neighbors and friends about emergencies and to offer what help you can.

phrases to use more often, to reduce the likelihood of being swayed by propaganda: - I don’t know - I’m not sure what to expect - that’s not my area of expertise - that’s bringing up some strong feelings I need to sit with before I respond - I don’t understand that explanation - I need a break

I think of Jimmy Carter in A Call to Action saying: "Even those in the dominant class who disagreed with this presumption remained relatively quiet and enjoyed the benefits of the prevailing system." and "Many men disagree but remain quiet *in order to* enjoy the benefits of their dominant status."

One if the hardest things to learn is the role of not of the overt abusers , but the people who use the abusers to gain power

And you can also head over to Eighth Generation and purchase the Silk Scarf that I designed to help raise Lupus Awareness eighthgeneration.com/collections/... and it would also be cool if you could sign up to be notified for the restock of my Legacy blanket. eighthgeneration.com/collections/...

One thing I want to emphasize that gets lost in how bad things feel. By and large the masses are on our side, everywhere. Think back to the No Kings protest. Places redder then my blood took part. Think back to how Reps from similar places got themselves booed out of town.

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!" Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!

Me: forever mad about the FBI’s surveillance, propaganda, violent work to destroy everyone from Du Bois to BLM Also me: people need to understand what is happening to Comey is bad, big bad. It’s the both/and. Sometimes I think the hardest work for educators and media is to explain nuance/context

ILLINOIS!!! Show up and show out at the Broadview ICE facility tomorrow morning. Join us in peacefully protesting for our neighbors. The pressure is mounting — let’s get this inhumane facility shut down. 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM.

#WeAreAllKarenAttiah Justice for Karen and Artemis Attiah. Give her job back immediately

JUST IN: A new class action lawsuit challenges ICE's warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., which they say are occuring without probable cause and based largely on perceived ethnicity. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Octavia E. Butler described Toni Cade Bambara as "probably incapable of sitting back and saying, ‘Someone ought to do something about that!‘ whatever ‘that‘ might be. She just goes out and does it.” I love self-starters.

Please join us tonight, rain or shine, for a mass mobilization to make clear: We want ICE out of New York City. We won’t stop showing up until they stop abducting our neighbors.

We will not stop bearing witness, stop condemning them, or stop doing all we can to stand up to this lawless behavior. In the tradition of nonviolence, of course. In the fierce, insistent, soulful tradition of nonviolence, that demands we treat people like human beings.

But let’s be clear: every day, masked ICE agents are acting violently against our neighbors, illegally abducting them, holding them in cruel and inhumane conditions. Treating them as less-than-human, and not deserving due process.

tired: defensive walking wired: offensive walking

Something we tell the women who apply for our scholarship program is that we dont need them to pour out their traumas to us. That emotional labor is part of what women feel like they have to perform to be deserving of things.

The elderly. There’s an elderly woman in Ohio who has sent us $5 a month for YEARS. One of our first donors.

I hate that the media real-time killed any ability for folks to understand this. We cut childhood poverty IN HALF with basically child UBI (on top of infuriatingly named “stimulus” $)…then Rs killed it. But 4 yrs of relentless Biden bashing is all the media was interested in. And tbh people too.

Morning calm. Enjoy.

hi last night i accidentally wrote a one-act play

i think the threat from the govt to indiscriminately fire people if theres a shutdown would have more teeth if they werent currently scrambling to rehire loads of people they indiscriminately fired a few months ago

Cancel the Cuts. Lower the Costs. Save Healthcare.

i think as we get older, we forget these were teenagers teddy produced a classic over the phone because he was on punishment 🙃🤣 wild

'scuse me, doug e 'scuse me, doug e 'scuse me, doug e fresh, you're on youtu.be/2vDUkzc4jWc

So many women have been talking, writing and warning people of the dangerous ideologies and biases of tech in Silicon Valley, for decades, and it’s so infuriating that so many men (not OP here) just flat out ignore it and act surprised at the technofascists infecting it now

#mustread #California #technolibertarian Total respect for Paulina Borsook, read her 1996 essay back in 2012 and will continue to consider her contribution essential to understand the political evolution of America Inc., #BigTech and the rise of the broligarchy. www.motherjones.com/politics/199...

10/ Instead of centering men who missed the boat (and still don't seem to get it), let's lift up the work of Paulina Borsook, who saw it all very clearly and tried to warn us 25 years ago. Someone should do a profile of her very interesting life. And hey, let's drop some cash into her GoFundme!

This is what I’m talking about! Fight together!

New models! Collaborations! Bartering! Community! LOVE! The real work of love. Man. I love to see it.

Nah. Imma fight.

NYC-area folks! Please come out to this "New Yorkers Against ICE" rally tomorrow at 6:00PM in Foley Square. My union helped organize this action, and we're hoping for a big turnout. Foley Square is just a couple of blocks away from the immigration courthouses where ICE is kidnapping our neighbors.

Anyway this regime is not credible.

There's a reason I use "genocidal white supremacy" as the default term. It gets people very angry bc the usual escape of "it's not that bad" or "everyone's racist" doesn't fly with it.