I meant this deeply: My work now is all dissent work. I write for a future I likely will not see.

Yet that is usually the path suggested for courting Trump voters. But if someone wants to vote for a bully, they will vote for the biggest bully that they can find, not just the guy who’s like “oh yeah? Well I also terrorize some weak people, too, just not as much!”

Knowing what we now know (and, *cough*, should have known) about what ICE wants and is willing to do? We need to call out that fucked-up border security bill for what it was: funding for fascism at our borders because we thought it would appease the fascists. And we need to stop doing that shit.

Why does "expand the tent" always mean the left has to endorse right-wing Democrats and never that the center has to endorse socialists like Zohran Mamdani?

The media haranguing Biden but letting this shit slide with Trump is going to be one of the great mysteries of our time for future civilizations.

A supercharged rain garden! We need solutions like this around here.

It’s been sad this year watching how the White House press corps refuses to back each other up. Here a female journalist is insulted and denigrated and the next male reporter just moves on to a new question. You’re all in this together, folks. Time & again, they won’t stand up for their colleagues.

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I promise you that E. Klein doesn't have a clue as to how to get anyone out of this current fascist predicament. He really doesn't and he is demonstrating it in public for any sentient being being to see. You follow his lead at your peril and everyone else's. Don't be misled.

You cannot understand US politics without understanding racism. It's impossible.

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6. Thousands of books have been sent to kids inside. The volunteer steering committee of Liberation Library has expanded its work to create a youth-driven newsletter and to advocate for the end of youth prisons. 7. If you have an idea, you can just decide to execute it. You should.

There was a blizzard the night of the meeting and I was 45 minutes late but PEOPLE SHOWED UP. 4. After several meetings, we launched Liberation Library: www.liberationlib.com 5. I left Chicago a couple of years later & a dedicated group of volunteers have kept the program going for 10 years.

2. I spoke to people who ran books to prisoners program to ask for their thoughts and advice. 3. I set a date and time for a meeting to see if people would be interested in helping to create such a program: niastories.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/v...

For many years, I waited for someone to start a books to incarcerated children program in IL. It didn't happen. So I decided that I would start such a program. What were the steps to do so? 1. I spoke to people who ran Illinois Youth Prisons about whether they would support such a program.

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hey, there's a thread linked below about why this shutdown matters for trans people specifically & why senate democrats need to hear that, yes, a shutdown is worth it & people only don't hate you when you actually fight for something. read @ericmgarcia.bsky.social; read the thread. make some calls.

Republicans: "transgenderism must be eradicated." Trans people: "they're trying to eradicate us." Republicans: "Saying we want to eradicate you is violent extremism."

Because the far right wants Kirk as a symbol, and because their goal is to usher in an era where the values of Nazi Germany are finally vindicated, acceding to the Kirk hagiography is incredibly dangerous, and anything that can be done to puncture it is urgently needed.

we're going to win

baby's reaction to mom walking into the room: what I imagine it must have been like any time Michael Jackson went anywhere in the mid 80's. baby's reaction to me walking into a room: what I imagine it must have been like any time Jermaine Jackson went anywhere in the mid 80's.

Leadership: I lead by creating space for others to step into their power.

Balance: I honor both rest and action as essential parts of liberation work.

Innovation: I create new solutions by blending ancestral wisdom with bold imagination.

Gratitude: I am grateful for the struggles that brought us here and the joy that sustains us.

These affirmations are hitting me right in the soul! ❤️

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about how many people had to have been involved in the creation and release of “Fergalicious” and they just let that song go out into the world with tasty misspelled. How did they justify it to themselves? Did they think we wouldn’t notice? I NOTICED. 😭

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

Unrelated: somebody recently shot up a homeless encampment in Minneapolis

How to be Outraged: A useful flow chart by Lindsay Braman www.instagram.com/p/DCmqiuNOPoa/

Omg YES!!!

Can’t wait to read this!

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

People are homeless because they can’t afford rent. Because capitalism wrings out every piece of productivity from people while just barely maintaining their survival so they can continue to work. Because suffering on the streets is a threat to make you go clock in. It’s not a personal failure.

Thinking a lot this morning about how the dispersed nature of these kidnappings over such a broad area makes it so easy for them to avoid making bigger waves. The surface can appear totally calm while they're grabbing neighbors, and most people have no idea until/unless something flashy happens

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul endorses NYC Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

Meh. I don’t think this changes that race very much. She’s not going to win over the left just for doing something there should’ve been no question about doing. Neither of them can be trusted to actually try to work with Mamdani. It’s just whether they openly fight him or do it behind the scenes.

Matt Walsh alone makes more in a year than every single trans org combined. He's being retweeted and supported by the world's second richest man who owns the platform he spews this hate on. More was spent on anti-trans ads last year than the total amount spent on trans youth care for 5 years.

They're going to keep going until they get trans people killed. They want trans people murdered en mass.

I'm sure there are bad guys on the left, but ⤵️ And never forget Jan 6 and Kyle Rittenhouse.

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

The abundance folks need to be clear-eyed about the facts the abundance project is just anti-socialist de-regulation that doesn't hide its ties to--and affinity for--billionaires like Andreesen The left needs to be clear-eyed about Abundance and whom it serves

Omfg. Not that this would be make it okay, but Charlie Kirk was a private fucking citizen.

"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you "Cancel culture" = when you criticize me

Oh god the __ ppl are debating whether it is offensive and dangerous to say something along the lines of “I wish the killer had been a foreigner” in the middle of a national xenophobic meltdown where POC are literally being terrorized by government agents and vigilantes for seeming “foreign”

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Ezra Klein, watch this.