Completely co-sign. This is basically how @sorayachemaly.bsky.social, @laurabates.bsky.social and I forced Facebook to take hate speech against women seriously in 2013.

Pro tip for everyone else who, like me, has been diagnosed with Clinical Swiss Cheese Brain: I’m out, so I just set a reminder in my phone for when I will be home, where my envelopes and stamps are. No matter how hard I want to, I will not “just remember to do it later.” Set the reminder.

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

God this thread is exactly the hopeful emotional salve we all need to hear right now and also we need to be taking notes because it’s a great template for how we can successfully fight an ICE invasion when they come to our city.

On fascism and racism, Langston Hughes said, "Fascism preaches the creed of Nordic supremacy." He also noted, "Fascism is a new name for that kind of terror the Negro has always faced in America... This kind of terrorism is extending more and more to groups of peoples whose skins are not black."

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Twitter is owned by a neo-Nazi, the LA Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal are owned by pro-Trump billionaires, and CBS News will soon be run by a far-right Likud extremist. American media still has a liberal bias problem.

GO OFF LORD GRANTHAM

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.

Italian dockworkers' union in Genoa/Genova says if they lose contact for 20 minutes with their boats providing resources or if a hair on any worker's head is touched, they'll stop all shipments to Israel, and Europe will shut down access.

This guy gets it. This is the way.

not needing to be fixed would fix me

Real talk, though, this is what can happen when Europeans surrender their actual identities to partake in the social and political advantages of "whiteness." Their "heritage" becomes corporate logos.

The reason cults usually eschew doctors and any sort of traditional education is because doctors and education allow followers to think there is a source of truth beyond the cult leader, and cults can't have that.

Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.

I’d like teachers to reframe the question as: what labor is it right to steal? the process by which human labor/the labor of the much-aligned and defunded LANGUAGE ARTS is fed into a machine and becomes a “donkey’s” labor is capitalism’s special twist and—it is right to protest this at every turn

Let’s be clear: Pritzker isn’t a savor, he’s not “the leader of the resistance.” There won’t be one. That’s us. He’s an elected doing his job when most aren’t, and doing it well. He’s not a leftist, he’s a liberal, but he’s putting himself on the line, and that’s worth a lot.

If you saw the clip, watch the whole 12 minutes. This is it. Electeds—everyone around Pritzker is knowingly putting themselves at risk—meeting the moment. It’s not glib, it’s not a meme, it’s clear-eyed, brave, & necessary. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

Reeling Walz in was spectacular political malpractice.

Dylan is the real deal, and I’m honored to know him IRL. He’s also running for congress in my district, so if you’re looking for a grassroots, progressive candidate to support you should check out his website. Becuse I’d love to actually have a representative I’m proud of.

I can't believe that nobody is talking about the optics of a bunch of mostly white, mostly male Republicans locking this woman up and refusing her freedom to walk out the door without a police escort to make sure she complies.

again: this is racist fascism. it's here. don't trust anyone who pretends otherwise.

This:

This sucks & also it was p much never going to end any other way. Not every act of noncompliance ends with systemic victory. The VAST majority don't. Noncompliance gums up the system, builds civic muscle, shifts opinion. This gave us two weeks of national attention on redistricting. That's huge!

Nailed it. 👇👊

I think this is the right move. The thing about bipartisan compromise is that if the person exercising the powers of the presidency just laughs and doesn’t do the stuff you bought with your vote and the GOP Congress yanks it after the fact on his order, bipartisanship means nothing.

So glad to see @jordanscarroll.bsky.social get the Hugo Award. Have spent the past year screaming at people and demanding that they read it. Deserves to be read. So relevant.

It was the omg what now of times, it was the seriously wtf is happening of times

A number of people who have read "Let This Radicalize You" are unaware that we made numerous resources and tools to accompany the book. You can find all of them here including a workbook, discussion guide, zines and more. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

Downstate IL deserves an actually progressive candidate instead of a moderate democrat who’s going to take a bunch of AIPAC money and vote with republicans half the time. I’m so excited to vote for Dylan in the primary next spring!

These are some of my favourites. Superb thread.

Very happy the National Guard has been turned into the military arm of the NextDoor app

You are not going to out "tough on crime" fascist Republicans. Because they don't actually care about *crime* - they care about racism and power.

I think about this more than most people, though within the romance space. I do not recommend that most romance readers read the keystone authors of the 70s and 80s for funsies. They don’t hold up to that. If you’re Trying to understand subgenres or tropes, sure, maybe. But the one thing-

Hegseth's church is Christian Reconstructionist (as is Doug Wilson and the CRC.) CRs believe that scripture (usually the King James Version) should serve as the guiding basis for law & government. CRs support execution for witchcraft, adultery, homosexuality, blasphemy, idolatry, teen rebellion...

If you live in/represent a Blue State, want to gerrymander the FUCK out of your state, support and are willing to fight for a national anti-gerrymandering law you are principled, consistent and doing exactly the right thing.

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

Also worth noting: They’re killing the media industry *first*. Techbros have been very clear that their goal is to put as many people out of work as possible. This is nothing more or less than an attack by the 1% upon the rest of us that, if left unchecked, will crash the global economy.

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

When entire industries changed and left towns to wither and die, that was wrong. We all seem to see it as regretful and tragic, but it's WRONG. And it wasn't inevitable. We just let people down.

"what we do know is that these acts of defiance forced Quakers to confront their complicity" A powerful and beautifully-written history, which anyone concerned with resistance to change needs to read.

We need a Democratic Party, but for the left

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

All of you are smart and creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT. You might need practice, you might need another person to bounce ideas off of (plenty of online places to do that) but you are definitely creative enough to think of ideas without this.

seeing a lot of chaotic evil and lawful neutral in US politics right now and could use a lot more neutral-to-chaotic good

The definition of a historian has been nailed down! Finally!

Nearly every Fri before Shabbat, I tweet: May we rage when we must and rest when we can. May we build the peace we so desperately need. May we turn our hands, in all things, to the justice that peace requires. The only liberation is a shared liberation. May we have courage sufficient to build it.