a very happy The Fellowship Sets Forth from Rivendell Day (December 25) to all who celebrate

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Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.

[GIFT LINK] Lots of folks are sharing this incisive commentary from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on the Nazi tattoo candidate and the Democrats' insistence that we have to tolerate a smidge of racism to appeal to the working class. She, of course takes, that apart. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

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Abolish ICE and the Border Patrol.

The “controversy”? That he called his dad’s cousin his aunt. Guess what, CNN a-holes, in many MANY USian cultures, we call all our elders (by blood or community) “aunts” & “uncles” as a sign of love & respect. No excuse for disgraceful corporate media disingenuousness.

Fab Bay Area restaurants offering free meals for SNAP recipients during the govt shutdown, via SF Chron: tinyurl.com/yc3tzau4 Venmo support to Al Pastor Papi SF for their free meals: venmo.com/u/alpastorpa... Volunteer at GLIDE’s food bank: www.glide.org/programs/dai...

There were a LOT of general strike signs and MULTIPLE speakers called for a general strike. Want to know the value of the #NoKings protests? They helped make this kind of demand more credible. Building capacity for mass action, step by step.

The clips and conversations I’m hearing about the SNAP (food stamp) cuts should be above the fold everywhere. It’s a scary time for a lot of people.

When politicians aren’t afraid of people there is no governance.

People across the country are fighting for their lives and also to protect their neighbors. They are doing so in the 100s of thousands every single day. You can choose to join the fight or you can pretend that "no one is doing anything."

Also remember: trolls make money off of your interactions. They monetize that shit. Block them and drive them into penury.

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

Do not interact. Do not contribute. This is not Twitter. We do not get baited here, we block here. You hated Twitter, so stop trying to recreate it. Block here are nuclear. Take advantage and subscribe to this list blocking all government accounts in one go. bsky.app/profile/eva....

Here are the details and our methodology. Judge for yourself: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

Black Lives Matter was the last true bastion against fascism that posed a real threat to what the regime is now And instead of supporting it, many of you “both sides’d” it because of your loyalty to carcerality and lack of imagination Our ancestors fought for a world they’d never see. You can too

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

I'll post more pictures and video soon. But in the meantime, look back through this thread and FOLLOW THE GROUPS THAT SHOWED UP. These are the folks you wanna join; these are the neighbors who are gonna protect neighbors. And check out all the groups who endorsed this march! We are STRONG! JOIN UP!

Jews and Israel are not the same. Equating them is a propaganda technique | Norman Solomon

It’s worth noting that for many years doctors refused to wash their hands, not because there was a lack of evidence for it being a life-saving measure, but because it challenged established norms. We are seeing the same regressive phenomenon with masks now.

I surround myself with peers, mentors and students who in all kinds of ways call out the best in me. I sit down with my students and want to be a bodhisattva FOR them. I learn from history and my elders what integrity feels like from the inside. This work can’t happen in isolation.

spill color where the world only sees black & white. 📚

I’ve been thinking about how the white moderate think about free speech. Where calling for violence and the dehumanization of entire groups of people is merely supposed to be pluralism at work rather than an a threat to that pluralism.

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

The Gilded Age S3 is epic.

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

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“I urge you to hold fast to Palestine - the jewel of the Muslim world and the heartbeat of every free person on this earth.”

If you like Langston Hughes, specifically, then you already know. If you like poetry, this book is for you. If you like hip-hop, this book is for you. If you like the stars, this book is for you. If you like #StarTrek, this book is for you. And if you want to know why you should preorder:

By @prisonculture.bsky.social —essential reading. This is also how Greta Thunberg got started. Do something small & then show up & show up & show up. And never forget that you are somebody, too. prisonculture.substack.com/p/the-magic-...

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social well describes how conservative supposedly liberal elites are: “Every single time liberals use “woke” as a slur, they empower the right’s attack on multiracial democracy.” The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups

“In their last breaths, no one shouted for the long life of the Emperor,” said Mr. Ozaki. “They called out for their mothers, whom they would never see again.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/w...

In case any of my fellow creatives also needed this reminder:

I wrote about hope in the midst of social and environmental collapse, resisting the death of the soul, and the power of pleasure as a collective practice

"feeling emotionally exhausted is not the same as giving up and that being discouraged is a temporary state...the present and future are not foreclosed." - @prisonculture.bsky.social prisonculture.substack.com/p/people-are...

Paying off school lunch debt is just a great idea. One of my most favorite things I’ve ever done. Even if it brought me the most hate I’d ever received online.

raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible

Dear young people, you are allowed to enjoy when horrible people lose for at least a few hours. Revel in it. Tomorrow is soon enough to start picking everything apart. lol.

I'm so glad that I had mentors and touchstones who reminded me to celebrate small victories. I would have burned out on organizing in my 20s if I hadn't heeded their advice.

Strong night for left: —Mamdani will finish well ahead in 1st round. —All challenged NYC Progressive Caucus councilors will win, that's 10 of them. —Left may add new councilors (e.g. some AOC- or WFP-endorsed non-incumbents up) —The more liberal (WFP-endorsed) candidates up in Syracuse and Buffalo

“…to be a minority means to see the truth of a place with all that comes with it.” - Zohran Mamdani www.bonappetit.com/story/zohran...