People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

Keep America Beautiful is a classic corporate front group, created to advocate for industry interests (consumer packaged goods companies) while hiding their true aims and funding When I taught my undergrads this, they couldn't fathom firms being responsible for waste. Totally changed our culture

WA still allows Customs and Border Protection to search our state license plate data whenever they want. This is unacceptable. Let them know: Governor - 360-902-4111 @governorferguson.bsky.social Sec of Transportation Julie Meredith - 360-705-7054 (She oversees DOL and WSP in addition to WSDOT)

This is misinformation. There are no Western power-proxies in Sudan. Almost of the militias are funded and armed either by the slaveholder regimes, or Russia. Believe or not, many nations not named the United States are also run by evil, murderous men.

"After spending four years feeling very isolated as a trans person in Chicago, I feel like I’m witnessing a massive tipping point for our community. We are stronger together. I keep quoting ‘build it, and they will come’. I hope our story inspires others to build the community they’re looking for.”

Queer love and solidarity are revolutionary, by definition. Through the millions of acts of bravery and desperation and care it inspires, we will love each other into a better world.

'Instead of raising birds as livestock, it simply provides them with a safe, comfortable home in a desirable location. There's meat, eggs, feathers (used for insulation in comforters, jackets, etc), and manure all at hand. The dovecote shows what is possible via low-input ecosystem management"

Solidarity with all workers, especially those in exploitative industries that extract profit from the bodies of human & nonhuman people. These dangerous, grueling jobs force folks onto the epidemiological front lines on behalf of a pollution-intensive luxury. Their liberation is our liberation.

The First Nations who engineered and cultivated our continent into vast parks, gardens, food prairies and forests, aquaculture systems, and game reserves, in one of history's greatest feats of fine-tuned ecological science, still left areas of true wilderness accessible to every community.

The outcome of the first Prairieland trial does not mean that resistance is impossible. But it does mean we have to —teach all potential defendants not to cooperate with police —teach all potential jurors about jury nullification —and take these steps to build redundancy and resilience:

Workers of the World, unite (against Marie Gluesenkamp Perez) 🌻✊🦋 We have a lot of competition for Washington's Worst Democrat, but the global contempt for MGP is hard to argue with.

We're gonna need you to repeat that at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee hearings prior to your sentencing.

U.S. 1992:

"this is the moment where companies and investors need to act, because if they don't, the risks and the harms will grow as these industries grow.” “What we’ve seen a lot of in the last year is lawsuits, fines, work stoppages, strikes and protests, so in many ways a fast transition has to be fair.”

We will see a day when jaguar and human alike can again thrive together and move unimpeded from the Strait of Magellan to the shores of the Great Lakes. 🌻🐾👣🦋

"A Latina who risked arrest as ICE cracks down on families, she is a nurse practitioner who worries what will happen to her daughter if she can’t access gender-affirming care anymore. 'I just felt like when I look at my kid in the eyes, years from now, I can say I did everything that I could.'”

The quote skeets and replies are blaming Republicans for the lack of literacy and I must once again tap my sign that the Democrats and Democrat-leaning institutions were primarily the ones responsible for nonsense whole language reading instruction curriculum like three-cueing.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

There’s this acute apocalypse, not unlike the horrifying apocalypses non-white people have experienced at the hands of Europe and America for centuries. Then there’s the climate apocalypse that scenes like this are accelerating at an exponential rate. That one gets everyone, even the war criminals.

Global crimes require global justice. Global crises require global solutions. The movement that brings this reckoning must necessarily be a global accumulation of thousands of local actions, in active communication, cooperation, and solidarity. Restorative justice by and for the entire biosphere.

This is the attempted murder of a civilization, an act of global ecocide, and the deliberate torture of millions of innocents. Nobody responsible for this will face justice unless we become that justice. The US empire is an enemy of all people, and all life on Earth. It must die so that we may live.

We've got a lot to go over - Earth Day to May Day, the spring Organizers Roundtable, leadership elections, and our work in the streets and board rooms alike. More importantly, though, we want to discuss: 🌻*Why* are the Greens? 🦋What are our big priorities this year? ✊How can *you* help us win them?

We exist to cultivate a bioregional political federation, support public initiatives, and cross-pollinate & uplift organizers- preparing ground for the direct actions that achieve our goals and sustain our wins. Electoralism is one saprophyte within the mycorrhizae connecting grassroots movements.

We stand for the liberation and self-determination of Iranian people against all anti-democratic forces, local and global. We support those communities in the choices *they* decide are best to navigate their future. No bosses, no landlords, no ayatollahs, no shahs, no empires, no security councils.

Join us tomorrow for our monthly general meeting, 11am at Harry Fains park! We're gearing up for another Cascadian Spring, and have a lot to plan. It will start just after our weekly 8:30am Ecologically Social Ruck at adjacent Watershed Park. All general meetings are hybrid; DM for the zoom link!

The fascists and their pedophile donors have more say than most realize.

Capitalism breeds innovation!

requiem for vanished birdsong

This is a Christian fascist org in WA. They have been targeting abortion clinics. I previously made a thread about them. They are the same org that was using an app to get people to sign “con” on the millionaires tax.

In Iran, in the Caribbean, along the US/Mexico border, in cities and towns throughout the nation, Americans are facing their most important test for continued membership in the human community. Passing that test requires disobeying their commanders, their president, and the system that made them.

Reject the norms that are herding us down this path to the mass killing of our species and planet. Embrace diversity, creativity, queerness, and collaboration with strange new neighbors. Xenophilia -embracing the Weird- is our bridge to a liveable future.

We're proud to call Judi Bari an ecosocialist ancestor. "Ecological socialism would organize human societies in a manner that is compatible with the way that nature is organized. To the credo “production for use, not for profit,” ecological socialism would add, “production for need, not for greed.”

In her own words: "I think that all beings are equal—not just that all humans are equal. I’m not just a forest activist. I’m a justice activist. I’ve worked in the anti-Vietnam movement, the anti-Nuclear movement, Central America. I’ve worked in the union movement; It’s one struggle, many fronts"

Washington state and other self described "Sanctuary" states and municipalities need to implement sentencing and policing policies that take into account the reality than any federal incarceration for any crime by immigrants, queers, and colonized people can become a death sentence.

Vote @zackpolanski.bsky.social for PM so he can declare British independence from the US Empire .

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

Part of national recognition -and corporate personhood- should be that your national/corporate leadership is required to wear a kill collar that can be triggered by a simple majority vote of UN member nations.

The scientists, mathematicians, and historians who utilize LLMs and adjacent tech do so with specialized tools made for the purpose, with their flaws and biases taken into account. To go from this to generalized AI use is like trying to get slugs off your petunias by releasing a thousand cane toads.

Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest. In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you.

"The political answer is mandatory, real-time disclosure of the ultimate funding source behind every digital political ad, not the shell nonprofit or the PAC name, but the actual billionaire. You don’t ask voters to do anything. You just make the spoofing structurally harder to run."

This part right here, is very important for everyone to understand

The thing is that this isn’t just weakness from Democrats like Schumer, it’s a performance so they can help launder a war they fully support

Yeah, Lisa, what kind of country.

“not just attacking trans people, it’s attacking women’s rights, bodily autonomy around abortion, disabled people, autistic people” “It’s all about destroying expertise. Because if you can’t get good information, they can basically put whatever propaganda they want out there"

“Pahlavi is another Khomeini” Anti-government, anti-Shah pasteup seen in Iran

"We demand an immediate ceasefire, U.S. troop withdrawal, and a shift to multilateral diplomacy and humanitarian aid that must include reparations from the US, Israel, and their enablers. We support the people of Iran and Kurdistan in liberation from both local tyranny and global empire."

Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.

Community is literally the cure.

Hey remember when Russia did this to Ukrainian children in occupied Crimea? We called it what it was: ethnic cleansing.