The movement to rid our country of Confederate symbols is grassroots, driven by local activists making decisions about their values. 💪 If you want to remove a Confederate memorial in your town, check out our community guide here ➡️: www.splcenter.org/resources/gu...

It is clear that if you aren't wealthy or a large corporation, you're only going to be hurt by trump's bills and policies. Since Reagan, this has been the central theme of the Republican party. Cut spending on the things that we need and redirect those tax dollars into the pockets of the wealthy.

When we finally start to build community and solidarity.

This bill will impoverish millions while granting vast resources to despicable mercenaries. The only way to halt the rise of the police state is to make it so shameful to don a uniform that they can't recruit enough goons to fill their ranks. In fact—the uprising of 2020 temporarily achieved that.

At least twice now, when I thought I found an independent news source/commentator on social media that has accurate and insightful info, helps me feel sane, and doesn’t seem like a clickbaiting grifter, they post fluff pieces from an AI conference. 😒

“I miss feeling free to be vulnerable online,” I type as I get vulnerable online about being vulnerable online.

Highly recommend going back to read old notes every once in a while. Some of them may be cringe, but they may also provide your own insights from the past that you didn’t know you needed now.

Edward Dimsdale Solitude

Two wolves in me: one says “isolate yourself and don’t share anything, no one cares about you anyway”, the other says “express yourself and let your voice be heard, those who care will find a way to you”

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“Diversity is now described as ‘illegal.’ Equity is to be shunned. Inclusion is a dirty word.” Pelley never explicitly named Trump—but the message was clear. https://trib.al/QrJ2kxT

The thing about generative AI that makes it different from other climate threats is that it’s NEW. Most people can’t imagine living without meat or plastic… but we can all imagine living without Chat GPT. We’ve all done it before. So yes, we can put the genie back into the bottle. It’s not too late.

You are personally ordering the deportation of people because of things they’ve said and op-eds they’ve written. You don’t give a fuck about free speech.

Finally saw my first show at Sunset Tavern: Art d’Ecco! Saw an ad, thought he sounded fun, and spontaneously ordered a ticket a day before the gig. He and his band brought the house down with their glam, groovy dance-punk! Hope to see more shows at this venue.

One of these things is not like the other.

The Right is a mass movement for domination and inequality. For them, Trump has always been a useful mask of 'populism.'

RFK Jr., the foolish kook splashing about in raw sewage, is in charge of protecting our health. These are monumentally stupid times we are living in.

Your School House Rock moment.....

32 vintage photos reveal what Los Angeles looked like before the US regulated pollution... www.businessinsider.com/vintage-phot...

Across the U.S., Americans recognize that the true legacy of the Confederacy was to promote white supremacy and communities are calling for the removal of Confederate symbols. Revisit the SPLC's #WhoseHeritage map and track Confederate symbols in your area 📲: www.splcenter.org/wh...#WhoseHeritage

It's tough to refer to someone as a criminal if you've given them no due process to determine whether they're a criminal. Like if you get arrested and get a trial and are convicted of 34 felony counts. That's due process. You can call that guy a criminal.

Last night, Republicans snuck in midnight amendments to sell public lands to private interests to fund their handouts to billionaires. Glad some Reps. are stepping up to say it: our public lands are not for sale.

There it is, the end game all along. Some will say this is because people didn't vote for Kamala, but no. This was always the end game of Israel's existence and America's support from the start. Fuck America, fuck Israel, and fuck their genocidal agenda.

In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect. This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus. www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

Human rights lawyer Maria Kari, a co-counsel on the case, calls the recording “chilling.” More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Unpopular opinion: despite the Meta of it all, my Instagram algorithm (both main feed posts and Reels) is pretty well-tailored to my interests. Maybe due to being chronically online for 20+ years. So it’s surprising seeing folks online complain about the Instagram algorithm vs TikTok.

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Trying to imagine if Trump told America, "Maybe you don't need 30 guns, maybe 2 guns."

Call him Franz Ferdinand because Australia just took him out.---

How could police possibly be expected to catch someone on a vehicle that follows a fixed path and is full of cameras and is operated by people in constant radio communication

Number of US gas stations currently selling for $1.98: zero. 🤡 www.gasbuddy.com

Another Meta boycott thru this week. Bluesky is obvs a better platform, & several folks & local businesses are active here. Imagine how much more poppin’ it could be if people actually finally left FB/Insta. I still post news out of protest there but NO personal life, and art only on art accts.

The right wing has totally turned me off of using the word “right” i.e. right/wrong. That inherently positive/negative binary syntax that works in their favor when they’re actually being heinous gives me the ick. Using correct/incorrect now - more objective with less moral baggage.

Hell no

Billie Lourd shares a photo of her kids watching their grandmother, Carrie Fisher, in ‘Return of the Jedi’ on #StarWarsDay

Protect and defend editorial cartoonists this World Press Freedom Day

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

This is a huge group. Thousands on the move from Cal Anderson. #seattle #mayday #protest

It has been five years since the pandemic and people with otherwise good hearing still cannot hear through a face mask

We made a deliberate choice as a nation, until now, not to have a police state. We siloed off federal data and put in place laws, regulations, policies and internal norms to prevent the federal government from putting together everything it knows about you into one place. Trump is ending all that.

I'm old enough to remember when pro-life GOPers would accuse working class women of having babies just to get government money. Anyone remember that, or am I nuts?

I don't like how people got to live their lives noodling around with their little art projects for decades but now I'm supposed to die in a civil war or something. They used to talk about you on VH1 for the years you spent noodling around.

Counter-flood the zone

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"It is critically important that we as Americans, regardless of party, stand up for all of these students who are being detained," says Vermont's @balint.house.gov. "This has got to stop. This is Trump creating his own army of brownshirts right here in our country."

After X’s repressive actions, hundreds of thousands in Turkey joined Bluesky, seeking a freer space. Reports of government censorship here are deeply troubling. Don’t squander this trust. This is a critical moment for principled leadership—not silent compromise. @jay.bsky.team

Q: What distinguishes a prison from a concentration camp?