I know that many people are rightfully shaken by how bad it's getting. I know that many of the same people have failed to recognize how bad things have been. And I do wonder if we're just going to return to the silence of the killings of people who don't matter.

The funeral of Mya Thwet Thwet Khine marked a turning point in the spring revolution. People knew what was at stake and kept coming out

Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.

"The man shot by federal agents this morning has died, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told the Minnesota Star Tribune."

The lack of professionalism on the part of people who claim to advocate for marginalized communities is really driving me over the edge these days. I help manage a social enterprise, and we run as a business, without any grant funding--we've been able to run profitably from Day 1.

state-sponsored child trafficking

#MilkTeaAlliance friends -- if you're passing through ChiangMai, do feel free to visit 4Seas Nimman and check out our humble poster exhibit about protests in Myanmar. It also highlights artisans working to generate livelihood through these hard days. The exhibit will be open thru Nov 6th.

A few years ago, I warned that we were entering a Second Nadir. Some deemed that hyperbolic. Most had never heard of the first one. The Nadir was a term coined by historian Rayford Logan to talk about the period when Black Americans lost the rights they had just gained following slavery.

We can’t defeat fascism in the US without defeating US imperialism abroad. The liberal resistance to Trump must understand the connection between fascism at home and US violence abroad—including support for the genocidal, fascist and extraordinarily belligerent Israeli regime. No kings means no war.

HURFOM is among the CSOs calling for localized support in response to the devastating earthquake in Burma: "Aid agencies must ensure relief is not exploited by the military junta."📣

A week of fresh new horrors for #Myanmar. These images are from an aid team I work with, currently supporting the Inlay Lake area, where many floating villages were decimated by the earthquake. Death toll is over 1600 now and expected to rise.

BREAKING: Senate just UNANIMOUSLY restored $1.1 billion for DC local govt that was eliminated Why? Because Senators of BOTH parties work in DC - and most have homes there - and none of them want to be in a hellhole Now - try applying that same logic to THE REST OF THE COUNTRY

Punchy message on the landing page of the International Republican Institute website today "Dictators are afraid of their own people. Helping citizens have a voice in their country is at the heart of what IRI does to ensure a more peaceful and prosperous world." www.iri.org

I'm going to start switching the words "politics" and "political" for the word "freedom" to test my right-leaning ppl. Those who decry "politics" as dirty also love to wax on about their freedom. But when you get down to it "politics" is all about different freedoms, who gets them, and who doesn't.

So, the Wizard of Oz is running America, it would appear.

So maddening. But as @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social says, we need to make jokes and fight. Hold on to levity in the midst of it all. It's the only way.

follow #50501 and @50501movement.bsky.social to see protests being organized in your state for this week.

If you are a home educating family, are you *also* explicitly teaching your children the importance of supporting public education? If not, it’s time to start.

"Some people act like his friends but only because it benefits them. And that's why they defend him: because he lets the rich become even richer." -excerpt from This is a Dictatorship, a book originally published in Spain in 1977.

Burma is the one to watch. Regime falling is not a question of if, but when. #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar

I'm one of the many, many people who had a job/project suspended this week by order of the Trump administration. This order impacts so many vulnerable people who will have basic things like food, and lifesaving medicine ripped away with no notice. And this is a wasteful way to go about it!

I can't process how cruel this is. USAID has plenty of problems but this is money that is already committed under contracts, in many cases for basic needs for very vulnerable people. Food, education, health care.

"Colombia now stops looking north, it looks at the world... our blood comes from the Black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, [before] of all America..." Power to Colombia. ✊ www.newsweek.com/colombia-pre...

Books and history are also the antidote to despair. I read this graphic novel last year, set in Seattle, based on the story of a Sephardic Jewish man who helped saved many Japanese American properties after these communities were incarcerated. www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

“Ronald Reagan does not determine my mood. Its’s not his country. It’s our country.” -June Jordan 1986

Once I got a out of the blue request to do some voice over for an org called Sisters2Sisters. I'm not a voice actor but said yes. The request came from @breannarandall.bsky.social who has put a huge amount of her life into supporting the peoples of Myanmar & is now here!! Welcome.