I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month

it's really jarring to see how little media attention the assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their dog Gilbert received in comparison to the notable death of a non-elected leader of a right-wing organization.

“why some people be mad at me sometimes” they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep remembering mine - Lucille Clifton [writing the most Black woman poem of all time]

Verily, you cannot change the Democratic Party overnight or even in time to prevent the consolidation of fascism. BUT, you can change how they communicate in three minutes. And by gum, America would notice.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

The president ordering the murder of 3 more human beings on a boat didn’t even make the list

For many years, I waited for someone to start a books to incarcerated children program in IL. It didn't happen. So I decided that I would start such a program. What were the steps to do so? 1. I spoke to people who ran Illinois Youth Prisons about whether they would support such a program.

You cannot understand US politics without understanding racism. It's impossible.

To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. -Octavia Butler

All of these words are true so I think it's very important for all of us to ask WHY people in and with power are agreeing to all of this... What's the most logical answer to that question?

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

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

The problem with framing policy and law as "political debates" between pundits is that there is no examination of how political rhetoric, propaganda, and interpretations of law become actions that impact people on the ground. Policies affect actual people; pundits are largely insulated.

I continue to be amazed at the absolute lack of courage

💥 Cofounder of Reddit: “the biggest sham is that we have somehow identified these types of [DEI] goals with not being meritocratic. Those of us who’ve been out here building multi billion-dollar companies with an eye towards having diversity, equity, and inclusion, we’re hiring for greatness”

Know what creates empathy? Books. Reading about people unlike ourselves and experiences we'll never have. Which is why some people want to remove those books and discourage reading. Kids and adults should read widely. Most spend their spare time online, which is where indoctrination often begins.

The right wing is like “The left is always spewing hate! They’re so violent!” Meanwhile every leftist I know just wants people to have health care and affordable rent.

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I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

The question I have Ezra Klein and other "we're in a state of political crisis and Charlie Kirk was doing politics the right way" types is a simple one: If he was, who wasn't? If you're worried about democracy, and Charlie Kirk wasn't who you were worried about, who was? Specifically?

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Racism really is illogical bc how are you threatening HBCUs bc a white man shot another white man at a white rally at a white university in what has GOT TO be one of the top 5 whitest states in the country??? Black people couldn't be further from this if we actually tried.

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

Whiteness only demands civility and grace in response to calls for accountability and responsibility for whiteness and white supremacism.

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

You can’t use race as a factor in college admissions. But you CAN use race as a pretext to arrest and disappear people. This Supreme Court ruling is backwards.

A refusal to seriously address racism is why everyone is here. I don't know what to tell you.

Trans rights. Gay marriage. DEI. These are not separate topics that need to be abandoned for the "real" fight. They ARE the real fight! Because if you wait for cishet white people to be stripped of their civil rights, you've already lost. You're already sitting in the Nazi bar.

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

Whole thread but this But because people can’t be wrong now it’s “BUT DO YOU WANT FASCISM?!?! As opposed to “we want better and we’re sorry we didn’t listen. Here’s how we get what we want and we repair this”

You can argue, justifiably, opposing this regime is the only job and calling out Newsom is too divisive. But verily I tell you that attacking Newsom’s transphobia is attacking this regime. Because silently abetting it is abetting this regime and proving that we’re bigots, cons or cowards.

During this tough time-- We are going to have to unlearn-- A LOT. Including how we learn, how we teach, how we gather in community, etc etc. Yes, the old institutions are showing their weak points. Sure we want to burn them down. But what do we do with how they've conditioned us internally?

If we had the Dem party that did 1/10th of the shit y'all hype up on what they "should" do, Bush Sr. would have lost the recount, there'd be meaningful gun control laws, white supremacy terrorists would be prosecuted, and we wouldn't have immigrant concentration camps. But we got fascism instead.

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:

What @stuartpstevens.bsky.social says here:

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

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I wrote about the idea that Democrats need to excise "activist" language from their vocabulary, and what it says about the corporate interests looking to divide and conquer the party.

1. Love this example of what courage can look like right now 2. You could write a dissertation on the facial expressions of the people standing behind her in this clip Bravo 👏👏👏

Newsom's good on redistricting, almost perfect. But Pritzker is practicing some real anti-fascism. All the trolling and posturing Newsom is doing is excellent fan service, but coupled with his trans bashing, it reveals itself as the kind of politics that make fascism possible.

Who is her audience? Her base? Her community? Her peers? What is her syllabus? Her reading practice? Her theory of change? Why the fuck are we asking Jillian Micheals if I am human?

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Yes. I also felt this way about the assassinations in Minnesota. In fact, I continue to feel this way about the assassinations in Minnesota.

yea i’m surprised to see nazis marching down an american street with nazi flags shouting nazi things and if that doesn’t surprise and scare the shit out of you then lmk which meds you’re on

If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?

We need to tax the rich! They’ve rigged the system for too long. Repost if you agree.