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Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue. TWENTY. As in, they call that getting slammed. So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind. TWENTY is a lot.

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If anyone claims that the current anti-trans panic was caused in any part by trans people advocating for our human rights, that person is lying through their teeth. The religious right lost on marriage equality, and immediately started going after trans people instead. That's what happened.

submitted 16 days ago • 107 comments

Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre. Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.

submitted 16 days ago • 187 comments

If you’re a health care worker looking for some information on things you can do to prepare for and resist ICE enforcement actions, we shared some information in an IG post that we hope is helpful. You can view all the sides in the post here: www.instagram.com/p/DFWKkCLz5fF/

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Tonight's @interruptcrim.bsky.social resistance lab was heartening. People are creative, courageous & committed to continuing to provide care for migrants & trans people - and deeply understand the connections to abortion & reproductive care. I am holding on to that. Join us bit.ly/BDNHLaunch

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Are you struggling to keep up with the various pieces of news re: criminalization efforts across the country? Of course, you would be. @interruptcrim.bsky.social has got you. Here's a round up focused on the criminalization of migrants by my friend @dreanyc123.bsky.social. bit.ly/IC-TMIC1

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Eight.

submitted 16 days ago • 114 comments

I think what's being done to trans people in this country is a FUCKING SCANDAL. It's absolutely an attempt at eradicating trans people from public life and ALL OF US must refuse this. Everyone. Stop being a loser mealy mouth person. This is bullshit. You should say so in all the places you inhabit.

submitted 17 days ago • 113 comments

An increasing amount of the political commentary I’d like to make is composed of things I can’t say

submitted 17 days ago • 31 comments

Speaking of conflict transformation skill-building: Some comrades have a new introductory workshop for leaders, organizers, and organizational teams: Conflict Transformation 101 - Designing Purposeful, Strategic, and Resilient Groups - Friday February 21, 9:30-12:30 Pacific/ 12:30-3:30 Eastern

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

It’s OK to admit that we’re off the map of our experience. The rules & best practices some of us are accustomed to, in certain situations, may no longer apply. There are some questions I lovingly refuse to answer at this time bc I don’t know. We need more humility. Some of our expertise is outdated.

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

I remain fascinated by the expanded child tax credit case study & the implications for leftist policymaking. People received REAL financial benefit from it. It drastically cut child poverty rates and it was rescinded without a real fight. I think about this at least once a week.

submitted 17 days ago • 202 comments

Elephant calf update: very baby

submitted 17 days ago • 204 comments

Senator Schiff (as Dems filibuster the nomination of Project 2025 author Russ Vought): “The moment you say it’s ok to violate the law to shut down USAID you have said it is ok to violate the law and shut down anything.”

submitted 17 days ago • 669 comments

I’ve got the morning shift. This guy is dangerous and unfit to serve and I’m about to explain why. Tune in: www.senate.gov/legislative/...

submitted 17 days ago • 2232 comments

Trump has evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan a star admiral from her home with 3 hrs of notice Border security & an “excessive focus” on diversity, equity are inclusion among the reasons cited for her dismissal. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 17 days ago • 104 comments

This week we've learned of a deeply concerning development at VA: three critical resource pages have been removed – those serving LGBTQ+ veterans, minority veterans, and the page highlighting the VA Southeast Louisiana healthcare system being rated as the most equitable provider for LGBTQ+ veterans.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

As human beings, we need to feel in control & we absolutely crave certainty. But more than ever, we have to get comfortable with uncertainty. Gonna keep harping on this point because we really don't know much about how anything will turn out. Anything is possible to the good or bad.

submitted 18 days ago • 25 comments

The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

submitted 18 days ago • 586 comments

Aw, look what I just found in a book. Hard to believe these were the good ole days, eh.

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Read history. Oligarchs have owned and controlled our government before. They’ve attacked oppressed groups, gone after migrants, and enacted mass violence against workers who dared resist. But people kept fighting. They organized. They built power. What we need to do is not unprecedented.

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

The good news is that courage is as contagious as cowardice

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 4328 comments

"It’s been 15 months since I last stepped into a classroom. Because here in Gaza, the concept of a "regular school year" has been stolen from us." In this op-ed, a 19-year-old former college student in Gaza shares her experience. ⤵️

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Grants Pass is at it again! A reminder that even in a 'safe' blue state like Oregon, the state is more than happy to harass unhoused people to death.

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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 18 days ago • 1280 comments

Amid the many tragedies in Gaza, far too many go untold. We must not forget those who lost their lives while simply trying to get a loaf of bread or a sack of flour.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”

submitted 17 days ago • 921 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 17 days ago • 2838 comments

So this is how this DOJ will operate. Actions and beliefs are deemed CRIMINAL if they are not in line with this Administration’s beliefs and platform.There is no criminal penalty for supporting or even continuing to apply DEIA principles.This is a muscle job. Corporations must stiffen their spines.

submitted 17 days ago • 213 comments

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I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

submitted 17 days ago • 1765 comments

A federal judge issued the second temporary restraining order against Trump’s Executive Order to end birthright citizenship, blocking it from going into effect on February 19. Read: bit.ly/40oplbc

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

The best piece on the DOGE coup so far. From @nathantankus.bsky.social. www.crisesnotes.com/elon-musk-wa...

submitted 19 days ago • 25 comments

This isn't my first or even second time at the rodeo. I dealt with Ronald Reagan & George Bush trying to kill my community by ignoring the AIDS epidemic. It happened again when I lived in South Africa with Thabo Mbeki. And we won twice. So: courage. We will beat them too. Stay focused. Get to work.

submitted 20 days ago • 57 comments

"Academic Copaganda" is pervasive and highly rewarded, not only inside the university but also by the billionaire-funded foundations that shape para-academic careers and influence. Read this very important new paper by Robert Vargas and colleagues. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Experts acting so surprised that Elon and his underqualified squad of tech bro interns believe they have all the answers to the U.S. government's problems have clearly never been a woman running a meeting.

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No one has to wait for anyone to take action. If you have ideas, execute them. Don't act like an East German Figure Skating judge or a red pen Karen. EXECUTE YOUR IDEAS. That's the bottom line. Let 10 million flowers bloom. No one is gatekeeping you.

submitted 20 days ago • 53 comments

Are you funded by #NIH, #NSF or #CDC? Please post any letters or communications you’ve received from these agencies or HHS about restrictions on grant funding, publications etc. I want to catalog all of them for the record. #medsky #episky

submitted 20 days ago • 96 comments

The new acting Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy — State’s top public diplomacy official: 1) not only denies the Uyghur genocide but appears to applaud it 2) says the US should sell out Taiwan to China for concessions in Antarctica (???)

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Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is [email protected]. Reposts appreciated.

submitted 20 days ago • 126 comments

A friend in the neighborhood just sent me a picture from in front of Schumer’s building. (I’d join them if I didn’t have a soup to attend to right now!!)

submitted 20 days ago • 345 comments