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I love psychology, literary fiction, civic engagement, and cats! Here to keep listening to and learning from diverse voices 🫶
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@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social I just finished reading “Hope in the Dark” and wanted to say thank you. I’m pretty new to being an action-taker, and was feeling discouraged. But the book gave me the boost of courage I needed to keep my eyes on the world of possibilities 🫶

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I can't stress this enough, join groups online or in person with people who clearly see what's happening currently. It will ground you and make you less fearful.

submitted 17 days ago • 50 comments

What can you do about the assault on USAID? Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

submitted 20 days ago • 51 comments

This rally is being livestreamed here (h/t @kakalenaaleka.bsky.social‬)

submitted 22 days ago • 16 comments

What folks are getting a tough lesson in right now: Institutions are people. They are not abstract forces that exist as firewalls or safeguards. They are just people who play a role and who perhaps have abided by norms, but whose decisions minute to minute shape the role those institutions play.

submitted 25 days ago • 59 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 26 days ago • 4414 comments

@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point

submitted 27 days ago • 1960 comments

I’ve spent about 2-3 hours each day on calls or chats with my US gov friends. Here’s an anonymized recap of what’s going on. First, I am so very sorry that they are living our last year at Twitter. I never wanted to think about that time again, and I hope my advice is helpful. 1/

submitted 29 days ago • 52 comments

Dems can: -oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrawn -deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings -vote no on all cloture -force quorum calls at every chance It’s a constitutional crisis. There is absolutely no reason the Senate should be connecting business as usual.

submitted 29 days ago • 256 comments

we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

submitted 30 days ago • 1714 comments

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously. Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause." They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

submitted 30 days ago • 179 comments

This by Dan Savage is I think important to keep top of mind. It speaks to the point I made earlier that bad news is never the only news.

submitted 30 days ago • 57 comments

Frank Wilhoit seems very topical today: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

This one hour of day seven of the presidency.

submitted 30 days ago • 32 comments

Saw a "Democratic strategist" say "we have to earn people's trust back." Just mind-boggling that so many don't understand how this works. Did voters in 2024 say "I trust the Republican Party"? No. They were mad at those in power. Democrats have to get them mad at Republicans. It's not complicated.

submitted 31 days ago • 177 comments

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

submitted 33 days ago • 206 comments

A cute drawing I made while testing some brushes.

submitted 88 days ago • 14 comments

Hello new community! I love how fast this place is growing. FYI we released a new Indivisible guide with practical steps that folks in red, blue, & purple states can take to fight back. Don't ask for permission - take it, copy it, make it your own, & start organizing. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 98 days ago • 157 comments

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned #onhere putting together a mini-series of workshops for people new to activism and organizing. Well I put in the work last week to pull it together. “How Do I Take Action Where I Am” is a series of 5 sessions in Dec and Jan.

submitted 100 days ago • 102 comments

As an Indian, as someone who lived in Egypt, and who has, modestly, remained committed to my politics despite that, here are my rules for living under fascist regimes: 1) Focus on organizational structure. 1/

submitted 104 days ago • 382 comments

I wrote about the need to rethink our approach to direct action in changing times.

submitted 104 days ago • 99 comments

If you just joined Bluesky after AOC posted then I want to share a story with you about the power or organizing. Because we’re going to need it. ⬇️

submitted 107 days ago • 82 comments

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

submitted 107 days ago • 4762 comments