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None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

submitted 5 days ago • 509 comments

Use their constituent offices as mutual aid hubs from 6 am to midnight. Invite constituents to drop by to share stories about what they are currently doing to support themselves and OTHERS at this time. Members could create a collective asset map using all info gathered. Compile it & share it back.

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

It’s like we’re living in a fucked up modern day Oregon Trail. Ricky has polio Tommy was shot in school Bandits have run off with your social security Susan has died from an ectopic pregnancy You have died from a preventable disease Nazis have vandalized your grave

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

I hope someone checked on the American supply of hand-baskets. Even fully stocked up I don’t see how we have enough to get through March at this rate.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of young people are going to be out of work this summer. Provide them with unrestricted funds to do useful things in their communities.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

defendandrecruit.org - get trained up, everyone.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Wordle 1,345 2/6 🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Should have bought a lottery ticket…..

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Brian Rosenberg, the former president of Macalester College …. wrote in an email to Inside Higher Ed that the letter was “truly dystopian….It goes well beyond the Supreme Court ruling on admissions and declares illegal a wide range of common practices illegal” www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

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A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

submitted 21 days ago • 1185 comments

Don't Obey!!

submitted 21 days ago • 17 comments

Thanks to the federal workers who have reached out; you’ve helped me understand some amount of what’s going on, in addition to providing me with important reportable material. If something is going on that the public needs to know about, reach out. My email and Signal are in my bio.

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submitted 24 days ago • 143 comments

Do I have this right? Elon Musk - the guy in charge of preventing wasteful spending - dropped $40M on a Super Bowl ad? We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.

submitted 24 days ago • 934 comments

Incredible to think how hard Merrick Garland worked for four years to avoid even the remotest appearance of partisanship or ideological commitments, and literally on her first day as AG Pam Bondi is like "Diversity is now illegal, we will be putting all the libs in prison"

submitted 27 days ago • 238 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 27 days ago • 115 comments

DOGE is not a real department. In order to be a real department, DOGE would have to be approved by Congress. Pass it on.

submitted 27 days ago • 82 comments

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

submitted 28 days ago • 2608 comments

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 27 days ago • 1766 comments

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social please post your instagram video from 2/5 on Bluesky. It’s vital. Thank you.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Right wing extremists are trying to block access to PrEP, which all but eliminates HIV risk. It’s part of their Make America Sick Again agenda. PrEP can end HIV infections globally. These zealots don’t want that. They want to go back to the 1950s. They want people to get HIV as punishment for sin.

submitted 50 days ago • 70 comments

Some of these GoFundMe's for displaced Black people in So Cal aren't really moving. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... - there's a ton of need.

submitted 49 days ago • 19 comments

Exciting update for day: 222 donors have raised $20,359.94 so far for abortion funds!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The goal is $50,000 by January 1. WE CAN DO THIS! Thanks so much. Donate here: secure.actblue.com/donate/suppo...

submitted 70 days ago • 4 comments

Trans activists and reproductive justice activists BEEN saying this but too many folks bought into fear-based transphobic messaging about surgeries, sports and bathrooms 😑

submitted 70 days ago • 4 comments

I think @wgbh.org ’s The Culture Show reported that students hate these? From what is seen in this photo I LOVE it! www.wbur.org/news/2024/05...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

"But solidarity is not a market exchange — it is not something we extend in payment for good behavior. It is that which forms our capacity to change political realities."

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

HAVE YOU HEARD THIS AWESOME NEWS? Women NATIONWIDE can still receive safe, effective & affordable medication abortion services via the #ASafeChoice Network of physicians. IMPORTANT! ESPECIALLY FOR WOMEN WITH SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITIONS. AND Let's make this viral. social.demcast.com/s/hD321ARG

submitted 90 days ago • 30 comments

In these times, I think it great to revisit “La Femme Fatale” by Digable Planets from 1993. It is still THE most powerful, concise and clear discussion on abortion and choice that I have ever heard. It helped me shape my own views. AND it’s written by a black man 🦋. youtu.be/3DfMksmOIME?...

submitted 91 days ago • 6 comments

The final House results have now landed as 220-215 for the GOP. That means the House majority came down to the 3 NC seats the GOP flipped thanks to its brand new gerrymander. And that gerrymander hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022. I wrote this last month: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...

submitted 91 days ago • 102 comments

Fear of books is fear of ideas. It's fear of democracy itself. Let's ban that!

submitted 91 days ago • 149 comments

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submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

There is no LGB without the T.

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