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🧵 1/ For those surprised to see the attacks on the benefits, rights, & protection from discrimination (DEI) for Veterans from this admin, for those thinking, "But Veterans did everything *right* so why them?" it might help to think about how someone trapped in an abusive relationship feels.

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🧵1/ I keep thinking about advice I read from a DV advocate to a victim at high risk, who said even when you're at risk, you have to teach your nervous system not to be on high alert constantly, bc it will dull your senses to noticing acute increases in danger. If you're *always* on high alert, your

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It’s times like these we need the really good writers, poets, songwriters, musicians, painters, dancers, people who can put their finger on the wound & find just the right way to depict these feelings so that, although painful, their art makes us feel better bc it’s truthful & echoes what we know.

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To see bodies like Jordan’s — powerful as can be, muscular, thick, not busty, not following the conventional scripts of who’s “allowed” to wear bikinis & be on magazine covers, 🤩 absolutely stunningly beautiful & admirable 🤩 — 📷 photographed like this gives me hope for my daughter & for young people

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When I think about my regrets & what I wish I could tell my younger adult self, it often involves "I wish I'd known xyz." But we can't know everything all at once, so what I think it really boils down to is I wish I had had more protective, older friends to guide me on the things I was naive about.

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THIS!!! We can’t wait to be saved by 1 leader bc that’s never been the way it works. It has always been strong networks built by many people, w/ women constituting the majority of those people, esp of the more invisible roles. It’s not alchemy; it’s organizing & it’s already happening.

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Happening today in Anchorage!

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The Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness has received funding for a new rapid rehousing program for families w/ minor children. Eligible families can apply for 6-9 months of rental assistance & case management support. Application Period: February 18-20 Apply: aceh.org/era2 Qs: 907-921-4263.

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& lest anyone say: “Easy for you to say; no one is threatening to murder you,” I should add that there *is* a serial rapist & abuser who’s communicated a plan to murder me in retaliation for helping 2 of his victims, & I still keep helping them, bc it’s the right thing to do, like JFC it’s not hard.

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Right? It strengthens the grip, it legitimizes the tactic of political terrorism, & it directly feeds the capacity of the terror to grow by giving it the votes it needs to unravel all checks & balances on its power. By conceding, they’re giving the terror more power over all of us, incl. over THEM.

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When something terrible is forming, every adult has the choice to feed it out of (legitimate) fear that it will harm them—thus making it grow in power—or resist it, at personal risk—which weakens its power. I’d prefer the GOP hire personal security for their families & DO THEIR JOBS to weaken it.

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Rosie 🐕 says RISE UP (not in arms, but w/ our feet on the streets, our voices in the discourse & educating our friends & family & neighbors, our calls to legislators, community organizing to start ICE watches & protect immigrants, legal organizing like @libbybakalar.bsky.social is pulling together…)

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