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Lefty, green etc. Advocate for adult learning and education. Live in Brussels with cat, dog and partner. Wondering how I got to my age this fast
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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Karma's a bitch

Literacy is activism. Reading is a political act. Books are tools for liberation.

Pixie celebrates Caturday with a big yawn

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

eaea.org/2025/02/05/e...

Shirley Chisholm was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first Black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. She represented NY12 for 7 terms. She witnessed a problem then that is even more evident today.

Whole Foods workers in Philadelphia just accomplished something huge: they overcame Amazon's union-busting tactics and voted to form the store's first union in over four decades. Remember that we can always find hope in the labor movement.

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

7 January 1792: #OTD Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women was published. This text was hugely influential and is regarded as one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy.

Lula sagt: Es ist eine große Freude, unserem großartigen Weggefährten Pepe Mujica für seinen unermüdlichen Kampf für das Beste Lateinamerikas und der Welt die höchste brasilianische Auszeichnung, den Nationalen Orden des Kreuzes des Südens, verleihen zu können. Ein Beispiel für uns alle.