lunasaacres.bsky.social
Gardener/writer/researcher. https://medium.com/@meghan.edwards99
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Not sure which part you're not okay with? Anyway it wasn't intended to tell anyone what language they should use, but in my experience Latine just flows better when speaking Spanish :)
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I'm so tired of the Latinx thing being weaponized because it was never widely adopted and linguists rightly criticized it as an anglicization of a Spanish word- the logical Spanish alt being Latine. Sometimes we try new words and they don't work out ok? But romance languages can be inclusive
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Subhead: Clearly, the Democrats need to do more to reign in their leftist authoritarian impulses
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I have a podcast here from a few years back about solidarity and shared information between African American resistance and Irish anti colonial Resistance. Connections between Harlem Renaissance and Gaelic Revival open.spotify.com/episode/6N1E...
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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. The story reads very differently to me as I've matured but it felt like a refuge of understanding in my hardest teen years
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There is a type of US liberal who is genuinely concerned, but more comfortable romanticizing white-led movements from other places than the revolutionary and anticolonial movements here at home. Probably because we learn hardly anything about them but watered-down propaganda in school
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Mutual aid and direct action are more important right now than breaking down the door to the Treasury. They are also more difficult and less sexy.
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Would you defend activists who damage property to defend our right to a livable planet? Would you provide jail support to students arrested for protesting genocide? Would you house a person who is undocumented? Do you know anything about AIM?
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Would you stand between the cops and the sweep of a houseless encampment? Would you help occupy an abandoned building to give someone shelter? Would you look away while someone shoplifted something they could sell for a hundred bucks to feed their kids?
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And frankly, there are plenty of steps in-between that most Americans are still uncomfortable with. What laws and norms are you willing to break to try and *prevent* violence?
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If you are a white liberal seriously thinking about more than nonviolent resistance for the first time, you have a LOT of history to catch up on
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There probably are things we could learn from the IRA, but there's far more to be learned from parts of U.S. history that most of the liberals currently crying "revolution" haven't properly learned
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Halve*
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I feel like if Trump tried to have the Pentagon budget, he would be deposed
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A moral panic =/= an actual shift to the left. This just tells me a plurality of Democrats are being fooled by propaganda about what their party has (not actually) been doing
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Would like to clarify that I am upset at the people who are fear mongering around seed oils, not the attendees
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I would adopt before I would birth a child. Pregnancy/labor is dangerous, expensive, stressful. Not everyone can do it. Crazy that so many people think abortion is *only* about not wanting to parent.
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I hope the folks who came out for the first time today continue the work by connecting w/ grassroots orgs in their communities who have been doing this for a long time. Show up, listen, learn. This will be a marathon.
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2 things can be true. The shutdowns were necessary but I also wish we talked more about how it affected kids. Would like to see more research into rates of anxiety among elementary schoolers post-2020
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An interesting take I heard recently was that the ag giants (Tyson, Purdue) aren't threatened by deportations because ICE won't target their facilities. They'll target medium sized farms/plants, which will force them out of biz & increase consolidation
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"kids are going to study this in history class one day" has really shifted to "I sure hope kids study this in history class one day"
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Houses not much bigger than this go for >300k in my Midwest city, so I'm not really surprised that anything in proximity to LA would go for 600k especially if it has a claim to fame. The whole market is obscene
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The other day at work I was trying to do the fractions thing to translate different units of measurement on a post it note and I couldn't remember it & I felt so old and such a vulnerable child at the same time