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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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"movements are born of critical community, not critical mass" - grace lee boggs

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When people in Argentina ask me why we don't protest more in the US, I say it's because we don't have any living memory of the horrors of a dictatorship like they do. This is exactly what Heather Cox Richardson talks about in her recent update heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-2...

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You are part of the system you're talking about when you say we need systemic change.

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Just finished and mailed out my first zine of the year #ArtZine #Zine

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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The important thing right now is not to lose hope and become immobilized. With flooding the zone, that is precisely what they are hoping to do, to make you feel as if you have no voice. It is imperative that every single one of us stay informed and involved. 1/2

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If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.

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hey @mattyglesias.bsky.social, the piece that you link to here — my piece — does not say that “all DEI critics want to reimpose segregation” and i would appreciate it if you didn’t lie to your audience about what my work says.

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Growing up, my dad called my sister the pretty one, and I was the smart one. She made art; I read books. It took until my late 20s for me to start breaking down the mental walls I’d created and actually start thinking of myself as an artist.

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I think we could all use a little more dilly in our dally

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Woof

submitted 9 days ago • 367 comments

This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.

submitted 9 days ago • 1034 comments

Happy Valentine's Day, especially to anyone who might identify with one of the letters in LGBTQ, particularly the day after someone Trumpy stripped the letter T and then the letter Q from the National Park Service website for Stonewall in New York City.

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Good advice ⬇️

submitted 10 days ago • 507 comments

I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

submitted 10 days ago • 488 comments

We need to give people a way in!

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Reminder: Don’t follow art theft accounts that post other people’s work with no credits. They make the internet worse.

submitted 11 days ago • 67 comments

#medsky#pedsky#idsky#immunosky 🧪 In the midst of all of the scary headlines recently, I thought I could take a moment to share a bit of good news: for the first time in history, a malaria vaccine with >90% efficacy seems to be within reach! Here’s why that’s a really big deal for EVERYONE 🧵

submitted 10 days ago • 443 comments

god this guy is an idiot. like, a stone cold idiot who sincerely believes that war fighting and preparedness is about having the biggest dick

submitted 10 days ago • 5019 comments

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

submitted 10 days ago • 788 comments

chatGPT can't memorize a poem and recite it on a stage in front of everyone else in your middle school for you

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it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

submitted 12 days ago • 2312 comments

you deserve space to create outside the confines of commerce. just make stuff for fun. make stuff for love. make stuff for the sheer joy of creation.

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Feeling hopeless about the state of humanity? I've got a book to brighten your spirits.

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i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

submitted 19 days ago • 1757 comments

If you are feeling overwhelmed, it makes perfect sense. I want to once again offer that it's so much better to immerse yourself in only one or two things. Follow the news about just those focus areas. Importantly find concrete small actions to take in those specific areas. Key is consistency.

submitted 19 days ago • 97 comments

USAID.gov is down. Why is this concerning? Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency. The work of USAID is vital, and if this can happen to them, it can happen to any of us.

submitted 22 days ago • 169 comments

At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything.

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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

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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 23 days ago • 4419 comments

twf when you're listening to a country song and you need to look up whether they're a white nationalist or not before you add them to favorites or block them

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I talk about reading all the time and started a non-fiction book club because I think it's crucial that we stop getting all our information from short bites (like this one). We need to be able to sit and think deeply about a topic, explore it from multiple sides, learn more about it,

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Love audiobooks? Did you know that Libro. fm not only supports small book stores, but it lets you actually own the media you purchase. You can download the files for all audiobooks, so you aren't tied to a specific platform. This is a great step in taking back the ownership of our media.

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babe wake up the president is going to start a diplomatic war with Colombia

submitted 28 days ago • 133 comments

Want a great slogan for midterms? "If you FAFO and are struggling because of Trump policies, we understand. The Dems are here for you. Tell us how we can help you " You get the point. FAFO will be the theme. Be the solution.

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As a kid, I always wondered why I was so obsessed Star Wars. I always wondered why it was so important. As an adult, I get it now. Star Wars at its core is a story about fighting authoritarianism.

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Too much fear and trauma is paralyzing! And some of us very much need to stay ready and able to fight or run. That means we post every goddam bit of joy or delight or wonder we can because that is what gives us strength In the darkness, we make our own light

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