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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Volodymyr Zelenskyy “we stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes.” The announcement came at 10 Downing Street in London less than 24 hours after Trump and JD Vance attacked and berated Zelensky in the Oval Office on Friday.

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I don't think people realize how much training wheels activism most Americans require. Give people small ways to contribute. The more they flex that muscle the more they'll do in the future. Also ffs there's never perfect activism. The amount of energy spent critiquing this has been such a waste.

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The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow. snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...

submitted 2 days ago • 139 comments

The reason: a diseased population is easier to control. The goal is to destroy America for the benefit of the autocracies these people are allied with.

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

submitted 5 days ago • 2716 comments

There it is! "Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phony witch hunt." He is referring to them weathering their collusion becoming public, and now is the big payback: together until the end.

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Back in the mid-20th century, the FBI could place an individual under surveillance solely for being LGBTQ. This is what enabled the anti-queer witch hunts of the McCarthy era. Now, DHS permits surveillance of LGBTQ people again. Just being queer makes you a suspect. www.advocate.com/politics/dhs...

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

📄 NEW: Yesterday's Oval Office ambush of Volodymyr Zelenskyy shocked the world, but it was predictable if you understand Trump as an agent of long-term KGB influence in the name of "peace." A quick summary of how we got here. More to follow. america2.news/americas-dar...

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Happening now: in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, students at Sullivan High School are walking out this afternoon in protest of ICE and Trump's deportation regime.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

My latest: "The more often we have experienced true helplessness, the more likely we are to feel powerless in situations where action is possible. And the more we freeze or flail in response to threats, the more deeply ingrained those responses become."

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

New podcast dropped! Queer media recommendations! Listen here, Folx! #queer #LGBTQ #podcast

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If you can, make noise in Iowa. The Republicans there are aiming to become the first in modern history to remove civil rights protections. They're trying to strip gender identity protections that have been in place for nearly 18 years. apnews.com/article/iowa...

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Please donate to Wisconsin Democrats on this critical race, Musk is pouring money into it: secure.actblue.com/donate/wisde...

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New episode! This week, listener Maria came through with queer YA recommendations! Also, @krisbryant.bsky.social recommends the show Prime Target and @taramdscott.bsky.social recommends the sapphic romance If It's Meant to Be by Lily Seabrooke. Listen now: https://buff.ly/3QAEeT2

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Every time I see these stories I don’t only think about how much effort it is to defend every single program, I think how much it must infuriate the people who thought they could just sweep everything away to keep getting told no. Tiny wins are still wins

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

submitted 9 days ago • 55 comments

I was a little concerned that this would trigger my religious trauma. Instead, it was validating, because it so clearly outlines what I've been trying to explain for a couple of years, based on my previous experience in evangelical churches.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Are you bored tonight? Send your five accomplishments, maybe your shopping list, or your five thoughts on Elon from the past week to OPM at [email protected].

submitted 8 days ago • 1045 comments

Excited to announce that I'm expanding to Patreon! If being a part of my writing process and getting exclusive bonus content sounds like fun to you, check me out at www.patreon.com/c/LilySeabro... and you can read some early content from my next book due to be finished soon! See you there 💖✨

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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.

submitted 11 days ago • 72 comments

I have been screaming about this. I have been posting Ontario voting info. Here is the election info site. You can vote early. I've posted info about banning queer books in Alberta! I'm not smug. Go vote everyone! get on it! www.elections.on.ca/en.html

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Hey Canadians. Pay attention to this, especially in the run up to our own election, whenever it's announced.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

There’s a new book coming... Yep, my next book, Counterpoint, will be published next month! We’re currently finalising the cover, and I’ll be revealing all its gorgeousness, along with the book’s blurb, in a newsletter going out this weekend - subscribe here: albrookswriter.com/newsletter/

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

It’s very likely Judd’s reporting here saved lives.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

New episode alert! This week, @krisbryant.bsky.social recommends season 3 of The Traitors and @taramdscott.bsky.social recommends the latest sapphic romance from @leewinteroz.bsky.social, Number Six. Listen now: https://buff.ly/4jOLtEy

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

submitted 21 days ago • 723 comments

Darkly funny that Republicans spent four years insisting that Biden was a senile puppet of [insert right-wing bogeyman here] and the second they returned to power the entire party very publicly handed over the keys to the federal government to an unelected fascist billionaire

submitted 20 days ago • 23 comments

I loved it so much, I read it again this weekend!

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Shutting off USAID payments is bad, but it's not just that: if someone (Trump, Musk, a lackey, whoever) can unilaterally shut off Congressionally-appropriated payments, they can shut off anything. Medicare payments to certain hospitals. Social Security checks to selected voters. Sky's the limit.

submitted 25 days ago • 55 comments

I've been listening in on the filibuster and Senators Klobuchar and Schatz have read emails from constituents that talk about this. It's working.

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They are seeking to criminalize integration efforts across public life. We must be clear eyed and direct about what’s happening here. We have not witnessed this blatant of a comprehensive governmental attack on integration since the Civil Rights Movement. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 25 days ago • 170 comments

For anyone else in this position, Please never underestimate the usefulness of annoying the shit out of govt officials, organizing meal trains, being the support person who stays home to be jail support during protests etc etc. I know Gwen knows. Lot of y'all still can learn to help.

submitted 25 days ago • 15 comments

Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue. TWENTY. As in, they call that getting slammed. So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind. TWENTY is a lot.

submitted 26 days ago • 175 comments

For real, this came out in June 2015 downloads.frc.org/EF/EF15F45.pdf

submitted 25 days ago • 28 comments

None of us are free until all of us are free. If trans people aren’t safe, neither am I. I know who these people are because they are who they have always been.

submitted 25 days ago • 18 comments

Trump and Musk are losing in court almost every day. Here's yet another loss for them as judges are rightfully questioning the legality of so much of what they are trying to ram down Americans' throats. Excellent work by @democracyforward.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 10 comments

Behold: My unified Terminator Theory of parenting through the Trump Era into the apocalypse he has created for our children. ...I'm serious you guys, I wrote a whole thing on parenting through this nightmare. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 27 days ago • 129 comments

New Exclusive building on Wired's reporting: Musk operatives have already pushed live to production extensive code changes to the Treasury Department payment system which makes 95% of fed govs payments. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

submitted 27 days ago • 428 comments

We aren't on our own. We have community, if we cultivate and tend it. That is how we get through the horrors.

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

So the FBI could surveil & then assassinate a 21 year old Civil Rights leader in 1969, but is powerless to take any steps to stop--checks notes--a 19 year old who goes by the name Big Balls from defunding and defrauding a $6 Trillion economy? Do I have that right?

submitted 27 days ago • 125 comments

Because people are calling. Call their local office or call them directly.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The events unfolding now are, in several material ways, worse than estimated. There are still major issues to address (budget; debt ceiling) but the capture of the treasury and dismantling of agencies by force is beyond even P2025. This is an attack by hostile foreign powers.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

No they don’t. Canada and Mexico want none of this. They want the president of the United States to respect and abide by the trade treaty he negotiated with them - and not make up bogus pretexts for plunging us all into a gratuitous no win economic debacle.

submitted 29 days ago • 428 comments