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Xitter refugee and extremely passive SM consumer 😊 anticolonial, antipatriarch, Luddite technologist, artist without medium or form
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You can't have an "adult" conversation about the federal budget if you ask us to think of the US like a household. That's how you have a childish conversation. Chapter 1 of The Deficit Myth

My newsletter on Victor Hugo's mute nightmare drawings, a festival on a frozen sea and lots of other interesting things to see and do. open.substack.com/pub/helenbar...

Costco - the only company to publicly come out in support of Diversity initiatives despite pressure from the GOP and they just raised the pay for their workers. Stop shopping at Target. Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30 www.reuters.com/business/ret...

Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare. Aspiration is the answer. Not just β€œwe’re not the bad guys.” We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. πŸ‘ŠπŸ½

I wrote about the consultants www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

Marches and lawsuits are fine, but the real wins over MAGA last time were powered by grassroots activists pushing from thousands of districts across the country.

Bryan MacCormack, the executive director of a New York-based immigrant rights group, was pulled over by CBP with two undocumented passengers in the vehicle. He knew his rights, refused to acknowledge their "warrant", and despite CBP threatening him, the agents eventually were forced to let him go.

We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one. shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...

This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often

I have to admit I have a real bug up my ass about people referring to the substance of creative output as "content". I feel like I need to get over myself with this frustration, but it's becoming an unrelenting drumbeat by people and here's why it annoys me: 🧡