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This drives me more insane than any other policy failure. This is forcing babies to die of cured illnesses because pre-Enlightenment thinking is now in vogue.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

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This is excellent material if you’re asking yourself what you can do. It’s not a list of suggestions; it’s an interactive workbook to help you figure out what works with your time, skills, and motivations.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

At the stonewall monument rn

submitted 15 days ago • 50 comments

Part of why I launched my newsletter on Ghost (now that people are talking again about Substack's Nazi problem, to which I'd add that Substack has Marc Andreessen and Y-Combinator behind it, which is at a minimum repellant)....

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

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submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

This is removing the word asylum from our country. It's shameful. My late dad was staunch Labour and he would weep if he could see this.

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NEW: A group known as the 'puppygirl hacker polycule' has leaked thousands of police training & policy manuals from departments across the country www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipo...

submitted 18 days ago • 259 comments

Helpful summary with things we can do

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Y'all, if you haven't checked out the @haymarketbooks.org Black History Month sale yet, it is WELL WORTH IT. I bought three, and had to restrain myself from buying many more! www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/65-40-...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Lord, I confess I want the clarity of catastrophe but not the catastrophe. Like everyone else, I want a storm I can dance in. I want an excuse to change my life. - Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

This is exactly correct. If you need more evidence, click over to the MAGA cauldron known as Fox News today. Neoliberals and Trump are both big on “law and order” and empire.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

If you're an educator or education is your interest, consider starting a freedom school in your communities. We started with a summer program for young people in Chicago. Children's Defense Fund has been offering literacy based freedom schools since the early 1990s. etc etc etc.

submitted 20 days ago • 23 comments

A real look at my X feed

submitted 20 days ago • 154 comments

the proper time comes

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

submitted 20 days ago • 131 comments

This will be played as an attack on universities and research and rightly so—it is—but someone on this list might save your life or that of someone you know if they could keep working. Many will die who didn’t need to if the cuts stand.

submitted 21 days ago • 12 comments

In a new lawsuit filed against Trump by state AGs, a family with a trans kid shares she died by suicide last month citing fears Trump would deny her access to gender-affirming care. "Her parents have expressed fear...that what happened to their daughter does not happen to other children."

submitted 22 days ago • 175 comments

the fascists are looking to rigidly define gender not just to punish trans people like they claim but to lay the groundwork for the oppression of all women. when gender is legally mutable, it is harder to use it to restrict people’s rights. they want to build a cage around you, made from our bones

submitted 29 days ago • 22 comments

The desire to shrink groups down to spaces of easy agreement isn’t conducive to movement building. If we can’t organize beyond the bounds of our comfort zones, we will never build movements large enough to combat the forces that would destroy us. @prisonculture.bsky.social @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Read “What you can do, right now, for your trans and nonbinary friends, family, students and colleagues.“ by S. Bear Bergman on Medium: medium.com/@sbearbergma...

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

them: vibe check me: throwing up everywhere

submitted 27 days ago • 16 comments

archive.org/details/2025... can't stop the signal.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Working on this month's Highly Irregular newsletter, where I announce my next Unbox Your Words writing workshop, and in Permission Corner I muse about psychological tricks that help me write. It's free for everyone, just slip your email address in here to get it tomorrow: taniahershman.substack.com

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve literally put in 250 job applications last year. I had THREE interviews. The only job I got was a seasonal receptionist position. Since the start of the new year, I’ve put in 30 and have only had one interview that went nowhere.

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

Thread. The decision to obey or to resist rests with all of us. There are no sidelines.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Chicago Jail Support welcomes volunteers. chicago-community-jail-support.webnode.page

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Look, I’m a man of CULTURE. I own the COMPLETE Calvin and Hobbes. I enjoy ferrero rochets on the REGULAR. I’ve seen EVERY episode of Murder She Wrote. So yes OF COURSE I want the tableside guacamole, what kind of question is that?

submitted 27 days ago • 107 comments

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submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Just a reminder that Musk couldn’t get a top level security clearance. And he was under investigation for violating the terms of the clearance he did have. Now he has your Social Security number, your tax returns, and is unilaterally deciding who the government does and does not pay.

submitted 27 days ago • 155 comments

The best way to fight trump is to have my staffers go on bluesky and tell everyone how stupid they are

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

Someone describing my chronically ill life without realising it:

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Wow. Today I learned:

submitted 27 days ago • 12 comments

The can't even do this correctly. If you really are so obsessed with "pocketbook" issues, talk about how Donald Trump has granted Elon Musk access to your Social Security and whether hungry children get SNAP benefits.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

I think this could be viewed as something more than conventional totalitarian censorship. It seems rather to constitute a denial of the very existence of the relationship between cause and effect, or action and consequence.

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

hi there! neighborhood chickenlittle here. there’s an administrative coup happening right now that is barely being reported on, and trade wars are set to start tomorrow that will absolutely impact the entire world economy.

submitted 27 days ago • 13 comments

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submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Leopards Eating Faces & FAFO may be cathartic, but I'd bet that most Trump voters have no regrets. Millions are thrilled at the speed of this takeover. We'll move on from leopards and FAFO as things get materially worse. It won't be about whose fault it was. It'll be about helping folks to survive.

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

I appreciate the effort to sound the alarm and identify historic echoes—and many are making this analogy—but Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science, unlike the NIH et al., was not a government agency. Worse, the book burnings of 1933 did not involve the Institute setting its own records on fire.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

the silent ship, as if manned by painted sailors in wax, day after day tore on through all the swift madness and gladness of the demoniac waves

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Reposting with alt text. When you call your reps, urge them to take inspiration from this and delay every single Trump thing in Congress, as a start.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Militant protest against fare enforcement is part of an abolitionist struggle that often goes unnoticed.

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments