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The "we need to welcome disgruntled Trump supporters" push needs to be understood not as outreach (90% of those spouting it won't ever do any) but as trying to find an excuse to ditch the people most in danger to appease conservatives. This is a very real problem. It's a major reason we got here.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

COVID is not just a respiratory virus. It’s not a cold. It’s not “mild”. It’s a multi system vascular virus that can do damage throughout your body. The more we learn about what it does to the heart, the more convinced we should be to mask up.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Having Rook’s only choices be to encourage Taash to pick between Qunari and Rivaini culture really feels like a massive oversimplification and a failing, with their story being about a diaspora experience as well as a queer one :/ I feel like a dick no matter what I pick here

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Happy Black History Month!! It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, stickers, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, wrist braces, compression socks, compression leggings & more! Store details below!

submitted 11 days ago • 32 comments

the thing where racist and violent white men are always little birthday boys who shouldn't face any consequences

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

You will find, the older folks get the more like teenagers they become. and you remember how teens have no sense or impulse control but think they know everything? like that

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I regularly recommend this book to my white women friends. psmag.com/social-justi... - Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

submitted 124 days ago • 11 comments

Now with alt text.

submitted 17 days ago • 20 comments

This is what I'll say about the ableist toxic BS coming out in the Philippines re: fake PWD IDs: + The government should be subsidizing discounts that disabled folks should have in my country, not pushing the cost unto businesses. + Invisible disabilities exist. No, you don't get to demand proof.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

yup. there's something particularly inhumane about rushing to assign blame when you hear about genocidal plans instead of centering the actual victims and figuring out how you can help.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Unfortunately, the answer is black people. Black people are expected to vote for their own murderers and get badgered into doing so. And that’s why so many people thought it would work on Palestinians

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Look, I’m all for us talking as class solidarity. But some of you are only having this conversation because you realized we were right but you can’t bring yourself to fight with us unless you can find a way for the fight to not be about us. And imma need y’all to unpack that.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

anyone post this for Black History Month yet? #BHM

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

Listen to me y’all: Always fit a protein into your depression meals. ALWAYS Plant-based, animal, idc. Your brain NEEDS protein to deal with what you are dealing with If you are dealing with triggers & traumas, put a protein in all your meals to reduce the cortisol (stress hormone) in your body

submitted 21 days ago • 72 comments

You might not know that you’re following him. I suspect that somebody put him in a starter pack that a lot of people in comics used. So don’t assume that because you don’t remember following him you aren’t .

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

Just a reminder. The library is free to use. Free to check out books and DVDs. Free to take your kid to Story Time. Free to ask a question. Free to sit quietly for a minute. Or an hour. #supportyourlocallibrary

submitted 25 days ago • 62 comments

A lot of tik tok homesteading content telling people to grow their own food. Look. I grew up on a farm. We hunted a lot of our own food and grew a lot of it too but STILL bartered and shopped to get the full extent of our needs. Having the space and supplies to do this is not super common.

submitted 25 days ago • 46 comments

If you can’t handle the social discomfort or personal inconvenience of wearing an n95 to protect disability communities, you won’t be able to handle the discomfort and risk of actual “resistance” work. Expand your capacity for discomfort to expand your capacity to liberate. And wear a damn mask:

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

In these days of open fascism, the language we use matters more than ever: Using ableist and sanist language does the fascists jobs for them. After 5 years of disabled people pleading with you to see how ableism and eugenics pave the way to fascism— please listen to us NOW, at least. Do better.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

An absolutely vital method of resistance right now is to demand consent culture. We are witnessing the rapid theft of choices, spaces, and rights.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

This happens ALL the time. Especially to women. We’re told it’s all in our head. Anxiety. That we should “calm down”. Think about it less. Get some sun. Get therapy. Our very real physical symptoms are dismissed over & over again. Sometimes with devastating consequences.

submitted 28 days ago • 32 comments

Worried about public health being dismantled? Wear a mask. Worried about Medicare/Medicaid? Wear a mask. Worried about the surveillance state? Wear a mask. Interested in peaceful protest? Wear a mask. Truly wearing a mask is the best way to safeguard your health AND show resistance & solidarity

submitted 28 days ago • 25 comments

Not for nothing but posting a come to this protest image without alt text is telling on yourself, your org/affiliation & your shared core values

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

related but opposite fun fact: if you click on any google ad for an etsy item and buy anything from that store in the next 30 days, it costs the creator 12-15% on top of standard fees. so if you see something cool..... don't click, type it in

submitted 31 days ago • 12 comments

Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more

submitted 32 days ago • 229 comments

Do you legally have to open the door for ICE if they don't have a valid judicial warrant? No. Do you legally have to open the door for ICE if they do have a valid warrant? Also no. Legally speaking, you don't ever need to assist police with their investigation. You don't have to answer the door.

submitted 30 days ago • 16 comments

It’s been true since the 1960s when the ADL began scolding SNCC/black panthers and spying on anti South African apartheid activists, largely because shilling for Israel wasn’t really a contestable subject until then. But yes prior to that it wasnt their MO, I ought to have said 60 years not “always”

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Thread:

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

(think of which adults do this the most and how they may um... have a history of expecting helpers to magically spring up)

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

A lot of people would rather ask women why they put themselves in a vulnerable situation, than ask the guy who took advantage of her why he thought he had that right

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

In addition to other sinister motives, attacks on USPS are because it’s a pillar of the black middle class and black labor. As of 2020 postal workers have the highest avg annual wage ($52K) and the highest hourly wage ($25) among the 10 occupations with the heaviest representation of Black workers.

submitted 69 days ago • 30 comments

I am not a fan of the “obey in advance” cliche in that it assumes elites lining up behind Trump are reluctantly acquiescing rather than Simply Agreeing With Much of His Program. Like a lot of Snyder’s schtick it’s about massaging liberal self perceptions of innocence and treating Trump as anomalous

submitted 69 days ago • 9 comments

I'd like to say something about Ethics Everyone has, in an absolute sense, a wide range of ethical choices to draw from in any given situation. You can make a deeply unethical choice or a highly ethical one or any in between. We judge people by what they choose. Kinda.

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

To mark "Trump will declare a national emergency for mass deportations" day: here is the initial spreadsheet of our crowd-sourced local immigration advocacy/support organizations. Please share widely, put to good use, and keep letting me know about more organizations folks can connect with.

submitted 96 days ago • 343 comments