ICE just showed up at our house for the second day in a row. Four cars yesterday, today five. They rolled up slow, then got out to taunt us, and take pictures of the house. They want fear to overwhelm us, to project a fantasy of power meant to intimidate, isolate, produce obedience—not happening.
We have an extreme political education drought in the USA.
"Action is a practice of hope. Put another way, hope is generated through action."
A powerful letter to young organizers from abolitionist organizer @prisonculture.bsky.social on practicing hope amid collapse—and choosing to act anyway.
Death is always a tragedy; death at the hands of law enforcement is a policy choice single every time.
A general strike against fascist terror makes this one of the most politically important days in the lives of everyone reading this.
I don't like the way that history is popularly narrated in this country. At all.
Being born in ‘96, I can’t help but feel like I’m in a movie whenever ‘80 music is on
the horror of this is compounded by the fact that the whipple building sits on the same military fort where 1600+ Dakota, mostly women and children were held in a concentration camp in 1863, where over 300 died
“Our audience is Chuck Schumer. Why doesn’t the public think we’re cool?”
Like nah I want radical big hearted activists who have a deep love and desire to see the world better making technology.
Not these social-climbing, amoral, head-in-the-sand, “a better world is not possible,” mfing liberals.
If things go right, maybe in a century there could potentially be a new medicine that helps some people with something, that’s why we need to do all the most predictable things and never be brave.
Feels like a huge waste of time.
Living on the copium of future fame and breakthroughs. Hubris-maxxing, if you will.
I don’t buy any of the bs about bio being good for the world. Can’t be without massive change in approach. Tech advancement in and of itself is luxury issue imo. All the possible benefits are all far out, speculative, intangible.
What jobs can molecular biologists do that give a feeling of pride?
This start-up shit is cooked. This certain social milieu of actors just continually moves in ways I personally find disgusting and despicable.
It's core to the entire tech project to believe that technical solutions will fix social problems.
And now for today's good news ... a wonderful librarian now has a full time job getting people excited about books. All kinds of books. Even the diverse ones that the government doesn't want you to read.
One of the big asymmetries in US politics is how Republicans getting more votes from men is a major crisis for the Democratic party that must be addressed, perhaps by abandoning some values, while Democrats getting more votes from women is a nonissue for the Republican Party, not worth discussing.
Absolutely this! Work is the *primary form of discipline* in our society, y’all. Notice the first thing the regime did was to fire, defund, or “investigate” workers & workplaces they viewed hostile, both in private & public sector spaces.
I think this is why unions can be so important. With a union at your back, you feel a lot better about saying no
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
TRANS PEOPLE ARE NON-NEGOTIABLE
Meanwhile, the Israeli army is now destroying the aid they refuse to allow to be distributed to people they are deliberately starving to death.
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