It’s International Women’s Month, and @data-wit.bsky.social is sharing a daily quote from a woman that other women have found inspiring.My contribution is a quote is from @cindygross.bsky.social
‘She realized she didn’t need to solve the problem to be safe; she just needed to stop carrying it.’
Trump is an "America Last" grifter using taxpayer money to enrich himself. He is extracting wealth from all of us, US and the rest of the globe, in a greedy quest to die with the most of everything.
My dad was a convicted felon. I went no contact with him the last few years of his life. He caused a lot of harm to my family. He was still a human being who deserved basic human rights. Humans of any and all races, genders, incarceration status, and citizenship deserve human rights. Abolish ICE.
It's up to Americans to fix this. I see too many of us waiting on the rest of the world to rise up against Trump. MAGA is a homegrown white narcissism cult and we have to deal with them.
Heated Rivalry for an excellent dose of healthy masculinity and relationship goals.
Hello. My Lenape (Delaware) and Tsalagi (Cherokee) ancestors want our land back.
What are we doing to verify the Epstein files which are released are untampered with and complete?
Sign this petition to remove Schumer then use the contact form on Senate.gov to ask your US Senators to replace Schumer as Senate Minority Leader.
Shame on you for giving in to a grifter and an abuser who is holding this country hostage. This is an unforced error on your part - you gave in when it made the least sense. Resign now.
Trump remains a bully who likes to take big gambles and let others cover the cost when he loses. However, he has lost the mental capability to follow thru on that and relies on his team to cover for his many lapses - which faux news refuses to show to their viewers.
This is vile, cruel, racist kidnapping sanctioned by the current administration. These ICE agents need to be brought up on human rights violation charges as well as kidnapping. This is NOT the country I want to live in.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.
After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Run to the Hills was on my playlist today. As a teen, I didn't appreciate how radically anti-colonizer the song is. Today's Trump admin - profa - wants to treat us like my Indigenous ancestors & make anyone who stands for justice - Antifa - run for the hills. Instead, We're Not Gonna Take It.
What makes anyone think that the actual, authentic Epstein files will be released? They've had months to modify them to suit their own goals. Hopefully the task was given to someone incompetent and/or to unreviewed AI.
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
You might need more. Random number that comes to mind.... 2025.
I am just so fucking proud of her.
Let's hope the military is patriotic enough to put a Full Stop to the Full Force.
It is the constitutional duty of American generals to refuse Trump's unlawful, unconstitutional orders to use "full force" on Americans. Full stop. I hope the American military does its duty to the country and refuses to follow Trump down his delusional power trip.
Every patriotic American should be anti-fascist aka Antifa. 10 years ago it would have been hard to find an American who wasn't proudly anti-fascist. My grandpa and uncles fought fascism overseas. They and their fellow troops were held up as examples of the best Americans. Trump dishonors them.
And while we're on the subject, stop flattening gender identity into gender (sexual) orientation. Trans people can be any gender orientation. Trans is not the opposite of straight, they describe different things. Gender Identity is who we are. Orientation is who we love. Expression is how we look.
Gender isn't binary in all cultures. Before widespread colonization, many cultures had 2+ genders. In some Indigenous cultures in what is now North America gender in language was based on actions, not innate characteristics. Go back far enough & what we now call dresses were common for all genders.
What's considered drag is not set in stone, it varies over cultures, time, and location. 100 years ago women wearing pants was drag. In college, ~1990, my mall job required I wear a skirt - I was sent home my 1st day because I showed up in slacks. Monks and priests wear dresses.
-Drag performers do some sort of performance with an outward appearance - clothes, hair, makeup, nails, how they move - that doesn't follow the gender norms of their current culture. The performance could be dance, play acting, book reading, etc. cabaret is what's stuck in most people's minds.
Y'all do know the difference between drag and trans, right? I feel like many don't.
-Drag means an outward appearance - clothes, hair, nails, makeup - doesn't follow strict gender norms.
-Trans means a person's innate sense of gender doesn't match external body features.
-Cis means not trans.
Kimmel has the opportunity to show that free speech can still exist, without following the propaganda the current administration is trying to force us all to parrot. I hope he's brave & speaks truth to power. I understand this is risky for him, risky in a way that shouldn't be possible here.
Andor would want you to cancel your Disney+ subscription.
It's the least you can do for the Rebellion.
What a contrast on legacies. Robert Redford opened doors, created opportunities, & lifted up people who were very different from him. Charlie Kirk slammed doors shut, cut off access to anyone he didn't see as enough like him, & encouraged harm.
No need to make it easier for the fascists to hunt us down. Don't give your info to protest sign up sites. Sure, show up if that feels safe, and take all the actions you can under their radar. Protests are just one part of the resistance, and they are useful when followed up with meaningful acts.
Good bets? Kushner is an unethical grifter who married into a powerful family of unethical grifters. He leveraged those connections into a fortune, extracting labor, time, & other resources from actual working people. The bets were assisted by grifting.
