Today the House will take a final passage vote on my resolution extending TPS for Haiti — a powerful testament to our organizing and the strength of our movement.
We owe it to folks like Rebeca in the MA-7th and Haitians across the country to get this done.
THE HOUSE JUST VOTED TO EXTENDED TPS FOR HAITI!!! Thank you, Rep. Ayanna Pressley for your leadership on this. Proud to help co-lead this effort for our Haitian brothers, sisters, and siblings. What a day.
A reckoning for academic institutions is also needed.
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
"The right’s characterization of higher education is a fiction. Students across the ideological spectrum feel free to express themselves, think their education is worth the cost and don’t think their views are silenced." Only 3% of Republican students feel out of place on campus for their views.
Seattle friends!
Claims we have no power to impact what happens are nevertheless an intervention in what will happen, by discouraging participation, by encouraging passivity, surrender, acquiescence. If you insist that a given outcome is inevitable, you are lobbying against resistance.
Equipped with two sandwiches, a couple sets out to the zoo to see the one totally sane human being.
"Let's Go to the Zoo" by @louisevans.bsky.social is out now at Reactor!
Art by Scott Bakal
Edited by @malf.bsky.social
The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.
Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:
- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal
Georgia Voter: It's giving war crime. You can't do that. We don't just annihilate people because we can and, you know, make a grab for the money and the oil. And that's what we've done in Venezuela. And that's what we're doing in Iran.
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"I'm [NAME] from [PLACE, ZIP]. I'm calling to urge the Senator/Rep to contact Adm. Correll & remind him that he has the same legal obligation as any soldier to refuse an illegal order from this Commander in Chief."
The surreal-ness of having to keep yourself fed under late global capitalism
remember when trump said the reason for wildfires was forest mismanagement and that he would do it better
1. Throughout history, leaders have committed acts of civil disobedience to challenge unjust laws.
Add Samantha Boucher to that list.
Boucher walked into the Kansas Statehouse bathroom in front of police, deliberately violating one of the most extreme anti-trans law in the country.
"The era of the personal essay is famously dead yet it feels that mainstream American culture is increasingly fueled by mainly white women, not really as artists or professionals but as personalities, psychological case studies, consumers, spectacles, and raw material"
I don't want to encourage anyone's impostor syndrome but if you are using ChatGPT to write for you, you're literally an impostor. Literally!!! Of the worst kind! Either stop or get out of the way!!! Sigh... I guess this stuff makes me made because the actual work IS hard, and THAT. IS. THE. POINT.
Social movement scholar here again. So, why protest?
Nihilists were out yesterday arguing that "protests don't do anything."
A short 🧵:
I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them
A remarkable AP photo of a protester dressed as Lady Liberty being cuffed by helmeted cops. She is looking straight at the camera with a tired "you seeing this shit?" expression.
RIP editorial cartooning.
"Frictionless comfort" is a really helpful phrase. A mainstream figure might experience writer's block or internal struggle, even imposter syndrome. But that is very different than being an artist who has to both create and prove one's worth to a hostile system.
This is what DHS advertised. (Salary and equipment) It’s why depts are joining (there is a public records problem). What the piece misses is how many are getting paid vis a vis how many applied.
It's so incredibly disappointing that Daniel Biss, who had an affair with a student while he was a professor, has beat young and vibrant Kat Aboughazaleh instead of withdrawing from the race
He should not accept the nomination
Today is the 36th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl and disabled people are still fighting for basic rights in a society that's actively working to undermine them, surrounded by systemic disablism.
(This is a corrected thread TY to the person who flagged that I said 26th, not 36th!)
Rhetorical identification through style
Today is the deadline for my car and I'm incredibly worried and scared ♥️
All of Alastair Reynold's books are brain-breaking-ly technical, but they stick with you like a space opera should. The Inhibitor Trilogy is fantastic.
