There’s only white people in the AI 80s. Why am I not surprised?

All this while a
would-be dictator king threatens to un-citizenize those who disagree w/ him,
stuffs all 3 branches of government with cronies, trashes funding for everything good & legislates to benefit the most privileged class.

What did I miss? Oh wait, that’s just
the domestic shit!!

3/3

So it makes perfect sense that today, the government is stripping our most vulnerable neighbors of food security, healthcare, bodily autonomy & civil rights, and abducting Black and Brown people to torture them in concentration camps before shipping them to countries they’ve never been to.

2/3

July 4th… What the fuck
are we supposed to be celebrating?

That 250 years ago
white colonizers fancied themselves free and invented a new nation, on land violently stolen from Native People
& established a supremacist economy
built on the labor of enslaved Africans.

1/3

No contest—Can I Kick It

Having a child in college now is a layer of anxiety I did not anticipate. I texted as soon as I saw the news, he has a buddy at FSU who had been texting their friend group in real time. The friend was did not witness anything, thank goodness.
It’s white men we need to have eyes on, as always.

Image of the book “How To Stand Up To A Dictator: The Fight For Our Future” by Maria Ressa

I started watching The Handmaid’s Tale and just got to the episode where they ask to change the law against girls learning how to read. I am only reading what they don’t want us to.

My mantra on tax day

That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.

Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.

(Published 2022)

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

Thank you, Senator Warren. Hold the line. Stronger together. Elbows up. Don’t give in to fascists. All that and then some.

A President who detains a protestor and revokes their legal status can only be called one thing:

A dictator.

Silencing dissent is unlawful, unjust, and authoritarian through and through.

They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

A graphic that reads: Slashes Medicaid 233,063 people in the MA-07 on Medicaid are at risk of losing their health care under the Republican budget scam.

A graphic that reads: Increases food insecurity The Republican budget scam threatens the 187,000 people in the MA-07 who count on SNAP to put food on the table.

A graphic that reads: Higher monthly premiums 49,000 people who receive coverage under the ACA in the MA-07 would see their average premium go up by $1,400 per year.

A graphic that reads: Tax giveaways to the rich $2 trillion in tax giveaways to CEOs and big corporations, and a $314,266 average annual tax cut for the richest 0.1 percent.

Last night, House Republicans passed a budget plan that will make people across the country sicker, hungrier, poorer, & less safe. I voted NO.

Here are four ways this disastrous bill will impact families in the #MA7:

Seized, settled, let: how Airbnb and Booking.com help Israelis make money from stolen Palestinian land As Israel deploys tanks in the West Bank for the first time in 20 years, we reveal how two of the world’s biggest travel companies are helping settlers commercialise stolen land

Add Airbnb and Booking.com to the list of companies to boycott.

This needs to be amplified.

Luke Farritor is not “letting them die”, he is actively breaking the law and withholding life saving meds from the most vulnerable.

He is actively killing people on Musk’s orders. This is a death squad.

We won’t forget his face or his crimes.
#vlakplas #doge #warcrimes

Pope rebukes Trump over migrant deportations and refutes VP Vance's theology In a strongly-worded letter to Catholic bishops in the United States, Pope Francis is taking to task the Trump Administration's stance on migrants, and that he's following what he calls a "major crisi...

In a strongly-worded letter to Catholic bishops in the United States, Pope Francis is taking to task the Trump Administration's stance on migrants, and that he's following what he calls a "major crisis" with the initiation of mass deportation.

Thank you Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov !!!

Warren leads protest against Elon Musk at U.S. Treasury, vows to 'fight back' "In the building behind me, Elon Musk is seizing power away from the American people," Warren told hundreds gathered outside the Treasury. The show of protest came as Democrats in Congress are struggl...

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and hundreds of protesters and Democratic lawmakers gathered outside the U.S. Treasury on Tuesday evening to protest what they say is Elon Musk's "hostile takeover" of federal payment systems:

michelle obama is giving a speech in front of a microphone and says `` do something '' . ALT: michelle obama is giving a speech in front of a microphone and says `` do something '' .

Um, hi. Congressional Democrats, exactly WHAT IN THE FUCK (!!!!) ARE YOU DOING?! Can we PLEASE wake up and get this foreign actor the God fearing fuck out of our government?! What exactly are you waiting for? Here is your actual formal invite to this fight. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

I’m binge watching The Good Place and thinking that we are definitely living in The Bad Place

This is an erasure of our existence

I just pulled out this old project from 20ish years ago. Needlework helps regulate my nervous system, and I ordered knitting supplies for when I finish this one.

How We Get Through This Beyond the Book: Buckle up y'all. Shit's about to get really rough.

open.substack.com/pub/ijeomaol...

Jen | Sociologist & Pathfinder (@itsjenniferwalter) on Threads As a sociologist, I need to tell you: Your overwhelm is the goal 🧵 1/ The flood of 200+ executive orders in Trump's first days exemplifies Naomi Klein's "shock doctrine" - using chaos and crisis to p...

Sound analysis and advice. I felt a bit more grounded after reading this.

www.threads.net/@itsjennifer...

I’m so grateful Teen Vogue has evolved since my teen years