Posts by Bitsy Joy
Tooting the horn again, but I wrote a whole book about this. Tom Homan has been promising this.
You just have to keep doing your work. There's a lot to do.
for any folks who are unaware, discretion is also very warranted given ongoing events like this:
shit like this is also why many decentralized groups will bounce you for being a messy bitch & leaking shit about other people to journalists.
i am intentionally not naming anyone & instead hoping they learn basic organizing protocol. :)
We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.
You can always check here to find some bail funds to support: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-dire... - not all bail funds are part of the network but all who are part of the network are vetted.
As Black History Month begins, we honor the generations of Black New Yorkers who built this city into the “gorgeous mosaic” we call home.
Today, we reflect on the words of Mayor David Dinkins: our city’s first Black mayor (and a democratic socialist!).
As a Minnesotan with Norwegian ancestry it warms my heart to see the hats. I haven't seen anyone try to profit from them, just a lot of knitters like my mom who need something to occupy their hands after running errands for their neighbors who can't safely move freely. It quells the worry.
“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”
― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
"The world isn’t ending. A world is ending. Our job is to midwife the next one."
What @prisonculture.bsky.social always says is: find the thing you can do and do it. You can’t do all the things. (Or something like that but more eloquent). I remind myself when I feel I should be writing marching observing delivering organizing meeting reporting shopping
Use the impeachment of Noem as groundwork for abolishing ICE AND DHS. Do public education. Use media, etc...
Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I need more people to understand the movement that could be brewing here in Georgia if this young man only lost by 87 votes in COBB COUNTY.
This is a good sign
I keep seeing "Gavin is so cute how he's standing up to 🍊" videos so I made one to remind y'all that we are NOT doing that. He's questioned trans athletes and is all for criminalizing homelessness. Just no.
www.instagram.com/reel/DKzsvMX...
All we want is healthcare.
It's so absurd on so many levels. 😵💫
So many good stories on that one.