Strip away the "economic anxiety" and "traditional values" and you're left with people voting for a monster because the monster promised to eat the people they believe must be eaten.
The cruelty is not a side effect of their politics so much as the glue that holds their entire worldview together.
I think you've pointed out a great example about how differently fear makes us react based on our values. Palestinians are notorious for solidarity with other marginalized people, see Ireland and Minneapolis
Trans people are terrified right now but the response is solidarity & community care
i recently put a bench in the "parking spot" next to my apartment cus it's by a bus stop and i want the space to feel welcoming, been brainstorming flower pots and chairs. except someone dragged it to the bus stop and set it on fire oops
I know some rad folks in Ohio doing mutual aid, running animal sanctuaries, working on disability rights, building queer communities, doing habitat restoration, etc etc etc. And that's only a few people, there's all the folks they live & organize with too. I guess fuck them cus some people suck??
it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails.
it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.
You know there are human beings who live there, right? And birds? There are also trees and prairies and rivers and a million other things that shouldn't be irradiated into mush just because Ohio has become slang for "bad"
also, with love and respect for my friends and colleagues who do great work at large national LGBTQ orgs
...they do not need your money and they will not use it efficiently to defend the most marginalized queer and trans people
plz panic-give to the frontlines & mutual aid orgs, not the big NGOs
I'm turning 38 this summer and if I suddenly start talking about baseball, please kick me off a cliff
hello to the promo accounts who follow me, consistently there's 1-3 every day. what is this strategy? i'm not buying your book just cus you followed me
John is tongue in cheek, but there's a statistic in Laura Bates new book that 90% of deep fakes made are of women, and if you don't process the implications of that and come out demanding regulation I'm not sure you're reachable.
incredible things happening in boise, idaho
Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Red construction paper card with red drawn hearts with the words ice in it crossed out
The card says happy Valentines everyone not you ice and then it has a picture of the earth saying not you with an angry ice cube that has its arms out stretched like it’s trying to take over the world
My daughter made a Valentine for the occasion.
two federal agents in fatigues point at protesters and onlookers who are recording them
community members and journalists flee an alley where chemical irritants have just been deployed
members of the minneapolis police department stand in a line at the corner of portland and 34th
members of MPD escort a black van down portland avenue
some photos from portland and 34th today. we'll have a story up on racket soon. they gassed us, they knocked folks to the ground, and i watched agents ram a white pickup into a group of protesters, if you're wondering who was actually doing car violence.
health trend girlies trying to sell you lymphatic drainage? just ride a Seattle metro bus
One morning I will check the internet and he will be dead. I take a lot of comfort in that.
like this is not nor has it ever been a GOOD country but it has been a very profitable one right up until - essentially - a class that consists largely of people who own Jet Ski dealerships took it upon themselves to destroy all conditions necessary for people to buy Jet Skis
I had a dream about the Erewhon strawberry and I hate it here
you can really tell who’s never worked in the service industry based on who romanticizes the concept of the Small Business lol
Flu season is not over! Flu activity is high in Washington. Protect yourself and your community: get your flu vaccine. It's your best defense!👇
A group photo with Leonard Peltier as his Welcome Home event wraps down.
Elon is going to end up as the first person with a class action custody case, isn't he?
It is not possible for “those people” to suffer the consequences of their actions (including how they voted) without all of us, including those who are unable to vote, suffering the consequences. There is no glory in any of this suffering. Just human suffering.
a ctrl+F approach to abolishing wokeness is going to be catastrophic. i'm trying to find journal articles about the history of city govt DEI programs & most of the search results are about like, morphological diversity of microbes, taxonomic diversity in fossils, diversity jurisdiction in law, etc
it's so much fun having a brain that just doesn't understand how to process happy chemicals. if I spend several days feeling good and getting stuff done, it WILL be interrupted by a downward depressive spiral
it's like enjoying my life gives me a MDMA hangover
When Aaron Bushnell wrote "This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal," he wasn't talking only about Palestine. He was talking about how what we have decided to ACCEPT as normal corrupts us and weakens us.
That walk is so demoralizing, pls pls pls
Mark Cuban's posts keep getting forced on me so I gotta mute the guy bc Y'ALL we cannot let another "charismatic billionaire" trick us into believing they have the answers even if they share our values! Billionaires have never & will never liberate us. We don't need billionaires, we need EACH OTHER!