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If you’re not trans and you think trans people protest too much…

I’m the mother of Alice a trans woman who died by suicide…

this stuff matters…mainstream media isn’t reporting it because they’re complicit in it…

Here’s why trans people and allies alike protest…

His GoFundMe is here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-le... - I donated a few days ago.

Can't say it enough, if you are going to build ANYTHING, you are going to be criticized much more than you will be praised. Do not be deterred. Build what you want to exist. Find your people and seek their counsel. Keep it moving.

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Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.

Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.

Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

There were 89,000 polling places in 2022.

8 states have all-mail elections.

At least 5,000,000 Americans marched in the October No Kings demonstrations.

They have 15,000 guys. They couldn't "surround the polls" if they wanted to.

A fun case study since there have been 72 million articles on the cold in the east and 4 on the warmth in the west

Which is why we have to stop trying to tack to the center. Let's make fact-based progressive policies. You can reason with reasonable people, even when they don't agree, but she will never win over the zealous right. Never.

All the traits that you have been taught to value and look for in special individuals - courage, intelligence, strength - are actually collective traits. There is no genius or hero coming to save us from our problems. We solve them together or not at all. Socialism or barbarism.

I just watched ICE break through their own crime scene tape an attack witnesses & protestors with tear gas and flash bang grenades. This is how they get rid of witnesses to their murder. No one was attacking them. They just got the order to attack & disperse witnesses.

ICE left them alone when more community members showed up to witness the attack and scream at them to stop

This scenario keeps happening everywhere. It's evidence that ICE is behaving more like bandits than law enforcement

Hopefully they will actually start supporting civil rights. Stand up for trans people. Trans healthcare is healthcare. Say it full-throated, Governor.

Weak empty platitudes. He's out of touch and needs to retire. VA Dems continue to be not up to the task.

and "...Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here." via @andycraig.bsky.social

I've found "bigotry" to be factually accurate and rethorically effective. Anti-trans bigotry.

The issue is the article. It boosts the unproven claim that Mondomi's proposals will be bad for business, and broaches Mondomi's accused antisemitim without correction. He's not. His statements are numerious.

Accurate Title: Miami Attempts to Boost Sagging Economy by Exploting Anti-Mondomi Rhetoric

Your instincts are correct. It's a deeply lazy article. A quote aknowledges Miami's struggle to court business but the article does not explicitly give any context.

tired of this theater

I'm taking the time and I understand, I just don't think the point is pertinent or particularity insightful.

Tim Snyder is someone I think has done effective work on putting our current situation in proper context with actionable insights AND hope.

I do appreciate the discussion, though, so thx!

The names?! The names.

Every article that doesn't lead with facts about the manufactured nature of this immigration "crisis" and the historical context of the current deportation strategy (Carl Schmitt's fascist playbook) is failing the public.

Not at all. Merely questioning the relevance of the distinction. If someone's drowning and screams, "help I'm drowning in this pond!" What's the purpose of stopping to say *well actually* it's a lake, before you help them.

So sick of the paternalistic establishment dems who haven't felt the anxiety of not knowing how they will feed their childern or pay for healthcare in a very very long time, if ever. Vote them all out.

I winced at that too

or the fact that people are being harmed now by fascist policies. So whether or not we are *actually* a fascist state means little to them. If the state's boot is on your neck does it matter what kind of boot it is?

You missed the question I was asking if you think I was being defeatist or submissive.

I think you may be conflating the power differential I was bringing up with defeatism and submissiveness. I was asking a sincere question.

How much does it matter to the people who are being harmed NOW by fascist policies on whether or not we're *actually* living under a fascist state?

but if you're a mouse, a tiger or house cat is a distinction without a difference, no?

Bigots who would never vote for a Dem did not vote for Earl-Sears, a black woman.

No one not directly engaged with Spanberger's campaign knew anything about her outside of "not Republican." It was her campaign to lose.