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Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Does Big Chafing have a lobbyist?

Permission! FROM THESE CLOWNS?! Truly fuck that and I’ll die on this hill apparently.

If our “freedom” to make our own healthcare decisions during pregnancy expires at some point then it’s not freedom. It’s permission.

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If it were ME I simply would not cross the library people of New York City in my first budget. Their cause is righteous, their demands entirely reasonable and their advocates the literal best on the planet. Good luck Mamdani! It’s not too late to fix this…

The more of these fascist atrocities I see, the more I become an immigration maximalist. Let everyone in, give everyone work permits/green cards. Make it possible to get citizenship within a few months. Make it as easy as getting a driver's license.

This is beautiful! 🥹💜

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

The reason why Dems are in the mess theyre in is bc they've tried to be Republican-lite since '88. Why get the diet version of fascism?

Aww love that! 💜

Oh I most certainly am and it feels bad!

Do yall know how long The New Republic had an all-white masthead? If not, you should take some time and look it up today. Really interesting stuff.

Women are about to experience a world that insists they only exist to be oppressed if we don't start taking lessons from the past

I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

I freaking love Olympics parents so much 🥹

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.

I'm an idealist politically & that's ok, I don't accept this slop they give us, in my heart I know it's not right. I know better is possible. I imagine better.

Ooooo can’t wait to listen!

On a similar note, as Mamdani continues to notch W after W you’re going to start seeing opinion pieces about how this could never work in any city other than New York, etc., etc. Do not engage! It’s just entrenched power bullshit and that’s all! Don’t let them make that a conversation!

Shout out to everybody who really doesn’t have a clue how they’re gonna keep on keeping on. It’s some cool folks in this club. We just gotta make it one day at a time, one foot in front of the other.

Srsly, the new 6-7? It’s “fuck ICE”!

Kids are shouting it out of nowhere, getting their teachers to say it and cheering, making TiKToks about it…all the influencers are working it into their content. A savvy politician could really pick up some heat with a smart reference or two.

Was gonna say, we need a franchise!

What a luxury it must be to be able to look at systemic violence and think “it’s a distraction”.

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

To call this "harm reduction" or a "good step" is to treat the public like idiots. It's insulting. They are acting like people making real demands are children, and they are the adults in the room.

I do not think the most significant cultural shifts will come from a World War, Class War, Race War, or whatever other battle people weirdly fantasize about. I think it’ll be an integration of the idea that children are people and not the property of their parents.

All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.