Claire McMahon

Bay Resistance

Bay Area Friends - there is a plan in place for when Trump sends ICE or the National Guard to the Bay Area.

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I was doing classes through a language school in Guatemala - PLQE. Highly recommend, individual classes at $12 a class. Not only do I think it was a more effective way to learn but it was also educational on politics in Guatemala and Latin America by just talking to a local!

Griffin Gaffney on what happens when you get hit by a car in San Francisco The Standard’s CEO tells the story of a near-death experience — and the endless complications that followed.

Unbelievably grim account of what happens after you are hit by a car in California.

sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

There's a good chance there's people near you doing the political project you wanna do. They might not have your particular line or be making the particular thing you want to make, but they could if you help! And I guarantee that project will be faster and stronger than if you started a new one.

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

I... oh my god.
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Maybe this is wholly inaccurate but it seems like the right is made up of maga / not maga while the left is made up of a whole spectrum from liberals to leftists to whathaveyou that all take turns vilifying eachother and idk if that’s helping the whole descent into a fascist state thing.

Protests aren’t just about telling fascists to fuck off, although that is good and fun, too.

Protests are about affirming shared beliefs, building community, and raising awareness. We need these precious things to sustain us . We need to know we’re not the only ones who believe in a better world.

On one hand - glad to see so many people and actions coming together against the fascist agenda.
On the other - notable lack of young people (heard the same from others in different geos) doesn’t bode well, and also I had to intervene against a creepy pervert following someone in the march. Ick.

How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement AOC, solidarity, and people power.

This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

Hundreds of Thousands Will Die The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. administrator Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.

“It’s just the beginning of the playbook. This was the soft target.” Atul Gawande, a former senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., talks about watching Donald Trump and Elon Musk make the agency a guinea pig for the government-wide purge now under way.

95% of the things you think are so much easier to find on amazon are either at a hardware store or drug store. I stopped using amazon years ago and it’s remarkably easy!

Perhaps the key is to keep yappin

may be beside the point/extremely obvious but i feel like you can only ignore extreme wealth inequality for so long before it metastasizes into something that fundamentally remakes and destabilizes the world by giving people access to so much money that they are fully above consequence

It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....

Solidarity Forever ✊🏻

omg hi guys