Ayşe E.

the war is not "aimless." It is corrupt, unjust and immoral.

A diverse group of people in a church holds protest signs demanding social justice. A large cross is visible in the background, conveying a solemn yet determined atmosphere.

The North Carolina organizers of Moral Mondays built a broad coalition (labor + faith + civil rights + enviro + LGBTQ) using sustained action to beat back the extreme-right—and they offer real lessons for resisting Trump’s anti-democratic crackdown now.

inthesetimes.com/article/what...

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Robust, er, discussion of the joy that is Heated Rivalry before my yoga class yesterday morning. Really set us on the right track. 😌🙏🏼

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

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Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

— Anne Carson, “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form”

Perfect.

So important and we can’t hear it enough. I do sincerely wish more journalists and editors had a firmer grasp on political vs politicized, especially as we are increasingly operating in a cynical and chaotic (and reductive and venal, depending) information environment.

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Good trouble, necessary trouble, today: Feb 1: COURAGE to end brutality and realize the greater Measure of Our Humanity: Christiana Figueres, Rebecca Solnit, Roshi Joan, online, 11-12:30 MT, free.
www.upaya.org/program/the-...

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Literature of Protest and Resistance

Great Books (17th & 18th c.)

The Rhetoric of Social Movements

Colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa

Environment and Society

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

The wealthy have class solidarity and we'll only beat them when we have it too

We’re all Minnesota proud, goddam! Leading the way. Thank you. 🙏🏼🙏🏼✊🏽✊🏽

“Sky” 11
acrylic on wood panel
23 x 16 cm
#OriginalArt #Paintings
#Artist #Landscape
#Sky #Color #Soothing

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*visiting the Netherlands*

Me: So... how big is The Hague? How many people can it fit?

Neighborhood kids chalked the phrase “Let It Snow Not ICE” in large letters on the road. Lit by a headlamp on the evening dog walk, reflections in the asphalt look like dots of snow around the message.

❄️☃️🌨️ #abolishICE #fuckICE #snowpocalypse

So expressive! I love it.

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."

-James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980)
#everynightapoem #ofsorts

I cannot even *stand* how much I love this!! Will 💯buy this album.

It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something

There’s a special kind of grief many of us are feeling tonight. Because it didn’t have to be like this.

"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret.

But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.

Use the impeachment of Noem as groundwork for abolishing ICE AND DHS. Do public education. Use media, etc...

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

Do not give your subscription money to once-admired national brands that now consistently operate as propaganda arms of a fascist regime.

Instead, please check out these INDEPENDENT journalists and news rooms in @laminda.bsky.social's excellent starter pack.

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