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Thread. This is something that always gets to me when people in movement spaces talk about "winning" because I don't always know or believe that what we define as "winning" is the same thing

THIS THIS THIS .

I can’t take this seriously , because I have too much faith in men to not be Andrew Tate

I feel okay giving them consequences to their bad behavior and they cultivate good relationships

Tate wants to deny ALL OF US the right to have those relationships

The anti-Black anti-Central/South American propaganda that Asian immigrants get bombarded w/before they’ve ever left countries of origin & how little many AsAms know about how they benefited immigration laws at the time create such an awful combination of smug “pick me!”-ness that’s just maddening.

I still think about a fellow Asian in grad school who told me that she refused to sign a DREAMer petition when her student asked her to because "she came the right way" and when the student said he himself was a DREAMer, she said "I don't care. You should still come the right way."

Human rights nightmares show ‘the crazies’ who wanted to abolish ICE were right | Will Bunch The nightly parade of horror stories about an American secret police prove the current system is broken beyond repair.

Abolish ICE

It was absolutely the right call 7 years ago, and more so now, with nightly reports of violent raids gone awry, strip-searching tourists, and snatching student op-ed writers

How America created a secret police, and how to get rid of it. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Ohio Guard shootings at Kent State 55 years ago fueled protests at Ohio State, across U.S. On May 4,1970, the Ohio National Guard killed 4 students and wounded 9 at Kent State. The deaths fueled anti-war protests at Ohio State and elsewhere.

May 4th hits a bit differently in Ohio because today marks the 55th anniversary of the Kent State shootings --- when armed agents of the state shot into a crowd of college kids protesting the Vietnam War and killed 4 people and wounded 9 others.

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May the fourth be with you, Illinois.

Aren’t the Ewoks so cute and fuzzy? you say as they lift your body bound on a spit to the large fire they’ve prepared to roast you alive.

Just ONCE I would like for there to be a LOW STAKES kerfuffle with Worldcon because it’s unfair to expect perfect but this is just 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

I have a lot of questions, like what process led to the original response, which they admit missed all the points. Did they somehow not comprehend all the reasons people were angry?

Also, hooow did they not see this coming?

OH HOT DAMN!

Asian American voters backed Trump in Nevada. Here's how they feel about him now After backing Joe Biden in 2020, Asian American voters in Nevada swung decisively toward Donald Trump in 2024. Now, they reflect on how his presidency is going so far.

And esp during #APAHM Asian Americans must have a serious reckoning w/how too many in our communities keep believing the lie that aligning w/whiteness instead of embracing solidarity w/other non/white & marginalized folks is the right choice. www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...

Over 25% of people in the U.S. say Chinese Americans are a threat The report also found that 40% of Americans believe Asian Americans are more loyal to their countries of origin than the U.S. — doubling since 2021.

For #APAHM you know what would really show how much Americans “celebrate” us? Not tolerating an iota of Sinophobic anti-Asian xenophobia that’ll be endemic to US life so long as it’s elided & ignored to protect the myth of meritocracy & the Model Minority. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Every review of youth gender medicine is just, "there's evidence that this helps and no evidence that this causes harm, but here's why that doesn't count."

The @nytimes.com editorial board views its role as embodying the reasonable consensus of American societal and political discourse, rather than articulating an actual set of values and beliefs, which is why they produce almost nothing of value.

News from the inside of a Fortune 50: Sitting in a meeting where it was said, as fact, that healthcare, IN GENERAL, is being targeted by the executive branch for reduction SOLELY to pay for Trump's tax plan. That's it, the elites know it, and it isn't complicated. None of you are getting DOGE money.

That editorial reflects, exactly, the country club consensus. Too much race stuff is making our white members - all 99 percent of them - a little irritable, so knock that off. Also the deportations of rabble rousing pro-Palestian criminals - well, Deborah Lipstadt, take it away! Not dextrous enough.

Many federal judges, including most Supreme Court justices, have also responded sensibly. They have not picked fights with him or overreached. They have issued narrow, firm rulings directing him to obey the law. Only after he has ignored those rulings have they escalated. The one-paragraph emergency order that seven Supreme Court justices (all but Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas) issued in the middle of the night two weeks ago was particularly important. It blocked the Trump administration from deporting a group of detained men under the Alien Enemies Act. The order’s speed and breadth were signs that Chief Justice John Roberts and most of his colleagues seem to recognize the threat that Mr. Trump’s bad faith poses. The order put Mr. Trump in a bind. It left him without any evident ways to violate the ruling’s spirit while adhering to its text. If he is going to defy the judiciary now, he will need to do so in an obvious way that will probably further damage his standing with the American public. Every attempt to defend American democracy should be similarly thoughtful.

This is NYT for "literally nothing will stop us from fear-mongering about campus SJWs."

Given the threat that Mr. Trump presents, we understand the urge to speak out in maximalist ways about almost everything he does. It can feel emotionally satisfying, and simply like the right thing to do, during dark times. But the stakes are too high to prioritize emotion over effectiveness. The best way to support American democracy is to build the largest possible coalition to defend it. It is to call out all Mr. Trump’s constitutional violations while diligently avoiding exaggeration about what qualifies as a violation. Liberals who conflate conservative policies with unconstitutional policies risk sending conservatives back into Mr. Trump’s camp.

No. It is not the job of ordinary citizens to show perfect message discipline.

It is the responsibility of actors with agenda-setting power — like, say, national newspapers — not to treat random-ass people exaggerating as a threat equivalent to the madman president.

Principled, effective opposition It remains possible that our concerns will look overwrought a year or two from now. Perhaps Mr. Trump’s shambolic approach to governance will undermine his ambitions. Perhaps federal courts will continue to constrain him and he will ultimately accept their judgments.

Trump has committed dozens of impeachable offenses in his first 100 days. There is no chance he is going to stop doing them and even if he did, he still deserves to be removed from office, what is wrong with you

The patriotic response to today’s threat is to oppose Mr. Trump. But it is to do so soberly and strategically, not reflexively or performatively. It is to build a coalition of Americans who disagree about many other subjects — who span conservative and progressive, internationalist and isolationist, religious and secular, business-friendly and labor-friendly, pro-immigration and restrictionist, laissez-faire and pro-government, pro-life and pro-choice — yet who believe that these subjects must be decided through democratic debate and constitutional processes rather than the dictates of a single man. The building of this coalition should start with an acknowledgment that Mr. Trump is the legitimate president and many of his actions are legal. Some may even prove effective. He won the presidency fairly last year, by a narrow margin in the popular vote and a comfortable margin in the Electoral College. On several key issues, his views were closer to public opinion than those of Democrats.

Why on earth would a protest movement against the worst president in US history begin by acknowledging that he's not so bad
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Public pools used to be everywhere in America. Then racism shut them down. In her new book, “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together,” Heather McGhee looks at how racism drained not only public pools, but also public support for universal he...

Started being enacted which meant Black people would finally get access

One of our nations issues with being unwilling to reconcile with racism means we don't really about how most of the country's social net came from the New Deal, that it was crafted to deliberately exclude Black people, and that its provisions started being too "costly" when civil rights laws /1