Jacob Slichter

Rest in peace, Jack Dejohnette. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

A gathering of roughly 15 SNCC members, some of them smiling for the camera.

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was founded 65 years ago, on April 15, 1960.

Now more than ever, SNCC's legacy of organizing in the face of impossible odds and violent repression has something to say to us.

Great piece, Adam!

Suspended for Pro-Palestine Speech: My Statement on Yale Law School’s Embrace of AI-Generated Smears 1/3

A black background with bold white text that reads: "These 10 House Democrats just voted to censure Al Green." Below, a list of 10 House Democrats' names, states, and phone numbers is displayed in a clean, block font: Ami Bera (CA-06) — (202) 225-5716 Ed Case (HI-01) — (202) 225-2726 Jim Costa (CA-21) — (202) 225-3341 Laura Gillen (NY-04) — (202) 225-5516 Jim Himes (CT-04) — (202) 225-5541 Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06) — (202) 225-4315 Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) — (202) 225-4146 Jared Moskowitz (FL-23) — (202) 225-3001 Maria Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) — (202) 225-3536 Tom Suozzi (NY-03) — (202) 225-3335 The Indivisible logo appears at the bottom.

They need to hear from us.
🚨 @bera.house.gov(CA-06) — (202) 225-5716
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Alex Gourevitch: One question people have wondered is why the resistance to Trump is so much less organized and vigorous than last time. There are a lot of reasons. Probably the most significant is just that Trump won the popular vote this time around, so he has a democratic authority he lacked last time. But here's another factor. One of the main liberal institutions, in and through which a lot of the resistance happened last time around, spent 2024 vigorously suppressing free speech and protest. With very little objection from mainstream liberals, sometimes with a great deal of support. Here's how severe the repression was. At the peak of the anti-Vietnam protests in 1969, when millions were protesting, about 4000 students were arrested. Last year, almost the same number were arrested or detained, despite the encampments and protests being orders of magnitude smaller than the Vietnam movements. (See here and here https://nytimes.com/ 2024/07/21/us/campus-protests-arrests.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/us/pro-palestinian-encampments-protests.html). And less widely reported, because the numbers are hard to find, universities have initiated thousands more private disciplinary proceedings, including suspensions, expulsions or mandatory expulsions if students are caught breaking university rules again. This happened across private and public universities, in blue states and red. Despite the fact that these protestors were doing more or less the same thing as campus protestors have been doing for decades, across a range of issues, this time around they were suddenly determined to be a threat and to be unacceptably trespassing and too disruptive and so on. And now that they have marks on their record, disciplinary proceedings, or are still facing legal charges or in court cases, the costs of protesting..

I did notice that the email address is one that anyone could email

5. A variant of point #4: Engaging in conversation with people close to you who are routinely cynical or critical of your core principles is of limited value. You don’t have to respond to them. You can simply focus on what needs doing.

6. Self-care is a necessary element of action.

4. Engaging in online fights, especially with strangers, takes time, energy, and has limited use. Weigh the opportunity cost of arguing with unpersuadable people vs. taking action.

3. Acting where one is and attacking a task right at hand > overwhelming oneself with the multiple dimensions of awful. What’s happening at your job? In your neighborhood? In your various communities, including faith communities? “Think globally / act locally.”

1. Taking action > doomscrolling.

2. Building networks > freaking out alone. Building networks of collaboration makes each member of that network stronger.

A few observations from my own experience this week I am trying to hold in mind.

Thank YOU!

this is incredibly disappointing, disgusting, and enraging.

When programs make these choices, they are lying. They are erasing history, and they degrade themselves.

I am ashamed that the Rubin project made this decision.

Thank you!