Full house!
Actually, Americans are just like you. ~20-30% of them genuinely support fascism, as in ~every 🇪🇺 country. You are just more fortunate to have political institutions & a multiparty system that prevent that 20-30% from fully capturing the center-right party, becoming 51%, & controlling the government.
And when I say long...
Working on a long piece that might actually be two pieces, and I hate it when that happens, bc who knows if I can split two conjoined trains of thought into separate articles that actually hold up on their own. Also, my body is inflamed af, and I am so tired. - a memoir
Turning it around by making it much harder to vote
This country is a bad joke.
I live in a bad joke.
The bad joke is committing atrocities.
I fucking hate it here.
Many such cases, of course, even up to the day it went away. Genuinely infuriating!
thinking about the Taylor swift Stan account owner's moral clarity once again
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Thank you, that's beautiful to hear.
Not that I'm aware of. I had just been posting about how I am not on here much at present due to not feeling well and having a lot of writing to do. So it's more me not wanting to miss out if something good happens.
Be sure to text me if it happens.
Getting some rest after a rough stretch (that isn't quite over) and also working on some things, so not spending much time on here. Health-wise, I have more tests this week and yet another specialist in my future (which of course means another month+ of waiting). Boooooo!
I wonder if there was any way for them to foresee it would happen?
In my latest, I talk with my friend Joselyn about the federal charges against her that were dropped yesterday, today’s guilty verdict for multiple Prairieland defendants, and what’s at stake when the definition of conspiracy is stretched and distorted to ensnare activists.
McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…
The latest White House thinking on the Strait of Hormuz.
"I ASSUMED the US Military had an active plan to open the Strait." How can people who are paid to understand geopolitics be so bafflingly naive?
The SAVE America Act is a voter suppression scam. It would take away the rights of working people to make their voices heard at the ballot box.
The Senate must reject this bill.
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write
hey if you're sometimes feeling paralyzed because of the horrors and want to find something to DO to help make things better, here are some good accounts to follow go.bsky.app/9H3C9Ty
In my latest, I talk with my friend Joselyn about the federal charges against her that were dropped yesterday, today’s guilty verdict for multiple Prairieland defendants, and what’s at stake when the definition of conspiracy is stretched and distorted to ensnare activists.
A few weeks ago, I cautioned about prioritizing the voices of exiles over those of people who still live in a country. Some people took issue. I didn't say not to listen to exiles, I said do not privilege their voices.
This is a miraculous use of the passive voice.
She's a really good person, and I really respect the integrity she's shown throughout this. She has never tried to make herself seem less radical or tried to distance herself from other criminalized people, including the Prairieland folks.
I'll be interviewing Jocelyn about what's she's learned from this experience for my newsletter soon.
Every time one of these "inventive" cases fails, it is a major victory for our movements and our communities. From the Broadview 6 to the Prairieland Defendants, we cannot afford to see any of these creative prosecutions succeed.
