Sam DeMuro

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Why is every kid song ice cream propaganda?

This will force so many girls and young women out of their schools and universities which is, of course, the point.

Keep imagining better worlds.

people who have been consuming nothing but law, policy, and robert’s rules of order since they were on student council in high school are unprepared to meet this moment.

They count on you being scared to break the rules! More than anything else, they are counting on your decency and respect of procedure to paralyze you from doing the right thing lest you get called to the principal's office.

You have to learn to say fuck it and DO THE RIGHT THING

Washington is full of rule-following valedictorians who were inspired by the West Wing and did Model UN and moot court and studied their heroes and who believe in using government to help people.

That's nice, but you need to learn how to swing on the illiterate bullies who steal lunch money.

School Systems Across US Declare They Will Not Comply With Trump's Anti-Trans Executive Order On Thursday, multiple school systems around the United States released advisories stating that Trump's EO mandating discrimination in schools will not be followed.

1. School systems across the United States are declaring they will not comply with Trump's anti-trans executive order.

MCPS, Maryland said they will fiercely protect their teacher sand students.

Columbus City Public Schools president: "bring it on."

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@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point

Oklahoma Sen. Dusty Deevers proposes bill to ban all pornography: What to know about SB593 A bill proposed by Oklahoma Sen. Dusty Deevers, R-Elgin, seeks to raise punishment for child pornography but also aims to ban pornography altogether.

In trying to ban pornography, this unconstitutional bill could also open people up to criminal charges for watching any movie with a sex scene, like:

▪️ Titanic
▪️ The Notebook
▪️ Challengers
▪️ Dirty Dancing
▪️ Babygirl
▪️ Pretty Woman
▪️ Brokeback Mountain

The First Amendment protects sexual content.

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Sfusd too

Maine DOE says it won't follow Trump's gender order. Will Mass.? Maine’s DOE said that it would not enforce Trump’s executive order that said the U.S. government would only recognize two genders.

Maine is also telling Trump they will not comply
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Harrisonburg, VA superintendent:

Montgomery County Public Schools comes out and tells Trump to pound sand with his EO telling schools that they have to discriminate against transgender students.

This is how you refuse to comply.

1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

A friend of mine has skin cancer and was about to start a clinical trial at MD Anderson after his other treatments did not work. Trump's decision to temporarily halt funding for medical research also applies to clinical trials. His treatment is now canceled.

Freezing scientific funding isn’t abstract. In medicine, life or death is often dictated by time. Temporary delays can cause great harm.

i know this space will grow and that’s a good thing…but i want to notice how manageable this size feels to me, how…alive people seem. 🙏🏽

Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse 🥀

"All these new apartment buildings... Yet so many people forced to sleep outside.."
Seen in Bellingham Washington