Bryan M. Sims

We’re not mad at families on SNAP. Everyone deserves food and dignity.

We’re mad at the CEOs getting rich off our labor while paying us so little that we have to rely on SNAP to survive.

The problem isn’t programs — it’s poverty wages.

And yet they won't pay their fair share of taxes.

The press needs to be blasting out these images. America needs to see how abhorrent this is and we need to change public opinion quickly.

Thank you @annabower.bsky.social.

Thank you for your work on this.

DC STATEHOOD NOW.

Except the ones hiding their faces, helping to take people off the street, or the ones who help invade organizations like @altusip.bsky.social

Why does the Rockrose Development Corporation, who owns the building where the Federalist Society is based, rent to fascists trying to overthrow democracy?

Autocrats always try to dismantle universities and other sites of free thought. But the current effort to destroy American institutions is also a reactionary backlash against real progress on racial justice in this country. Backlash only happens when movements are winning the argument.

Columbia Agrees to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped (Gift Article) The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.

Trump Univerisity is back in business. Formerly known as @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...

Can you confirm is MPD was involved? Thanks for doing all of this great work.

You need a new leader. Fire Schumer.

Exactly. Let’s go.

Bravo NED!

Accountability Lab on LinkedIn: #globalaidfreeze #foreignassistance #layoffs The updated results of our global survey tracking the impact of the US government's foreign funding freeze are in. Nearly 700 respondents reported that 15,147…

These stats have been put together by @accountlab.bsky.social: www.linkedin.com/posts/accoun...

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny:

snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

Note to All Nazis, Fascists and Klansmen

Langston Hughes

You delight,
So it would seem,
At making mince-meat of my dream.

If you keep on,
Before you’re through,
I’ll make mince-meat
Out of you.

@warren.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @bennet.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social @blumenthal.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

It's called the Gulf of Mexico. This is not up for debate.

Hello Costco.

Democracy depends in part on people who refuse to comply with unlawful (and/or unethical) orders.

I’m a Veteran Organizer From Hungary. Here Are My Lessons for the Trump Era. - The Forge Facing autocracy demands more than resistance—it requires us to understand the failures that brought it to power and to organize for a democracy that delivers for everyone. I know your post-election t...

Some solid lessons for any American that cares about living in a democracy: forgeorganizing.org/article/im-a...

Please have a look at this PPT from Nichols Liu: pubkgroup.com/wp-content/u.... @npr.org

A convicted felon is now president of the United States.

Read this!

This is not sustainable. 😱

How we can meet the challenges of authoritarianism This is not our first rodeo with authoritarianism. Americans have collectively risen to seemingly impossible challenges in the past, and we can again.

First Bluesky post: sharing insights about a multifaceted, inside-outside strategy for confronting authoritarianism and taking care of each other (solidarity in action) based on lessons from the US and globally. wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/how-...

Thank you Verne Harris and the Nelson Mandela Foundation for taking the time to host an important discussion to help propel social justice initiatives in South Africa and America forward. Amandla!