Alison Bechdel

YouTube video by The Brainwaves Video Anthology Erica Chenoweth - Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know

"...so what this really suggests is that people power isn’t just about a huge number of people being in the streets but about the building of pressure and momentum." www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTck...

Just had whiplash reading the NYT. First, a powerful Opinion Video featuring three professors leaving the country because of the fascist onslaught. And then, a little straight-up fascist onslaught in a Guest Essay by RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz about how welfare recipients must be forced to work.

Heading out in a month on my book tour for SPENT. Check here for dates and links to events!

SALLY!

If you haven't yet seen this doc about the remarkable lesbian activist Sally Gearhart, you must do so immediately! www.sallygearhartfilm.com?ss_source=ss...

So great to see this amazing poem by Robin Becker in The New Yorker!

Justice for Rümeysa Öztürk Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,

Rümeysa Ozturk, the Tufts doctoral student abducted by ICE on March 25, will have her hearing at the Post Office building in Burlington at 9:30 this Monday. Come stand with, and witness for her. 9:30am Monday, April 14th, at 11 Elmwood Ave., Burlington. You can also donate to her legal defense here:

Blue and orange graphic with a picture of a young Black woman with magenta eyeshadow and a red shirt, and bold text that reads, "$880 billion in Medicaid cuts means...up to 4.5 million people with disabilities could lose independent living." In the footer, an orange bar with The Century Foundation's logo in white.

How would $880 billion in Medicaid cuts affect people with disabilities?

That translates to a loss in home and community-based services (HCBS) for 4.5 million people. HCBS programs help people live independently, rather than be institutionalized.

Learn more: bit.ly/BeyondHealth_Disability

While our eyes are on the welfare state’s destruction, Trump is building a police state | Judith Levine Republicans aren’t simply shrinking the government. They’re investing billions in defense, border control and prisons

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Special Vermont Resistance edition Lucy Welch, a hero for the moment.

Move over Ethan Allen, here comes Lucy Welch

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Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in

Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter

JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in Vermont with his family this weekend and will be skiing at Sugarbush Resort...

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The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."

Protesters Display Upside-Down American Flag at Yosemite Organizers said the inverted flag, historically used as a sign of distress, was meant to draw attention to the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Park Service.

Protesters Display Upside-Down American Flag at Yosemite www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...

Culture warriors assemble! Jordan Peterson is having a global conference with a who’s who of the hard right (many Australians) | First Dog on the Moon Woke DEI cancelled my childhood (sob)

God, I love First Dog on the Moon.
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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️