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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Thousands of people at the Capitol in Sacramento for No Kings! #Resist #NoKings #California #Sacramento #StopICE #FreeLA #StandUp #SpeakUp #HandsOff #Prop50 #YesOn50

screenshot from pinterest where you can turn off ai images in “refine your recommendations”

YOU CAN TURN OFF AI IMAGES ON PINTEREST

increasingly convinced preventing americans from getting their little packages is the thing that will take this government down

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🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

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The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control.

It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting: "In times of cultural regression they remind us of what's at stake & what can still be achieved. Neutrality is not enough. Let's make sure storytelling is not a platform for the privileged, but a public good for all." Cris Abrego, Television Academy Chair #Emmys

It’s ok to put the phone down.

What a fucking day.

About this Florida vaccine story:

When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.

We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.

“Oh, they’d have died.”

People are dying of malnutrition in Gaza. How does starvation kill you? Millions of people in the world today face starvation in Gaza and in other parts of the world, from Sudan to Yemen. What happens to the body when food is lacking?

Millions of people in the world today face starvation in Gaza and in other parts of the world, from Sudan to Yemen. What happens to the body when food is lacking?

Your regular reminder that most people in this country can't afford to move to another state and the inclination to say they're getting what they voted for in the devastation of a hurricane or flood or whatever the hell is a failure of common sense and empathy on multiple levels.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

“girl’s girl”: a case study on the weaponization of female interpersonal relationships #loveislandusa

U.S. Senator @padilla.senate.gov was put in handcuffs for simply asking a question. That’s not law & order — that’s authoritarianism.

If this can happen to a U.S. Senator, I don’t even want to imagine what this means for everyday Americans.

I would want to watch Sai, Star and Kamilla play again.
(Secretly, I would also want to watch David again, but only on a dumpster fire netflix dating show) #Survivor

Many milestones today for Asians at the Tonys: Daniel Dae Kim is the first Asian actor to be nominated for Lead Actor in a Play, Marjan Neshat and Tala Ashe are the 1st Middle Eastern actors in their category, Darren Criss got 2 nominations. What a wonderful way to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month

One of the great benefits of protest is to give people hope: to remind us that there are more of us than them, that a small disobedience for some today will allow them a greater disobedience tomorrow.

people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.

See the moment Sen. Cory Booker broke Strom Thurmond's record As he broke a record set when Thurmond stood against the Civil Rights Act, Booker said, "I'm not here, though, because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because, as powerful as he w...

As he broke a record set when Thurmond stood against the Civil Rights Act, Booker said, "I'm not here, though, because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because, as powerful as he was, the people were more powerful."

Can’t imagine what an undertaking this must have been for Booker’s staff.

Thank you #Survivor48 for airing that scene with Joe, Shauhin, Kyle, and Kamilla. It speaks to the effort casting has made to make more ethnically diverse seasons, allowing people to not only be able to share their stories, but find common ground among their competitors

Reporters NEED to stop conflating Asian legislators!!! They have different names!!! It's very easy to verify their names!!! It's not hard to get that right!!!

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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John Oliver is one of us 🥰 #RHOSLC

Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon "Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do!

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Being off TikTok is crazy, I haven’t been influenced to buy anything all week

This was his plan.

Young people take heed. His actions should be viewed as a manipulative threat to your voice, joy and autonomy. This is all political and not coming from a place that actually serves the country. Don’t get it twisted. Pay attention. Be outraged.