Kate Sims

Kate Sims (@spyderchyld) “If they gut SNAP, they will weaponize the fallout by pointing to hunger’s consequences, which will be crime, “urban decay,” and dependency as proof that more policing, punishment, and austerity are w...

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“STAY OUT OF THE BAY” — EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION CALL: Know Your Rights. Build Community Solidarity. Mobilization Plans. The Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on dissent, and reports are mounting that ICE may be deployed to the Bay Area. But in the Bay Area we are also ready to stand up for our communitie...

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Bay Areans, it’s our turn to stand up to ICE-stapo and to stand up FOR our neighbors. There is a training call tonight to help folks plug into anti-abduction actions; link in comments.

“STAY OUT OF THE BAY” — EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION CALL: Know Your Rights. Build Community Solidarity. Mobilization Plans. The Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on dissent, and reports are mounting that ICE may be deployed to the Bay Area. But in the Bay Area we are also ready to stand up for our communitie...

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A Politician Actually Defended Trans People. It Shouldn't Be This Rare. Many Democrats are treating trans people as politically toxic. NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani released a two-minute video proving there's another way.

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For real though

Clickbait headlines, folks. But let’s all just choose outrage over the facts. “UC Berkeley officials said the decision to send the information to the Trump administration was made by the University of California’s systemwide general counsel.”

Due to co-opted algorithms, political corruption, and an intimidated media, too many of us are not seeing what is happening in Gaza. Those of us who are seeing it DO feel a deep urgency to stop it. Many of us are being targeted, shunned, punished for expressing that urgency, and yet we persist. 🙏🏻

Thank you for sharing this! I lived and studied there for six months back before the last civil war, and although I still have contacts there I hadn’t seen such a comprehensive explanation!

5 Phone Calls Can Stop American Fascism. Here Are the Numbers. Politicians have a secret math they don't want you to know.

Tired of leaving voicemails or getting stymied by full inboxes? This strategy might have more impact!

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Thank you, Oakland, for marching with and for us all yesterday. I am always uplifted by the Town’s sweet collective spirit!

Find your rally for tomorrow here: maydaystrong.org

I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%. Once they win elections, it's already too late.

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Worth the read, with lots of great ideas at the end. Despair is not an option, right? 😅

Anyone else feeling a need for control of something, ANYTHING?!?!?

This oscillation of hope and despair have you curling up on the couch?

Yeah, we get it.

Anytime you feel this way is an opportunity to give the oligarchy a paper cut

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Will never forget seeing that one on the theatre! My friends and I thought we were just going to see a Johnny Depp movie…

Woah, Curt, that is a LOT! I’m sorry to only now be learning about some of these very hard things you are going through. Sending hugs, and if I manage to get any photos of nudes, I’ll send those too.

The $21.7 Billion Blunder: New PSI Report Reveals Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Squandered by DOGE | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut [WASHINGTON, DC] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) released a Minority...

Welp, most of us knew DOGE was costing us money instead of saving it, but almost 22 BILLION DOLLARS in 6 months?!?

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Or how about NOT pushing the idea that buying gadgets will make anyone feel better? Living more simply is one way to tell billionaires where they can shove their agenda, which is making life shorter and worse for everyone on the planet except themselves.

Make Fun Of Them Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth?  Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long p...

“OpenAI is… quite literally a banana republic. It requires the media and the markets to make up why it has to exist, it requires other companies to pump it full of money and build its infrastructure, and it doesn’t even make [a profit or] products that matter...”
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(next to an image of John Lewis) JOIN US JULY 17 Good Trouble Lives On GoodTroubleLivesOn.org

JULY 17: On the fifth anniversary of Congressman John Lewis’ passing, tens of thousands of Americans will come together to “make good trouble” in response to the Trump Administration’s attacks on our civil and human rights. Join us: goodtroubleliveson.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Kate Sims on Substack This just in: Your Teslas are a gift for Big Oil, folks.

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In “The Long Loneliness” Dorothy Day describes what it took to publish The Catholic Worker: a group of urban people dedicated to a life of voluntary poverty, a population devastated by economic inequality, and constant campaigning for donations. Even though we now have the Internet, it seems harder.

It feels important to point out that this cost won’t be evenly distributed across all humans. Some will hoard food, and some will get no meals at all. This is already happening, and will just get worse.

Could not have imagined how stunning this first Sacred Datura bloom would be, which came from a hitchhiker in a native rose I purchased last winter. Like a soft pillowy bed, luring one in. Bees, I envy you. #sacreddatura #plantgeeking #nativeplantsfightclimatechange

More than 5 million people took to this streets to *peacefully* protest Dozy Don and his gang of thugs this past Saturday, and the media barely mentioned it. Can you imagine if it was 5 million MAGA out there? Anyway, Oakland was out being beautiful and entertaining, as usual.

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She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election. How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.

They were telling us what they were going to do all along. Now it appears we have the “how.”

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Meditations in an Emergency Essays and analyses by Rebecca Solnit

Truth teller right here, doing what she does:
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