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3-year study finds MacKenzie Scott's $19 billion in charitable giving has been 'transformational' for nonprofits A new report analyzes data from over 1,000 organizations that have received grants from billionaire MacKenzie Scott.

MacKenzie Scott and Melinda Gates doing what Congress should've done years ago-taking billions from Gates and Bezos and giving it to those in need.😌

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given user name, would be remiss if I did not acknowledge today is World Whale Day...

recently re-watched "Star Trek IV: The One With The Whales"... have to say there are few cinematic moments more viscerally satisfying than a Klingon bird of prey decloaking and ruining the day of a whaler ship

I took a break, felt great, came back and immediately regretted it lol

Or devoting your career to preventing malaria deaths. You should definitely lose your job for THAT. Just not for openly declaring yourself to be racist while enjoying accessing millions of people's PPI.

Nobody's life should be ruined for saying racist things, recently, on social media.

People's lives would only be ruined for REALLY bad things, like taking a workspace diversity training six years ago

i nobody ever filibusters with a tingler during my lifetime i am going to be furious

Digital organizing is a skill and one you can refine to be more effective. For most people it won’t be the most effective tool in their personal toolbelt- they might be capable of other things, and should pursue those. It is just one of many, and one that does take skill.

To be clear: just posting willy nilly isn’t effective digital organizing. You do need to be strategic, spread action items not just doom, and build community not just rage clickers. You have to coalition build, and coordinate with people able to use other strategies.

I wrote something focused on the EOs as applied to private DEI programs

open.substack.com/pub/sammka/p...

Record them, and then put them on the internet. Your country needs you

Hot girls of DC! We desperately need you to throw amazing extremely loud parties in the general vicinity of the Eisenhower executive office building and Ronald Reagan building. Preferably ones with enormous amounts of drugs! Have compromising convos with anyone who looks like a douchey tech bro

And the reason they're this big is because thousands and thousands of people gave their own cash money to ADL in order to do this one job they're not doing

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Lololol

hollywood stealing my naming conventions

I mean yes hypothetically a domestic model *could* be specifically programmed to censor historical events relevant to racism and other forms of oppression. It also matters whether they're already doing that or not.

At least I can get a reasonably accurate answer for questions like "what was Cointelpro" or "what was the My Lai massacre"

a white sheet of paper hanging from a black clip against a blue wall. the paper is a worksheet with the words, "my dog is a..." with the instructions to circle one of the following words, "hero," "companion," or "worker." instead, the word "circle" has been circled in pencil, and the rest of the sheet reads, "because he is round" in crude handwriting. next to the explanation as to why the dog is a circle, is a drawing of a very rotund dog with a tiny tail and little feet. this is an A+ assignment if we've ever seen one.

This kid slightly misunderstood their homework assignment and we could not possibly love it more. 12/10

That's like literally what Judaism is and he doesn't get to be one of us

Yep

SpireStream For Trans Rights YouTube video by Sarah Z

hello buckaroos @sarahz.bsky.social is doing a CHARITY LIVESTREAM for TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER all day and i will be joining very soon at 4PM (pacific timeline) come join and help raise some money for great cause LOVE IS REAL. www.youtube.com/live/iQ1FbkI...

Call/email your senators NOW to oppose Kennedy"s confirmation.

Even if you think they already made up their mind.

He's unqualified and deeply anti science. People *will die* if he is confirmed. Take five minutes out of your social media time and do it thanks

The focus on injury risk is wild because 1) if you were that worried about injury from you'd ban roller derby from county facilities altogether, everyone gets injured in roller derby 2) coed sports leagues are still allowed? A team could be 5 men 5 women but not 9 cis women 1 trans woman? Cmon

Also posted a thread about this on my professional profile:

Absolutely also true; subject matter experts, managers and admins, recruitment specialists. And disproportionately those staff that got temporarily assigned to DEI offices are women, people of color, LGBT people, etc.

As a disability policy person this is what I'm hearing as well directly from both federal workers and contractors (which also did the same thing with their own DEI offices). Honestly most "DEI offices" were just administrative consolidations of regular compliance and outreach programs

On the one hand I think psychoanalysis is congenitally misogynist, and its popular reemergence is a symptom of backlash that will ultimately be wielded against the cause of women’s freedom. On the other hand, conservatives keep saying shit like this.

I just realized I was supposed to only do as many as people who looked my post? Lol, I will not so limit myself