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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.

These are the kinds of stories about the human costs of the Trump-Musk coup that desperately need telling right now.

Local news outlets and independent journalists can do a lot of important work here, for their own communities but also for the national effort to push back against this insanity.

"I wonder what this relatively small account that Elon Musk follows is?"

"Oh I see, it just posts porn and Nazism only."

This tends to always become the conventional wisdom. It's never the fault of highly-paid democratic operatives who dont' do their job, it is the fault of some sophomores at Oberlin who made us put our pronouns in our bios!

Look I have a strong hatred of remakes

BUT if any movie is remade with The Muppets, I'll see it.

#FilmSky

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

Hey #Booksky if you’re in the US and looking to step away from the zon for physical books can I highly recommend Thrift Books?

They donate and partner with non-profits to support school libraries in underserved areas, and prison libraries. Plus, the book prices are *very good*

www.thriftbooks.com

Former National Labor Relations Board member sues Trump for her firing Gwynne Wilcox’s lawsuit is the first to challenge the president’s ouster of several members of independent boards — moves that appear to contravene a 1935 Supreme Court ruling.

Trump brazenly broke the law by firing NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox. He did it to make the NLRB unable to function, so employers can ignore workers' rights to form unions (& probably also b/c Gwynne is a Black woman). (Gift link) 1/x

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Proof that wokeness has run amok: Nearly 7% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women.
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The Dumbest of Trade Wars enacted by the Dumbest Administration for these Dumbest of Times.

This is not paranoia. The threat is real.

I keep trying to make a “that child is 19, show him [some big devastating art movie, idk maybe Stalker] and he’ll have a breakdown and change his entire personality” joke but then I get too sad bc this is genuinely (part of) why the study of the humanities has been systematically delegitimized

Congress? Hello—federal workers here. We are struggling to fight all of this on our own.

Happy BLACK History Month. I read Black books every month but I got two stacks for y'all.

First stack is books by Black authors I loved and the second are the ones I’m getting to.

#booksky

Can always count on the Dems to bring a banana to a gun fight.

Well done for making it to the end of January.

Stop whatever you're doing and read a book to reward yourself.

If you don't have a book, then buy one from an indie bookshop, that way you'll be making TWO people happy.

Every disaster movie starts with scientists being ignored. Good thing we’re not doing that.

I will stop complaining about all movies being sequels if they make a Romy and Michelle cinematic universe

Every time you don't buy a book from Amazon, but use a good indie store who actually values the sale & treats you & your purchase with respect, the sun shines brighter, floofy puppies gambol in fresher grass, & Jeff Bezos's piles sting for just a biiiit longer.

Sounds GREAT to me.

Buy independent.

Not just genuinely unknown but perhaps genuinely unknowable, as when two customer service agents’ only capability is to refer you back to the other one.