Lysa Rivera

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

People are wondering why Gen Z is apolitical. They're not: they just don't see our generation of old folks caring about the same things that matter to them: gun violence, climate change, and the mass slaughter of Gazans right before our eyes. They couldn't care less about the stock market.

MeidasTouch BURIES Joe Rogan And Other Right-Wing Podcasts – Again The MeidasTouch Podcast reigns supreme as podcast leader in total downloads and views with a staggering 141% audience surge.

Up 141% to ~121M total

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Revolution over rules, then.

Oh, Insta isn't showing the preview? here you gooooooo

Probably a combination of rejected claims, missing/delayed/reduced checks, and a whole lot of arbitrary and capricious behavior throughout it all.

I have no illusions that they “care.” Of course they don’t. They want to privatize everything (even safe air travel). I’m just saying that 70 million seniors aren’t going to stop receiving social security checks.

Dems need to stop focusing on what the other side is doing wrong and start uniting behind a clear message that offers folx hope for the future. This pearl-clutching and doomsaying didn’t work in 2016 and 2024, and no pandemic is going to save us in 2028.

That’s not going to happen. I hate Trump and his cronies more than anyone but this catastrophizing will not work.

From the AmerExit community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the AmerExit community

The more you know. #exitplansundertrump

‘People Are Going Silent’: Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families.

California Democrat Eric Swalwell: “I’m friends with a lot of these guys, and I had wrongly assumed that what was holding them back from speaking out against Trump was they were afraid of losing their jobs, but what they’re afraid of is their own personal security."

1 Al Green is worth 100 Hakeem Jeffries, 1000 Chuck Schumers

Angeles Elliott Smith · Either/Or · Song · 1997

#tbt is for this guy and this song today. Holding space for those being bled to death by greed.

Democracy dies in decorum.

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.

What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

As a professor of English, allow me to try, humbly and with the proper respect, to offer an appropriate response to the President’s address:

Fuck you, you fucked-up fuck, and fuck all the fuckers who willingly fuck with you, especially. You can all fuck all the way off, and then fuck off some more.

Morning from Kyiv!
I slept long today.
Feel rested at last.
Just made a warcoffee
and am going to write.

It is foggy outside.
Spring.
The drones were not here all night.

What drives me crazy about the anti-DEI rhetoric is everyone wants to be judged on merit. But you can't be judged on merit if you can't even get in the door because you don't fit some prejudiced definition of who is capable and who isn't

Rising house prices don’t just make it harder to become a homeowner – they also widen the racial wealth gap Housing market appreciation has been the primary driver of growing white-Black wealth disparities since the mid-1980s.

#HomeOwnership rates play a key role in the widening racial wealth gap. By 2021, 74% of white households owned homes vs. 43% of Black households, making equity gains uneven. A professor explains: https://buff.ly/4ieZlpQ
@joelabriola.bsky.social, University of Michigan #wealthgap

I just want to say thank you to everyone who has reached out with kindness and encouragement, both personally and in these social media streets. So very proud of The Reidout @joy.msnbc.com team, who are truly family, and all of our supporters & friends. See you tomorrow night at 7, one more time ‼️

After that plane literally flipped upside down after smashing into the runway and 100% of people survived, I hope every person who ever said “what’s even the point of seatbelts on a plane” feels like a real doof.

This is why you fight these cowards.

The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.

Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.

He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

✅ DEI Employer of the Day™

DSW

"We believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI], and call on our associates, customers, and communities to hold us accountable to showing it every day."

The NAACP Black Consumer Advisory encourages consumers to 'buy-in' on companies that back their values.

NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans The NAACP wants Black Americans to take their purchasing power, which some studies value at over a trillion dollars, to businesses that align with the civil rights group's values.

NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans

Don’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help. Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.

Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth.
The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...

Folks are shocked that their institutions, after professing commitments to climate justice and DEI, are now caving to Trump and scrubbing all references.

It's brutal.

And it's the smallest taste of what our students felt when their universities called in the cops b/c they protested a genocide.

Code-X exhibition banner image

Code-X:: Contemporary Chicanx Codices: Code-X reimagines the long tradition of the codex as a dynamic space for contemporary Chicanx storytelling, identity-building, and resistance. Through visual narratives that fold and elide time, the artists draw from ancient, colonial, and modern histories, merging ancestral knowledge with present-day experiences. These works reconfigure the codex format to explore the layered complexities of migration, indigeneity, Mestizaje, and cultural survival, embodying stories that resist erasure and reclaim space within the broader landscape of American art. The codices in this exhibition are not static relics of the past but living evolving documents that challenge linear histories and offer visions of new futures. Curated by Rafael Fajardo Thank you to lenders to the exhibition including Museo de las Americas, Denver Botanic Gardens, and Shark's Ink. Special thanks to Victoria Lyall for advising on and championing this project. Thank you to Kate Crowe and the Special Collections of the University of Denver.

Code-X reinventa la larga tradición de los códices como un espacio dinámico para la narración, la construcción de identidad y la resistencia de los chicanx contemporáneos. A través de narrativas visuales que se pliegan y eluden el tiempo. los artistas recurren a historias antiguas, coloniales y modernas, fusionando el conocimiento ancestral con las experiencias actuales. Estas obras reconfiguran el formato del códice para explorar las complejidades de la migración, la indigeneidad, el mestizaje y la supervivencia cultural, encarnando historias que se resisten a ser borradas y reclaman espacio dentro del panorama del arte estadounidense. Los códices de esta exhibición no son reliquias estáticas del pasado, sino documentos vivos y en evolución que desafían las historias lineales y ofrecen visiones de nuevos futuros. Curada por Rafael Fajardo Gracias a los prestamistas de la exposición, incluidos el Museo de las Americas, el Jardín Botanico de Denver y Shark's Ink. Un agradecimiento especial a Victoria Lyall por asesorar y defender este proyecto. Gracias a Kate Crowe y las Colecciones Especiales de la Universidad de Denver. Translation/edit by Karin Fajardo

Artists/Artistas: Anthony Aleman Yreina D. Cervántez Enrique Chagoya Michael DeAnda, PhD Adán De La Garza Carlos Fresquez Eric J García Dulce Soledad Ibarra Alma López Cherish Marquez Michael Menchaca Francisco Ortega-Grimaldo, PhD Sandy Rodriguez Leo Sailas Miguel A. Tarango

Code-X: Contemporary Chicanx Codices at the Vicki Myhren Gallery in Denver through February 23, 2025. Curated by @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social

I worry about *all* of you every day! (From WA state...)