SassmasterDeane

sick people are "no angels"

they don't got it

"We're going to continue his legacy....guarding against unnecessary care"

🗣️ READ THE ROOM

reddit is terrifying to me, why is this such an accurate description lol

No shit murder is bad. The jokes about the United CEO aren’t really about him; they’re about the rapacious healthcare system he personified and which Americans feel deep pain and humiliation about

My thought for this Tuesday ☕️☕️☕️

Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please share. Picture of library aisle filled with books.

@goodwilllibrarian.bsky.social

Re-upping just because photos weren’t loading on here earlier

I think we have to study the local conditions and understand the political strategy in that context.

This community meeting and accompanying news story had a fascist organizer in tears talking about how he "doesn't feel safe here" (in Jackson County) anymore. That's effective anti-fascist organizing, and I'm impressed.

It’s important that we, as a community, respond quickly to these events before they become entrenched with lasting consequences. It would be helpful to share strategies for communities to fight back. This is a fight that many of us have not fought before.

more anti-fascist organizing feels good

Democrats should stop mocking Trump’s ground game and start learning from it Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don’t cut it any more. If the party wants to win, it must engage voters in a collective push for change

Crucial piece by @astra.bsky.social on how MAGA deployed the tactics of basic community organizing to base build, which beats a lot of knocks on doors from strangers and endless texts... www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

'This town is not for them.' Residents react to white Christian nationalists moving to Tennessee In an impromptu meeting, the town of Gainesboro joined together after a NewsChannel 5 investigation showed that Christian nationalists wanted to come to their town and make it their own.

VIDEO POSTED: 'This town is not for them.' Residents react to white Christian nationalists moving to Tennessee www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

WHOA: Congresswoman Barbara Lee didn't mince words when asked to comment on Nancy Mace's bathroom obsession.

"We just have to call this out for what it is: it's disgusting, it's hateful, and it's dangerous."

Oakland released hundreds of documents related to the FBI’s probe. Here’s what they say Records show a container home venture founded by Sheng Thao campaign backers sought $90 million in city-controlled funding while associates met with the mayor.

The Evolutionary Homes/ Thao element of the FBI investigation keeps coming up with the same facts visible in the public record---City officials politely listened to Duong and Juarez's unrealistic ideas but it never got past that point. www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti...

KENDRICK.

Federal Employment over time. It’s around where it has been for decades.

MLK/FDR backed a federal jobs guarantee, where people who want to work get jobs.

Elon/Trump want to fire hundreds of thousands of workers and cut Medicaid/Medicare to offset tax cuts for the rich.

as much energy and investment as possible should go into those who *are* prepared to help themselves and willing to fight. that's when the organizing gets better, when we focus on investing in those people as much as possible and stop fantasizing about what we could do if we only had more power.

"There is no reward without sacrifice."

A version of the "is this a butterfly" meme making fun of people who conflate barring nazis and rape threats with being an echo chamber

am I doing this right

The Oxygen of Amplification New Data & Society report recommends editorial “better practices” for reporting on online bigots and manipulators; interviews journalists on accidental amplification of extreme agendas

Let's talk about how to report on right-wingers without amplifying their hateful rhetoric. Far-right extremists count on YOU to spread their messages for them. Here's a thread of resources.

1) The Oxygen of Amplification: Better Practices for Reporting on Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators

Losing to our political enemies actually does matter.

Be serious.

I don't want moral high ground. I don't want plausible deniability.

"You either saved the babies or you didn't."

Despite counting on outrageously favorable press coverage, money and influence, all four Empower Oakland's endorsement "key races" have lost; 3 of them, the ones in their nominal focus, Oakland, by landslides

The experience of Empower Oakland really shows how much favorable press coverage from the outset, with no negative reporting, matters. EO never had feet on the ground, had no real organizing or foot soldiers. It was a brand created on the spot in a press release sent to local tv