Heather I
@himboden.bsky.social
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I want people to understand this.
For many of them, democracy ended when Obama was elected twice and Black Lives Matter rose to prominence.
This is them “fixing” a system that felt broken and newly unsafe to them.
For many of them, democracy ended when Obama was elected twice and Black Lives Matter rose to prominence.
This is them “fixing” a system that felt broken and newly unsafe to them.
What we all seemingly failed to understand is just how many of our "countrymen" were perfectly willing to resort to treason to end democracy. And all in service of a convicted felon and lifelong conman who wasn't even very good at it.
February 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I want people to understand this.
For many of them, democracy ended when Obama was elected twice and Black Lives Matter rose to prominence.
This is them “fixing” a system that felt broken and newly unsafe to them.
For many of them, democracy ended when Obama was elected twice and Black Lives Matter rose to prominence.
This is them “fixing” a system that felt broken and newly unsafe to them.
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If you were to actually take his white supremacy and racism seriously, you would evaluate their impacts on every single decision and policy advanced by the administration. And you would be on board for future reparations.
February 6, 2026 at 12:32 PM
If you were to actually take his white supremacy and racism seriously, you would evaluate their impacts on every single decision and policy advanced by the administration. And you would be on board for future reparations.
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Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.
February 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.
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There is no "immigration problem"
There is no migrant problem
There is no problem with illegals
There is no border crisis
Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.
There is no migrant problem
There is no problem with illegals
There is no border crisis
Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.
January 24, 2026 at 10:05 PM
There is no "immigration problem"
There is no migrant problem
There is no problem with illegals
There is no border crisis
Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.
There is no migrant problem
There is no problem with illegals
There is no border crisis
Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.
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They like cops so much that all we’re getting is cops. No roads, no bridges, no school funding, no culture money, just a bouquet of different types of cops
January 22, 2026 at 9:56 PM
They like cops so much that all we’re getting is cops. No roads, no bridges, no school funding, no culture money, just a bouquet of different types of cops
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March 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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This is so real.
And frankly, there's a childcare-sized gap at work here.
If your organizing or community doesn't find a way to accommodate childcare needs, you end up with some very young activists and some elder activists, but no one in between.
And frankly, there's a childcare-sized gap at work here.
If your organizing or community doesn't find a way to accommodate childcare needs, you end up with some very young activists and some elder activists, but no one in between.
What Putnam misses is that we're struggling to form community because we've been forced to DIY society. Without unions or a decent safety net, most Americans are caught in precarity and have to put so much energy into paid work and unpaid care for family that they have nothing left for community.
March 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This is so real.
And frankly, there's a childcare-sized gap at work here.
If your organizing or community doesn't find a way to accommodate childcare needs, you end up with some very young activists and some elder activists, but no one in between.
And frankly, there's a childcare-sized gap at work here.
If your organizing or community doesn't find a way to accommodate childcare needs, you end up with some very young activists and some elder activists, but no one in between.
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It's December, so here are a collection of end of year digital housekeeping tasks you can do while chilling out for the holidays in order to improve your privacy and security for entering 2024 on a good footing. You don't have to do all of them, but they're stuff to consider!
December 26, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
![Engels on 'Social Murder'
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call that deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call this deed murder.
But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or the bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live - forces them ... to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence - knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual ...
Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845 [1967]), p. 126 (Panther Press)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jfcht3gt62twn3r32e7bziq4/bafkreifeiogd6watrjgxqrzfsfrujyv4765jeh4why7my2rl76nbnqr5xu@jpeg)
December 5, 2024 at 4:42 AM
The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
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"Democrats need to organize their future politics around the simple reality that the establishment media is structural hostile to the Democratic party."
Wired for the GOP
This column, by Alexander Burns, the head of news at Politico, is a rich example of the DC logic that only Democrats have agency and it’s only to Democrats that standards, norms…
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:08 AM
"Democrats need to organize their future politics around the simple reality that the establishment media is structural hostile to the Democratic party."
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I've said it before, I'll say it again:
We are not a 50/50 country. We are a gerrymandered and voter suppressed country. Should we ever resolve those issues (...), then, perhaps, we'll know the actual extent of our political divisions.
We are not a 50/50 country. We are a gerrymandered and voter suppressed country. Should we ever resolve those issues (...), then, perhaps, we'll know the actual extent of our political divisions.
The final House results have now landed as 220-215 for the GOP. That means the House majority came down to the 3 NC seats the GOP flipped thanks to its brand new gerrymander.
And that gerrymander hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022.
I wrote this last month: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...
And that gerrymander hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022.
I wrote this last month: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...
December 4, 2024 at 1:44 AM
I've said it before, I'll say it again:
We are not a 50/50 country. We are a gerrymandered and voter suppressed country. Should we ever resolve those issues (...), then, perhaps, we'll know the actual extent of our political divisions.
We are not a 50/50 country. We are a gerrymandered and voter suppressed country. Should we ever resolve those issues (...), then, perhaps, we'll know the actual extent of our political divisions.
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The single essay that I tell people to read the most often is this one from James Baldwin that is ostensibly about Jews and white supremacy but is really about how to think about oppression and how we respond to it. The last third is especially incredible.
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White
archive.nytimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 12:12 AM
The single essay that I tell people to read the most often is this one from James Baldwin that is ostensibly about Jews and white supremacy but is really about how to think about oppression and how we respond to it. The last third is especially incredible.
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
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There is one obvious way to keep anti-bigotry at the center of the Democratic Party & the broader left's identity: hammering home that prejudice and culture wars are used to divide us & distract us from the class war at the heart of American unfreedom.
November 12, 2024 at 8:57 PM
There is one obvious way to keep anti-bigotry at the center of the Democratic Party & the broader left's identity: hammering home that prejudice and culture wars are used to divide us & distract us from the class war at the heart of American unfreedom.
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Republicans spent the last 45 years building a massive right wing propaganda system across AM radio, local broadcast, cable news, and now the Internet that fills voters heads with facts-optional pudding 24/7
Democrats can't sway them until they acknowledge and find ways to counter it
Democrats can't sway them until they acknowledge and find ways to counter it
November 7, 2024 at 11:30 PM
Republicans spent the last 45 years building a massive right wing propaganda system across AM radio, local broadcast, cable news, and now the Internet that fills voters heads with facts-optional pudding 24/7
Democrats can't sway them until they acknowledge and find ways to counter it
Democrats can't sway them until they acknowledge and find ways to counter it
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I haven't seen a single "we have to understand the concerns of Trump voters" take reckons with the fact that a huge percentage of their concerns are based on false information. You cannot "address" a concern about a fake thing!
This is how I feel discussing inflation.
MAGA person: Biden doesn't care about bread and butter issues like inflation.
Me: He signed the Inflation Reduction Act and we have lowest inflation among OECD.
MAGA person: But what about inflation?!
MAGA person: Biden doesn't care about bread and butter issues like inflation.
Me: He signed the Inflation Reduction Act and we have lowest inflation among OECD.
MAGA person: But what about inflation?!
November 7, 2024 at 11:06 PM
I haven't seen a single "we have to understand the concerns of Trump voters" take reckons with the fact that a huge percentage of their concerns are based on false information. You cannot "address" a concern about a fake thing!
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In other words, the attacks and systemic dismantling of disinformation efforts by Big Tech and the Right worked.
Disturbing: A big reason Trump won was undecideds couldn't be persuaded that millions of jobs lost in 2020 and death of Roe were Trump's fault, internal Harris campaign polling showed. Biden/Ds let Trump rehabilitate himself to disastrous effect.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1882...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1882...
Why Did Trump Win? These Dems Have Discovered a Very Disturbing Answer
Are you sitting down? Turns out it proved very hard to persuade swing voters that Trump was a bad president.
newrepublic.com
November 10, 2024 at 4:21 PM
In other words, the attacks and systemic dismantling of disinformation efforts by Big Tech and the Right worked.
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The GOP relies on an uninformed/misinformed electorate. Everything going on with our information ecosystem is completely intentional. Taking over social networks, taking over major media, dismantling the dept of education. The less educated and less informed people are the easier they are to control
Talked with someone who voted Republican who was relieved that they would kill Obamacare so the ACA could work. Did not believe they were one and the same.
November 10, 2024 at 10:08 PM
The GOP relies on an uninformed/misinformed electorate. Everything going on with our information ecosystem is completely intentional. Taking over social networks, taking over major media, dismantling the dept of education. The less educated and less informed people are the easier they are to control
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Y'all know I'm going to fight. I'm going to build with communities of resistance and refusal. You'll hear from me about that, trust. But today I want to share another hot tip for survival in dark times: plan for joy. 1/x
November 7, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Y'all know I'm going to fight. I'm going to build with communities of resistance and refusal. You'll hear from me about that, trust. But today I want to share another hot tip for survival in dark times: plan for joy. 1/x
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Coping Thread!
I spend the first 30 years of life with Generalized Anxiety Disorder undiagnosed, so I have developed a LOT of coping skills.
Step 1: do not be alone with your thoughts. The thoughts are the enemy. You don't have to be in denial or blissed out, but keep yourself properly stimulated.
I spend the first 30 years of life with Generalized Anxiety Disorder undiagnosed, so I have developed a LOT of coping skills.
Step 1: do not be alone with your thoughts. The thoughts are the enemy. You don't have to be in denial or blissed out, but keep yourself properly stimulated.
November 6, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Coping Thread!
I spend the first 30 years of life with Generalized Anxiety Disorder undiagnosed, so I have developed a LOT of coping skills.
Step 1: do not be alone with your thoughts. The thoughts are the enemy. You don't have to be in denial or blissed out, but keep yourself properly stimulated.
I spend the first 30 years of life with Generalized Anxiety Disorder undiagnosed, so I have developed a LOT of coping skills.
Step 1: do not be alone with your thoughts. The thoughts are the enemy. You don't have to be in denial or blissed out, but keep yourself properly stimulated.
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white supremacy is an interest, people need to start grasping that
November 6, 2024 at 9:44 PM
white supremacy is an interest, people need to start grasping that
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Apropos of nothing at all, today is probably a good day to look into using an encrypted messaging app, especially if you think you might be going to any protests in the coming months. signal.org
Signal Messenger: Speak Freely
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
signal.org
November 6, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Apropos of nothing at all, today is probably a good day to look into using an encrypted messaging app, especially if you think you might be going to any protests in the coming months. signal.org