"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

BREAKING: Gov. Newsom signed AB 715—classroom censorship shielding Israel and importing Trump-style gag rules into K-12.

From MDAC/MYDAC, to repeated Capitol hearings, 1,000s of emails, & 100s of calls, you showed up.

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“The law does not permit this kind of prolonged deprivation of an individual’s liberty without any allegations or charges of violating the law,” said Jean Elizabeth Reisz, an attorney representing Marin, who is also a USC law professor.

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Van Jones apologises for joke about dead Palestinian babies, but not alone when it comes to insensitive remarks on Gaza.

My black ass with an immigrant mother will always critique this nation. I learned to do so at the fancy schools that these Conservative assholes also went to.

Ugh, a lot *to think about. Particularly when it comes to solidarity with political prisoners and the difference between the movements of the 60s and now.

This is challenging to listen to and gives me a lot of think about.

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Listening to this episode now and it's so useful in thinking about ways to be "working against the genocide in all aspects of your life" as @reallandsend.bsky.social says.

I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across

Thank you all, David has been released. Stay strong and keep fighting to end the genocide and occupation ✊🏼

This was really inspiring and energizing.

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

The moon is full and beautiful and you deserve joy.

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Birth in Gaza often means sharing incubators, giving birth without anesthesia during power outages, and risking infection because water and sanitation systems are destroyed. interc.pt/42vx3lD

I need some help. Got laid-off on Friday: unannounced budget change + my position was first cut, so it was a total surprise. Thanks to a tax status loophole my employer manipulated, I cant get unemployment. In short im SOL

Anything you can give would be huge
Venmo: Vicky-surge
Cash: $VickySurge1312

You fell for the classic cat Ponzi scheme. Sorry, Pawnzi scheme.

Toxic boyfriend ass republic

People really have no idea how violent, cruel, and intentionally torturous American jails and prisons are.

And most people in American jails have never been convicted of a crime.

"[G]enocide has invaded the very core of children's imagination."

"Funerals, death, and martyrdom have replaced cartoons, playgrounds, and birthday parties as the themes of their play."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

Republican policy is increasingly framed around the idea that accurately describing what they are doing is worse than doing it.

They just got a Supreme Court ruling co-signing racial profiling as "common sense." So I guess the court smeared them.

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