What We Can Do
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What We Can Do
@whatwecan.do
· Mar 30
1/ On April 5, there are nationwide protests happening literally everywhere in the US. Find more details here: handsoff2025.com
We can… be so big they can’t ignore us
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OK, a People's Bailout, a short thread.
The oligarchs have a plan for how to exit the current economic collapse: with bailouts for the biggest banks, financial firms, and corporations.
We need to develop plans for a People's Bailout. 1/x
The oligarchs have a plan for how to exit the current economic collapse: with bailouts for the biggest banks, financial firms, and corporations.
We need to develop plans for a People's Bailout. 1/x
So, at the bottom of the collapse, you guys know that this ends with the federal government spending trillions in public money to bail out the largest banks and companies, right?
There ARE other options but that will require mass mobilization on a very large scale.
There ARE other options but that will require mass mobilization on a very large scale.
April 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
OK, a People's Bailout, a short thread.
The oligarchs have a plan for how to exit the current economic collapse: with bailouts for the biggest banks, financial firms, and corporations.
We need to develop plans for a People's Bailout. 1/x
The oligarchs have a plan for how to exit the current economic collapse: with bailouts for the biggest banks, financial firms, and corporations.
We need to develop plans for a People's Bailout. 1/x
We can turn this Booker energy into real action by donating. ⬇️
If y'all are interested in supporting abortion access, I have created a website with abortion funds/clinics/support orgs organized by state: donationsforabortions.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
We can turn this Booker energy into real action by donating. ⬇️
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Hello, Bluesky!! We are a collective of academics who are standing up for higher education. Join us: www.wearehighered.org
We Are Higher Ed
www.wearehighered.org
March 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Hello, Bluesky!! We are a collective of academics who are standing up for higher education. Join us: www.wearehighered.org
If you’re an alumnus, faculty, or admin at a university, we can fight back. Call your school, get the alumni network going, and amp up the pressure ASAP!
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
April 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
If you’re an alumnus, faculty, or admin at a university, we can fight back. Call your school, get the alumni network going, and amp up the pressure ASAP!
We can flood Congressional switchboards with calls against this. Don't let Schumer's "senate switcheroo" sideline you. Call, call, call!
5calls.org
Also, talk to someone you know about this and the impacts. Most people *do not know* what is happening. Your voice is needed in DC and locally.
5calls.org
Also, talk to someone you know about this and the impacts. Most people *do not know* what is happening. Your voice is needed in DC and locally.
March 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
We can flood Congressional switchboards with calls against this. Don't let Schumer's "senate switcheroo" sideline you. Call, call, call!
5calls.org
Also, talk to someone you know about this and the impacts. Most people *do not know* what is happening. Your voice is needed in DC and locally.
5calls.org
Also, talk to someone you know about this and the impacts. Most people *do not know* what is happening. Your voice is needed in DC and locally.
We can support trans people:
☑️ Fill out this public comment form
☑️ Say a few words about protecting trans healthcare
☑️ Give the admin, Congress, & courts a counter-weight to the argument that "nobody cares"
It may not be sufficient, but not taking action will definitely fail.
☑️ Fill out this public comment form
☑️ Say a few words about protecting trans healthcare
☑️ Give the admin, Congress, & courts a counter-weight to the argument that "nobody cares"
It may not be sufficient, but not taking action will definitely fail.
hi, cis folks!
if we *are* going to talk ACA, RFK's HHS proposed a rule to remove *all trans care* from ACA essential health benefit status.
~25mil people are insured by ACA & if 1% are trans, that's 250,000 people who'd lose access to care.
that's bad! take 2 minutes to stand with trans people.🧵
if we *are* going to talk ACA, RFK's HHS proposed a rule to remove *all trans care* from ACA essential health benefit status.
~25mil people are insured by ACA & if 1% are trans, that's 250,000 people who'd lose access to care.
that's bad! take 2 minutes to stand with trans people.🧵
March 31, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We can support trans people:
☑️ Fill out this public comment form
☑️ Say a few words about protecting trans healthcare
☑️ Give the admin, Congress, & courts a counter-weight to the argument that "nobody cares"
It may not be sufficient, but not taking action will definitely fail.
☑️ Fill out this public comment form
☑️ Say a few words about protecting trans healthcare
☑️ Give the admin, Congress, & courts a counter-weight to the argument that "nobody cares"
It may not be sufficient, but not taking action will definitely fail.
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It's Trans Day of Visibility.
I wrote this a few years ago. It feels like it's gotten more true every year since.
transsafety.network/posts/the-pr...
I wrote this a few years ago. It feels like it's gotten more true every year since.
transsafety.network/posts/the-pr...
The Problem of Visibility
Explaining why the International Trans Day of Visbility might be the opposite of what trans people need in an age of visibility as violence and harassment
transsafety.network
March 31, 2025 at 7:12 AM
It's Trans Day of Visibility.
I wrote this a few years ago. It feels like it's gotten more true every year since.
transsafety.network/posts/the-pr...
I wrote this a few years ago. It feels like it's gotten more true every year since.
transsafety.network/posts/the-pr...
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This Trans Day of Visibility, what I want most of all is for trans people to be allowed to be self-centred in the best possible meaning of that term:
- To centre our survival
- To centre our material needs
- To centre our emotional needs
- To centre our souls, our dreams, our reasons for living
- To centre our survival
- To centre our material needs
- To centre our emotional needs
- To centre our souls, our dreams, our reasons for living
March 31, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This Trans Day of Visibility, what I want most of all is for trans people to be allowed to be self-centred in the best possible meaning of that term:
- To centre our survival
- To centre our material needs
- To centre our emotional needs
- To centre our souls, our dreams, our reasons for living
- To centre our survival
- To centre our material needs
- To centre our emotional needs
- To centre our souls, our dreams, our reasons for living
We can… stand up together to protect democracy. Learn more: choosedemocracy.us
Choose Democracy: resources to promote democracy
Regular people can stop an undemocratic power grab, but only if we prepare and together, we choose democracy.
choosedemocracy.us
March 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We can… stand up together to protect democracy. Learn more: choosedemocracy.us
We can… care for each other while working to change the world.
☑️ Learn about mutual aid (read this book!)
☑️ Connect with people in your community
☑️ Organize networks of support
☑️ Build a more compassionate, connected future
☑️ Learn about mutual aid (read this book!)
☑️ Connect with people in your community
☑️ Organize networks of support
☑️ Build a more compassionate, connected future
Mutual Aid by Dean Spade: 9781839762123 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
March 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
We can… care for each other while working to change the world.
☑️ Learn about mutual aid (read this book!)
☑️ Connect with people in your community
☑️ Organize networks of support
☑️ Build a more compassionate, connected future
☑️ Learn about mutual aid (read this book!)
☑️ Connect with people in your community
☑️ Organize networks of support
☑️ Build a more compassionate, connected future
We can... "cultivate a life-affirming political culture [...] a counter-culture of rebellious care."
Read, connect, and do:
Read, connect, and do:
March 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
We can... "cultivate a life-affirming political culture [...] a counter-culture of rebellious care."
Read, connect, and do:
Read, connect, and do:
We can… network w/ alumni from our schools to pool resources:
☑️ pressure admin as a group
☑️ support intn’l students
☑️ support undocumented/under-resourced students & applicants
Schools care what alumni and parents think, and do.
☑️ pressure admin as a group
☑️ support intn’l students
☑️ support undocumented/under-resourced students & applicants
Schools care what alumni and parents think, and do.
My kid's elementary school is like YOU COME FOR OUR KIDS WE COME FOR YOU but go off, gazillion dollar medical school.
Johns Hopkins tells faculty not to ‘intervene’ in potential ICE detainments on campus
March 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We can… network w/ alumni from our schools to pool resources:
☑️ pressure admin as a group
☑️ support intn’l students
☑️ support undocumented/under-resourced students & applicants
Schools care what alumni and parents think, and do.
☑️ pressure admin as a group
☑️ support intn’l students
☑️ support undocumented/under-resourced students & applicants
Schools care what alumni and parents think, and do.
We can... let whatever schools we attended know that we are paying attention & care about how they respond.
— Write a letter to the Provost/President/Board
— Write a letter to the editor of both the school's alumni and student newspapers
— Withhold donations (if you're making them)
— Write a letter to the Provost/President/Board
— Write a letter to the editor of both the school's alumni and student newspapers
— Withhold donations (if you're making them)
Johns Hopkins tells faculty not to ‘intervene’ in potential ICE detainments on campus
Johns Hopkins tells faculty not to “intervene” in ICE detainments
A memo sent by the Office of General Council at Johns Hopkins instructs faculty and staff not to intervene if federal law enforcement detain a community member on campus.
buff.ly
March 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We can... let whatever schools we attended know that we are paying attention & care about how they respond.
— Write a letter to the Provost/President/Board
— Write a letter to the editor of both the school's alumni and student newspapers
— Withhold donations (if you're making them)
— Write a letter to the Provost/President/Board
— Write a letter to the editor of both the school's alumni and student newspapers
— Withhold donations (if you're making them)
We can... be willing to stand up, ask questions, get our phones out to record, and yes — get handcuffed — to protest illegal and unconstitutional actions *and* protect the vulnerable.
Also, a woman was handcuffed at a subway station in NYC (Franklin Ave) when she intervened asking why a delivery man was asked to show work permit by undercover agents. There is a video of that.
March 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
We can... be willing to stand up, ask questions, get our phones out to record, and yes — get handcuffed — to protest illegal and unconstitutional actions *and* protect the vulnerable.
We can... rebuild independent media.
— Support adversarial outlets like @propublica.org @wired.com & others
— Support independent journalists
— Read beyond the headlines, into the substance of articles and beyond
— Practice curiosity & self-reflection to recognize bias in ourselves and others
— Support adversarial outlets like @propublica.org @wired.com & others
— Support independent journalists
— Read beyond the headlines, into the substance of articles and beyond
— Practice curiosity & self-reflection to recognize bias in ourselves and others
"What is needed, right now, today, is not particularly intellectual. Indeed, it is...more an exercise of social power than of academic virtue...an adversarial media bloc that is large and loud enough to credibly challenge the administration’s ability to act."
www.liberalcurrents.com/forming-an-o...
www.liberalcurrents.com/forming-an-o...
Forming an Opposition Media Bloc in the Network Era
Media is a crucial tool for building solidarity among opposition to authoritarian rule.
www.liberalcurrents.com
March 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We can... rebuild independent media.
— Support adversarial outlets like @propublica.org @wired.com & others
— Support independent journalists
— Read beyond the headlines, into the substance of articles and beyond
— Practice curiosity & self-reflection to recognize bias in ourselves and others
— Support adversarial outlets like @propublica.org @wired.com & others
— Support independent journalists
— Read beyond the headlines, into the substance of articles and beyond
— Practice curiosity & self-reflection to recognize bias in ourselves and others
We can reject the narrative — and create better ones. "Gender critical? That's some weird Trump thing. Are trans people happy? Are they free? Cool."
March 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
We can reject the narrative — and create better ones. "Gender critical? That's some weird Trump thing. Are trans people happy? Are they free? Cool."
We can follow their example.
Historian here for the end of women's history month I give you my favorite black abolitionist feminists before the mad man in the White House makes it criminal to talk about them. www.history.com/articles/inf...
7 Influential Black Women Abolitionists | HISTORY
These women reshaped the fight against slavery by suing for freedom, rescuing the enslaved and teaching the newly freed.
www.history.com
March 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
We can follow their example.
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My kid's elementary school is like YOU COME FOR OUR KIDS WE COME FOR YOU but go off, gazillion dollar medical school.
Johns Hopkins tells faculty not to ‘intervene’ in potential ICE detainments on campus
Johns Hopkins tells faculty not to “intervene” in ICE detainments
A memo sent by the Office of General Council at Johns Hopkins instructs faculty and staff not to intervene if federal law enforcement detain a community member on campus.
buff.ly
March 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
My kid's elementary school is like YOU COME FOR OUR KIDS WE COME FOR YOU but go off, gazillion dollar medical school.
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I’m gonna make it simple since it seems a lot of the liberals on this site right now are having trouble with this. It was illegal to protect Anne Frank and it was legally required to turn her in to the Nazis.
If your reliance on the law dictates your morals you have already lost to the fascists.
If your reliance on the law dictates your morals you have already lost to the fascists.
March 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I’m gonna make it simple since it seems a lot of the liberals on this site right now are having trouble with this. It was illegal to protect Anne Frank and it was legally required to turn her in to the Nazis.
If your reliance on the law dictates your morals you have already lost to the fascists.
If your reliance on the law dictates your morals you have already lost to the fascists.
Injustice anywhere is (clearly) a threat to justice everywhere.
As a former securities fraud lawyer, I can tell you this is 💯 true. Elon could have been stopped years ago if only we treated white collar crime like other crimes.
Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.
March 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Injustice anywhere is (clearly) a threat to justice everywhere.
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Unbelievably damning that the 'opposition' party *in this country* couldn't be bothered to do some earned media ads like this
Salute to the Canadians for putting these ads up in downtown DC, they’re right and they should say it more 🫡
March 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Unbelievably damning that the 'opposition' party *in this country* couldn't be bothered to do some earned media ads like this
We can… be so big they can’t ignore us
1/ On April 5, there are nationwide protests happening literally everywhere in the US. Find more details here: handsoff2025.com
March 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
We can… be so big they can’t ignore us