Slavery didn’t end because of politicians | Historian David McNally

👉 Full episode here: youtu.be/RcE-4GT7C_o

“The general strike of the slaves broke the back of slavery.” — W.E.B. Du Bois

Freedom is never gifted from above. It’s fought for together and won from below.

#Slavery #Capitalism

All this administration does is put every single nonprofit and institution into a trolley problem of either sacrificing trans people or hurting everyone else by eliminating federal funding.

It won't end with us. They'll do this with every minority until it's only white men who are left.

It's hard to know what to say or whether it's even worth adding to the doom - what I will say is buy your trans friends' weird zine, their album, their art game - buy them a beer or a soda or a meal - give them some ko-fi money for doing absolutely nothing. We gotta protect trans kids and adults.

If people can't even stop using a social media app then how in the hell are we going to revolutionize anything

Meta has quietly removed major sections of its hate speech policy protecting LGBTQ people, people of color, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups. Today’s alarming policy changes will allow anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and cease to protect LGBTQ users from being targeted with such attacks

During the Holocaust, the Nazis and their collaborators paid bounties for every Jew they turned in.

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The planet is on fire and we elected arsonists.

I use Mastodon more often: hachyderm.io/@vania but I will keep an eye on Bluesky as well.