I am an animal lover.

ICE shot and killed a family dog during a sweep looking for migrants.

Americans, I want you to care about Chop, the dog.

But I want you to care that we live in a Nazi state with white Americans bursting into homes to violently separate families MORE.

Well-informed electorate is a big one!

It's not woke to be educated. The right just says that because an educated electorate naturally rejects authoritarianism and they can't have that!

#mandatorycivicsclasses

@govpritzker.illinois.gov is all talk at this point. ACAB

“A lot of crime these days is driven by poverty and those issues can't be solved by throwing more money at cops, unless the goal is criminalizing poor people.”

For my newsletter today, I wrote about the American police state and how Democrats are going to have to kill it if they have any hope of rebuilding from the authoritarian Trump regime. www.burnsnotice.com/democrats-mu...

I say it all of the time because it's true. On the whole, we aren't brave as individuals. But there's strength in numbers.

you cannot "abuse" your rights.

civil rights either are protected and real or they are not.

This!

Proudly support (damn autocorrect)

I’d have voted for Warren if she’d have had the chance. There are plenty of black women that I would probably support and vote for. Harris was never on that list.

Again I ask, what qualified her as a progressive presidential candidate? She would have been a Republican in the 80’s.

So much of this!

We were never really free anyway. Not until we wrestle with our past and acknowledge our sins against our own humanity can we have a future of freedom and justice.

We ALL matter, or none of us do!

How was she qualified?

Freshman Senator, a mediocre attorney general who prioritized police over people?

That she was the token VP to make an old white dude seem relatable to a diverse audience?

What did she do that actually made her a good candidate?

We need real leadership, real choices!

Tears in my eyes to hear full-throated support for trans people

i am literally never not tapping the "we need to fund public education and open the schools" sign. there is no moment or topic in which the dearth of basic reading comprehension is not a major force preventing any deeper discussion. a lot of people are functionally meat-based LLMs who parrot tokens.

I wish people in this country would be honest about the country.

Neoliberals cannot counter fascism because actually countering fascism would put their power, prestige and money at risk as fully dealing with the threat of fascism and white power is a threat to the entire system of governance in most western countries

It's not mutual aid because that person's not part of your community apparently even though you see them online, but why don't people get that we must expand our notion of community & get out of who white capitalism says is it is even to band together to get through our fascist predicament.

This is Trump's America

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There’s more than enough of every damn thing that’s ever been thought of to go around and around and around.

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It’s about creating community, the kind of community you want to see. Do you want to live in a community where everyone is only interested in themselves, or one that helps its members?

I am a little curious about this get rich thing, cause we could really use some funding. There is a lot more need in my community than we as a small group can possibly address. That doesn’t stop us from trying to, but resources are always needed.

It’s a way to be an active part of solutions rather than problems. It takes you away from your comfortable little bubble and into the lives of others. Mutual Aid is an opportunity to help your neighbors and get some perspective on what’s really important at the same time.

A lot of the blame here falls on the Democratic Party, which is (to use a technical term) mad up of pathetic lily-livered cowards who tremble uncontrollably in fear at the idea of any kind of public confrontation with the Trump administration on any issue beyond a self-selected Dull Policy Dispute.

The reason the ICE videos aren’t producing a backlash of that scale (yet) is that our institutional elites are deeply committed to ignoring them, which both reduces their spread and reduces the sense that this is something important we SHOULD be freaking out about.