Sheila Allen
@sheilatronica.bsky.social
She/her, fan of many sf books and authors esp queer & progressive books.
Distrust oligarchic narratives when they divide us. Solidarity is survival. Nonviolent resistance works best. Keep hope alive!
Distrust oligarchic narratives when they divide us. Solidarity is survival. Nonviolent resistance works best. Keep hope alive!
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Sheila Allen
@sheilatronica.bsky.social
· Apr 29
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“Why Civil Resistance Works” makes a persuasive counterpoint to the myth that violence is the only thing that works in deposing fascist regimes. Rigorous analysis shows the opposite is true, with nonviolent resistance campaigns, far out, performing violent resistance.
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RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
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Google is helping Donald Trump unconstitutionally hunt down immigrants, lying about ICE being a "vulnerable group" and blocking apps that helped people share ICE sightings.
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Google is helping Donald Trump unconstitutionally hunt down immigrants, lying about ICE being a "vulnerable group" and blocking apps that helped people share ICE sightings.
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
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The European Parliament has approved the EU’s first Soil Monitoring Law, creating a continent-wide system to track soil health and clean up contaminated sites. The law marks a historic first step toward tackling the EU’s soil degradation crisis. buff.ly/z9RgNur
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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European Parliament seals the deal of first-ever EU law on soils
Today, EU lawmakers listened to citizens and science and rubber stamped the deal on the Soil Monitoring Law, the EU’s first ever law on soil health, after months of negotiations.
buff.ly
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The European Parliament has approved the EU’s first Soil Monitoring Law, creating a continent-wide system to track soil health and clean up contaminated sites. The law marks a historic first step toward tackling the EU’s soil degradation crisis. buff.ly/z9RgNur
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#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Fun fact:
Musk's pay package would be equal to the cost of SNAP (i.e., helping 42 million people to buy food) for TEN YEARS.
Musk's pay package would be equal to the cost of SNAP (i.e., helping 42 million people to buy food) for TEN YEARS.
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Fun fact:
Musk's pay package would be equal to the cost of SNAP (i.e., helping 42 million people to buy food) for TEN YEARS.
Musk's pay package would be equal to the cost of SNAP (i.e., helping 42 million people to buy food) for TEN YEARS.
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ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.
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“[T]he liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism...”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to Congress, Apr 29 1938
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/me...
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to Congress, Apr 29 1938
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/me...
Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies. | The American Presidency Project
www.presidency.ucsb.edu
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“[T]he liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism...”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to Congress, Apr 29 1938
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/me...
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to Congress, Apr 29 1938
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/me...
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This is a great idea!
Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production (Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us)
by Matt Seybold This essay originally appeared on Matt Seybold’s The American Vandal Substack. We are grateful for his generous permission to republish it here. An understandable response to …
moneyontheleft.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This is a great idea!
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Yes, state and municipal “blue bonds” are a really powerful fiscal tool to enable progressive & green programs despite federal interference, sonething everyone should know about & talk to our reps about: pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/f...
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Yes, state and municipal “blue bonds” are a really powerful fiscal tool to enable progressive & green programs despite federal interference, sonething everyone should know about & talk to our reps about: pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/f...
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I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
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Not even 24 hours after the Democratic Party utterly sweeps Election Day, four Democratic Senators vote to confirm Caleb Orr as an Assistant Secretary of State.
Voting yea were Chris Coons (DE), John Fetterman (PA), Maggie Hassan (NH), and Jeanne Shaheen (NH). Angus King (I-ME) also voted yea.
Voting yea were Chris Coons (DE), John Fetterman (PA), Maggie Hassan (NH), and Jeanne Shaheen (NH). Angus King (I-ME) also voted yea.
November 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Not even 24 hours after the Democratic Party utterly sweeps Election Day, four Democratic Senators vote to confirm Caleb Orr as an Assistant Secretary of State.
Voting yea were Chris Coons (DE), John Fetterman (PA), Maggie Hassan (NH), and Jeanne Shaheen (NH). Angus King (I-ME) also voted yea.
Voting yea were Chris Coons (DE), John Fetterman (PA), Maggie Hassan (NH), and Jeanne Shaheen (NH). Angus King (I-ME) also voted yea.
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This is a very good sign about his understanding of what good governance involves
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team | TechCrunch
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
techcrunch.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This is a very good sign about his understanding of what good governance involves
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If you find yourself losing patience with someone, remember that they are an ape adrift in an alien world, born into a struggle they did not choose, taunted by impulses they cannot control, searching for answers they will not find, and condemned to a fate they do not deserve.
November 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
If you find yourself losing patience with someone, remember that they are an ape adrift in an alien world, born into a struggle they did not choose, taunted by impulses they cannot control, searching for answers they will not find, and condemned to a fate they do not deserve.
This is how it often goes with progressive wins, and why we need to hold the line and push back to limit the power of oligarchs and their thralls.
The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is how it often goes with progressive wins, and why we need to hold the line and push back to limit the power of oligarchs and their thralls.
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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
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Per @votehub.com , this is perhaps the biggest sign of what happened tonight. In Union City, an 82% Hispanic City in Hudson County, Sherrill received more voted in AN OFF YEAR than Harris did last year.
2024 President: D+17, 11,316-7,940
2025 Governor: D+68.8 13,304-2,402
2024 President: D+17, 11,316-7,940
2025 Governor: D+68.8 13,304-2,402
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Per @votehub.com , this is perhaps the biggest sign of what happened tonight. In Union City, an 82% Hispanic City in Hudson County, Sherrill received more voted in AN OFF YEAR than Harris did last year.
2024 President: D+17, 11,316-7,940
2025 Governor: D+68.8 13,304-2,402
2024 President: D+17, 11,316-7,940
2025 Governor: D+68.8 13,304-2,402
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Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality.
Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.
Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality.
Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.
Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.
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this is genuinely wild
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
this is genuinely wild
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whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win
Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor’s race.
November 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win
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November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
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Not so shocking if you consider the hundreds of thousands of federal workers in Virginia who the president completely shat on.
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Not so shocking if you consider the hundreds of thousands of federal workers in Virginia who the president completely shat on.
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“Putting a powerful surveillance tool like this in the hands of state & local law enforcement officials around the country will only further erode peoples’ Fourth Amendment rights, for citizens & non-citizens alike,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @404Media.co.
www.404media.co/cbp-quietly...
www.404media.co/cbp-quietly...
CBP Quietly Launches Face Scanning App for Local Cops To Do Immigration Enforcement
The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.
www.404media.co
November 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“Putting a powerful surveillance tool like this in the hands of state & local law enforcement officials around the country will only further erode peoples’ Fourth Amendment rights, for citizens & non-citizens alike,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @404Media.co.
www.404media.co/cbp-quietly...
www.404media.co/cbp-quietly...
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The next Governor of Virginia! 🏳️⚧️
November 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The next Governor of Virginia! 🏳️⚧️
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My father-in-law started voting Democratic, and hasn't stopped since, because of Cheney's use of torture at Guantanamo. My father-in-law is proof that people can learn and change, and some do. And Cheney is a reminder that you can and should judge people by their deeds.
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
My father-in-law started voting Democratic, and hasn't stopped since, because of Cheney's use of torture at Guantanamo. My father-in-law is proof that people can learn and change, and some do. And Cheney is a reminder that you can and should judge people by their deeds.