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Dear all democrats in Congress:
Make compromise with republicans your lowest priority.
Instead, be unwavering in pursuit of guaranteed equal rights for all.
If any moderate republicans still believe in the constitution, let them reach out to you. It’s on them to dig themselves out of the trumphole

Please criticize terrible people for their words and deeds, not for their size, appearance, supposed or actual medical conditions, etc.

You can call out the bad guys without being ableist or punching down, I promise.

Bad guys punch down. Who are you trying to align with?

*It's 2026 and you are all terminally online. Why does this still need saying?

@IndyRichard The BBC has already reported "thousands" in London. Not tens of thousands, or the more accurate hundreds of thousands, just "thousands". Anyone who wasn't there would conclude it was a fairly small protest by the standards of the capitol, and never guess it was the largest antifascist demo in UK history.

The media in this country is diabolical.

Protesters hold a banner reading “End the wars, stop ICE, general strike”. Protesters hold a banner reading "End the wars, stop ICE, general strike" ...
Photos: 'No Kings' Protests Across the Country : The Picture Show - NPR

Another good reason to write #imagedescriptions :

You will look more closely at the image and be less likely to be tricked by an AI generated image. This is also the case for finding the attribution for images where possible.

As we return from all the #NoKings marches, rallies, demos, let's remember one thing:

The goal of this government is not to find undocumented people; the goal is to *make* them.

When that is on the board (and recent Kansas, Tennessee, and other state-level legislation make it clear that it's on the board), peaceful marches aren't going to cut it.

#AimToMisbehave

Crimson-breasted Shrike (Laniarius atrococcineus)…scrub regions of Southern Africa…. forage on the ground for insects. #birds #nature #photo #wildlife #birdsofmastodon

People in gaza will go to sleep in a few hours, and they will not be able to fundraise for themselves in those hours, please take this time to boost their fundraisers with your western friends throughout or outside of the fediverse as our palestinian friends take rest for the day!

Check these two pages out:

1) @gaza_verified_accounts

2) @gaza_verified_campaigns

Tags: #GazaVerified #GazaMutualAid #MutualAid #Crowdfunding #crowdfund #fundraiser #fundraising #gaza #palestine #boost #genocide #war

This morning, Mekka learned that Andy Weir, the person, is a reactionary centrist. I kind of wish he hadn't found out.
Scifi can be funny that way.
The central concept of PHM is "woke". Weir isn't.
Another white dude, Neil Stephenson has always been right-libertarian but most of his fans remember he had gay male characters.
Meanwhile, Scalzi's big break was a remake of an ode to military dictatorship. But, since then, he's put energy into being a good human being.