Periodic reminder: Hate takes effort to maintain.
If it weren't for constant effort by fashy people to lie about Black folk, Brown folk, women, immigrants, trans folk, etc, that most people would choose *not* to support fashy people.
Fascism requires an ongoing cost. Kindness is free!
And kindness is not weakness.
If you see fashy people attacking Black people, or immigrants, or trans folk, it's not kindness to say, "We should all get along!"🤡
That's weakness.
It's kindness to put yourself between the people with less power than yourself, and the people that want to hurt them.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu responding to Pam Bondi's threats.
This. This is how it's done.
https://content.boston.gov/sites/default/files/file/2025/08/Response%20AG%20Bondi.pdf
"The hurrier I go the behinder I get."
Saw that apocryphal Alice in Wonderland quote a lot as a kid (hanging on a plaque in the kitchen iirc), and it didn't mean much to me then.
But it's on my mind CONSTANTLY as I've gotten older.