stritasbooks
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she/her Baltimore based traveling bookstore owner, appreciates community, social justice, books, conversation, arts
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Gabe Ortíz“ICE cannot enter your home unless they have a warrant signed by a judge … Most of the time ICE agents will only have warrants signed by ICE officers, and those warrants do not give them permission to enter your home.” https://maketheroadny.org/deportation-defense-manual
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply 
“A Safe Choice is a referral network of caring and experienced medical doctors who provide safe and effective medication abortions to women nationwide.”
Spread the word.
https://asafechoicenetwork.com/
#Abortion #Healthcare #BodyAutonomy #ASafeChoice #AbortionIsHealthcare #BodilyAutonomy #RoeVWade
Dan GillmorScientific American's editor -- who believes in, you know, science -- told some truth about the condition of America and the looming dark ages of the Trump regime. She used language that was inappropriate, and apologized. That should have been the end of it.
She "resigned" soon afterward.
@laurahelmuth's tenure at SciAm was honorable and important. She deserved better, but of course so do we all.
Marcos DioneThis is an experiment. Please boost.
Here's the idea: This post is going first to my followers, then, if they boost it, to other people. This domain has been registered for only this experiment. I should see in my web server's logs when mastodon instances start crawling the site for info. Then maybe also some curious humans.
I just want to play with my monitoring a bit :)
TengrainAbout pointing and laughing at Hair Füror and the 4th Reich: I’ve gotten a fair amount of pushback and how serious the moment is, and so on. All true enough.
If you don’t point and laugh, then you are #NORMALIZING him, just as the media does. If you don’t point out how none of this is rational, then you are helping to #SANEWASH him.
This is what they want and expect. #Laughter is our weapon, remember MAGA doesn’t understand humor, they take themselves seriously.
Bread and CircusesA few excerpts here from a beautifully written, deeply insightful, and ultimately inspiring essay by Chris Hedges…
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In the end, the election was about despair.
Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair over the loss of 30 million jobs in mass layoffs. Despair over austerity programs and the funneling of wealth upwards into the hands of rapacious oligarchs. Despair over a liberal class that refuses to acknowledge the suffering it orchestrated under neoliberalism. Despair over the futile, endless wars, as well as the genocide in Gaza, where generals and politicians are never held accountable. Despair over a democratic system that has been seized by corporate and oligarchic power.
Donald Trump is a symptom of our diseased society. He is not its cause. He is what is vomited up out of decay.
Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party live in their own non-reality-based belief system. Harris, who was anointed by party elites and never received a single primary vote, proudly trumpeted her endorsement by Dick Cheney, a politician who left office with a 13% approval rating.
The smug, self-righteous “moral” crusade against Trump stokes the national reality television show that has replaced journalism and politics. It reduces a social, economic, and political crisis to the personality of Trump. It refuses to confront and name the corporate forces responsible for our failed democracy.
The American dream has become an American nightmare.
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FULL ESSAY ➡️ https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-politics-of-cultural-despair
GlenG🌻 - Support Ukraine“Your impact on other people is bigger than you think. Someone still giggles when they think of that funny thing you said. Someone still smiles when they think of the compliment you gave them.The advice you gave has made a difference for people. The support and love you’ve offered others has made someone’s day. Your input and opinions have made someone think twice. You ARE NOT insignificant or forgotten. Your existence makes a positive difference, whether you see it or not!!” ~A Friend
Heidi Li FeldmanI’ve thought a lot, with dread, about the fact that even if Harris prevails, I have to share a country with all those who vote for Donald. But the show of support for Harris, here and elsewhere, is and will be a powerful reminder that I share the country with millions of people who understand the stakes of this election and the strengths of Kamala Harris.
Nobody, but nobody, knows how the election will turn out. Our job is to do all we can to maximize chances that Democrats up and down the ticket, all across the country, win their races.