About "nonviolence"—
The definition of "violence" is not neutral.
What counts as violence is determined by those who control public discourse. This is why police can terrorize people without it registering as violence, while the slightest act of community defense is framed as "violence."
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Putting up a fierce fight at the opening of the poem is the way to stop the rest of the poem from coming true.
The fight for migrants and to stop ICE is the same fight as the fight to protect LGBT people (citizens or not), reproductive autonomy, and everyone else the fascists want to fuck with.
And I try my best, to not get depressed, to get out of bed early, drink coffee, get dressed. And be happy throughout every miserable day, but most of all to love everything in a world that I hate.
(NYT) - President Trump, furious about delays in delivering two new Air Force One jets, has empowered Elon Musk to explore drastic options to prod Boeing to move faster, including relaxing security clearance standards for some who work on the presidential planes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...
Look I agree that Elon Musk appears to be on a lot of drugs every time he appears in public. That's not very interesting to me. I'm more interested in how many drugs he can do at once. I think he could probably do more than anyone ever. I bet he could take way more than the doctors say is safe.
This is so important! Ever since 2021 I've been mourning for the world that would be, if everyone got their flu vaccine every year. We could be reducing transmission exponentially.
Breaking news: State attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise Trump's EO banning trans care is unlawful, hospitals should provide care.
Big counter salvo!
Very serious Democratic strategists advise the party to allow Trump to illegally dismantle USAID -- a decision that will result in the unnecessary deaths of people around the world.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Remember when South Korean parliament members were barred from a building and they all said "fuck you" and climbed the fences to get in and stop the coup?
Imagine if congress members had the balls...
There basically needs to a Democratic leader on every news show, every online platform, every street corner from now until 2026 telling Americans that Republicans are weird fascist freaks who want to actively kill them. That's like the bare minimum strategy here. Just flood the zone.