Thank you, Lydia, for bringing Thucydides and Hannah Arendt into it. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/o...
Opinion | Trump Has Done More Than Misjudge Iran
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Very excited for this panel I'm doing with Diane Dimassa and Jen Camper at the Brooklyn Book Festival on 9/21! @bkbookfest brooklynbookfestival.org/event/alison...
Alison Bechdel & Diane DiMassa In Conversation - Brooklyn Book Festival
Giants of queer cartooning, Alison Bechdel and Diane DiMassa have lived through and responded to decades of warmongering, anti-feminist rhetoric, and oppression. Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan: Homici...
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"...so what this really suggests is that people power isn’t just about a huge number of people being in the streets but about the building of pressure and momentum." www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTck...
Erica Chenoweth - Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know
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Just had whiplash reading the NYT. First, a powerful Opinion Video featuring three professors leaving the country because of the fascist onslaught. And then, a little straight-up fascist onslaught in a Guest Essay by RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz about how welfare recipients must be forced to work.
Heading out in a month on my book tour for SPENT. Check here for dates and links to events!
Dykes to Watch Out For » Blog Archive » SPENT book tour!
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If you haven't yet seen this doc about the remarkable lesbian activist Sally Gearhart, you must do so immediately! www.sallygearhartfilm.com?ss_source=ss...
SALLY!
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So great to see this amazing poem by Robin Becker in The New Yorker!
Rümeysa Ozturk, the Tufts doctoral student abducted by ICE on March 25, will have her hearing at the Post Office building in Burlington at 9:30 this Monday. Come stand with, and witness for her. 9:30am Monday, April 14th, at 11 Elmwood Ave., Burlington. You can also donate to her legal defense here:
Justice for Rümeysa Öztürk
Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,
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How would $880 billion in Medicaid cuts affect people with disabilities? That translates to a loss in home and community-based services (HCBS) for 4.5 million people. HCBS programs help people live independently, rather than be institutionalized. Learn more: bit.ly/BeyondHealth_Disability
Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in Vermont with his family this weekend and will be skiing at Sugarbush Resort... kottke.org/25/03/jd-van...
Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter
JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in
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These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."
The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...
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Protesters Display Upside-Down American Flag at Yosemite www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...
Protesters Display Upside-Down American Flag at Yosemite
Organizers said the inverted flag, historically used as a sign of distress, was meant to draw attention to the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Park Service.
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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
Deb Chachra@debcha.bsky.social · 2y agoOccasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.