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Do NOT vandalize Flock cameras on Halloween when everyone is wearing masks and costumes that can be easily switched between, without a cellphone to track location, making it impossible to identify anyone

Gonna put this here and proceed to ignore all the angry/you’re just jealous/she’s a hero/you’re a misogynist/kill yourself comments her rabid fans will drop, like always.

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Through intimate, authentic storytelling, filmmaker Chloé Zhao became the first woman of color and the second woman ever to win the Academy Award for Best Director. Our stories deserve to be told.

Photo of Chloé Zhao holding an Oscar with a quote attributed to her on the graphic for Women's History Month: "This is for anyone who has the faith and the courage to hold on to the goodness in themselves, and to hold on to the goodness in each other."

I have really come to believe that we'd be in a much better place right now if we had put Nixon away in a dingy cell for the rest of his natural life, instead of the slap on the wrist for being naughty that he actually received.

Mutual Aid by Dean Spade is free on Libro for the next week (until 2/2).  We know that books can't fix everything, but they can help us show up for and strengthen our communities. Our employee book club read this last year, leading to a great discussion. We hope that it helps others do the same 💗 ⏬

I think it's important to boost news of the general strike in Minneapolis today and it's possible to do it without the hyperbole that nobody in the media is covering it It may not be getting the attention it deserves! Posting links to reported stories is one way to combat that!

Economic strike in Minnesota to protest against ICE: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’

Organizers demand ICE leave state and agency be investigated for constitutional violations

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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz@katz.theracket.news · 10mo ago

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.