Dream Defenders

Join the fight against billionaires and be the working-class hero that freedom needs! Together we can protect the future & build safety and a good life for all!

[Dream Defenders @Dreamdefenders]

Today we launch a new fight. 🚀

This one is for the real architects of this country. For every underdog, radical dreamer, and diamond in the rough. 

For the migrant worker. The cook, the mechanic, the poet, the teacher. The farmer. The storyteller. The waitress. The nurse.

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

hell yes to this acceptance speech from Qween Jean, who just became the first openly trans person to ever win a Tony

"We are here for the legacy of queer people. Trans people, we have to take up space. We have to shift the paradigm...the world right now is deeply, deeply combating so many ailments, and we know as a society that when we come together we can make real, permanent change."

Qween won Best Costume Design for a Musical for Cats: The Jellicle Ball

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

holy crap this is easily the best Tony Award speech of the entire night. hell yes to all of this

"This is dedicated to the beautiful tapestry of immigrant families who make this country really special. May you one day not have to audition for the empathy that should be freely given by this country that benefits from your beauty. To the queer and trans communities that always will exist, no matter what people in power try to take away from them. To the people of Palestine who deserve to live a free life – a full life – without occupation. ... If there's one thing we can learn from vampires, it's that life is short, but that's its gift. Find beauty in the ephemeral and gratitude in what is not promised."

—Ali Louis Bourzgui, winning Featured Actor in a Musical for The Lost Boys

[Pitchfork @pitchfork]

.@VinceStaples arms himself with an assault rifle and white paint in his new music video
https://t.co/9udrmVZUYM

[delaney vandergrift @delaneypv15]

“I want more @ZohranKMamdani types of ideals and people who want to changes here…”

on a NC statewide rural organizing call. socialism can live in the south.

[noah @noahalyx]

BLACK socialists at that, since ppl like to pretend that the left is only white people for some reason

[Bre-40 @CatwalkBre]

They are pricing us out of life and y’all solution is just to lock in and make more money.

[Bella @NYsBella]

This is so infuriating because then they’ll turn around and tell you that black people own nothing because we dont make the right investments meanwhile theyre literally stealing from us. This should be bigger news & all of the black people in powerful positions should step in

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a measure into law that gives him along with other Florida leaders the ability to label groups as domestic or foreign terrorist organizations and expel state university students who support them. https://t.co/PTlCBO6lj7

[Kyle @KyleAnthonie]

A UK/Jamaica film collab called “Duppy,” based on Jamaican folklore and set in 1998 Jamaica, has been selected for the Cannes Frontières Platform. Directed by UK-based Ajuán Isaac-George, it marks a rare horror film rooted in local Jamaican folklore. https://t.co/VmTis0WdYr

[Lilith Morningstar @justatmethen]

There are 306 Black-owned bookstores
in the U.S. (and 14 states do not have one). If you are looking for one to support, please go to their website: https://t.co/jlgTxqzyHq

[Noname Book Club @NonameBooks]

Remember, algorithms will always push the most negative images of black people. I’m a rapper and my organization has been sending books to prison for years! We just sent 1200 this month. If you’d like to support our work retweet and join us for $1/month 🤎https://t.co/ucXFOfI0ym

[I appreciate you. @DeeLaSheeArt]

Apparently, The New Yorker ran a story with an illustration of Wunmi Mosaku that was obviously not intended to represent her well, so I redid it real quick in a similar style. Took 15 minutes & a love of Black women ❤️

[Liana: @LianaPlease]

@ItsAllRod @passenger57_ @Dreamdefenders ironically enough your substack proves my point. protests + organization + strikes + boycotts + power mapping = disruption. My critique is that many modern protests never make that transition, yet are treated as if they’re already disruptive.

[rod @ItsAllRod]

@passenger57_ @LianaPlease I understand both sentiments, but I do disagree. Protests work, things are happening after the protest, and new strategies are being created & used effectively. Here’s a Substack on more of what I’m saying. https://t.co/D91WANQDoo

It’s from @Dreamdefenders

[Dream Defenders @Dreamdefenders]

Trump Withdraws the United States from International Organizations that Are “Contrary to the Interests of the United States” https://t.co/46SwOMXU6L

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

In a new post, President Trump is absolving ICE agents for shooting and killing a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis.

His evidence?

A slowed down version of the clip in this post.

It does not absolve the agent.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

You’re lying. There was no attempt to run the officer over and no ICE agents appear to be hurt.

Get out of our city.

[Eric Lee @EricLeeAtty]

Six blocks from where George Floyd was murdered by police in 2020.