BeTheChange

Showing up for racial justice, women’s & LGBTQI rights, gun safety, Medicare4All, and all the good things that lift us up together. She/her Be the change...

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

We hope the good people of #SanFrancisco will forgive us for adapting a song about their city in 1967 to address the shocking and tragic events in #Minnesota in recent weeks. This is dedicated to Renée Good and Alex Pretti, and in solidarity. Our version is called "Minnesota" ❤️

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨A video is going viral showing a sign language interpreter the moment Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey told ICE to “get the f*ck out of Minneapolis.”

She understood the assignment.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is Judge Bruce Romanick, the judge who struck down North Dakota’s abortion ban and potentially saved the lives of thousands of women.

RETWEET to thank Judge Romanick for his heroic actions!

[Ted Corcoran (RedTRaccoon) @RedTRaccoon]

People who filled the Greensboro Coliseum to capacity...

The Rolling Stones
Bruce Springsteen
Prince
Beyoncé
Taylor Swift
Elton John
Paul McCartney

...and VP Kamala Harris

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

Fuck Donald Trump

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The west is a dystopian wasteland of moral degeneracy.

Usually when you hear a white person talk about moral decay it's some wingnut denouncing LGBTQ rights or women's reproductive rights or whatever, but that's not what I mean. I'm talking about real things here.

The real moral decay of our society is illustrated in the way all mainstream political candidates can openly support war crimes currently being inflicted on people in the global south without being immediately removed from power. The way monstrous war criminals of past administrations can endorse a liberal candidate without causing self-proclaimed progressives to recoil from that candidate in horror. The way you can have the two viable candidates for the world's most powerful elected position both pledge to continue an active genocide without instantly sparking a revolution.

The moral degeneracy of this civilization looks like living lives of relative comfort built on the backs of workers in the global south whose labor and resources are extracted from their nations at profoundly exploitative rates, while raining military explosives on impoverished populations who dare to disobey the dictates of our government, day after day, year after year, decade after decade, and acting like this is all fine and normal.

Being born into western civilization is like waking up in the middle of a massive lynch mob. Something terrible is happening, and everyone's going along with it and telling you it's fine and it's normal, and even if you're able to figure out that what they're doing is wrong in all the chaos and confusion you find yourself powerless to stop them, because the whole thing has so much momentum already and there are far too many people blindly caught up in the frenzy of bloodlust for you to make everyone change course. Even just continuing to live among them makes you complicit in their actions in many ways, but you have nowhere else to go besides this lynch mob town you were born into. So you just move to the fringes of the mob and share your objections with the few people who will listen to you.

Our civilization is cruel and savage, but we compartmentalize away from its cruelty and savagery and laugh at our sitcoms and vapid comedians and make believe the worst things happening politically in our society are the mainstream culture war wedge issues that pundits and politicians prefer to keep us talking about. We live out our lives sedated by entertainment and social media and food and pharmaceuticals while genocide, nuclear brinkmanship and ecocide unfold all around us, thinking ourselves good and virtuous if we are kind to our pets and hold the correct opinions about racial justice and vaccines.

If we as a society were actually good, none of this would be happening. Moral clarity would find all this intolerable, and would reject it and eject it by any means necessary. Which is why the powerful pour so much energy into keeping us all sedated and confused. A lot of power and wealth rides on our lack of moral clarity.

There is much wealth to be gained by exploiting labor and extracting resources around the world. There is much power to be secured by murdering, starving and terrorizing any population which refuses to bow to the interests of the western empire. This is why the western empire has the most sophisticated propaganda machine ever devised: because so much wealth and power depends on ensuring the west remains in a state of moral degeneracy, and that westerners do not regard the citizenry of the global south as fully human.

I personally reject religion, not because I'm some fedora-wearing wanker who makes fun of people for believing in God, but because I reject all aspects of the profoundly sick culture I was born into. Because I don't resonate with religion I often feel myself pulling away from religious-sounding jargon framing the actions of the western empire as "demonic" or calling the US "the great Satan" — but at the same time I completely understand it. When I see the inside of a child's skull for the hundredth time next to video footage of IDF soldiers mockingly dressed in the clothes of dead or displaced Palestinian women and playing with the toys of dead or displaced children while western podium pontiffs pretend to believe the military they're arming has done nothing wrong, I do struggle to find adjectives strong enough to describe what I am looking at. Maybe "demonic" is as close as you can get, even if you don't believe in actual biblical demons.

That's what I'm talking about when I say the west is a wasteland of moral degeneracy. The type of civilization which would allow its government to do things like this necessarily has a collective conscience that has been so warped and twisted by propaganda and self-interest that it's the same as not having a conscience at all. If you can't regard the vast majority of the population of this planet as fully human and equal to yourself, then morally speaking you're no better than the perpetrators of slavery and genocide we've been taught to judge negatively in history class.

And that's the norm here. It's what we were born into. It's what we spend all our lives being trained to accept as normal.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

A St. Louis County judge rejects attempt to free a man who prosecutors now believe is innocent of a 1998 murder.

Marcellus Williams is set to be executed on Sept. 24

https://t.co/MtLnVCINtZ

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

New story about the Haitians in Springfield, OH, where the cat hoax originated. CEO of McGregor Metal: “I wish I had 30 more. Our Haitians come to work every day. They don’t have a drug problem. They’ll stay at their machine. That’s a stark difference from what we’re used to.”

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

Let’s welcome Republicans for Harris, a growing group, with open arms. Thank you for putting country first.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Live footage of guy in charge of cutting the mics:

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

BREAKING: Mark Hamill has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.
Let’s go.

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

Ironically, the only person on that stage who supports Post term abortions is Donald Trump in the form of school shootings that he says we have to just “get over”

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Kamala Harris: “Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people, and he is apparently having a very difficult time processing that.” #Debate2024 #peopleforkamala

[Olivia Julianna 🇺🇸🦅🗳️ @0liviajulianna]

“There is no state in the country where it is legal to kill a baby after it is born.” -ABC moderator to Donald Trump.

This is ACTUAL FACTUAL JOURNALISM. THANK YOU ABC 👏🏻

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

Over the course of my grandfather's lifetime, he gifted and "loaned" Donald $413 million. And Donald still declared bankruptcy 6 times. He failed so badly that the banks needed to put him on a $425,000-a-month allowance.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Who will you vote for?

Voter: Kamala Harris

Reporter: Were you Democrats before?

Voter: I’m a Republican

Reporter: Why are you voting the other way?

Voter: Because she behaves more like a human

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

The most important thing to know about Allan Lichtman predicting that Harris will win in November is that his predictions don’t mean a damn thing unless we do our jobs.

Ignore the noise. Don’t get complacent. Just vote.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This video of Donald Trump singing “It wasn’t me” is now TRENDING.

Can we get #ItWasntMe trending to the top?

[Gretchen Whitmer @gretchenwhitmer]

No one wants to wake up the day after Election Day thinking we could've done more to win at the ballot box.

So I'm asking: can I count on you to rush $10 now to power our work?

Let’s wake up the morning after this election damn tired but damn proud of the work we did.