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he/him | @cal grad | @nyt bestselling reader | i tweet a lot about race, economic justice, climate change, & inequality

[cesar @PleaseRuiz]

Mom I am in the @nytimes!

Had the chance to talk about SCOTUS becoming an authoritarian institution and taking for granted how quickly it could reverse the rights it once codified for us all

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

If Bernie's 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $1.2 trillion that he's worth today.

Elon would still be the wealthiest man alive & every family in America would have universal childcare.

[da fuq dude @alledegedly_me]

I don’t like the new subway car displays telling you which car/ side of the station you are closest to. Eliminates the knowledge gap between ball knowers and non-ball knowers

[✮ راينر براون @dondawastaken]

Never forget that you are the main data center. Drink water, and consume as much literature as possible.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani mocks Ronald Reagan’s infamous quote.

“I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’”

“I worked all day and can’t feed my family.”

[cesar @PleaseRuiz]

so wholesome 🥺😭

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Had a blast with @girlscoutsnyc in Astoria yesterday 🍪✨ Thank you to the girls of Troop 4883 for inviting me!

We’re trying out something new 🎥 as we bring you along for district work period in New York!

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Abdul El-Sayed: “We spent $25B on this war in Iran nobody in the US asked for. We could eliminate all of the medical debt in the whole country for $2.5B. We could abolish the medical debt in this country 10x for what we spent on a war we should have never fought”

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

it’s very hard for me not to appreciate the way platner communicates on this stuff. absolutely miles ahead of the current party. perhaps this is why they love him in maine.

[onion person @CantEverDie]

notice how the “tent is big” until it has to include the left wing of the party

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

A man who has never seen war and never will, cheering this on from a comfortable perch in Washington.

Every Senator who fails to stop this war should lose their seat, starting with @SenSusanCollins and @SenFettermanPA.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Cynics and defeatists share the same story as authoritarians do: that nothing is worth trying, the conclusion is foregone, hope is naïve, and attempts to resist are too small or futile.

Don’t listen to them. Do not give up. Try. A better world is possible. We will win. We must.

[cesar @PleaseRuiz]

@mtuohy @kcoleman of all the things on the social internet that should be shamelessly copied everywhere it’s this!

[cesar @PleaseRuiz]

dream scenario: under this new system every justice (D or R to be fair 😉) is retroactively kicked off the court and blasted with @Nickelodeon slime on their way out

[cesar @PleaseRuiz]

don’t even need to pack the court, instead new law: only presidents who won the popular vote can nominate justices to the supreme court

less polarizing, easier sell, & in the future if a Republican nominates an extremist to the court we deserve it for popularly electing them

[cesar @PleaseRuiz]

@jaeebay im going to be saying saturday in the moment “THESE ARE THE DAYS”

[cesar @PleaseRuiz]

@jaeebay i say this every sunday morning to the group chat when recapping the degeneracy of the night before

[Zachary Bleemer @zbleemer]

Here's a thread summarizing what happened after California banned affirmative action in 1998, including the long-run labor market effects of the ban.

The peer-reviewed study is here: https://t.co/b0zauUXrsa

[cesar @PleaseRuiz]

An end to affirmative action in higher education*

*unless your mom went to the same school, your parents coincidentally promise to donate $100K when you attend, your dad was in the same frat as the dean of admissions, or you’re recruited to join the equestrian golf team

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court rules colleges and universities must stop considering race in admissions, putting an end to affirmative action in higher education. https://t.co/qCOtkgbxQO

[cesar @PleaseRuiz]

@HanaSeligman u gotta train harder next time

while u were out at barry’s some of us were putting in THE WORK at the gym with two plates of bolognese at pasta sisters

[The Bay @TheBayKQED]

🗂FROM THE ARCHIVES🗂

With the recent spate of deadly shootings in the Bay, we’re re-upping this episode about efforts in Oakland to invest in arts and culture as a way to stop gun violence.

Town Nights picks back up tonight. Hear more about it:
https://t.co/rA0U1gGd7J

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Let's take a moment to talk about this.

There is a full-throated purge effort going on here by the far-right that we have not seen for decades.

They are on a boycott binge and cancel crusade, trying to eliminate the existence of minority communities.

Burning Flags. Banning Books. We have seen this before.

And it’s happening everywhere, all across the country.

Woke has become just another a dog whistle.

We must continue to call out hate when we see it, as they keep trying to normalize it. If we go silent, this will only get worse. We cannot become numb to this. https://t.co/dqSP84RaZi