^^ "Because I'm here tell you, you are going to paint what you're looking at, and if we don't start coming up with something better than these female, martyred saints, were all going to end up at the stake...The rules haven't changed and the institutions haven't changed" (2/2)
In case you aren’t paying attention to the latest in Texas…
She has since been given “permission” to go to her office inside the Capitol building but is still not being permitted to leave the building without a police escort.
Reminder: She has broken zero laws.
Thanks to Senate Republicans, 17 million people will lose their health care.
Thanks to Senate Republicans, rural hospitals will close.
Thanks to Senate Republicans, three million Americans, including veterans and seniors, will lose food assistance.
Thanks to Senate Republicans, families will see their energy bills go up by $400 a year.
Senate Republicans are doing all of this and more — hurting working people across our nation — in order to pay for $1 trillion in tax cuts for billionaires.
There is still time to stop this bill before it passes in the House. Call 202-224-3121 and tell your representative to vote no.
I’ve been reflecting on this over the past day or so, and I’ve come to a realization.
Many of my friends on the center-right who are upset with me for making what I believe to be very obvious observations aren’t necessarily angry at me—they’re angry at the implications of what I’m saying.
The idea that neo-Nazism has entered the mainstream, potentially influencing the White House, is so alarming and existentially terrifying that it's easier to lash out at the messenger than confront the reality.
If they accept this, it means that the political home they've invested so much of their identity in, the movement they've championed for years, has become something so morally repugnant that accepting it feels like breaking their own brain.
The cognitive dissonance is overwhelming.
What's striking to me is the selective outrage. Many of these same people are quick to call everyone communists, often with little more than circumstantial evidence.
Yet, when it comes to countless instances of glaringly obvious signs of fascism in their own movement, they either look away or attack those pointing it out.
all i can say is live. you have to live. if you’re trans, queer, a woman, bipoc, disabled, an immigrant: you must live. we have to support each other. we have to be visible and loud if and when we can. and above all else we have to live