Fish Stark

Executive Director @americnhumanist
Past: M.Ed @harvard, BA @yale, @PeaceFirstOrg,📱startups
Ever: Building a 🌎 where everyone belongs & thrives, 🌊 politics

[Fish Stark @fishstark]

Compassion won't fight for itself, so we have to.

In the middle of the radical religious right's "war on empathy,"' we're giving away $100,000 in grants for Americans to help their neighbors.

America needs more empathy, not less, and we're standing on it.

[Hemant Mehta @hemantmehta]

This is fantastic: The @americnhumanist is giving away $100,000 in grants to spread compassion.

They’re calling it the “American Empathy Project.”

https://t.co/YFl1iXUNWj

[Fish Stark @fishstark]

Seeing lots of left-center CA discussion and no one's mentioning how Aisha Wahab crushed better-funded moderate candidates to dominate the CA-14 primary with WFP, Our Revolution, Progressive Caucus support.

After New Dem hack Swalwell, that seat is moving well to the left.😁

[René 🟥🚩🇵🇸 @rcmoya84]

By the way, if the left in this state ever wants to go anywhere at that scale, it will probably need to run a populist Latino to win

[Fish Stark @fishstark]

@KevinLiao_

[Summer Lee @SummerForPA]

The anti-genocide caucus grows. It indeed remains good policy and good politics!

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

What he hates about his daughter the most is that she’s happy, so he’d rather think of her as dead

[Fish Stark @fishstark]

@JirehGardo @BenShindel I'm pretty sure "objectively the best professors in the world" would prefer to teach at an accredited college, but I'm amazed by your certainty that such a thing could even be objective, which would mean it could be proven - so, please prove it

[tré easton @treeaston]

Two things I particularly enjoy:

1) His utter contempt for Trump and his ilk is palpable, but it’s almost apolitical. It’s moral without being preachy. Tough needle to thread.

2) There is a seriousness here that is woefully missing in our politics today.

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Dems haven't moved on policy but they've clearly adopted Sarah McBride-ism - ie, you don't win rights by telling people they're terrible bigots for not using the right language RIGHT NOW.

[Fish Stark @fishstark]

Personally I am done with the “purity test” crowd on both center & left. Make whatever critiques you want in the primaries. We’re electing Democrats in the general because the alternative is people getting killed. Once there’s a nominee, stop throwing stones unless it’s at MAGA.

[Chris 🏳️‍🌈 🥥🌴Revolution 4 Big Struct. Change @Chris_H_Politic]

We can play the “standards” game. But this would mean that progressive would not vote for the 90% of Democratic candidates who supported the Palestinian genocide.

Centrists need to make a quick decision about if we get to do purity tests or not.

[Fish Stark @fishstark]

@AzelfDaGirl Multiple someones, in fact

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

Swalwell accused of rape by multiple women and of sexual harassment by many more???

[Fish Stark @fishstark]

Love this denunciation of *some* of the systems that treat humans as conditionally worthy! Now do Original Sin and Hell 🥰

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[Fish Stark @fishstark]

This is amazing. Now bring this same energy to making priests mandated reporters for child sex abuse

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Sami Gold @souljagoyteller]

I mean

[Coast Enjoyer @CoastEnjoyer]

The discourse switching seamlessly from "stop eating lunch if you want to afford a home" to "abolish my property taxes because I can't afford it and refuse to change my lifestyle at all" has been interesting to witness.

[Fish Stark @fishstark]

@DanCrenshawTX James Talarico was a middle school social studies teacher. It's like putting Ken Paxton in the ring with a pedophile: he'd be right at home.

[Giacomo Volpe 🌹🤝🌐 @_giacomo_volpe_]

There is an enormous number of comfortable, high propensity voting, socially liberal boomers who fundamentally believe the state is doing great aside from them having to pay too much to insure their enormously valuable untaxed property

They are Becerras people

[Fish Stark @fishstark]

I hope they have ten debates

[The Maine Wire @TheMaineWire]

Senator Collins responds to the scurrilous claim from Graham Platner that she sent him to "die in Iraq."

"That was Platner's decision to serve. He was not drafted."

[Fish Stark @fishstark]

@_parasocial Agreed. And the other 15% is people underestimating it

[Tetralogy of Fallout: New Vegas @_parasocial]

85% of parenting bullshit on here is people expecting behavior far outside of the developmental age/capability of a given child