The Sparrow

“You gotta try to understand the grandness of the man behind the petty crimes and let him off easy sometimes”

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

That the internet's most viral videos so often entail human's emotions for animals of all kinds - not just dogs and cats - says a great deal about our natural relationship with them. If we were just meant to torture and exploit them, we wouldn't feel this empathy and connection.

[PandaDog 🚩🏴 @R6Rider]

“why don’t you ever attack Republicans?”

i’m punching right, baby. tell the Democrats to stop standing there.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This is what one does if one wants to actually win: find ways to make your cause transcend dreary, archaic right/left boxes. So many causes appeal to humans as humans, not partisan cartoons.

But there's so much incentive - in media & activism - to keep people divided, and lose.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

You could also have Congress -- which your party controls -- enact the laws that you want, including on climate, abortion and guns. That's another possibility.

[Natalie Shure @nataliesurely]

The people whose abortion rights are threatened most are at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Banning abortion is class war from above; the way to fight it is class war from below. The vehicle for that is organized labor

[The Sparrow @hollerinsparrow]

@mindyisser https://t.co/S15tP8UB1B

[catherine liu @bureaucatliu]

More and more people come here to flex. Twitter storms help NO ONE. Please remember that and choose JOY. Lol…

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Is there an inconsistency between (a) left-liberals insisting that the climate crisis is the greatest and most existential threat to humanity, and (b) their refusal to stop consuming beef, the one behavioral change they could make in their lives that actually requires sacrifice?

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Just FYI if you’re calling Noam Chomsky a corrupt sellout, I don’t really know how to help you.

[Seerut K. Chawla @seerutkchawla]

It’s a big mistake to assume people you don’t agree with have nothing of value to say.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Read this. What are we doing? https://t.co/aO6RUiR6hZ

[The Sparrow @hollerinsparrow]

@ryangrim @nataliesurely

[Kat Rosenfield @katrosenfield]

this thread has convinced me of the importance of abortion rights and also that nobody should ever get pregnant for any reason

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Holy shit this headline

[[email protected] @bb_apes]

you might be having a bad day, but just remember, there’s someone out there who has the cilantro soap gene and at least you’re not them

[catherine liu @bureaucatliu]

Where is the pro Medicare for All, anti-war movement I can join?

[The Sparrow @hollerinsparrow]

Show Me Where Susan Sarandon Hurt You https://t.co/tOL6o2R8hK

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Everyone's anti-war until the war propaganda starts. Nobody thinks of themselves as a warmonger, but then the spin machine gets going and before you know it they're spouting all the programmed slogans and waving the flags and consenting to whatever the imperial war machine wants.