Robin Renée (@spiritrockssexy) and Wendy Sheridan speak for the first time after the election. How do we cope, prepare, develop communities that are now more important than ever?
Listen to Four-Year Blanket Fort (Ep 168): https://t.co/i9vT21wliJ
Kamala Harris didn't lose, America did.
As a nation, we collectively failed her—and in doing so we failed girls and women, the LGBTQ community, people of color, Muslims, Jewish people, immigrants, the sick, the poor, the elderly, the people of Ukraine, and Gaza, and the planet.
It's unthinkable, that instead of being able to celebrate a beautiful, hopeful new chapter in the story of this nation with a leader who appealed to the best of our natures—we will instead be holding a postmortem for democracy as we enter our 250th year, stewarded by a malevolent sociopath who despises empathy and shuns the law.
I truly thought we were better than this, that our shared humanity would show up. I thought we would reject this hatred and ugliness once and for all.
I hate being wrong about the majority of the people of this nation.
I don't know what's ahead. All I know is that good-hearted human beings are more necessary now than ever.
We did all that we could to avoid this moment, but now that it's here we'll just have to decide who we will be.
There is no way to comprehend or measure how grievous an error this is, but the only thing the decent people of this nation can do is wake up tomorrow and fight like hell for what we still believe is worth the fight, and we will.
I'll be doing that with whoever has the strength to join me.
I'm mourning the country we could have been and the one we apparently are—but I refuse to give up believing that compassion is the right path, that diversity makes us better, and that love is greater than fear.
If, like me, you're waking with strong feelings of sadness & fear for the future: you're in my thoughts. Pls care for yourself & others.
Then redouble your efforts to support the advocacy orgs that support us. We need them now more than ever & their work just got so much harder.
Our latest show! Workers' advocate Lemalé Torres speaks with Wendy Sheridan about Project 2025, its plans for labor laws from a union perspective, what it has to say about education, families, and more. Listen: https://t.co/1tROrOl9XQ
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov 5th. VOTE!
Attorney Ivo Becica reads and interprets what Project 2025 says about Labor and Employment... so we don't have to. But DO listen and share! https://t.co/DXBbNZQjCH
Jimmy Carter's first vote for president was Harry Truman and he has clung to life at 100 years old to help us elect @KamalaHarris.
I don't wanna hear anyone's excuses for not voting.
Organizer and activist @lisavandever returns to The Leftscape with great info and motivation for getting out the vote locally and nationally. Listen, get inspired, get active! https://t.co/0rgCtwabIl
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