The number of people who desire changes may be many, but the number of people willing to strive for any such change through sustained work is relatively few. In this sense, everyone doing sustained work belongs to a minority, and to strive for change is always to be in a minority within a majority.

If you want to efficiently cultivate a well-informed, bird's-eye view of the ecosystem of election defense work being done in these fascist times, and which orgs are doing much of it, then read this outstanding piece by Marcy Rein and Sandra Hinson.

Increasing the OIG budget is an important step, but meaningless without a appointing an Inspector General who is not afraid of holding the NYPD accountable and who has a track record of collaborating with organizations working to end police violence. That seat is still empty, 10mos into his admin.

Some days when I feel resentful about having spent years explaining that criminalization is the fuel of fascism which is why we have to reject criminalization, I remember that perhaps the time I say it might be the first time someone has considered the idea. So I keep saying it and keep organizing.

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Today, we honor Indigenous Peoples' culture, history, and resilience to western colonization. We recognize their role as stewards of the land we call home, and call for the return and reparations of their ancestral land.

"You came to our home. You said you would be a different kind of mayor. We feel betrayed by you. Jessica Tisch is your police commissioner. She let Alongi retire without even going through with a trial. It seems like you're just letting this happen." —Notan Eva Costa, mother of Win Rozario

I appreciate your dedication to this program and your sustained fundraising efforts. My cash flow is super-tight until the first week of December, but I commit to making a contribution then.

There are many reasons that I wanted to start a program like REBUILD. Over the years, when incarcerated comrades returned home, they would ask for counseling/therapy resources that were culturally competent. I only ever had a couple of local resources for them when I lived in Chicago.

The demand to prosecute federal agents is problematic because it advocates a carceral approach to address a carceral problem. The other demands, however, are justified and constructive. Publicly pressuring one's elected allies to use governing power to try to stop police collusion with ICE is good.

I think that people who explicitly sign up to DO politics as a JOB should be told at every turn by the people who they represent when they suck at their job.

National Coming Out Day is way deeper than a social media trend. October 11th was chosen because it’s the anniversary of the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.

When I was at Princeton, the reigning assumption in its philosophy dept about the relation b/t language-use + semantics was that the former "represented" the latter. Today, more agree that meaning derives from use; a similar lesson must be now learned about money's politically derived content.