you should unionize your workplace

Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.

Many people are unaware that their version of caring behavior are actually attempts at controlling another person.

People pleasing is an a form of unconscious manipulation. Unlearning the habit involves releasing the need to control people's perception of us.

Just a reminder to mainstream newsrooms, especially editors, that at a time of unprecedented attacks on trans people you need trans people in your newsrooms. Trans Journalists Association is a great place to find profoundly qualified trans people ready on day one to go to work.

This is the way.

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I'm stuck waiting on someone, so a quick 🧵I've been meaning to write, pulling together a few strands. In his book The School for Dictators, Ignazio Silone famously called fascism "a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place." There is much wisdom there.

When you are first radicalized, outrage drives you. It is a very powerful fuel and its combustion brings catharsis. However, it cannot persist forever. In time, that energy dwindles and many burn out. It is love, not outrage, that pushes one to fight until death.

HAPPENING NOW: A US militarily vessel destined to take military equipment to Israel is currently at the Port of Oakland. Communities currently protesting and we call on everyone to come out to the port to say enough is enough. No more US weapons to Israel for genocide!

Intergenerational Jewish trauma is holding back good people -- Jewish & non-Jewish -- from rising to the urgency of this moment. We need a basic analysis of power and history to move past the confusion about Oct 7 into action for collective liberation. commondreams.org/opinion/hamas-…

“Turner’s rage was ascribed by Whites to his religious delirium so as to obscure the slave uprising’s real taproot: … the system of bondage that stoked the flames for vengeance.” Nat Turner in Gaza by Norman Finkelstein #FreePalestine normanfinkelstein.substack.com/p/nat-turner-i…

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Hey good people, White women…let’s have a chat. Come talk with me tonight on the Showing Up for Racial Justice call at 7pm ET. RSVP here: mobilize.us/surj/event/652… #SPREADTHEWORD

All imprisonment is political.