Neuropsychologist with more curiosity than time. She/her. Co-Author of Subcortical Structures and Cognition. Anti-fascist. Neurodivergent. Cis is not a slur. Pfp by @jonrosenberg.bsky.social
folks, the news out of france is an unalloyed good and I'm begging you to remember what it feels like to experience the kind of joy that drives you forward even if it doesn't end all the suffering.
This was always true. This has always been true for every marginalized community in every single only these “advanced democracies.” Welcome to the world your privilege has shielded you from. This is life outside the cave.
How do we adjust to a world where major democracies have long-term viable fascist parties? It feels like we'll just be having existential election after existential election, and we have to win every time whereas they only have to win once.
BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.
The opting out is especially wild
Like, Republican governors are being actively presented with money to feed kids and affirmatively saying 'I would like children to starve actually'
(Also, if I'm a Dem campaigner, I'm making some ads and placing some op eds about this immediately)
The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer
Yes, I absolutely do think over half the country cares about having their basic human rights taken away by a bunch of authoritarian freaks.
For Christ’s sake, Project 2025 calls for banning PORN.
We can get voters mad about this.
Drove into New Hampshire today, and immediately saw a “Democrats Will Protect Your Reproductive Rights” billboard with an American flag and a bald eagle on it, from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC).
Excellent work. More of that please.
mutual aid is about politicized survival. lots of people leave out the POLITICIZED part and that's a problem cuz without that part it's not mutual aid.
The French left formed a coalition in THREE WEEKS and basically made every pundit look like clowns and rendered the polling almost meaningless.
It is possible.
Breaking: A left-wing coalition is on course to win the most seats in France’s legislative election in a surprise blow to far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s hopes of forming the next government
Read more: bloom.bg/frenchelection
I think a lot about how the Nazis were voted into office. But that outcome wasn't inevitable—people could've made a different choice. Fascism is like a vampire; you must first invite it inside.
What's weird is how much coverage there was of the surging right and a collapsing center and but no attendant deep coverage of the left? Not even to explain why news orgs seemed to be ignoring it other than stories accusing antisemitism b/v of opposition to Israel policy.
So frustrating.
BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.
I am praying that the Dems take the correct lesson from this win indicating a strong left is essential instead of their usual “we must chase white voters with economic anxiety by embracing right wing talking points”
yeah the obliteration of local news - and the fact that what remains has been hoovered up by Sinclair and private equity - has done more damage than even the national level shitshow