🗽🌹 Eric V.

@toleranceleft.bsky.social

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I ♥️ NYC + 🎬 + 🥋
Leftist organizer, primarily for single-payer healthcare / Medicare for All
📍People’s Republic of Astoria / NYC-DSA Queens Branch

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I will never forget the interview, shortly after Ozy Media Inc. was formed, where Carlos Watson said he named it after the poem, because "the lesson you take from [Ozymandias] is that you have to dream big." So that's why liberal arts education is important.

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guess now we know which one's tenacious and which one's just a d

I found this a balm

Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame. Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

Gambling In Casablancawww.the-reframe.com Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.

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"Knowing who to be mad at is praxis." @prisonculture.bsky.social

Some seem to get mad at the wrong people on purpose. It means they don't have to actually fight against those with power. Punching down or laterally can feel like catharsis.

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I think it's helpful to remember that 95% of the people who yell at other people online about voting aren't doing any electoral organizing at all. Yelling online IS what they think organizing is.

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Happy hundredth anniversary of this news headline from The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio. (July 9, 1924.)

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Raising Hell | Sarah Jaffethebaffler.com Jane McAlevey cared about making workers’ lives better in the here and now—not just in some far-off future.

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"The core of organizing is raising expectations." - Jane McAlevey

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Rest in power. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/b...

Jane F. McAlevey, Who Empowered Workers Across the Globe, Dies at 59www.nytimes.com An organizer and author, she believed that a union was only as strong as its members and trained thousands “to take over their unions and change them.”

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Something I am struggling with: cruelty, in all its forms, appeals to a whole hell of a lot of people. There’s not much to the GOP apart from vulgar cruelty and still they’re viable basically everywhere. No hope, no message, no answers… just stepping on vulnerable people for the thrill of it.

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Dems should run ads just showing this, then slowly zooming in on "end recreational sex"

I really don’t think most people realize just how hard the boot will come down if Trump and the Republicans win the election. Most people have never experienced the totalitarian surveillance state with the power to reach into their homes and minds at will they are telling us is their plan.

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If they’re comfortable killing other people, they will eventually be comfortable killing you. You can learn that lesson the easy way or the hard way.

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Some thoughts on how to navigate this moment.

Take a Deep Breath and Think About What You Need to Doorganizingmythoughts.org How powerful will we choose to become as the world falls down and what will we have the potential to build?

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Reminder from a Pittsburgher who was at one point Mr. Rogers neighbor: “Look for the helpers” was intended to be advice for his usual audience, children. We’re grown ups now. We’re supposed to be the helpers.

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they wouldn't be doing all this sweaty shit if they thought the people were actually with them. it's a desparate attempt to overrule the will of the people and it does not, must not, work

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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

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Doomerism is chickenshit. an embarrassment to every ape that threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. if you actually believe this doomer shit what are you posting for? it's chickenshit and i will have no truck with it. you had something better to do with your life than make the world better?

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BREAKING, July 1st, 2024. Justice Sotomayor warns, in all uses of official power, "the President is now a king above the law...With fear for our democracy, I dissent." 🕴🕴️🕴️🕴️🕴️🕴️ amp.theguardian.com/us-news/live... 👑🗣🙇🙇⌖⚰️ www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...

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Thank goodness for the amazing “Unite & Win” cover from Paul Zappia or else we'd have gone with one of the rejected cover designs. 😅

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What if maybe Democrats spent even half the energy cultivating young upstarts as Republicans do holding mock executions of every newly elected Democrat who gets their name in the news what if

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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

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“If you ever stopped masking, there has rarely been a better time to start again. Mask up and show your solidarity. Eric Adams will hate it.” www.thenation.com/article/arch...

Masks Are a Symbol of Solidarity. Don’t Let Democrats Take Them Away.www.thenation.com Mask bans are ostensibly about public safety. The result would be disastrous for public health—but it goes beyond that, too.

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Listen up, America. We hear you—you LOVE old guys. Well, check it out. We've got a guy who's even more vintage than anything else on offer, AND as an added bonus he's not incoherent or sociopathic. All day, every day, we still #FeelTheBern

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Columbia University: Protesters arrested for seizing Hind’s Hall at Columbia University are refusing any deals unless protesters at CUNY are offered the same, and they stand in solidarity with those facing the most extreme repression in the movement. #Palestine #Israel

Columbia University Hind’s Hall defendants reject deals in solidarity with the CUNY 22mondoweiss.net Protesters arrested for seizing Hind’s Hall at Columbia University are refusing any deals unless protesters at CUNY are offered the same, and they stand in solidarity with those facing the most extrem...

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Haven't read the article but I'm assuming that part of the reason she's supporting Biden's election is she would prefer not to be put to death

AOC's evolution from activist to pragmatist supporting Joe Biden's reelection is roiling some progressives

AOC Is Getting Too Mainstream for Her Progressive Basewww.bloomberg.com New Yorker known as AOC is Biden campaign emissary to young, minority voters.

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Earth is the Florida of space 100% we are the biggest laughing stock in the galaxy

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Alien: Our young develop in their pods, tended to equally by the greater community, in a manner that continues throughout the lifecycle of the being to optimize both security & autonomy Human: Oh that sounds cool. Here, if we wake up at the wrong time, they call the police & take our kids away