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Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | Mastodon: spore.social/@MsKellyMHayes | More: linktr.ee/KellyHayes


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Laura Routh's avatar Laura Routh @laurarouth.bsky.social
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“Most of the deaths have been reported in California, where the heat broke daily records late last week in a handful of major cities, including San Jose, Fresno and Oakland.” Not all of them were elderly or homeless. The number of deaths includes those in Oregon and Arizona. wapo.st/3WgZroZ

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I wind up explaining a lot of random shit to my partner bc I'm weird and go on tangents. Tonight, I shared some serial killer facts (reality vs cinema), explained the history of dried cats (yes, dried cats), and gave some background on fairie/changeling child-swapping lore. It was all relevant. Ish.

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Anne Kosseff-Jones's avatar Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social
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A couple of years ago, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social tweeted something like, "work the problem like someone who wants to find a solution, not like someone who wants to have been right," and I've thought about it so much since. It's harder than it should be but also the only way forward.

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I too used to be an 'oh, NOW you care' person when I was younger. I was profoundly annoyed with ppl who didn't "understand" what I already knew & then all of a sudden started caring. Then I realized that was a ME issue, not at all about them. EYE was annoyed while THEY were coming to consciousness.

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“And if you look to the work of its constitutive groups, Project 2025 is already here, depending on where you live…”

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Like I am aware of why some people are sad about Rhaenys and why others were super ready for her to die, and while I don't watch, I have an opinion based on what I heard she did in season one lol.

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I don't watch HOTD, but I enjoy reading people's reactions to it for some reason. Do other people relate to media this way? If so, what shows have you kept up with via reactions?

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RedwoodGirl (she/her) đź’–đź’śđź’™'s avatar RedwoodGirl (she/her) đź’–đź’śđź’™ @redwoodgirl.bsky.social
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The California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), an advocacy group, said it appeared a female prisoner at the California Central Women's Facility in Chowchilla suffered a preventable heat-related death. Residents there are begging for air conditioning.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

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i think the thing that is leading me to check out of the biden conversation as much as possible is the sheer amount of certainty being expressed. i am not at all confident that i really know anything here!

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Saeed Jones's avatar Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social
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“At least nine people have been killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp, including five children, who were playing in the street.”

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Matt Novak's avatar Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
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“Gaza health authorities say at least 33 children have died of malnutrition…”

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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter's avatar Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter @susanrinkunas.com
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Actually, the Republican platform leaves the door wide open for a national abortion ban and people are silly to suggest otherwise. Me in Slate:

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)'s avatar Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social
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This was originally published by Popmatters (2002)

"If June Jordan has been invisible to the mainstream in her death, it was not simply because she was Black, but because she was a Black woman, who chose to be an activist and an intellectual..."
www.newblackmaninexile.net/2011/12/be-l...

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“This is the 4th attack on a school in the past couple of days…They justify that every time they target a school that there is a Hamas base & that Hamas fighters are in there, but we see that most of those who are injured or killed are Palestinian children women.”

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"While the violence unleashed on protesters has been shocking, if not surprising, Cop City has also become a case study for how solidarity itself can be criminalized." — @astra.bsky.social

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Thank you! This is so good to hear. ❤️

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Timothy Burke's avatar Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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It was a common euphemism for Jews who marched with MLK and others

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Mina Li (she/her)'s avatar Mina Li (she/her) @codenameminali.bsky.social
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turns out my state is having a contest on "I Voted" sticker designs, and I would like to show you the most metal one by a middle schooler:

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To call this era farcical would imply coherence.

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what we need: a meaningful response to climate chaos what we're getting: tech billionaires ramping up emissions to build bigger and better bullshit machines

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prince egregious, heir apparent 's avatar prince egregious, heir apparent @sonofahurricane.bsky.social
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I learned so much about Chester Himes! Definitely give it a read.

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Stephanie Kollmann's avatar Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social
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July 2020: to preempt a campaign to close the final 5 state youth prisons, the IL gov's office announced a 4-year plan for transformation, intended to close (or IDOC transfer) at least the 3 largest. July 2024: None are closed. Issued a press release about hiring for a new, 6th youth prison.

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.

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Alex Newhouse's avatar Alex Newhouse @alexbnewhouse.bsky.social
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I, your friendly neighborhood far-right researcher/political scientist-in-training, am here to let you know that if academic research/media coverage of "polarization" feels weird to you, that's for good reason. Polarization research is, generally, fundamentally flawed and based on assumed symmetry

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى's avatar Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com
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It is disorienting to see what the New York Times will cover with an active voice (that is demonstrably more accurate) and what it'll obscure with passive voice.

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Jacob Bacharach's avatar Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social
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Hey wait a minute shouldn't this say, "In Ukraine, Damage to Public Health Infrastructure Amid Ongoing Fighting?"

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I lessened my stress years ago when I stopped arguing with white people about whether certain things emerged due to racist INTENT rather than whether those things were put to racist USE. I don't care about the intent but I do certainly care about USE.

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Melanie D’Arrigo's avatar Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social
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If you steal $1000, you can be sent to prison. When health insurance companies steal $50,000,000,000, they get tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts, while the people they steal from die or go into debt. But keep blaming immigrants and poor people for rising crime.

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Melissa Gira Grant's avatar Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com
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I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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Really appreciate all the love this episode has been getting. Still figuring out what the larger arc of episodes on mental health and healing will look like and am open to folks' ideas and suggestions. ❤️

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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We were looking up who’s involved in the environmental aspects of Project 2025 and it turns out it’s perennial environmental villain and coal criminal William Perry Pendley, easily the most Deadwood-coded Trump administration official

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Baby Boy Monaghan's avatar Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social
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I sometimes see people discuss the American left as being intrinsically self-sabotaging, and it feels like any discussion that doesn't factor in the extent to which the mainstream reflexively shuts out and frequently actively crushes leftist activism is wilfully naive.

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this is so fucked

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They've had those before, honestly. But they are closer than ever to bringing it all to fruition. Project 2025 is an actionable map for the moment we're living in, and shit has been going their way lately.

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We'll be talking about the 90s as an era of right-wing violence in an upcoming episode of Movement Memos. I think understanding the trajectory of anti-choice violence is really important right now.

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I don't get it when people point out that Project 2025 is "nothing new." Yes, obviously, right-wingers have been fanatics for decades. They were blowing up abortion clinics and shooting doctors when I was a kid. But, as you may have noticed, their political vision has kind of been coming together.

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