there was middling faculty support for the protests last week; this week, everyone is ready to go absolutely apeshit (rhetorically and administratively speaking, of course) dailybruin.com/2024/05/02/o...
As Faculty for Justice in Palestine at UCLA, we call upon the governor of California, the mayor of Los Angeles, the University of California system and all other complicit authorities to grant full le...
I love this. Both in itself, and juxtaposed to throwing batteries at Santa.
So Utah, having passed a transphobic bathroom bill, has launched an online form for people to snitch on folks they think are in the "wrong" bathroom or locker room. Be a real shame if people on the Internet flooded it with fake reports: ut-sao-special-prod.web.app/sex_basis_co...
Princeton students correct the record on being characterized as defiant / threatening / dangerous Google Doc with the student letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I don't know how to say that this is sincere, but this is sincere: I'm glad that there are people doing radical acts to push our country / society / world to be better â I'm trying to be one of them, and I often wish I was doing more
The U.S. population is generally illiterate about social movement history and also has absolutely no idea about the purpose of protest. That's what's currently on display.
100%. we need a high speed rail. one with no genocide. we are stuck with shitty buses that don't take us where we ought to be.
I should know better than to make a nuanced point on here. no one is trying to understand each other well enough. (I am including myself here.) the medium doesn't allow it.
In fact, staying home and sulking isnât even an option in this analogy. Youâre getting on a bus whether you like it or not. None of the buses are going where you want to go, and theyâre all more or less on fire, but you can vote for one thatâs less on fire or let everyone else decide without you.
I'm so sad about the world. I want it to change in so many ways. until we can make big changes in the right direction, the changes we can make will be painfully slow. people will hurt & bad things will happenâ but there are worse paths to walk too. how do we find paths that do the least damage?