alexandra's pile of notes

Enough scapegoating of trans women by politicians who refuse to confront male violence. Enough media sensationalism that profits from hatred while women of all backgrounds suffer real harm. Enough false feminism that abandons the most vulnerable women leaving all women at greater risk. Enough of those in positions of power making harmful decisions on our behalf under the guise of “protection”. Enough allowing our voices to be co-opted by those who would divide us. Enough attempts to remove people’s bodily autonomy - claiming they don’t know their own minds.

WE WILL SPEAK FOR OURSELVES.

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

It is hard to compete with Woody Guthrie’s timeless list of New Year resolutions from 1943, which includes these ever-relevant goals:

Work more and better. Read lots of good books. Keep hoping machine running. Help win war – beat fascism. Wake up and fight.

Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives’ digital catalog more accessible

“Here’s my challenge to journalists over the next two months: quote Trump in full,” Max Kennerly, a lawyer and legal commentator, wrote on X on Thursday, alongside a video posted by the Harris campaign of Trump’s comments. “Don’t clean him up, don’t reinterpret what he says in a more sensible way, don’t secretly editorialize. Just quote him. Let the voters see how this man’s mind doesn’t work.”

this hearing, and the overall subject of corporate greed, actually being approached at the federal level from both sides of the aisle is really nice to see. it would be wonderful for this to lead to some kind of healthcare disruption in the current status quo.