ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

Ruth Ben-Ghiat warns that Republicans may be trying to crash the US economy in order to usher in authoritarian rule:

"The Republicans' endgame is to convert America into an autocracy, building on the momentum created by Donald Trump's Jan. 6 coup attempt and state-level assaults on democracy. To this end, party elites and their media allies have orchestrated a campaign to delegitimize a sitting president that has no domestic precedent in its intensity."

#Republicans

https://lucid.substack.com/p/republicans-have-crashed-a-national

May we all have the contentment of an old dog lying in a sunbeam.

#TeamGary

🤔 . This is a fact going back to slavery.

Touré.
Many Black people struggle with internalized racism. Almost all white people have internalized racism, they're just not struggling with it. They don't even know it's in them.

#Politics
#Mastodon
#News
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackMastodon
#BlackTwitter
#BackLivesMatter
#BlackFediverse
#BlackFedi
#BIPOC
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#Media

this is how these idiots sound to me

And here a semi-regular reminder.

Antifa literally just means 'anti fascist'.

It's not a club.

And if you 'oppose' the idea of being against fascists then I shall call you by name...

You fucking fascist.

@coffeepine My father was a violent antifascist. He landed on the beach at Normandy in 1944, at age 21.

May 5th is #RedDressDay in remembrance of our stolen sisters...

#MMIW #MMIWG2S #MMIP #NoMoreStolenSisters #Indigenous #WeAreStillHere

Taco Bell has menu items that are more supreme than our court justices.

I have admíred and voted for Senator Dianne Feinstein several times. We’ve had no health updates from her for over a month. 40 million Californians need a Senator. The Country needs an aggressive Senate Juduciary Committee. She has every reason to feel proud of her illustrious career, in retirement.

I just saw someone refer to Elon Musk as a Nazi enabler.

Let me remind everyone that there is no such thing. If you are giving aid or space to Nazis, you are a Nazi.

This is a simple binary and there is no grey in-between.

@autism101 @actuallyautistic

Knowing didn’t change who I was or how I felt about myself.

My only reaction was,
“Well that explains a lot.”

@chai @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics @autisticadvocacy oh… one big thing that helped me was recognizing what I call "trauma echoes"

sometimes I'll come back to some bs in my head — an old argument/an old fight brought into the now. I used to act on those thoughts; now I know it's a hybrid of my autism and trauma from childhood… and now I catch it in seconds if not milliseconds and immediately ask myself — what do I need? and it's almost always rest or food.

So, every week or so, instead of making my own lunch, I grab a pocket sandwich from G.P.S. (https://goo.gl/maps/e5ubtzfDfDw9FWdb9), and always really enjoyed their food, and the lovely couple that ran it.

Normally I go there, as it's right across the street, but I ordered in like 3 times when I felt incapable of leaving my place.

Today I went by there after groceries, and I forgot them there. Not wanting my food to get cold, I quickly ate, and at that moment, the owner rang my bell with my groceries in hand

I'm not sure that means what you think it does...

Brewding: That dark feeling that comes over you while you wait in line for coffee.

Leonard Nimoy at a #NOW rally in 1989. His sweater reads "PRO-CHILD, PRO-FAMILY, #PROCHOICE". His sash reads "HONORED GUEST". His pin reads "HONORARY SISTER".

#LeonardNimoy was #Jewish and spoke fluent Yiddish. His parents were first-generation #Ukrainian Jewish #immigrants who fled the Soviet Union and he was born in 1931 in Boston. Jewish activists have always been at the core of support for #abortion rights.

#MayHisMemoryBeABlessing.

https://www.tumblr.com/delphinidin4/690529825685946368/his-sweatshirt-reads-pro-child-pro-family

#socialmedia #tumblr

Maurice's breakfast and supper are now established rituals.

He's fed separately from the other rats because they have no respect for old age, they steal his food right out of his mouth. I put him in a container on the sofa where he can eat in peace. He's not been great about drinking enough water so these days he gets mushy food.

This morning's meal was a wet mix of carrots, oats, sorghum, egg, and avo. Maurice *loves* avo and he's very skinny so he can have as much as he likes.

He insists that I put his green igloo cover over him while he eats. I think it makes him feel less exposed.

He always manages to get a good portion of his breakfast on himself, especially his tail for some reason. The other rats form a reception party at the cage door ready to give him a really good wash when he returns to the cage.

I think he enjoys the grooming, so everyone wins.

#rats #PetsOfMastodon #RatsOfMastodon #today