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13 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Hi they're trying to steal the election some more
Just people of color having to stand in line together in the middle of a pandemic for 11 hours in order to vote in a swing state, definitely no voter suppression happening here

Just the GOP of the most populous states in the country admitting to deliberately trying to get people to deposit their ballots in fake and illegal ballot box look-alikes

Just the Senate GOP trying to ram through Serena Joy's appointment to SCOTUS so they can get SCOTUS to rule mail-in ballots illegal

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14 Oct
Proud Boys have been stalking me for over a year now, coming to my home at night to vandalize and threaten, skulking in front in daylight to intimidate, threatening kidnapping of myself and my cat online.

They're emboldened because they trust that the cops are on their side. Image
These white supremacists have that trust because cops have given them every indication that it's true.

The Philly police union welcomed them inside a revent benefit.

Philly cops posed with their violent white vigilante squad during the recent BLM protests.
Folks like to argue "most cops are good, it's a few bad apples," and... nah.

It's not about what is in the heart of hearts of individuals.

The fact is, police infrastructure is white supremacist, and it actively sustains and supports white supremacy.
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13 Oct
I'm so tired of seeing people say shit like "we don't need to pay any more attention to [shitty racist/sexist/etc influencer or influencers], they'll screw themselves over eventually"

Okay, but they're screwing some of us over right now
And 99% of the time, it's a hot take that comes *after* people have spent a whole lot of time and effort countering their influence, often at great cost.

It trivializes the efforts to counteract the toxicity and treats the resulting backlash against it as inevitable
Nah.

Oppressive toxicity is normal until it isn't.

It doesn't de-normalize itself. We have to fight to remove it from the domain of social acceptability, and we have to keep fighting to keep it out.
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13 Oct
I don't think folks who have never experienced financial precarity have any sense of the sort of fear just *thinking* about managing money can create in people who have.

Just, the sheer terror.
Even brief periods can mess you up, even if you come from a comfortable background.

I had a period of about a year and a half where I was really struggling to afford food and rent, and get such intense anxiety trying to manage something like negotiating COBRA.
I've lost so much money ("so much" relative to my income, anyway) missing deadlines and incurring interest, just because I just get cold panic in the pit of my stomach *thinking* about trying to navigate a financial issue.

It brings back an enormous amount of old fear.
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13 Oct
Direct action activists, now is a good time to be:

1) Creating/reinforcing secure communications infrastructure with trusteds in your most immediate organizing network & developing contingency plans for what happens if your primary comms app goes down
2) Practicing deep self-care and getting as much rest as you can.

It's such a scary time and it feels like we should be in overdrive (and many folks are), but there is an extremely good chance that we'll need a ton of capacity and energy *after* the election.
3) Getting your house in order.

Do you have a passport (if you can get one)?

Have you cleared out old, unneeded crap from your phone that cops could use to hurt you or your friends?

Do you have pet care backup in case you get arrested?
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13 Oct
As you watch the GOP push urgently to confirm Barrett, think about why they want her in *before* the election, despite COVID outbreaks within the senate.

They have another two months after the election.

But they want to stack the decks for an election 2000 redux.
I talk about the possibility of coup a lot, and folks need to understand that I think a violent coup is much, much less likely than a SCOTUS-driven coup.

SCOTUS already concerns itself with stability more than democracy, we saw that in 2000 with Bush v. Gore.
A Trump-stacked SCOTUS is a lot more likely to deliver the same kind of anti-democratic verdict.

Trump is already challenging mail-ins in courts all over the place.

This is already his most established strategy.
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11 Oct
Yeah, exactly.

There areas of alt medicine that offer useful and rich metaphor for healing, but people are so quick to take that stuff literally and run with it in such damaging ways.

That's how you get Marianne Williamson eugenics & Law of Attraction prosperity gospel.
And of course the people who find their way to alternative medicine are very often people who conventional medicine couldn't or didn't heal.

So they have reason to distrust science--even if their case was the the exception, not the rule-- and are often desperate and/or wounded.
The metaphors that are useful psychologically as a way of exploring embodiment and/or trauma and/or relationship with illness still aren't going to cure cancer.

But folks are looking for that sort of promise.

And so the grifters move in.
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