Remember when you all tried to make Andrew Yang a thing 🤣
Twice!
My favorite part of that era was how his support peeled off like layers of an onion based solely on how long it took different cohorts of his supporters to recognize a scam artist, an internalized racist and a right winger.
He had good populist messaging though. But only in relation to mainstream Democrats horrible messaging. The right wingers who led his campaign are elitist fuckmonauts but they do actually study “gut” over logic and most Democrats are too stupid and comfortable to win
Like when I talk on here my word cloud is probably closer to Bernie and AOC. But when I talk to people in Queens on the street it’s closer to Yang (if he worked for Bernie and AOC).

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11 Dec
A thread of things people are sharing around the Amazon collapse that killed workers in Edwardsville, Illinois last night. #AmazonTornado

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A driver saying they were still urged to drive shifts into tornado areas.

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Dave Clark, CEO at @amazon not mentioning any intent to investigate Amazon's safety procedures during the storm, ignoring mentioning the dead workers and offering "thoughts and prayers" #AmazonTornado

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Dave Clark, once again, ignoring @amazon's own ability to respond to this disaster by leaning on the Red Cross, without mentioning its own massive ability to come to aid workers and families impacted. #AmazonTornado

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At least 2 @amazon workers just died when a warehouse collapsed over them

Many more trapped and injured. No answers from Amazon of why workers were still in the facility after tornado warnings

All Amazon's CEO @davehclark offered?

"Thoughts and prayers"

#AmazonTornado
Thanks Dave! Sorry for inconveniencing to pretend you care about Amazon workers.

To chip in and help support Amazon workers who were trapped and injured last night, and to the families of those workers killed you can donate here

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Ever fight the urge to sleep by scrolling with your more tired eye closed?
I should have classed this up and said reading a novel instead of scrolling.
Fuck now everyone thinks I’m pedestrian
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Imagine holding in the same place in our hearts that both Jews and Palestinians were forced to flee for their lives in the same era.

Imagine stating that and not exploding into useless comparisons and bad faith takes.
Imagine acknowledging that this suffering is an echo born out of German, British and American state malevolence.

Imagine using that as the basis to end apartheid and make everyone safe.
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Imagine these are the doors that are open for the tough conversations.
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I’ve been getting to know the blue jays in the yard with a bird feeder in my window.

And by the way they land they are very much not the elegant ballerinas I thought they were.

They only take what they need, but they land like toddlers with snow boots and it’s hilarious.
The sight of a blue jay before it lands looks like a symphony. The sound of it landing is like a trombone filled with sausage falling. Maybe the perch is too shallow. They are also larger than they appear.
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It’s always been important in my mind, and informal ones have been around my entire life, but I always defaulted to viewing them as a band aids, or elements in a large effort, something to hold us over before achieving top down legislative power to change our world.
If you care about building actual long term power that no one can take away from a judge’s chambers, an executive order or even a right wing paramilitary, the long term relationships you build by being there for even short term needs will be an evergreen foundation for everything
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