Reading Time: 11 minutes Since Trump’s rise to the nation’s highest office, his inflammatory language — often condemned as racist and xenophobic — has seeped into schools across America. Many bullies now target other children differently than they used to, with kids as young as 6 mimicking the president’s insults and the cruel way he delivers them.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Incidents of white supremacist propaganda distributed across the nation jumped by more than 120% between 2018 and last year, according to the Anti-Defamation League, making 2019 the second straight year that the circulation of propaganda material has more than doubled.
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WaPo: Trump’s latest rally stunts are designed to get you to surrender
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 4 minutes In the end, many of President Trump’s ugliest degradations — the nonstop lying, the constant efforts to undermine faith in our political system, the relentless delegitimization of the opposition — often seem to converge in some sense on a single, overarching goal:
To get you to give up.
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None of us know the best way forward, but I know we are (mostly) all trying to figure it out.
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 5 minutes None of us know the best way forward, but I know we are (mostly) all trying to figure it out.
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I cannot BELIEVE what Nancy Pelosi did at the State of the Union y’all.
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: < 1 minute I cannot BELIEVE what Nancy Pelosi did at the State of the Union y’all.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Republicans are good at activating voter resentment. They’re not good at dissipating that resentment by actually serving voters and their needs. Outside of voters’ needs to stay angry. That anger keeps Republicans and their wealthy friends in office.
It doesn’t change lives and communities for the better.
We can.
Reading Time: < 1 minute This space-themed Olay commercial supports girls in STEM 🚀
Reading Time: 2 minutes We like to pretend as if “excuse me, sir, could you kindly remove your foot from my neck” is how corrupt, racist, sexist systems are overturned.
And by we I mean those of us conditioned to operate and function in and hold up a white supremacist system.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Pat Mitchell has nothing left to prove and much less to lose — she’s become a “dangerous woman.” Not dangerous as in feared, she says, but fearless: a force to be reckoned with. In this powerful call to action, Mitchell invites all women, men and allies to join her in embracing the risks necessary to create a world where safety, respect and truth burn brighter than the darkness of our current times.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Get in on the Adopt-A-Moderate-Republican Senator Program today! (Or the AAMRSP as we in the know call it.) Share YOUR senator here, so we can collect all 7 (ish), for which you’ll get a set of nail clippers—and perhaps, your democracy. 💪🏼