We've shut down Berks! This is a community victory, 8 years of nonstop organizing. Here are a few of the voices of those in the coalition. We thank all of the MANY people who took action with us, and to the incredible leadership of those who were detained who led the way!

Yesterday I was part of a group that peacefully protested the expansion of a coal mine in Germany. We were kettled by police and then detained but were let go later that evening. Climate protection is not a crime. #LuetziBleibt #LuetziLebt #KeepItInTheGround #ClimateJustice

The lesson of the day is never get into a twitter feud with @GretaThunberg

Watching Elon run twitter is kind of like watching that one episode of South Park where Cartman buys the amusement park...

The next time someone tries to feed you that bs "people are paid according to their value to society" theory, remind them that the railworkers asking for paid sick days were prohibited from striking because if they don't work, the economy shuts down.

As ridiculous as the feigned outrage over Lizzo, the little mermaid, etc. is, it has an intended purpose. Contantly flooding people with extreme right wing views makes them more likely to consider and accept the less extreme right wing views pushing the center to the right.

Consequence was that to keep this defense going, they had to keep the abuse going or admit they were victims. Even though the abuses of the student loan system is not as severe as the abuse suffered by child abuse victims, I can't help but see that same denial defense in play

In the research I reviewed, what was identified was a tendency in these trauma victims to try to normalize their abuse as a form of denial defense. By convincing themselves that this is the way the world is, they got to pretend they weren't victims. However, the dark (2/3)

Something occurred to me as I am watching people oppose #studentloanforgiveness on the grounds that it's unfair to people who paid off their loans already. 25 years ago, in undergrad, I wrote a paper looking into the question of why 1/3 of child abuse victims become abusers(1/3)

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Of course one of them will try to respond that he meant digital pages or something even though he never mentioned anything related to digital. But that's what he is counting on. He knows he can say anything and they will do mental backflips trying to make it make sense.

When #Trump makes a claim like Obama taking 33 million pages, he's confessing how stupid he thinks his own #MAGA crowd is. He knows they will just accept that number as true. He knows they won't think to calculate the volume of that much paper and see the claim is impossible

That's who geeks are. And if you see this as #Wokeness or some liberal agenda you oppose, its because you see people like you be portrayed as villains, but that is because, in many way, you are the villain and have been to the real geeks who built the media

People that were picked on and had no one stand up for them, so our media reflected the value of standing up for people who are different and opposing oppressive powers. Geek culture represents the disenfranchised and the rejected who want to make the world better because (tbc)

The right is regularly losing support. But the truth is is that geek culture has a long tradition of questioning the status quo because the status quo traditionally rejected geeks. It became mainstream because businesses discovered geeks had money, but geeks used to be the (tbc)

The more recent movies and shows do not yet know the whole history. They also may be doing this because they want to discouraged new people from viewing it because they may be realizing that geek culture is about questioning the status quo instead of blindly obeying it, and (tbc)

They are only making a stink about it now because geek media is now mainstream and they need to make this fit with their fear mongering message of "traditional values under attack by liberal infestation" they use to control their viewers and they know casual fans of (tbc)

Hot take: Every right-wing talking head complaining about "#woke #Trek," diversity in comic properties, and every other existence of liberal themes in geek media know those themes were always there. They are just fabricating controversey because it fits their agenda. (Tbc)

They are only making a stink about it now because geek media is now mainstream and they need to make this fit with their fear mongering message of "traditional values under attack by liberal infestation" they use to control their viewers and they know casual fans of (part 2)

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