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Buddhism, socialism, abolition, baseball, words. Poet. Public defender in training. DSA and NLG. 🇹🇭🇨🇳 #ForTheLand
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Honored to have my poetry featured in Anthropoetics, a new collection from Violet, Indigo, Blue, Etc. Check out my work and that of my phenomenal co-contributors, and order a print edition now!
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"I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone" by Richard Brautigan
it’s kinda crazy how little good art has been made about electricity, one of the most important things of all times
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Every ethnicity thinks they invented reusing grocery bags; being chronically late; complaining; high expectations of children; family arguments during holidays; weird dads (endearing); weird dads (derogatory); lazy, stupid, entitled men; and enterprising, underappreciated women.
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@SanAzulejo
@Latedawn_
@kittynouveau
@atomicthumbs
I think "slime" in the graph is denoting external slime. Every living thing is slimy on the inside. Unfortunately.
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@KHAMCHANH
Notice there's no shortage of people mocking her accent in the replies. Right-wing Asians are totally fine carrying water for racism and bigotry when it allows them to carve out a little piece for their own. They have no idea that it won't save them from being seen as subhuman.
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I don't understand why Americans woke up one day and decided that politicians deserve privacy and decency. These people literally hold life and death in their hands. My life and death, your life and death, the life and death of everyone you love. And most of them choose death.
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Pretty much every active left organization in my city is working together on Palestine. I have never seen the left so united on any issue in my life, and I doubt I will again for quite some time.
Fracturing?? I’ve never seen the left more unified than it is now. YIMBYs, NIMBYs, socdems, commies, anarchists all marching and organizing together for Palestinian liberation. It’s genuinely beautiful
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Wish I could beam this into the heads of all my law school classmates. There's a critical lack of questioning and imagination here. It's depressing to know where it will lead upon our graduation--to the effortless renewal of a system that grinds human life and dignity into dust.
Teaching law students that the criminal system is legitimate, necessary, and about justice guarantees that even people who become defense attorneys still believe in the system and that impacts how they approach the job and the people they represent.
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It's an incredible grift, being a Zionist on a college campus. To have every institutional power at school and in your society coddle you, bend to your will, and excuse you of all wrongdoing--and to still claim that *you*, not the pro-Palestine students, are the abandoned ones.
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@chenchenwrites
"what / I remember best is that /
the door to your room was / the door to mine."
Anne Sexton
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It's becoming clearer and clearer to me how many people on the left are very poorly socialized. I feel like we need some no-judgment trainings on "how to behave toward others." I know it sounds basic but it's a piece too many of us are missing, to the detriment of the movement.
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@jordanestev
@aoifeamcgowan
@carolineeehsul
This was an incredible read that really put into perspective my own experience with the college application process. Thank you for writing this!
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Aren't these just the most beautiful words ever uttered? And in court, too
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@msolurin
Law enforcement could take up 99% of every state and municipal budget and people would still cry that we need to be "tougher on crime." That is how intoxicated Americans are by their love affair with punishment and social control.
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@hesogo1den
Stay safe. If any bail funds need to be collected or crowdfunding for medical bills needs to be done please come back and post them. We can do what we can here to donate, share.
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Thinking about the time someone told me that they were a socialist but weren't willing to join a socialist organization because they preferred "actually doing stuff." Realizing now just how prolific these types are and how catastrophically they've misunderstood the movement.
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Organizing teaches you many valuable life skills but perhaps the most useful thing it instills in you is the knowledge that being disliked by someone is (1) oftentimes unavoidable and (2) always survivable.
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We shouldn't raise children to be picky eaters. In Thai the common expression isn't to say you like or dislike foods, but that you "don't know how to eat" certain foods, i.e. you don't know how to appreciate them, and I think that's the right way to teach people to approach food.
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@MJHaugen
I do think it's one of the things that people in 100 years look back on with horror, like we look at asbestos or lead pipes.
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They should make a DSA caucus for people who couldn't care less what books you've read or what label you use, but are more concerned with cultivating talented, disciplined organizers who know how to fill rooms, move bodies, and win political victories for the working class.
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@stacey_hauff
I dealt with the exact same thing back in March. It was incredibly stressful; I ultimately had to crowdfund for support. There's no shame in it if you have to too. Solidarity.
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I have classmates whose parents are paying their rent while I've been wiring mine money out of my loan payments to help them cover their mortgage. And yet I'm expected to perform the same as these classmates, to get as much sleep as them, to participate as enthusiastically, etc.
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Yesterday I met a 93 year old charter member of DSA, who is still active in the movement while enduring *intense* radiation treatment for lymphoma. I have so much respect for comrades who have been in the fight for that long. It makes me feel silly for experiencing burnout at 22.
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A good litmus test I've developed when evaluating socialists and communists I meet is this: Does this person want their politics to enter the mainstream, or are they invested in remaining part of a political subculture?
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Midwestern whites so good at hanging out that it is slowly changing the world
white nationalist moves to the Midwest to live in his racial paradise, realizes he can't stand being around regular white people, stops being a white nationalist
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Eviction is police brutality.
On January 14, 2020, in a pre-dawn raid of a residential home in Oakland, California, the Alameda County Sheriff's spent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to evict women and children from a vacant, speculator-acquired property.
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@ddlarry13
@horan_drugx
ouais je sais, l'origine de la phrase c'est le petit prince, et en toute cas c'est juste une blague
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The Religion and Socialism breakout session at DSA Convention was majority people of color. DSA Buddhist Circle group meditations are always majority people of color--often exclusively! I'd like to think that building up the religious left is also helping to diversify the left.
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Believe it or not, everything that’s unfolded since Tory Lanez shot Meg thee Stallion makes a case for abolition and illustrates how our criminal system serves as an impediment to preventing harm.
My last essay of the year for olurinatti:
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I have a job interview tomorrow for something that I really, really want. If you could wish me a little bit of luck, that would be much appreciated.
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@goodfriendraf
IMO it's the people who rail against others the most for being "performative" who are, themselves, the most performative. I don't understand this club vs. community distinction. What community doesn't also have standards for what to do or say? If yours doesn't, that's a problem.
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@QuadCitiesDSA
Saying you "do not endorse" the action is a tacit endorsement against the action. Why say anything at all then? If you don't like it, you don't have to go. And uh, who exactly gave you the power to say that anyone participating is "acting independently of DSA?" Did I miss a memo?
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I shared an elevator with two extremely high guys who were entirely convinced that I was there for the Harry Potter convention and was only lying to save face by telling them I wasn't. They gave me this whole speech about how it was ok and I shouldn't be afraid to express myself.
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Leave it to the people of Illinois to vote against an amendment that would lower taxes for 97% of people in the state lmao
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Cried for the first time in a really long time tonight.
We won. We fucking won.
Victories are hard to come by in this movement and in this time. But when they come . . . they are so very sweet.
I'm so very proud of us.
Solidarity forever. Abortion forever. The people forever.
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Got the job ;)
Onto the next challenge, and the next.
I have a job interview tomorrow for something that I really, really want. If you could wish me a little bit of luck, that would be much appreciated.
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@prudhommeobrien
@eugenegu
Asian-American is its own identity, with its own culture, separate from being Asian or from being American alone. Also, I think we will call ourselves whatever we would like to call ourselves, thank you. The onus is not on us to prove or declare our American-ness. It is a given.
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Can confirm, as an Asian person I experience time non-linearly like the cool squid aliens from Arrival
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@just_lumos
@sarahkunst
@proofrawk
@LouisatheLast
Personally I order my tweets mailed to me in a printed quarterly newsletter
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I was visiting a Starbucks picket line near a college campus not too long ago. It left me awestruck how many students came up to the workers, said hello, cheered them on, and were generally extremely supportive--only to walk right in and order at the counter, still smiling.
People aren't afraid to cross the picket line in part because very few people are educated on labor. it's not even a debate we have. Insane to look at the state of labor in this country and expect scabbing to carry some huge stigma
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The person who tweeted this works for John Fetterman
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A place of worship is desecrated the moment an American president walks through its doors.
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It puts into perspective how feeble and short-sighted all this intra-left infighting is when a crowd assembles in your city that would stop at nothing to see every single person involved summarily executed. Not just everyone you love and care about, but everyone you can't stand.
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Buddhist members of the Democratic Socialists of America have issued an open letter calling on all American Buddhists to join the nationwide movement for Palestinian liberation and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
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To be a member of this organization is one of the great honors of my life.
BREAKING: hundreds with
@jvpaction
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@demsocialists
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@ifnotnoworg
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@thedemocrats
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#CeasefireNOW
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Additionally, between 1973 and 1976, 3,406 Native women in the United States were sterilized without their consent by the Indian Health Service--a federal agency designed to provide healthcare to Native Americans.
Under U.S. territorial jurisdiction in 1937, Law 116, which legalized sterilization, was imposed on Puerto Rico. This law remained in effect until 1960. A study done in 1976 by the US Department of Health found that over 37% of women of childbearing age in PR had been sterilized.
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A hilarious thing to say about 2015 DSA, where your average member was a 68 year old sociologist whose main means of political engagement was writing letters to the editor about how we should break up the big banks.
I jumped on the DSA bandwagon in 2015. I recognized it was a cultish high control group within a few months and jumped off. I cannot explain the people who are still with the DSA. They’re either brainwashed or completely ignorant. I saw this bullshit right away, why can’t they?
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@unrepentantpop
@iyad_elbaghdadi
@theashleyray
By peace, you're referring to the status quo in Gaza and the West Bank before October, I assume.
Is that what peace means to you?
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Received a pretty great birthday present today, which is the knowledge that I will be the first attorney in my family...
Because I just received my very first law school acceptance, and it came with a full tuition scholarship :)
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If they want to live in peace they should get a different job! Sorry, but if they want to govern me, then they don't get peace. You should demand the very same for yourself.
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Representation politics without anti-capitalist politics is just psychological warfare against marginalized people.
Lori Lightfoot is the perfect example of why representational politics is garbage
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people in the Midwest be like "I know a place" and it's a 45 minute drive to get there
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Going to law school has ruined the fun of stuff like this for me. Before law school I would have thought, "This rocks." Now I think, "This rocks, but I sure wish it had never been caught on camera."
A brawl erupted after a man driving by allegedly hurled racial slurs and insults at striking United Auto Workers members
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@leidythetheydie
@papamogel
@roohieiks
@legalhorchata
College political science departments do the CIA's work for free
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What did someone tweet once? "If you say you're a socialist but you're not part of a socialist organization, then you're not actually a socialist, only a socialism fan." Something like that. I think about that all the time.
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Another human life shattered by Israel, with all who knew and loved this man left to pick up the pieces.
“He is one of the most principled comrades I’ve ever known,” said Xylem, who worked with Bushnell to support San Antonio’s unhoused residents.
“He’s always trying to think about how we can actually achieve liberation for all with a smile on his face,” said Errico.
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Fuck, man
My father (a conservative) asked me, "Why are you a communist?" And I didn't give a labor theory bullshit answer. I told him, "I love you and wanted to spend more time with you when I was a kid, but you were always at work. I don't want any other kid to feel that way."
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@elemonated
@ChiBruco
@holy_schnitt
I think it's usually more about how the few times these men are ever photographed by another person, it's when they've just caught a fish.
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obligatory "now that I have your attention donate to RAICES"
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@mama_mia808
@CopeSayWhaaa
Just to clarify what
@mama_mia808
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Native-American men are incarcerated at 4 times the rate of white men, and women 6 times the rate of white women. Proportionally, Native-Americans are more likely to be killed by police than any other race.
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Every time I attend an Asian students event I'm reminded why I never got into the ethnic student org thing. Everyone's like "Where did you go this summer? I was in Amsterdam / London / Korea / Shanghai / Turkey." Hey man, that's cool. I went on a couple really nice hikes
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Even though I disagreed with the dissolution of the BDS WG, I do feel that this is a crucial point. One thing I'd like to think we can all agree on is that the WG system is in dire need of reform. I hope we can recognize this as an opportunity to bury hatchets and close ranks.
DSA is a democratic organization, built on productive dissent. Using official organizational accounts to spread falsehoods across the media and obstruct our organizing does not fall within this category. All wgs must be held to the same standards of comradeliness and truthfulness
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It's important to reexamine your positions in light of new evidence. Even if you supported the NPC's decision, it's clear that it has undermined the coalition-building work of DSA and YDSA chapters all across the country. There's no two ways about it. Just look and see.
The repercussions from
@demsocialists
NPC's actions – from not disciplining Bowman for his anti-Palestinian actions & positions, to their attempt to decharter us, to their ongoing leadership ban of our steering – have made local organizing more difficult for many in the org.
🧵
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Met a lawyer the other day who asked me why I wanted to become a public defender and then we had pretty much this exact interaction
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many leftist men should realize that in some situations the most radical thing they can do at the moment is shut the fuck up
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@BriMillar
@Heath170
@kvng_sndr
@silverfin13
@GoodPoliticGuy
All of their brilliant grandstanding about freedom and decency and American values flies out the window the moment they are asked to act with an ounce of empathy toward poor people lmao
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I finished between a 2 year old being pushed in a stroller and a dog
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Many college students are mere inches away from making the leap from "prejudice and discrimination are bad" to "America and capitalism are bad" and there need to be more people in the college space helping them prepare to jump.
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100+ Buddhists say: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free."
Buddhist members of DSA penned an open letter calling on American Buddhists to devote themselves to the BDS movement and the cause of Palestinian liberation.
Read our letter:
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Today we meditated with a member of the Japanese Communist Party who joined us on Zoom. We learned much from them and swapped stories. One of our members brought up the phrase "Yankee, go home" from her childhood in Mexico. The JCP member replied, "Okinawans say the same thing."
The Religion and Socialism breakout session at DSA Convention was majority people of color. DSA Buddhist Circle group meditations are always majority people of color--often exclusively! I'd like to think that building up the religious left is also helping to diversify the left.
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Yeahhh I'm thinking that the body is a gift given to us only once; that the act of living is itself a pleasure; and that the simplest path to happiness is by taking in the sun, the breeze, and the company of others, which possess the awesome power to cure and replenish the soul
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Ow.
Turns out a steep 10-year drop of in person socializing - caused by technology and the erosion of community - is actually killing us
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If you do any kind of organizing on the left for long, it's extremely easy to become bitter, distrusting, and disdainful. Maybe the easiest thing about it. And it's probably the most important thing for us all to resist this urge with everything we've got.
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I mean this seriously. Willingness to extend a person more grace than they deserve--or more than they give to you--is the most vital social glue. It may be the only thing keeping this fucked-up species cobbled together. If people are willing to give that up, we've already lost.
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A genocide is unfolding before my eyes and I'm stuck here tweeting, reading essays, making graphics. Yelling at the same old politicians, marching the same old routes, trudging my way through the same old infighting. Powerlessness really is the worst feeling in the world.
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Running a mile a day to improve my cardiovascular health in order to live longer so that I can smoke more cigarettes within my lifetime
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@ajmikulak
I don't have any stake in this fight but Protestants sound like the most fun to hang out with
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@irockgnomes
Is this a helpful and productive thing to tweet? I'd rather we have faith in our chapters, or at the very least, that we not disparage their achievements in public.
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@PritzkerForPrez
The bar for Democratic politicians is buried underneath the ocean like a fiber optic cable. This makes anyone remotely competent look like a rising star. Having billions of dollars also helps you to be well-liked in this country, for some reason, unless you really fumble the bag.
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My dad's politics are so unique and unhinged that I had to type them all out. I have never come close to understanding him and I never will. I could only hope to be so inscrutable.
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