#i dissent

[onthedriftinthetardis]

Dear Trans Kids

We know it's scary out there.

Remember:

You know who you are.

You will find your people.

Take care of yourselves.

Take care of each other.

We see you. We love you. You belong.

And we won't stop fighting for you.

[Reblog to co-sign]

[xennialwarriorprincess]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 1953. Colourised by me. Find more here.

[lunasun1verse]

Witches for Justice: Collective Spellcasting Event

Originally on TikTok to get the word out

This is a mustering call to arms or…. Wands…. beginning on February 27th (26th for followers of Hecate), for all witches of all paths to either send energy to the collective or begin spell work that focuses on protection, uncovering truth, Justice, vengeance and for evil to be broke down and brought low. From beginner witchlings to the more advanced crones, I’m personally asking that you join me in the spiritual as our comrades in arms also take to the streets to dissent and protest against the tyranny of the current regime.

Beginner witchlings, this would be your chance to try out some basic protection magick and strength spells

Light and rootworkers would do best in sweetening and softening hearts, protection magick and the like.

Grey witches, left handed witches and rootworkers…… y’all already know wtf time it is. Grab them lemons and rusty nails, we do the dirty work

If you are not a witch but still wanna participate, just send your energy and well wishes.

The spell will reach its climax on the full moon, March 14th, to which I ask that you add this spell to whatever work you’re doing between 9pm and 12am that night.

While the aim isn’t specifically to hurt these cowards, if the Universe decides that they have a karmic debt to pay… well…. 🤷🏽‍♀️

I hereby make it known that I do not recognize the authority of the current administration of the United States and do not trust it to uphold their oaths to the constitution.

Together we are stronger. They are not like us, and we need to remind them of that.

Tonight’s song is very obviously Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us.

The revolution is here and it is us.

[suzie-guru]

“Never in the history of our Republic has a President had reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate the criminal law. Moving forward, however, all former Presidents will be cloaked in such immunity. If the occupant of that office misuses official power for personal gain, the criminal law that the rest of us must abide will not provide a backstop. With fear for our democracy, I dissent.” — Sonia Sotomayor

I debated posting this picture, wearing this shirt, what with the political climate we are in, but when we are silent, hate speaks all the more loudly. For those who are afraid of what is to come in the next four years, please know that you are not alone, no matter what it feels like. We can work together for safety, stability and democracy.

My deepest love to all of you 💜

[ladysif-writes-chaos]

Today, we honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a leader whose vision of equality, justice, and love continues to inspire us all. His courage and unwavering commitment to nonviolence remind us that change begins with a dream and the determination to bring it to life.

Dr. King once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Let today be a reminder to reflect, educate ourselves, and take action to build a world where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.

How will you honor Dr. King’s dream today? Let’s strive to make his vision a reality, not just today, but every day. 💙

[mysandwichgiver]

Our democracy is much more frail than Biden | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, how billionaire corruption led to a shocking Supreme Court ruling.

OPINION

Our democracy is much more frail than Biden

by Will Bunch | Columnist

Published July 2, 2024, 12:04 p.m. ET

Do newspaper columnists know that democracy’s closer to death than Biden?

One of the first things they teach doctors in medical school is the imperfect but necessary art of triage, the technique used on a battlefield or during some other mass-casualty event to determine who is most gravely wounded and who needs immediate attention during a crisis when the system is overwhelmed, and clear-headed thinking will save lives.

Clearly, this is not something that is taught in journalism school.

Over the course of a remarkable weekend, I saw the best minds of my boomer generation destroyed by madness — newspaper columnists and other big shots convinced they were cosplayers in a real-world episode of The West Wing, saving America by giving chief of staff Leo McGarry the best words to convince an ailing President Bartlet that it’s time to step down.

The soft clacking of these keyboard commandos turned into a stampede as the nation’s pundits, its editorial-page poobahs, mega-rich but anonymous donors, and Democratic horse whisperers competed to outdo each other on The Daily Rip or in “the paper of record,” or wherever they thought the actual frail president, Joe Biden, might be paying attention.

Dropping names — Whitmer! Shapiro! Warnock! — like a groupie backstage at a heavy-metal concert, floating wildly implausible scenarios, stretching so hard for historical analogies that several probably blew out a hamstring, America’s pundit class managed to achieve a level of groupthink that surpassed the brainwashers of The Manchurian Candidate. All argued that for the good of the country he loves, Biden — hoarse, barely audible, and visibly confused a few times during Thursday’s Atlanta presidential debate — must immediately end his candidacy.

Meanwhile, in the actual America that less resembles The West Wing than the disaster flick Don’t Look Up, two comets simultaneously bore down on America in the hours leading up to its 248th — and possibly last — birthday as a democratic republic.

First, there is Donald Trump — desperate to avoid his sentencing for his 34 felony convictions, firing off racist insults about “Black jobs” and “bad Palestinians,” and carrying around a 900-page blueprint for American dictatorship called Project 2025 — streaking into the cosmic void of our troubled republic.

Meanwhile, don’t look up but a thoroughly corrupt and compromised Supreme Court is blazing a second trail toward American autocracy. In a flurry of body punches over the last several days, the nation’s highest court gutted the federal government’s ability to regulate fat-cat corporate polluters or stock swindlers, but said poor folks who sleep outside because there’s nowhere else to go can be arrested. Then, with a fierce right hook, it issued a 6-3 partisan ruling that will help Trump — who appointed three of them — evade justice while placing all future presidents above the law.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of the three liberal naysayers, read her blistering minority opinion from the bench Monday morning, arguing that the court’s finding that a president performing official acts can be immune from criminal prosecution “effectively creates a law-free zone around the president, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the founding.” She ended with the words, “with fear for our democracy, I dissent.”

I wish Justice Sotomayor had the bandwidth and the energy to work a second shift as editorial page editor at one of our major newspapers.

At Time magazine (yes, it still exists), the cover of its new issue contained just one word, “Panic” — not at the prospect of an American dictator with the seeming power to have the military assassinate his enemies, but at Biden’s health. At the New York Times (yes, it still exists), an editorial board that considered it pointless, or whatever, to call for Trump to leave the race after those 34 felony convictions — as well as the civil rape and financial fraud verdicts and the two impeachments and three other pending indictments — made its grand pronouncement that it’s Biden who must go. Other papers jumped on the bandwagon, including the swing state Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which in the 1950s and ‘60s won Pulitzers for its courage in taking on Southern racists before deciding instead to appeal to their grandchildren.

And look, I’m not going to argue that Biden’s health is not an issue. His debate performance was troubling, but I also think those of us determined not to see Donald Trump become president again should take a deep breath — even if that’s not the clickbait headline that many are eager to write. Biden needs to do more to assure the public about his energy level, and we also need to see the polls. Any decision should be based on the paramount thing — the thing that should be getting 72-point headlines: stopping dictatorship. As Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote Monday in her dissent, this is a “five-alarm fire that threatens to consume democratic self-governance.”

The power of Monday’s dissents by Jackson and Sotomayor form quite the contrast with the speculative flights of fancy about a brokered convention in Chicago, which, it’s worth noting, have largely come from white male boomer types. Many Black and brown and female voices, on the other hand, are urging Biden to stay as the only realistic hope — warts and all — of beating Trump in November. Maybe people who in one way or another know the horror of being treated as a second-class citizen understand the risk of dictatorship in a way that white dudes who’ve always been OK do not.

Most journalists want to be seen as savvy (or not naïve, essentially the same thing) and influential. Many editorial writers and columnists are still hurting from the fact that Trump was elected in 2016 with zero major print endorsements. They think calling for Trump to drop out would make them look foolish now that the Republican Party has devolved into a dangerous cult. But a demand for Biden to drop out might actually happen — so that’s savvy, right?

Except maybe the dangerous cult is the more important crisis, especially when it carries a printed guide to dictatorship and holds six justices in its back pocket. To focus on the actual threat we are facing, I wish America’s top pundits would spend less time watching reruns of The West Wing and maybe pick up a copy of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

The reality of what’s happening in July 2024 — that an authoritarian-minded president, with help from a politicized and unethical Supreme Court, is on track to lead a nation where all power is being vested in him, his MAGA movement, and the corporate polluters — is THE story, and Biden’s health is a subplot in that drama. The current president is walking slowly, but it’s the American Experiment that’s on a ventilator. Journalists aren’t doing their job: performing basic triage and focusing on the sickest patient in the room. With fear for our democracy, I dissent.

[missminkylove]

In case there were ever any questions about my stance on things.

[m4g0rtz]

Today's polish was another one that was tricky to capture in a picture. The blue to purple to magenta shimmer was so intense but it just didn't want to show up in a picture like it did irl. But when I went outside I was able to get that second picture which came pretty close. This is I Dissent from Great Lakes Lacquer.