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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I wrote a paper in grad school about The Young Lords taking over a church in "Spanish Harlem" in 1969 and I managed to get interviews with Pablo Guzman, Felipe Luciano and Juan Gonzalez for it Not a surprise that 3/5 founders went on to work in media since they were so good at dealing with press.

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Remember Stormy Daniels? She turned out to be braver than every single m.f. who knew what was going on but kept their traps shut.

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

This is one of the most enraging things I've read about this so far. Imagine how Monica Lewinsky feels reading this shit. The Starr report was so gratuitously graphic and designed for peak humiliation and Monica got it in the teeth

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/04/2025

Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Also, don't forget judges and school boards. The right wing built their power by focusing on seemingly insignificant hyperlocal elections. We can do the same! It's going to take a loooooong time to get out of this mess but you're not actually powerless, they just want you to think you are. /fin

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

If you live in a swing district (like I do, God help me) start working your ass off right now for the 2026 midterms. If you're in a red district, start connecting with other blue dots & focus on micro-organizing to start racking small wins and keep up everyone's morale. Think mutual aid societies! ↓

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

This entire 🧵 is a fantastic primer for surviving what's going on right now, but I want to pull out the last post because it's what I've been telling people. Organizing on the state, county and municipal level is where it's at. If you live in a blue state/congressional district, keep it blue! ↓

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

6 RULES for Survival under an Authoritarian Regime (truthfully I probably should've put this one first) #TheAuthoritarianRegimeSurvivalGuide FIN

Rule 1

Don’t stay indifferent. It WILL concern you eventually. It will concern your family, your friends. Voice your objection IMMEDIATELY. Show them you care. RESIST.

Rule 2

They thrive on FEAR & IGNORANCE. Expose their scaremongering, show flaws in their arguments. Raise awareness, EDUCATE people around you. They will try to distort FACTS, rewrite history. DON’T LET THEM.

Rule 3

Organize protest movements, mobilize civil society. They’re well organized, so should you be. FLOOD THE STREETS. They WILL back off when they see your numbers. They depend on you – the PEOPLE.

Rule 4

Don’t let them DIVIDE you into different classes of citizens, “true Americans”, “patriots” vs “traitors”, “enemies of the state”. You’re ALL citizens, ONE nation, despite different beliefs and ideology. Make your diversity your STRENGTH. Stay TOGETHER for a common goal – survival of your country, of freedom and democracy.

Rule 5

Don’t give up, don’t get tired, and don’t try to wait it out. Don’t hope it will pass. It WON’T. They will manipulate the people, control the media to sway public opinion, fix the electoral system and STAY FOR GOOD.

Rule 6

If you don’t get them to back off or to step down, you better make goddamn SURE that when the next elections come, assuming there’s still any democracy left, NO ONE will vote for the same bastard(s) again!

– With love, your Eastern European friends

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

THIS IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT: "When invading your liberal sensibilities they will focus on what hurts the most – women and minorities...But it means they are aware of the threat women and minorities pose to their rule, so make it your strength." #TheAuthoritarianRegimeSurvivalGuide 10/

8. When invading your liberal sensibilities they will focus on what hurts the most – women and minorities. They will act as if democracy was majority rule without respect for the minority. They will paint foreigners and immigrants as potential threats. Racial, religious, sexual and other minorities will become enemies to the order and security they are supposedly providing. They will challenge women’s social status, undermine gender equality and interfere with reproductive rights (see point 7). But it means they are aware of the threat women and minorities pose to their rule, so make it your strength.

Women and minorities have to be ready to fight the hardest – reminding the majority what true democracy is about – and you must fight together with them.

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

🧵A friend shared The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide so I'm turning it into a thread. Everything in this guide is happening right now so keep referring back as you grapple with what to do right now 1/

verfassungsblog.de

The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

This text was published in social media in January 2017 in a series of improvised, spontaneous tweets, which reached 3 million views within one month. Their common element was their trademark signatur...

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This situation in South Korea is incredibly volatile and I'm really worried about what will happen after Trump is in office.

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Seen on Threads: "Any big plans for New Year's Eve?" "Yep!"

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

There's so many Twitter screenshots on Bluesky and it gives someone who thinks they're over the breakup but can't stop talking about their ex.

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

"A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity." Jimmy Carter

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Address to the Liberal Party of New York in New York City | The American Presidency Project

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I met Jimmy Carter when I was on a 5th grade field trip when he was running for president. I of course didn't know that I'd had the privilege of meeting one of the most decent men to ever hold public office. The world feels a little colder today (and it was feeling pretty damned cold already 😭)

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

This is 18 year old Chula, she's been with us since before our son and we love her a lot. She's mostly indoors except when we let her out in the catnip patch under supervision but this PSA is still very appreciated. Poor girlie is just going to have to live with the dried catnip for awhile.

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Understimulated at rest (delayed retirement arc) @jmshghtwr.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A billionaire warns his fellow billionaires that the pitchforks are coming for them all... Back in 2014. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

And so I have a message for my fellow filthy rich, for all of us who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.

If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us. No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human history where wealth accumulated like this and the pitchforks didn’t eventually come out. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It’s not if, it’s when.

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

This is just a taste of the outcry that's coming if the ACA is repealed. People have no idea of the enormity of what's headed for them once they lose the protections in the law. And it's especially terrible when you consider 10% of people with covid develop long covid. They are screwed.

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Korea's first democratic government was established in 1988 after years-long protests where thousands of citizens were arrested, tortured and killed. It's sad that just 30 years later democracy is seriously endangered. I love that Koreans are willing to fill the streets, but hate they have to do it.

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Another thing important to Bluesky is narrow casting: knowing exactly what your niche is and relentlessly targeting the feeds where people are interested in what you have to say. Very different model than Threads which is linked to the Instagram algorithm.

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

This is pretty important info for social media managers to remember: getting a lot of followers on Bluesky doesn't necessarily translate into anyone engaging with your posts. What seems to work better is tagging posts to show up in highly trafficked feeds.

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

🧵 I looked at the profiles of a fairly well known journalist who has 34K followers on Bluesky vs. 4223 followers on Threads. You would think his Bluesky engagement would be dramatically higher but it's not which is very interesting to me and in line with what I'm seeing on my other accounts.

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Shit posting isn't organizing Social media metrics are meaningless if they're not tied to organizing goals. If you're in comms and you're not going out in the field regularly, you're not doing your job well.

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I thought of a child having to go through ME/CFS is heartbreaking. It's a devastating illness and the name doesn't capture how disabling it is

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I'm seeing people arguing about whether posting on social media is organizing and it reminded me of a graphic I created showing the differences between comms and digital organizing. They use the same tools but have very different goals. Not knowing the difference causes a lot of problems in orgs.

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Social media can be organizing but if you're not spending time in the field and getting to know the organizing goals on a granular level you won't be able to effectively support the work. Social media metrics are meaningless if not tied to concrete organizing goals.

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

If you aren't going out with organizers regularly you aren't doing your job well. You don't need to be out there every week but I think once a month is a good goal and will help you better support the real work. Social metrics mean nothing if they don't advance the core organizing goals.

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

This is correct and as a former labor communicator one of the things that frustrates me the most is when the comms team is out of touch with that nitty gritty work. We can play an enormously important role in organizing but only if we understand what's happening in the field!

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Alisa Rivera @alisarivera.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I was talking about how hard it is to find reliable product reviews now that sites are flooded with AI reviews. Something we're not discussing nearly enough is how AI is destroying the ability to find verifiable knowledge which is a huge harm to our democracy, health, education and like everything

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