Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 14/06/2025You absolutely can care about and fight for Palestine and trans rights and racial justice and environmental justice and land back and abolition and reparations and intersectional feminism and economic justice and healthcare and housing and education for everyone. It's actually all the same fight. 7536158
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 14/06/2025www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...nbcnews.comCovid study shows another reason to get vaccinated: Protecting the kidneysResearchers at UCLA Health analyzed medical records of more than 3,000 patients who had been hospitalized for Covid between 2020 and 2022. 6495151
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025This 3657139
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeUrsula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 10/06/2025“The line of reasoning is maddening, seemingly designed to scramble and demobilize support for the people of Los Angeles. Accept the terms of the debate, and you end up in a bizarre argument about how much violence from which armed agents of the law is acceptable.” 0154
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeWIRED @wired.com · 10/06/2025So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill. www.wired.com/story/what-t...wired.comWhat Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets Do to the Human BodySo-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill. 7824961310
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 09/06/2025A friend asked me what the deal was with the Trump administration and Haiti and I said that racists have never forgiven Haiti for the temerity of freeing itself and illustrating that their supremacy was a lie, and everything since then has been about "proving" it can't govern itself. 6757178
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" Helmeshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 29/05/2025the fact that we don’t have @aoc.bsky.social running messaging for the democratic party tells you everything that’s wrong with the democratic party 522227350
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeBinyamin Appelbaum @bcappelbaum.bsky.social · 28/05/2025It feels like a sip of water in a desert, but it's nice to see that something is working: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comHere Is Everything That Has Changed Since Congestion Pricing Started in New YorkFewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. And some questions we still can’t answer. 11572100
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 19/05/2025This appears to be a significant step forward for global climate litigation. One of Australia's main energy firms has been forced to make a whole series of clarifications about greenwashing claims. 424199
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2025your energy actually is finite and spending time fighting about the former president while the current president is putting this country in a wood chipper seems like a bad use of it 7657471055
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeMai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 05/04/2025At today's March on Washington for Gaza, little kids' shoes and sandals ran down Pennsylvania Ave to represent the 17,400 Palestinian children that "the US has paid for Israel to murder." 📸s from the demonstration (1) 11996442
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeA. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 06/02/2025If low density areas of the city resist upzones, I think it’s time we stop distributing city resources based on geography instead do it per capita so that areas that are denser get more resources: more local schools, more library hours, lifeguards & parks staff, sidewalks, nicer street lighting… 921831
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/02/2025"Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) on Wednesday rolled out the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy (ELON MUSK) Act, which would ban 'special' government employees like Musk from having federal contracts."politico.comNew Democratic bill targets Elon MuskRep. Mark Pocan's ELON MUSK Act takes aim at the billionaire's federal contracts. 237101492537
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/02/2025Speaking as an agender: So weird for cis people to be like “I don’t get it” when you guys are like also very attached to your internal sense of sex and gender Like what’s not to get? Not being an asshole, is what it looks like 1128026
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025There's a lot going on, too much, but now reddit has bent the knee by shutting down *checks the most absurd notes on the most absurd coup in history* r/WhitePeopleTwitter www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comReddit community banned as user spat with Musk intensifiesThe tech billionaire had complained that some Reddit users were advocating violence against his staff. 29917
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeAnand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2025I mean, what did USAID ever do to Elon Musk??? Oh. the.ink/p/usaid-foug...the.inkUSAID fought apartheid. Musk is killing itThe makings of an unelected coup 20579188
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeJon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I note that www.glad.org is providing legal services here. They have a donate button at the top right of their website. 05225
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning 298179503309
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeJessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 30/01/2025Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word. 228173254532
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Tesla just announced that sales fell in Q4, and its shares dropped ~4%. Nota bene ⤵️ 1739667
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeAnand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Call it a purge, not a buyout. Call it a coup against Congress, not a spending pause. Call it censorship, not a review. Words matter, and we in the media have a chance to do better this time. 6638441259
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/01/2025If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comThe Walmart EffectNew research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices. 749147353362
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Democratic administrations and university administrators spent the last fifteen months telling us that armed enforcement officers abducting people from campuses was good and commendable, and now the Trump administration will cash that check. 5303142
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeSenator Megan Hunt @meganhunt.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Trans people exist, have always existed, and will loved and valued, no matter what their government tells them. (Also, I’m a part of the government, and I’m here to tell you I love you + I won’t stop fighting for you no matter what!) 372724340
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeKylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Israel released 90 hostages in Gaza then took 90 new hostages in the West Bank. This is what Israel does and this is the vile colonial violence it’s founded on, beyond any kind of reform 01184633
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" Helme😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025But every minute you focus on that horror when you are *not* actively doing something to evade or improve or ameliorate the situation (receiving chemo, taking Zofran, listening to the doctor, etc.), you are WASTING WHAT'S LEFT OF YOUR WILD PRECIOUS LIFE. 134814250
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025It's always been obvious that the anti-DEI backlash wasn't driven by opposition to silly or ineffective trainings, it was opposition to diversity itself. 372461465
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 20/01/2025“Performing disapproval can be a consuming pastime and it is not enough.” 214742
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeDr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 13/01/2025I don't want to sift through gofundme appeals. I want to pay progressive taxes and fund a safety net for everyone. 636289
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" Helmeshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10/01/2025this choice of photos by the Carter Center is shadier than a Georgia peach tree in summer 1864404686632
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/01/2025found this @jasonhickel.bsky.social screenshot on FB 433567879
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeBoston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 09/01/2025The strategic imperative is clear: nothing less than the total defeat of the organized political interests of oil, gas, and coal producers is necessary to make any other climate justice goals even a remote possibility.bostonreview.netClimate, State, and Utopia - Boston ReviewThe defeat of fossil fuel interests is the first step to social justice. 319569
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeMoira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 08/01/2025A key takeaway: in order to confront the growing housing safety & affordability crisis, we need to understand our fates as shared, and reimagine a home insurance system that reduces risk and provides equitable & fair protection. climateandcommunity.org/research/sha... #SharedFates 9/9climateandcommunity.orgShared Fates - Climate & Community InstituteEvery year, more people across the United States experience climate disasters, forcing them to leave their homes, lose their belongings, and be separated from jobs and … 414450
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/01/2025Artists, writers, filmmakers: Please integrate COVID into your cultural work. Avoiding COVID in your content erases critical history. And we all know what horrible things can happen when we as a society fail to learn from history. 27644208
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" Helmejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2025cannot overstate the degree to which i am negatively polarized against nimbys. like, if you go to a public meeting to speak against lower cost housing i think the city should eminent domain your house and your house specifically 14977521062
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeTruthout @truthout.org · 04/01/2025The president has used his final days in office to guarantee the continuation of Israel’s genocidal assault in Gaza.truthout.orgBiden Approves Another $8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel as Genocide ContinuesThe president has used his final days in office to guarantee the continuation of Israel’s genocidal assault in Gaza. 62658377
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" Helmekjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Read this if the New Year has you filled with apprehension and a touch of despair. It grounded and focused me and lit a spark of hope because I can see possibility here. Thank you @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for collecting so much wisdom to show us how to begin 2025. 2309
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeUrsula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Comrade Card for New Year's Day, 2025. (Appreciation to @prisonculture.bsky.social for the inspiration.) 314536
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/12/2024This rot is so deep and and so macabre and so accommodated over decades by leaders - Mayors, Governors, both political parties, the DOJ. And we will never be a healthy democracy while this is a regular and tolerated aspect of the American criminal legal system. 251176348
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeAshley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 27/12/2024If you’re the kind of person who easily forgets what you’ve accomplished, you need a practice for reminding yourself. Count the years, the finished projects, the progress, the praise, count it all up and use it as evidence against the ever present criticism in your head that you’re not doing enough. 623017689
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeMarushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 27/12/2024It takes a lot of privilege to think that health is a level playing field. Health is shaped to a large extent by our position in the hierarchy of class, race, sex, gender, ability, region, etc. Check out @deathpanel.bsky.social for some of the best, most thorough analysis around to explain why. 02511
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/12/2024According to Barron’s, Elon Musk’s wealth increased by almost $200 billion between November 5 and December 20. That means he could give $250,000 to every homeless person in the US and still be as rich as he was on November 5. 7127801192
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 27/12/2024One area of study that science deniers have never been able to influence or silence, whether it’s climate change denial, COVID denial etc. Actuarial science and the insurance industry. They do the math on the cold hard truth, and whether you “believe it” or not, your insurance rates will reflect it. 816456
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" HelmeZinnia Jones 🐍🗡️ @zinniajones.com · 27/12/2024Since "AI" isn't actually intelligent (it's just statistical likelihoods of the next word), nor is it even artificial (it's manually trained and tuned with deliberate feedback from traumatized human moderators), it's best understood as a market bubble welded to an organizational/management pathology 6750178
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" Helmemolly taft @mollytaft.com · 23/12/2024hey so! this is terrifying :)kffhealthnews.orgHow America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic - KFF Health NewsExclusive reporting reveals how the United States lost track of a virus that could cause the next pandemic. Problems like the sluggish pace of federal action, a deference to industry, and neglect for ... 451105318
Reposted by Margaret "Grits" Helmemolly mary o'brien @missmollymary.bsky.social · 21/12/2024i got so hype for hope and change all those years ago, i guess that's on me. now obama only pops up to scold people for not voting for his ancient former colleague, or to...pick a kendrick lamar song that isn't "not like us"? nixon had a less embarrassing post-presidential existence than this guy 517121