Subscribe to a fucking newspaper. Get a fucking IUD. Show the fuck up for racial justice. Savushkin / istock Amid all of the messages of sadness and anger and disbelief I’ve received in the wake of Tuesday’s presidential election, there’s one more refrain I’m hearing, and it’s an important one: “What can I do?” You […]
Resistance and Solidarity
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No, I Will Not Give Trump a Chance.
iStock/Andy Katz This morning, the New York Times ran an editorial by Nicholas Kristof, titled “Gritting our Teeth and Giving President Trump a Chance,” the premise of which is one of the dumbest fucking things I’ve ever seen in that publication. Firstly, giving Trump anything is a ridiculous notion. He’s just been given the White […]
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Why Protesting Trump Now Is So Important
Demonstrators in Portland, Oregon; November 9, 2016. Doug Brown Last night thousands took to Portland’s streets, in addition to the thousands more across the country, to protest our electoral system’s selection of Donald Trump as president-elect. All of the frustration and disgust is an instinctual, reflexive response for those who didn’t vote for him; the […]
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Stop Telling People of Color to Calm Down
Here’s what people of color are already dealing with: Day 1 In Trump’s America
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It’s Not “the Economy, Stupid”
Doug Brown “It’s the economy, stupid.” That’s the reasoning coming from Trump supporters across the country for voting for the most clearly inexperienced president in history. Not because he denigrates Mexicans, has admitted to sexually assaulting women, disrespects the Black Lives Matter movement, and has lied (and has been caught lying) to a baffling degree. […]
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Cops Helped A Massive Anti-Trump Protest Shut Down I-5 on Wednesday
Doug Brown For the second time in the very short period Donald Trump has been president-elect, protestors headed to Interstate 5 this evening. And in an exceedingly rare instance befitting this batshit crazy week, the cops even helped. While as many as two thousand protestors marched from Pioneer Courthouse Square this evening, stopped in front […]