asha ransby-sporn
@ashapoesis
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Chicago organizer & writer
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Joined November 2010
i cannot stress enough how much we shouldnt just be carrying on w the same organizing & movement strategies, campaigns, or demands as usual. a tech billionaire taking over fed government & gutting many of its (insufficient, yes, but needed) functions is a society-changing event.
In any other country, a billionaire donor like Musk installing loyalists to seize federal agencies, access private citizen data and information about his competitors, and gut working class policies to fund his own tax cut would be called a coup.
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RT @krystalball: Elon’s goal is not efficiency or shrinking govt, it’s to consolidate power. No accident that he is systematically targetin…
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@SashaSpark @TheBernienator well yes there’s lot of blame. but I would treat the real estate industry profiting from housing crisis as the bad guys in the scheme of things in this context and that’s just not true
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RT @RBReich: DOGE is a trojan horse for Elon Musk to gut labor, consumer, and environmental protections. If he actually wanted to cut wast…
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RT @sahilkapur: Uncommitted Movement co-chair Layla Elabed says both sides are to blame: “Trump’s illegal calls for ethnic cleansing are ho…
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RT @imeupolicy: The last administration provided the weapons to kill tens of thousands of Palestinians, flatten Gaza, and displace nearly t…
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RT @DemocraticWins: BREAKING: Jasmine Crockett just firmly stated that Democrats will not sit idly by as Elon Musk invades the personal fin…
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RT @repdeliaramirez: Elon Musk is trying to stage a government takeover. We won't let that happen. I am at the Treasury with my colleague…
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we need a coherent story/worldview/vision connecting us, not a laundry list we need to be willing to join big tent coalitions not just our echo chambers & we need to be flexible to meet the conjuncture - not so tied to our issue cuts or silos that we miss moments of opportunity
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RT @SandyforCouncil: Wow. I used to train people on how to do blockades, but truly never thought we would have Federal workers doing civil…
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RT @justicedems: "Our elected officials should not be able to profit off death. They should not be able to use their positions of power to…
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RT @dianelyssa: I’m sorry but “there’s very little that congressional democrats can do” is not an acceptable answer re: losing funds to fed…
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RT @emanabdelhadi: Imagine if Democrats, when in power, had pursued progressive policies with half this insistence. We would be living in v…
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RT @jallallacompa: Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan is crying on live TV about how we have been educating our neighbors on their rights. Organ…
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RT @HuizarTony: Housing as a human right! Under Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico will build 1 million new homes for single mothers, youth, indig…
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RT @MariahWoelfel: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson standing with “the full force of government” including Police Supt. Larry Snelling to reaf…
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excited to read this new book & be in convo w/ author @natashakimiz about what the u.s. left can learn from how other countries handle housing, healthcare & more. looking beyond the right here, right now is so necessary in this moment! chicago, feb 18th @ in these times
It may seem like a daunting moment to imagine a better world, but now is exactly the time to. Chicago, join us for this discussion of @natashakimiz's excellent new book, with @ashapoesis and Alex Han.
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