So the next time you pass someone on a corner holding a sign, sitting with a dog, existing somewhere that makes you uncomfortable, I want you to think about this. Think about six years. Think about 140 pages faxed after the hearing. Think about a judge who had time for
birth rates dropping, women out-earning and out-educating men in growing numbers, and instead of asking why women are opting out, the answer is always to engineer us back in.
Macomb Defenders Rising has endorsed Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for the U.S. Senate, calling Michigan’s Democratic primary a defining test of whether grassroots democracy can overcome unprecedented special-interest spending.
the disability community is the only community you can join at any time — it just depends on when your time comes.
For years, I organized in Macomb County — a place that’s flipped so many times it’s practically a coin toss with a memory. Now I technically live in St. Clair County, mailing address planted firmly inside one of the safest red seats in the entire state. Same state, two completely
I am boots on the ground inside it. I built the 160 pages. I made the ten calls. I listened to my social worker cry. I got turned away by a lawyer for being the wrong age. I sat in front of a new judge with a new lawyer and
I watched the documentaries. I dug further. I sat with the discomfort of realizing that the version of history I was handed was incomplete at best and deliberately curated at worst.
“While we boycott and reject Trump’s anti-American, whitewashed 250th, all of US will join together to take up the torch from our ancestors, reckon with and repair from our history, and create a future where liberty and justice are for all.”
“I was engaged for eight years. And I knew — because I’d learned all of this — that we would likely never be paperwork married.”
By Robert Myers Another weird couple of weeks, another list of videos and other sources of reasons for hope. I have no structure for this because these circumstances do not allow for structure. I just realized some may disagree with what I see as hopeful. And some of the things
