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I have had a few people that I invited tell me that this Saturday's #handsoff protests were very #inspirational to them and they were just scared to be alone.

I hope going forward that these #protests have let people know they are not alone and feel comfortable coming out now. Use your 1st amendment rights while you have them.

Remember: The one thing more powerful than fear is #hope! Stay safe and follow your local events and get involved.

From: April
by Alicia Ostriker

“The optimists among us
taking heart because it is spring
skip along
attending their meetings
signing their e-mail petitions
marching with their satiric signs
singing their we shall overcome songs
posting their pungent twitters and blogs
believing in a better world
for no good reason
I envy them
said the old woman…”

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@magicalgirlsabrina
A close friend, so close, was sure, so sure, that Kamala was going to win. Practical implications of Kamala being VP to a genocide just didn't register.

They may have been blinded by #Hope.

People go on, and on, about hope. It's not essential, has huge dangers and may seem so important as our culture had for the longest time a sure and certain hope in the Resurrection.

What if we had sure doubts and certain ambivalences?

Would my close friend have bet a grand on Kamala?

The Hands Off protests yesterday, which were (let's not mince the truth here) antifascist and pro-democracy rallies, have lifted my spirits in a way that has made me feel that we actually have more options available than we realize. And not just on the political front, but also on the personal front. We must not get in the habit of being doormats to this regime. Or, for that matter, to the subtly sinister parasites in life.

Exactly all of this 🥰 I can't stress enough how not in the slightest joking I am when I say that I believe the world would be a better place if people exposing themselves to the many pessimistic, if not outright nihilistic shows permeating entertainment in the past few decades had been watching Doctor Who instead...

Try to be nice but always be kind 💛

werd.social/@ben/1142870041616 @ben #PopCulture #DoctorWho #hope #humanity

Werd SocialBen Werdmuller (@ben@werd.social)Hi, I wrote a piece trying to convince you that Doctor Who is the best show ever made. Please take a look. https://werd.io/2025/doctor-who-is-the-best-show-ever-made-heres-why #doctorwho

Anti-fascist Demonstrator Being Dragged Away by Police During the Battle of Cable Street, East London 1936
Uncredited Photographer

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well,” Czech dissident, writer and statesman Václav Havel said, “but the certainty that something is worth doing no matter how it turns out.”

via dreaminginthedeepsouth

#quotes
#protest
#hope
#fascism

PEACE, LOVE, HOPE, CHARITY, and UNITY are the keys to OUR SUCESS.
UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL, not just as a state, country, party, or people but as a planet. So seek out truth and promote unity as a world, it starts with you and me and people love a good thing and know it when they see it. Let us work together, not against our potential.

#faith#hope#charity