My partner is a public defender, and for people splitting hairs in the comments: The justice system is unjust and inscrutable and you’re not gonna crack the case here. Each case has countless “gotchas” and goes back and forth nigh endlessly.

What matters most is being there for people during some of the hardest times of their lives, when they’re being dehumanized and erased by a system that wants to ignore the rights it promises them, and that’s the message of OP here and OP in screenshot.

As others here said, hope gives us the strength to believe we can help ourselves and others, and we need that right now.

The book/audiobook “It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful” is a case study in their most successful creative marketing / organizing work and how we can apply it today.

This! Went from so hopeful to devastated so fast — covid gave me autoimmune nightmare syndromes, and immunosuppressants are one of very few things to have actually helped me gain a tiny bit of my life back. Boosting immune system? Nooo thank you.

If it stops transmission, then that’s still good for those of us who can’t get it, but plenty of vaccines don’t unfortunately. They’re still very worth getting and keeping up to date with boosters if you can