This sort of joylessness is unsustainable.

Today we enjoy the fruits of a nationwide project of organizing to halt the forward momentum of a white supremacist authoritarian project.

People worked so hard in their communities to make this happen, to make the next steps possible. https://twitter.com/graue/status/1325183407618318338

Wanna go ALL THE FUCKING WAY?

Our economic and social orders are going to be blasted apart by biosphere collapse if we don’t pull off some miraculous structural feats, and SOON

BUT WE NEED TO DANCE OFF THE FUNK OF THE LAST FOUR YEARS OF DESPAIR

so we can gear up for that fight

We have concentration camps to liberate, we have a pandemic to arrest, we have a society of unfathomable evil and inequality to clean up, of course

But doing all of that requires the power of an organized people.

You’re going to burn them out if they can’t enjoy milestones.

Let me tell you something.

I have spent the last FOUR YEARS, at least WEEKLY, modeling out how much danger I was in, as a Latinx person, from the ethnic cleansing program they were feverishly building.

When was *I* going to get dragged to some camp?

So yeah, I'm celebrating

The project of building a better world, from within the abject mess that is the United States, is daunting and full of complexity, yes.

But we're going to have a MUCH easier time of it without a fucking incompetent Mussolini disrupting every single avenue of civic life.

We did not wake up this morning in utopia. And Biden, of all fucking people, will not create one upon inauguration.

But we have been given the gift of TIME

Time to plan. Time to organize coalitions. Time to collect resources.

Time to breathe. Time to love our families.

Enjoy.