***** V I C T O R Y *****

[solarbird]

As did the chicken:

THE TEXAS OBSERVER LIVES!

I’ll be damned, Mastodon saved a newspaper. From Update 7 on the GoFundMe:

The Texas Observer’s parent nonprofit board… unanimously voted to rescind layoffs after seeing this successful effort to raise funds.

That’s right. The Observer will not lay off staff on Friday, and the publication will not cease the production of journalism.

Take a moment to reflect on this astonishing accomplishment that YOU made possible.

And I’ve got something important to add myself, which is:

This is why you do not just accept this shit. It does not have to happen. We just proved that, again.

TWO DAYS. TWO. FUCKING. DAYS. IS ALL IT TOOK.

I mean sure, now there’s a longer-term effort, and that’ll have to work too, and the Observer really need to get that Patreon spun up and running for reasons we’ve talked about before, but…

But today?

Two days.

Two days to victory.

Don’t just accept this shit. You don’t have to. See, this here? This right here?

This is called proof.

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