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For two months, I’ve refrained from writing. I’ve been mostly silent on social media. Part of this was necessity, part of it was simply desire to stop. I needed to stop reading compulsively and I wanted to stop writing. I wanted to stop writing and I needed to stop reading compulsively so that I could take time to look and listen at the world without noise. It isn’t what I’ve seen or not seen that…
I t’s the easiest protest and were we to continue with it, it would likely be the most effective. It’s simple. Friday, May the First; NO WORK, NO SCHOOL, NO SHOPPING. Maybe the “no work” isn’t viable for all, but no school seems a better bet, and what should be the easiest- no shopping- we can all do. Starve the beast! Just for one day. Just for one day, don’t buy a goddamn thing. You need…
Earth, from 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) away. Photo by Voyager 1, 14 February 1990. Dear Mom, You’ve nurtured life on you for eons. We’re late arrivals and from the way we behave toward you and each other, I rather get the feeling we’re not going to be around forever, maybe not even for much longer. That’s okay. It’s not just that we’re “unruly children who won’t settle down”, we have…
Every day, my inbox, as I’m sure yours, is replete with articles, substack posts, notes about the various hells being unleashed at any given time, more now than ever. It is easy to begin to believe that light is receding at, well, lightspeed. However, a few caveats may be helpful in dispelling, if not the darkness itself, than its seeming power to render us dispirited or despairing. As I mentioned…
I just finished this email to some friends and family members. I wasn’t planning on using it for this purpose, but maybe, in this hour before we find out where we stand in relation to threats of rendering us parties - unwilling, to be sure - to genocide or not, this may prove helpful for some. ####### I know some of you are concerned, perhaps even worried, about the pronouncement of the Occupier…
I really enjoyed the third No Kings Day this past Saturday. Saw some folks I know, heard some good speeches, and enjoyed the march. I'll only caption a couple of photos toward the end, but also note the video I'm embedding! The song is "Forged in Fire" by Crys Matthews a remarkable singer-songwriter out of Nashville whose work I heartily recommend. If you participated this past weekend, I hope…
Memes in the Time of Trump 2.0: No Kings 3 edition, Part 2 Part 1 here . Epstein, Epstein, Epstein!!! Don't let this die. Jeffrey did, but his legacy and Trump's is intertwined and we are in a world of pain and lies because of it. Have some memes and share accordingly. One more for the road and see you all in the streets tomorrow! If you want to go back to part 1, here's the link . Or copy and…
I could have also called this The Kitchen Sink Edition because I'm also throwing in elements from Facebook on Bluesky and even some Stuff2Do. No Kings happens tomorrow with over 3,000 actions planned across the U.S. I'm cautiously optimistic that this will be the largest turn-out and more people get involved afterward in their local communities and at different levels of engagement. Consequently,…
The big deal coming up is, of course, March 28, N Kings Day. I really would love to see Americans flood the streets in numbers so large that corporate media can’t play them down. To find your local action, rally, protest: https://www.nokings.org/ . Mobilize.us is where you can register for the No Kings Kick-off Call: https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/916978/ . I truly hope we exceed…
Source: PBS.org I love John Oliver. I hate watching his show. Actually, I don’t hate watching his show; however, I’d be lying if I said that the topics he covers are often guaranteed to generate a wave of anger that requires immediate attention. He recently covered the dismantling of USAID a year after DOGE and the Regime went to town on it. When it was first announced what they were doing, the…
