Amy Zucker Morgenstern (she or they)
@amyzm.bsky.social
Earthling • Unitarian Universalist minister (www.uucpa.org) • mom • partner • artist (sermonsinstones.com) • student • antifascist • democratic socialist • advice columnist (askisabel.substack.com) • knitter • lover of cats • hater of greed and meanness.
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For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.
June 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.
Same view, intersection now half-full of protesters.
June 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Same view, intersection now half-full of protesters.
Crowd at 24th and Mission, SF, is large and growing. Lots of us on the other three corners. A line of cop motorcycles is a block away. Here's hoping they stay there.
June 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Crowd at 24th and Mission, SF, is large and growing. Lots of us on the other three corners. A line of cop motorcycles is a block away. Here's hoping they stay there.
This aged well.
Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously
June 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This aged well.
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It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
June 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
I wrote to the Times about this.
Dear NY Times,
I'm not sure how to characterize Erica Green's article, and the editor's headline, for this story.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...
1/
Dear NY Times,
I'm not sure how to characterize Erica Green's article, and the editor's headline, for this story.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...
1/
May 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I wrote to the Times about this.
Dear NY Times,
I'm not sure how to characterize Erica Green's article, and the editor's headline, for this story.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...
1/
Dear NY Times,
I'm not sure how to characterize Erica Green's article, and the editor's headline, for this story.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...
1/
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“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands
May 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands
This is how you do it. While law firms, Paramount, and so many others are lining up to be shaken down, the Detroit Opera House is speaking truth to power.
Today I'm asking myself, "What's the thing I can do in my job to push back hardest against fascism?" What's yous?
Today I'm asking myself, "What's the thing I can do in my job to push back hardest against fascism?" What's yous?
“The Central Park Five,” an opera about the Black and Latino boys wrongly convicted of raping a Central Park jogger, opens next month at the Detroit Opera House. We spoke with the company about the perils of mounting a production that waves a red cape at Donald Trump's reactive presidency.
Detroit Opera Steps Into Trump’s Cross Hairs With ‘Central Park Five’
The Pulitzer Prize-winning opera features Donald J. Trump, whose 1989 full-page newspaper ad sought to demonize the young men wrongly accused of rape.
www.nytimes.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This is how you do it. While law firms, Paramount, and so many others are lining up to be shaken down, the Detroit Opera House is speaking truth to power.
Today I'm asking myself, "What's the thing I can do in my job to push back hardest against fascism?" What's yous?
Today I'm asking myself, "What's the thing I can do in my job to push back hardest against fascism?" What's yous?
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Adopted so long ago (17 years) that I've forgotten the name of the rescue organization: Luna.
May 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Adopted so long ago (17 years) that I've forgotten the name of the rescue organization: Luna.
What say you, @nytimes.com ?
For the love of God. Could someone please teach the New York Times how to use a dictionary so they can look up the true meaning of “deport.” It ain’t snatching innocent people of the streets and sending them for life sentences to a foreign gulag without due process.
May 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
What say you, @nytimes.com ?
Wait, why doesn't Trump want us to know how high the tariff is on each purchase? Isn't that the point: that we'll recognize the cost of buying foreign-made, reject that choice, and insist on US-made goods, thereby driving up US manufacturing? It's not nearly as effective if we don't see the tariffs.
April 30, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Wait, why doesn't Trump want us to know how high the tariff is on each purchase? Isn't that the point: that we'll recognize the cost of buying foreign-made, reject that choice, and insist on US-made goods, thereby driving up US manufacturing? It's not nearly as effective if we don't see the tariffs.
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April 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
"Pro-life"
A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies.
@altusaid.altgov.info
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
@altusaid.altgov.info
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
April 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"Pro-life"
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A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies.
@altusaid.altgov.info
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
@altusaid.altgov.info
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
April 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies.
@altusaid.altgov.info
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
@altusaid.altgov.info
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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so they're mycoblogging
April 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
so they're mycoblogging
Also, I now have lots of unused Franklin Covey planner supplies to give away on my Buy Nothing group. It's a good approach to planning.
These records of my past glowered at me from their shelf for years for no good reason. #Anxiety 3/3
These records of my past glowered at me from their shelf for years for no good reason. #Anxiety 3/3
April 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Also, I now have lots of unused Franklin Covey planner supplies to give away on my Buy Nothing group. It's a good approach to planning.
These records of my past glowered at me from their shelf for years for no good reason. #Anxiety 3/3
These records of my past glowered at me from their shelf for years for no good reason. #Anxiety 3/3
You know what? I've done this job well DESPITE all those unfinished tasks. That's just life. It's not failure on an epic scale. And all those tasks jotted down on calendars from 2004, 2009, 2016 are the evidence of love, care, and hard work in a good cause. 2/3
April 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
You know what? I've done this job well DESPITE all those unfinished tasks. That's just life. It's not failure on an epic scale. And all those tasks jotted down on calendars from 2004, 2009, 2016 are the evidence of love, care, and hard work in a good cause. 2/3
In purge of my office prior to my semi-retirement June 30, I finally took a deep breath and dove into the volumes of past planners. They are an anxious and perfectionistic person's nightmare, redolent of plans never achieved, to-do lists with unchecked boxes . . . 1/3
April 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
In purge of my office prior to my semi-retirement June 30, I finally took a deep breath and dove into the volumes of past planners. They are an anxious and perfectionistic person's nightmare, redolent of plans never achieved, to-do lists with unchecked boxes . . . 1/3
If we refrained from doing any good things that also made us look good in other people's eyes, we'd grind to a halt fast. Van Hollen could have been more modest by doing it all under the radar, but OTOH. making noise as he did it was part of what put pressure on both governments.
i have no doubt that senator van hollen was genuinely concerned for the safety and welfare of abrego garcia BUT ALSO this is what i'm talking about when i say POLITICAL AMBITION. van hollen may well make himself a household name and nationally recognized political figure with this move
April 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
If we refrained from doing any good things that also made us look good in other people's eyes, we'd grind to a halt fast. Van Hollen could have been more modest by doing it all under the radar, but OTOH. making noise as he did it was part of what put pressure on both governments.
DOGE's original goal: cut $1 trillion from the budget. DOGE's revised goal: cut $150 billion from the budget. So many zeroes get confusing, so I checked carefully. Their new goal is 15% of their original goal. Think that will be on Musk's "Five things I did this week" list?
April 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
DOGE's original goal: cut $1 trillion from the budget. DOGE's revised goal: cut $150 billion from the budget. So many zeroes get confusing, so I checked carefully. Their new goal is 15% of their original goal. Think that will be on Musk's "Five things I did this week" list?
Stall, stall, stall. It's part of Trump's m.o.
NEW: DOJ notifies Judge Xinis that it is appealing her revised order directing it to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the Fourth Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Stall, stall, stall. It's part of Trump's m.o.
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God bless Senator Chris Van Hollen. May he be successful in his endeavor. #BringHimHome.
April 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
God bless Senator Chris Van Hollen. May he be successful in his endeavor. #BringHimHome.
Let's put this in a language the administration understands: international tourism contributes $150-200 billion a year to the US economy, supporting over a million US jobs.
Who needs tourism, amiright? Filthy foreigners, with their dirty money.
"Welcome to the United States of America. We hope you enjoy your visit!"
April 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Let's put this in a language the administration understands: international tourism contributes $150-200 billion a year to the US economy, supporting over a million US jobs.
