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We the people are the David to this Goliath. Our resistance can be all the more powerful if we understand who will actually be taking our demands for democracy to the courts. We must hear from the lawyers and judges who will argue and decide in courts of justice.
NOTICINGS: The impasse we face
What folks with the necessary skills are doing and will do.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:28 AM
We the people are the David to this Goliath. Our resistance can be all the more powerful if we understand who will actually be taking our demands for democracy to the courts. We must hear from the lawyers and judges who will argue and decide in courts of justice.
The most often used word by the Founders was not liberty. It was not freedom. The word used the most, the word that guided the formation of a government to create liberty, freedom, and democracy, was a word filled with the awe experience of dread and terror. That word is demagogue.
NOTICINGS: Awe and Politics
Our Founding document declares its own Adjacent Seven
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October 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The most often used word by the Founders was not liberty. It was not freedom. The word used the most, the word that guided the formation of a government to create liberty, freedom, and democracy, was a word filled with the awe experience of dread and terror. That word is demagogue.
The Declaration of Independence is a perfect example of the Life-centered patriotism we need now.
We, the Unalienable Patriots.
We, the Unalienable Patriots.
October 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The Declaration of Independence is a perfect example of the Life-centered patriotism we need now.
We, the Unalienable Patriots.
We, the Unalienable Patriots.
Looking at the contrast between 1776 and 2025, and, despite all odds, the perseverance of hope from those first years and every single year since, to this moment, gives perspective on the power of hope.
NOTICINGS: Contrast & Compare the Grievances — 1776 to 2025
What has remained constant?
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October 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Looking at the contrast between 1776 and 2025, and, despite all odds, the perseverance of hope from those first years and every single year since, to this moment, gives perspective on the power of hope.
NOTICINGS: My Neighbors. Your Neighbors. Our Neighbors.
The tenderness of connection
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September 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The connection I made between my orb kill and precarity was so spontaneous that I sat down to register what had just happened in my head. Jung wrote about pausing. Akomolafe spoke about holding. The goal is not to eliminate one side or the other, or to compromise.
NOTICINGS: Precarity
Kung Fu gardening is not only a metaphor
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September 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The connection I made between my orb kill and precarity was so spontaneous that I sat down to register what had just happened in my head. Jung wrote about pausing. Akomolafe spoke about holding. The goal is not to eliminate one side or the other, or to compromise.
Am I out of my mind connecting Tom Paine’s anguish about his child’s future in 1776 and this child, now a teenager in the 21st century? Are not the situations of Paine’s American crisis and our present American crisis close parallels?
NOTICINGS: Parallel times past and present
Looking at trouble, pushback, what we know now, and what we can continue to do.
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September 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Am I out of my mind connecting Tom Paine’s anguish about his child’s future in 1776 and this child, now a teenager in the 21st century? Are not the situations of Paine’s American crisis and our present American crisis close parallels?
During the Alaskan Summit, an American citizen drew the Ukrainian flag on the sidewalk in front of the Russian Embassy in Washington, DC. The Russians contacted the Secret Service and lied about what was happening. The lies were quickly disproved.
August 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
During the Alaskan Summit, an American citizen drew the Ukrainian flag on the sidewalk in front of the Russian Embassy in Washington, DC. The Russians contacted the Secret Service and lied about what was happening. The lies were quickly disproved.
Bingo. My subject appears. I care about the hungry, famished, wasting, starving children being used as political weapons. I went to bed. Around four o’clock in the morning, I was awakened by an image. An open spigot gushing hate. A torrent of furious words describing them. The Perpetrators.
NOTICINGS: Subdue by superior force
Starving them into submission
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August 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Bingo. My subject appears. I care about the hungry, famished, wasting, starving children being used as political weapons. I went to bed. Around four o’clock in the morning, I was awakened by an image. An open spigot gushing hate. A torrent of furious words describing them. The Perpetrators.
Civil rights through the lens of ... Ed Sullivan. What a story. Not told until now. Bravisimo to director Sacha Jenkins! Once again, he puts a pin in our understanding of how we all be here. Did you see his doc about Louis Armstrong? RIP Sacha. Rest in power. www.netflix.com/title/82048609
Watch Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan | Netflix Official Site
Ed Sullivan broke barriers by booking Black artists on his Sunday night variety show. This documentary spotlights the TV pioneer's legacy of equality.
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July 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Civil rights through the lens of ... Ed Sullivan. What a story. Not told until now. Bravisimo to director Sacha Jenkins! Once again, he puts a pin in our understanding of how we all be here. Did you see his doc about Louis Armstrong? RIP Sacha. Rest in power. www.netflix.com/title/82048609
And snap! A threesome appears! Big guys overtaking children! Trump/Epstein. Measles. Starvation in Gaza and America. —Image detail from Cosme Viardel rotated 90 degrees. 1676.
July 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
And snap! A threesome appears! Big guys overtaking children! Trump/Epstein. Measles. Starvation in Gaza and America. —Image detail from Cosme Viardel rotated 90 degrees. 1676.
@klonick.bsky.social As Ben Wittes introduces MARA recalls your introducing Ada Palmer on In Lieu of Fun . Don't you think the amazing Ada Palmer's new work suggests an interesting lens to view Trump's America?
July 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
@klonick.bsky.social As Ben Wittes introduces MARA recalls your introducing Ada Palmer on In Lieu of Fun . Don't you think the amazing Ada Palmer's new work suggests an interesting lens to view Trump's America?
Fifteen years into learning how to plant and grow, I am now having ideas about stuff that has nothing to do with planting and growing but are informed by planting and growing. Like this peek-a-boo experience of clustered blueberries under a leaf. First, you see nothing.
NOTICINGS: Peek-a-boo Blues
A change in POV delivers more than expected
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July 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Fifteen years into learning how to plant and grow, I am now having ideas about stuff that has nothing to do with planting and growing but are informed by planting and growing. Like this peek-a-boo experience of clustered blueberries under a leaf. First, you see nothing.
Beautiful American Fireworks
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Lisa Citron on Living In Dramatic Times
A glorious incantation. Genuine, glorious, uplift anchored in essential ballast.
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July 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Beautiful American Fireworks
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Drink it in.
One imagines Trump and his government, ICE, and MAGA experiencing via VR what they do. I want them to understand. Know what I mean?
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One imagines Trump and his government, ICE, and MAGA experiencing via VR what they do. I want them to understand. Know what I mean?
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NOTICINGS: What They Do & What We Do
Track their actions. (And needing a bath afterwards.) Preparing for the road ahead.
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July 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Drink it in.
One imagines Trump and his government, ICE, and MAGA experiencing via VR what they do. I want them to understand. Know what I mean?
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One imagines Trump and his government, ICE, and MAGA experiencing via VR what they do. I want them to understand. Know what I mean?
open.substack.com/pub/gotcupof...
Hakeem Jeffries Speaks for Six Hours as He Delays Trump Budget newrepublic.com/post/197573/... via @newrepublic.com
Hakeem Jeffries Speaks for Six Hours as He Delays Trump Budget
The House minority leader has been speaking for more than six hours in an effort to stop Trump’s disastrous budget.
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July 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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What now? I can’t stay for long with despair. My nature turns, like a rabbit fleeing hell, to doing something.
I want us on the freedom side of the chain-link fence. The one that the SCOTUS 6 has enabled this president to do whatever he wants. Like a king.
I listen to Leonard Cohen.
I want us on the freedom side of the chain-link fence. The one that the SCOTUS 6 has enabled this president to do whatever he wants. Like a king.
I listen to Leonard Cohen.
NOTICING: Inalienable rights? What now?
There’s a crack in everything
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July 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
What now? I can’t stay for long with despair. My nature turns, like a rabbit fleeing hell, to doing something.
I want us on the freedom side of the chain-link fence. The one that the SCOTUS 6 has enabled this president to do whatever he wants. Like a king.
I listen to Leonard Cohen.
I want us on the freedom side of the chain-link fence. The one that the SCOTUS 6 has enabled this president to do whatever he wants. Like a king.
I listen to Leonard Cohen.
Maybe this is a good time to step back. Take a breath. Wash a window. Go for a walk. Get a tattoo. Or not. Put away the groceries. Fold worn-out t-shirts and make a decision: keep or make rags. Inhale the scent of a rose. Humans have been here before.
NOTICINGS: Stepping Back for a Wider View
The power of the powerless in this moment now
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July 2, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Maybe this is a good time to step back. Take a breath. Wash a window. Go for a walk. Get a tattoo. Or not. Put away the groceries. Fold worn-out t-shirts and make a decision: keep or make rags. Inhale the scent of a rose. Humans have been here before.
Every GOP vote today is a Kristallnacht, a coordinated, deliberate effort to destroy and hold power over 340 million Americans. As I witness this calibrated horror, I’m reminded — hold space. Hold space for the unknowns. Hold space for lives broken. Hold space for all lives filled with trepidation.
NOTICINGS: Hold space.
Fruits of the unexpected.
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June 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Every GOP vote today is a Kristallnacht, a coordinated, deliberate effort to destroy and hold power over 340 million Americans. As I witness this calibrated horror, I’m reminded — hold space. Hold space for the unknowns. Hold space for lives broken. Hold space for all lives filled with trepidation.
A couple of months ago, I happened upon a YouTube video of a lecture given by Dr. Iain McGilchrist. His subject is the brain. McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher, and literary scholar. He’s broken new ground and has come to understand how the two hemispheres function.
NOTICINGS: Parallel polis
Enhancing political activism with an understanding of the brain’s two hemispheres.
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June 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
A couple of months ago, I happened upon a YouTube video of a lecture given by Dr. Iain McGilchrist. His subject is the brain. McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher, and literary scholar. He’s broken new ground and has come to understand how the two hemispheres function.
Activist.
Am I an activist? Yes.
What kind of activist? Let’s talk about it in a minute. But first, a little history. Not all activists do dissent in the same way. open.substack.com/pub/gotcupof...
Am I an activist? Yes.
What kind of activist? Let’s talk about it in a minute. But first, a little history. Not all activists do dissent in the same way. open.substack.com/pub/gotcupof...
NOTICINGS: Parallel polis
Let’s talk a minute about being an activist.
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June 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Activist.
Am I an activist? Yes.
What kind of activist? Let’s talk about it in a minute. But first, a little history. Not all activists do dissent in the same way. open.substack.com/pub/gotcupof...
Am I an activist? Yes.
What kind of activist? Let’s talk about it in a minute. But first, a little history. Not all activists do dissent in the same way. open.substack.com/pub/gotcupof...
In one way, they’re making it harder.
Whatever you call today’s SCOTUS rulings—misery for most, like 99%, and total power for some—the red line drawn is inescapably visible. Every mortal sense will be felt. Not just in the head, but in our bodies, too.
In one way, they’re making it easier.
Whatever you call today’s SCOTUS rulings—misery for most, like 99%, and total power for some—the red line drawn is inescapably visible. Every mortal sense will be felt. Not just in the head, but in our bodies, too.
In one way, they’re making it easier.
NOTICINGS: Parallel polis
At home and the SCOTUS power of six over the majority of over half of 340 million citizens, including three dissents on the court.
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June 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
In one way, they’re making it harder.
Whatever you call today’s SCOTUS rulings—misery for most, like 99%, and total power for some—the red line drawn is inescapably visible. Every mortal sense will be felt. Not just in the head, but in our bodies, too.
In one way, they’re making it easier.
Whatever you call today’s SCOTUS rulings—misery for most, like 99%, and total power for some—the red line drawn is inescapably visible. Every mortal sense will be felt. Not just in the head, but in our bodies, too.
In one way, they’re making it easier.
In the next few days, the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, H.R.1, is up for a vote. I say “so-called” because it’s much harder to kid people about what’s beautiful. Beauty speaks directly to us. But truth can be undermined, and it has in our time, as it has with the name of this bill.
NOTICINGS: Parallel polis
At home and the government’s minority power over the majority.
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June 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
In the next few days, the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, H.R.1, is up for a vote. I say “so-called” because it’s much harder to kid people about what’s beautiful. Beauty speaks directly to us. But truth can be undermined, and it has in our time, as it has with the name of this bill.