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Well, since this has gone more viral than expected:
In the absence of my cunning plans, here's a resource to find food banks locally. Volunteer and contribute if you can, and don't be ashamed to get help if you need it.
We're all in it together.
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
In the absence of my cunning plans, here's a resource to find food banks locally. Volunteer and contribute if you can, and don't be ashamed to get help if you need it.
We're all in it together.
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
Find Your Local Food Bank | Feeding America
Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and mobile pantries in your community.
www.feedingamerica.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Well, since this has gone more viral than expected:
In the absence of my cunning plans, here's a resource to find food banks locally. Volunteer and contribute if you can, and don't be ashamed to get help if you need it.
We're all in it together.
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
In the absence of my cunning plans, here's a resource to find food banks locally. Volunteer and contribute if you can, and don't be ashamed to get help if you need it.
We're all in it together.
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
My current Substack explores the experience of adjusting to unemployment and an empty nest. There's hope. open.substack.com/pub/jctetrau...
Growing Pains
I’m no stranger to change, yet this is a lot - even for me.
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October 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
My current Substack explores the experience of adjusting to unemployment and an empty nest. There's hope. open.substack.com/pub/jctetrau...
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What do these corporate donors expect in return for their money?
It looks like bribery for special favors from the Trump administration.
It looks like bribery for special favors from the Trump administration.
October 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
What do these corporate donors expect in return for their money?
It looks like bribery for special favors from the Trump administration.
It looks like bribery for special favors from the Trump administration.
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It's August! Support your local farmers and the neighborhood lemonade stand❣️ #BuyLocal #PioneerValley
August 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It's August! Support your local farmers and the neighborhood lemonade stand❣️ #BuyLocal #PioneerValley
I just published a new Substack on how the fleeting days of summer make the present moment so juicy. I hope you’ll take a look - it’s a quick read with a bit of salsa music added at the end! open.substack.com/pub/jctetrau...
Appreciate the Now
August is my reminder that nothing loved remains unchanged.
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August 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I just published a new Substack on how the fleeting days of summer make the present moment so juicy. I hope you’ll take a look - it’s a quick read with a bit of salsa music added at the end! open.substack.com/pub/jctetrau...
A week-long writing retreat brings me down a rabbit hole about thresholds. You can read about it in this Substack - and enjoy the photos!
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Thresholds
Crossing a threshold alters our way of being and leads somewhere new, whether there’s joy, sorrow, anger, or fear in the process.
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June 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A week-long writing retreat brings me down a rabbit hole about thresholds. You can read about it in this Substack - and enjoy the photos!
open.substack.com/pub/jctetrau...
open.substack.com/pub/jctetrau...
Time to get creative! Here's your #NoKings follow-up task.
Propose an Amendment to Delay and Disrupt the Reconciliation Bill act.indivisible.org/letter/amend...
Propose an Amendment to Delay and Disrupt the Reconciliation Bill act.indivisible.org/letter/amend...
Propose an Amendment To Delay and Disrupt the Reconciliation Bill
Senate Republicans want to vote on their Medicaid-slashing, billionaire-enriching reconciliation bill this weekend, and that means a “vote-a-rama,” when senators can propose endless changes that their...
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June 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Time to get creative! Here's your #NoKings follow-up task.
Propose an Amendment to Delay and Disrupt the Reconciliation Bill act.indivisible.org/letter/amend...
Propose an Amendment to Delay and Disrupt the Reconciliation Bill act.indivisible.org/letter/amend...
Just published a new Substack on how things aren't always as they first appear. A useful lesson for these times.
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Lessons from a Smoketree
One piece in one moment was not the whole.
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June 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Just published a new Substack on how things aren't always as they first appear. A useful lesson for these times.
open.substack.com/pub/jctetrau...
open.substack.com/pub/jctetrau...
#NoKings was a powerful day, AND there's more work to be done! Tell the Senate: Judges Must Be Allowed to Prevent our Rights From Being Trampled act.indivisible.org/sign/senator...
Tell the Senate: Judges Must Be Allowed to Prevent our Rights From Being Trampled
House Republicans hid a provision deep in their Medicaid-slashing megabill to shield Trump and his cronies from contempt of court citations. And now, Senate Republicans have stripped their No Contempt...
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June 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
#NoKings was a powerful day, AND there's more work to be done! Tell the Senate: Judges Must Be Allowed to Prevent our Rights From Being Trampled act.indivisible.org/sign/senator...
Is this what a military parade is for?! Bullying veterans?!
US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )
June 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Is this what a military parade is for?! Bullying veterans?!
Western Mass representing today! The park rally was so big the police kindly closed off the street. There are good people everywhere supporting democracy! #NoKings
June 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Western Mass representing today! The park rally was so big the police kindly closed off the street. There are good people everywhere supporting democracy! #NoKings
Early morning airport thoughts on prevention, protests, and public education. Amazingly, it all makes sense!
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An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure
What Ben Franklin, Desmond Tutu, and I share in common - and other May Day musings.
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May 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Early morning airport thoughts on prevention, protests, and public education. Amazingly, it all makes sense!
jctetrault77.substack.com/p/an-ounce-o...
jctetrault77.substack.com/p/an-ounce-o...
Let's make today a HUGE fundraising day for @actblueorg.bsky.social !!
April 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Let's make today a HUGE fundraising day for @actblueorg.bsky.social !!
Diversity brought this democracy together.
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J. Catherine Tetrault on Substack
As Heather Cox Richardson writes, America’s democracy was formed by diverse groups of people who agreed that people shouldn’t be ruled by a power-hungry tyrant and that the rights of individuals matte...
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April 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Diversity brought this democracy together.
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PLEASE READ!! Voter suppression bill has passed the US House and is now in the Senate. It must be stopped!!
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J. Catherine Tetrault on Substack
I’m pulling the fire alarm on this one!
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the SAVE Act (H.R. 22) on Apr 10th, under the guise of protecting the integrity of our federal election system. False...
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April 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
PLEASE READ!! Voter suppression bill has passed the US House and is now in the Senate. It must be stopped!!
substack.com/@jctetrault7...
substack.com/@jctetrault7...
PLEASE READ!! Voter suppression bill has passed the US House and is now in the Senate. It must be stopped!!
substack.com/@jctetrault7...
substack.com/@jctetrault7...
J. Catherine Tetrault on Substack
I’m pulling the fire alarm on this one!
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the SAVE Act (H.R. 22) on Apr 10th, under the guise of protecting the integrity of our federal election system. False...
substack.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
PLEASE READ!! Voter suppression bill has passed the US House and is now in the Senate. It must be stopped!!
substack.com/@jctetrault7...
substack.com/@jctetrault7...
About 1,000 came out in the rain in our little town❣️ Protests in small towns across Western MA.
April 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
About 1,000 came out in the rain in our little town❣️ Protests in small towns across Western MA.
This is the kind of solidarity we need to see! Law firms, universities, and the media, need to unite. Nonprofits are doing it. No backdoor deals.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/500...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/500...
Over 500 law firms sign brief backing Perkins Coie suit against Trump
More than 500 law firms moved to file an amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie's lawsuit against the Trump administration's executive order that targeted the firm.
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April 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This is the kind of solidarity we need to see! Law firms, universities, and the media, need to unite. Nonprofits are doing it. No backdoor deals.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/500...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/500...
Today - 5 April 2025!!
We stand up for ourselves, our families, neighbors, communities, democracy, and our global allies. There are protests happening across the United States - find one. Stand with us. #StrongerTogether
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We stand up for ourselves, our families, neighbors, communities, democracy, and our global allies. There are protests happening across the United States - find one. Stand with us. #StrongerTogether
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Hands Off!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...
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April 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Today - 5 April 2025!!
We stand up for ourselves, our families, neighbors, communities, democracy, and our global allies. There are protests happening across the United States - find one. Stand with us. #StrongerTogether
handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...
We stand up for ourselves, our families, neighbors, communities, democracy, and our global allies. There are protests happening across the United States - find one. Stand with us. #StrongerTogether
handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...
We Americans love our independence. Do we love it ENOUGH to work together to protect it?!
Why collective action is the only way www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/why-collec...
Why collective action is the only way www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/why-collec...
Why collective action is the only way
History shows how democracy wins
www.ifyoucankeepit.org
March 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We Americans love our independence. Do we love it ENOUGH to work together to protect it?!
Why collective action is the only way www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/why-collec...
Why collective action is the only way www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/why-collec...