Kate Schapira
@kateschapira.bsky.social
I wrote a book, LESSONS FROM THE CLIMATE ANXIETY COUNSELING BOOTH: HOW TO LIVE WITH CARE AND PURPOSE IN AN ENDANGERED WORLD. Let me know if you think you could use it for something.
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Kate Schapira
@kateschapira.bsky.social
· Jan 25
Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth
Climate anxiety is real—and this practical, accessible guide helps address it on personal, relational, and structural levels, from the founder of ...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
If you want some support & company in responding well to frightening realities, I wrote you a book for that. Stories of models & mentors, questions for reflection, practices for connection & action. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kate-...
My brain is so stupid. Been trying to write for days & of course the thing that gets me started is knowing I have to bundle up & go out to a meeting & then to the solidarity rally with communities targeted by ICE/DHS/Border Patrol (2pm outside the state house in #PVD)
January 30, 2026 at 3:18 PM
My brain is so stupid. Been trying to write for days & of course the thing that gets me started is knowing I have to bundle up & go out to a meeting & then to the solidarity rally with communities targeted by ICE/DHS/Border Patrol (2pm outside the state house in #PVD)
I think about this all the time for, uh, reasons
Is it possible that the reason we struggle to create a world that prioritizes the health and safety of every child is directly related to most adults (and parents) being formerly unprotected children, conditioned to make excuses, or be grateful for, the abuse and neglect they endured in childhood?
January 30, 2026 at 2:44 PM
I think about this all the time for, uh, reasons
Trying to remember to share a path to action against the shitty thing/in support of an alternative good thing when I share news of the shitty thing
January 30, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Trying to remember to share a path to action against the shitty thing/in support of an alternative good thing when I share news of the shitty thing
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No (more😟) ICE concentration camps in Virginia!
Email Jim Pattison Development to stop the sale of the warehouse on 11525 Lakeridge Pky, Ashland, Virginia to the US Department of Homeland Security. Share this action alert WIDELY and encourage others to do the same. www.jpdevelopments.com/contact
Email Jim Pattison Development to stop the sale of the warehouse on 11525 Lakeridge Pky, Ashland, Virginia to the US Department of Homeland Security. Share this action alert WIDELY and encourage others to do the same. www.jpdevelopments.com/contact
January 30, 2026 at 2:14 PM
No (more😟) ICE concentration camps in Virginia!
Email Jim Pattison Development to stop the sale of the warehouse on 11525 Lakeridge Pky, Ashland, Virginia to the US Department of Homeland Security. Share this action alert WIDELY and encourage others to do the same. www.jpdevelopments.com/contact
Email Jim Pattison Development to stop the sale of the warehouse on 11525 Lakeridge Pky, Ashland, Virginia to the US Department of Homeland Security. Share this action alert WIDELY and encourage others to do the same. www.jpdevelopments.com/contact
Got some Neighborly Actions for you, starting today neighborlyactions.substack.com/p/neighborly...
Neighborly Actions for the Deep Cold
Solidarity against ICE today & dancing against ICE next month; heaters for people in encampments today & a hearing for rent stabilization next month.
neighborlyactions.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Got some Neighborly Actions for you, starting today neighborlyactions.substack.com/p/neighborly...
#PVD, let's keep some people alive www.gofundme.com/f/tent-heate...
Donate to Tent Heaters for Providence Encampments, organized by Benjamin Doren
Hundreds of our neighbors in Providence face the brutal cold every day and nigh… Benjamin Doren needs your support for Tent Heaters for Providence Encampments
www.gofundme.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:01 PM
#PVD, let's keep some people alive www.gofundme.com/f/tent-heate...
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The @interruptcrim Block It! Don’t Build It! Don’t Fill It! Don’t Fuel It! toolkit is also a great source of actions you can take and organizing you can join or be inspired by to throw sand in ICE’s gears even if you can’t be in the streets
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
January 30, 2026 at 1:15 PM
The @interruptcrim Block It! Don’t Build It! Don’t Fill It! Don’t Fuel It! toolkit is also a great source of actions you can take and organizing you can join or be inspired by to throw sand in ICE’s gears even if you can’t be in the streets
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
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Indie publishers: I am once again looking for ecofiction books to read and possible review in @briefecology.bsky.social. Please get in touch if you have a new or upcoming title that you think would be a good fit!
January 29, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Indie publishers: I am once again looking for ecofiction books to read and possible review in @briefecology.bsky.social. Please get in touch if you have a new or upcoming title that you think would be a good fit!
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really inspired by the huge crowd that showed up to protest a proposed ICE detention center in Hanover County just outside of Richmond
January 29, 2026 at 2:49 PM
really inspired by the huge crowd that showed up to protest a proposed ICE detention center in Hanover County just outside of Richmond
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Another reason why blocking data centers in your area is fun & necessary! Cursory poking around suggest that you might find blocking the data centers an easier sell locally than blocking the gas projects (which claim to create jobs & often come down to FERC permitting which is rubber-stamp)
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
@mollytaft.com
www.wired.com/story/data-c...
@mollytaft.com
www.wired.com/story/data-c...
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Another reason why blocking data centers in your area is fun & necessary! Cursory poking around suggest that you might find blocking the data centers an easier sell locally than blocking the gas projects (which claim to create jobs & often come down to FERC permitting which is rubber-stamp)
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A truly delightful weaponization of 'did you even read the article?' but it's also a nod to the way everything has to be monetized right now, to the struggle so many media publications are having to stay alive and to keep doing essential, challenging work. I have so many thoughts about this!
January 29, 2026 at 4:04 PM
A truly delightful weaponization of 'did you even read the article?' but it's also a nod to the way everything has to be monetized right now, to the struggle so many media publications are having to stay alive and to keep doing essential, challenging work. I have so many thoughts about this!
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A fantastic read from @sarahjeong.bsky.social on what it's like to be gassed and the violence in the streets right now. On a meta level, I also love the framing; the title and card make it look like just another product buying guide, but it is very much not that.
Best gas masks
“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.
www.theverge.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:02 PM
A fantastic read from @sarahjeong.bsky.social on what it's like to be gassed and the violence in the streets right now. On a meta level, I also love the framing; the title and card make it look like just another product buying guide, but it is very much not that.
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With rent coming due on Sunday, and still no eviction moratorium in Minnesota (BOOO), today is a good day to donate to any of the rent funds or crowdfunding campaigns for rent support listed here:
www.standwithminnesota.com
www.standwithminnesota.com
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:19 PM
With rent coming due on Sunday, and still no eviction moratorium in Minnesota (BOOO), today is a good day to donate to any of the rent funds or crowdfunding campaigns for rent support listed here:
www.standwithminnesota.com
www.standwithminnesota.com
Had such a great prelim conversation yesterday with UMD College Park students about the workshop we want to do together on sustained climate & environmental justice organizing. If you teach or study there, that'll be March 4 in conjunction w/the beautiful CEDAR Gallery history.umd.edu/cedar-gallery
The CEDAR Gallery | Department of History
history.umd.edu
January 29, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Had such a great prelim conversation yesterday with UMD College Park students about the workshop we want to do together on sustained climate & environmental justice organizing. If you teach or study there, that'll be March 4 in conjunction w/the beautiful CEDAR Gallery history.umd.edu/cedar-gallery
How about sommmmmme....RENT MONEY
From a friend who works at an MPS school with hundreds of families in hiding:
"The thing REALLY needed is money for rent/utilities/cell phone bills. It looks like there is a lot of money raised but across 5 schools it’s not enough with February rent coming due."
givebutter.com/rent4mplsfam...
"The thing REALLY needed is money for rent/utilities/cell phone bills. It looks like there is a lot of money raised but across 5 schools it’s not enough with February rent coming due."
givebutter.com/rent4mplsfam...
Rent Relief for Minneapolis School Families
By Mpls Families
givebutter.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:29 PM
How about sommmmmme....RENT MONEY
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1. Support AMOR's work defending & building power w/people targeted by ICE/DHS/CBP
2. Show off your steps or learn some new ones
3. Cute friend-date? Cute date-date? Cute way to meet people?
Salsa Bachata Social w/AMOR, 2/13, 6pm, buy your ticket today!
givebutter.com/amor2026
2. Show off your steps or learn some new ones
3. Cute friend-date? Cute date-date? Cute way to meet people?
Salsa Bachata Social w/AMOR, 2/13, 6pm, buy your ticket today!
givebutter.com/amor2026
Salsa & Bachata Social: AMOR’s 9th Anniversary Celebration
By Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance
givebutter.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:08 PM
1. Support AMOR's work defending & building power w/people targeted by ICE/DHS/CBP
2. Show off your steps or learn some new ones
3. Cute friend-date? Cute date-date? Cute way to meet people?
Salsa Bachata Social w/AMOR, 2/13, 6pm, buy your ticket today!
givebutter.com/amor2026
2. Show off your steps or learn some new ones
3. Cute friend-date? Cute date-date? Cute way to meet people?
Salsa Bachata Social w/AMOR, 2/13, 6pm, buy your ticket today!
givebutter.com/amor2026
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New York, call Schumer at (202) 224-6542 and tell him that better rules and training will not fix this. ICE must be completely dismantled.
And if you don't live in New York, call your senator and tell them that the only sensible position is to abolish ICE and replace Schumer as minority leader.
And if you don't live in New York, call your senator and tell them that the only sensible position is to abolish ICE and replace Schumer as minority leader.
SCHUMER says Democrats are “united” behind three DHS reforms
1/ End roving patrols; tighten the rules on warrants and require ICE to coordinate with local authorities.
2/ Enforce accountability; a uniform code of conduct.
3/ Require masks off, body cameras on, agents carry ID.
1/ End roving patrols; tighten the rules on warrants and require ICE to coordinate with local authorities.
2/ Enforce accountability; a uniform code of conduct.
3/ Require masks off, body cameras on, agents carry ID.
January 28, 2026 at 10:09 PM
New York, call Schumer at (202) 224-6542 and tell him that better rules and training will not fix this. ICE must be completely dismantled.
And if you don't live in New York, call your senator and tell them that the only sensible position is to abolish ICE and replace Schumer as minority leader.
And if you don't live in New York, call your senator and tell them that the only sensible position is to abolish ICE and replace Schumer as minority leader.
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Hey sincere post for a sec, I'm involved in union organizing around AI and my media employer is planning layoffs. If you know people especially in nonprofit newsrooms who have dealt with this kind of thing @ me or DM me
January 29, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Hey sincere post for a sec, I'm involved in union organizing around AI and my media employer is planning layoffs. If you know people especially in nonprofit newsrooms who have dealt with this kind of thing @ me or DM me
Snow Time followed by Brief Sewing Time, which quickly transitioned into Chaotic Barbie time, with the kids tonight helped me remember why I am on this earth (to hear a lot of Barbie-related fart jokes, among other things)
January 29, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Snow Time followed by Brief Sewing Time, which quickly transitioned into Chaotic Barbie time, with the kids tonight helped me remember why I am on this earth (to hear a lot of Barbie-related fart jokes, among other things)
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Ann Arbor/Ypsi: Nextdoor just lit up with ICE activity at WCC not a half hour ago. Neighbors are rightly incensed; someone's daughter was there when it happened.
If you're in SE Michigan and mobilized, please @ me so that I may amplify your posts. How can we best help? Mutual aid? Virtual options?
If you're in SE Michigan and mobilized, please @ me so that I may amplify your posts. How can we best help? Mutual aid? Virtual options?
January 27, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Ann Arbor/Ypsi: Nextdoor just lit up with ICE activity at WCC not a half hour ago. Neighbors are rightly incensed; someone's daughter was there when it happened.
If you're in SE Michigan and mobilized, please @ me so that I may amplify your posts. How can we best help? Mutual aid? Virtual options?
If you're in SE Michigan and mobilized, please @ me so that I may amplify your posts. How can we best help? Mutual aid? Virtual options?
"If the children are with me and they are taken with me, then we try to stay together as long as we can, hold tight, don’t cry." - Kao Kalia Yang lithub.com/letter-from-...
Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…”
Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as f…
lithub.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:27 PM
"If the children are with me and they are taken with me, then we try to stay together as long as we can, hold tight, don’t cry." - Kao Kalia Yang lithub.com/letter-from-...
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"I find myself wondering if I still have a home here in Minnesota, in America, in the world of the people who get to decide who is valuable and who is not, who belongs and who does not, who lives and who dies."
- Kao Kalia Yang, one of the best writers in MN and in the rest of the universe
- Kao Kalia Yang, one of the best writers in MN and in the rest of the universe
Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…”
Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as f…
lithub.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:37 PM
"I find myself wondering if I still have a home here in Minnesota, in America, in the world of the people who get to decide who is valuable and who is not, who belongs and who does not, who lives and who dies."
- Kao Kalia Yang, one of the best writers in MN and in the rest of the universe
- Kao Kalia Yang, one of the best writers in MN and in the rest of the universe
Chicken on stilts is really speaking to me at the moment
Just because I'm a paranoid bunny doesn't mean they aren't watching me.
January 28, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Chicken on stilts is really speaking to me at the moment