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I wish all Democrats had the same level of fight in them like badass Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.
February 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I wish all Democrats had the same level of fight in them like badass Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.
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“Rinck noted that building less housing than population growth and demand required resulted in people competing for the same housing, bidding up the price, and pushing people out of housing and sometimes into homelessness.”
Seattle has set a goal of 112,000 new homes over the next 20 years, but is that really enough to meet demand?
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/03/h...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/03/h...
February 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
“Rinck noted that building less housing than population growth and demand required resulted in people competing for the same housing, bidding up the price, and pushing people out of housing and sometimes into homelessness.”
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“They are deliberately attempting to trigger a trauma response so that we are less able to respond from our whole selves and more likely to just go along with whatever's happening.
We must do what we can to stay clear and connected and whole…”
We must do what we can to stay clear and connected and whole…”
New:
Why practices to connect us with our own humanity, each other, & perhaps something bigger, really matter now—
And can help keep us more whole, less responding on their terms & more on our own, more making choices as the people we wish to be.
Practical tips & bigger picture here:
Why practices to connect us with our own humanity, each other, & perhaps something bigger, really matter now—
And can help keep us more whole, less responding on their terms & more on our own, more making choices as the people we wish to be.
Practical tips & bigger picture here:
fortify inside
why spiritual practice matters during the rising authoritarian tide
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
“They are deliberately attempting to trigger a trauma response so that we are less able to respond from our whole selves and more likely to just go along with whatever's happening.
We must do what we can to stay clear and connected and whole…”
We must do what we can to stay clear and connected and whole…”
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Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...
February 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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I can’t say more firmly to you:
If you are facing a threat of being fired or resign, you stay until fired.
If you don’t, you have the worst employment case and will have difficulty finding a lawyer.
The former is wrongful termination the latter is constructive discharge.
Get fired. No shame.
If you are facing a threat of being fired or resign, you stay until fired.
If you don’t, you have the worst employment case and will have difficulty finding a lawyer.
The former is wrongful termination the latter is constructive discharge.
Get fired. No shame.
February 1, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I can’t say more firmly to you:
If you are facing a threat of being fired or resign, you stay until fired.
If you don’t, you have the worst employment case and will have difficulty finding a lawyer.
The former is wrongful termination the latter is constructive discharge.
Get fired. No shame.
If you are facing a threat of being fired or resign, you stay until fired.
If you don’t, you have the worst employment case and will have difficulty finding a lawyer.
The former is wrongful termination the latter is constructive discharge.
Get fired. No shame.
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If it were legal to fire you, they wouldn't put so much effort into getting you to resign voluntarily.
January 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If it were legal to fire you, they wouldn't put so much effort into getting you to resign voluntarily.
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Everyone can organize.
Everyone can contribute to social movements.
Everyone can do something, from somewhere.
None of this is about "professionalism" or policy"expertise. That is counterinsurgency, demobilizing logic.
Everyone can organize and has something to offer.
Everyone can contribute to social movements.
Everyone can do something, from somewhere.
None of this is about "professionalism" or policy"expertise. That is counterinsurgency, demobilizing logic.
Everyone can organize and has something to offer.
February 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Everyone can organize.
Everyone can contribute to social movements.
Everyone can do something, from somewhere.
None of this is about "professionalism" or policy"expertise. That is counterinsurgency, demobilizing logic.
Everyone can organize and has something to offer.
Everyone can contribute to social movements.
Everyone can do something, from somewhere.
None of this is about "professionalism" or policy"expertise. That is counterinsurgency, demobilizing logic.
Everyone can organize and has something to offer.
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They're seeing what they can get away with. We're seeing what we can stop. Making the public aware of the cost of their destructiveness is going to be a crucial part of the work. And going big at the beginning serves us in the end.
January 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
They're seeing what they can get away with. We're seeing what we can stop. Making the public aware of the cost of their destructiveness is going to be a crucial part of the work. And going big at the beginning serves us in the end.
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It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....
January 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....
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If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not
January 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not
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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
January 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
-Angela Davis
Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.
"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
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Tomorrow noon east-coast time, 9am Pacific: we'll be here to talk about beloved community, power, storytelling, and enter this next era of US history together, heads held high, friends held close. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...
January 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Tomorrow noon east-coast time, 9am Pacific: we'll be here to talk about beloved community, power, storytelling, and enter this next era of US history together, heads held high, friends held close. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...
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#transit heroes.
'Moreira and his colleagues drove four more buses into black smoke with flames around them.'
They're NOT trained to drive in wildfires. They all volunteered anyway & saved lives.
www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...
'Moreira and his colleagues drove four more buses into black smoke with flames around them.'
They're NOT trained to drive in wildfires. They all volunteered anyway & saved lives.
www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...
Pasadena bus drivers rushed into the Eaton Fire to save 500 seniors
When the Eaton Fire first started, bus drivers from Pasadena jumped into action to help rescue hundreds of seniors.
www.cbsnews.com
January 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
#transit heroes.
'Moreira and his colleagues drove four more buses into black smoke with flames around them.'
They're NOT trained to drive in wildfires. They all volunteered anyway & saved lives.
www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...
'Moreira and his colleagues drove four more buses into black smoke with flames around them.'
They're NOT trained to drive in wildfires. They all volunteered anyway & saved lives.
www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...
"Washington has the fourth-highest average grocery bill in the contiguous United States, Ferguson said, making the meal program even more important.
'Hungry kids can’t learn, he said. “We can’t talk about test scores until every kid is fed."
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
'Hungry kids can’t learn, he said. “We can’t talk about test scores until every kid is fed."
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
Washington Legislature to again consider free school lunches for all students, could this be the year?
A recurring effort since the COVID-19 pandemic, free hot lunches could soon become a reality for every public school student in Washington.
www.spokesman.com
January 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Washington has the fourth-highest average grocery bill in the contiguous United States, Ferguson said, making the meal program even more important.
'Hungry kids can’t learn, he said. “We can’t talk about test scores until every kid is fed."
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
'Hungry kids can’t learn, he said. “We can’t talk about test scores until every kid is fed."
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
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We have been saying this for years and years. Fighting like hell for trans kids is a winning issue for democrats. Their brutality will doom them, if we have the courage to stand against it.
Thank you @aoc.bsky.social. And All those in Congress who already get it
Thank you @aoc.bsky.social. And All those in Congress who already get it
AOC Says Democrats Can Win on LGBTQ+ Issues if They “Throw a Damn Punch”
“People are looking for strength,” Ocasio-Cortez said at a press briefing after the House passed an anti-trans sports bill.
www.them.us
January 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
We have been saying this for years and years. Fighting like hell for trans kids is a winning issue for democrats. Their brutality will doom them, if we have the courage to stand against it.
Thank you @aoc.bsky.social. And All those in Congress who already get it
Thank you @aoc.bsky.social. And All those in Congress who already get it
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Don’t let people lie in the newspaper.
January 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Don’t let people lie in the newspaper.
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One in four children aged 18 and under in the U.S. has an immigrant parent, and the vast majority of these children are U.S. citizens
www.kff.org/racial-equit...
www.kff.org/racial-equit...
January 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
One in four children aged 18 and under in the U.S. has an immigrant parent, and the vast majority of these children are U.S. citizens
www.kff.org/racial-equit...
www.kff.org/racial-equit...
Three cheers for local treasure Clockout Lounge getting some well deserved attention.
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January 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Three cheers for local treasure Clockout Lounge getting some well deserved attention.
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I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
January 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
“Building community creates fulfillment, he said, and there are three key elements that make it possible: connection with others through relationships, acts of service to help others and a sense of purpose in life – all pursued through love, instead of fear or hate.”
edition.cnn.com/2025/01/07/h...
edition.cnn.com/2025/01/07/h...
To heal America’s ills, outgoing surgeon general offers ‘parting prescription’: more community | CNN
As US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy nears the end of his second term as the nation’s doctor, a final diagnosis of his patient suggests that a great deficiency of connectivity has led to a poor prog...
edition.cnn.com
January 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
“Building community creates fulfillment, he said, and there are three key elements that make it possible: connection with others through relationships, acts of service to help others and a sense of purpose in life – all pursued through love, instead of fear or hate.”
edition.cnn.com/2025/01/07/h...
edition.cnn.com/2025/01/07/h...
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Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...
Amnesty International Investigation Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
zeteo.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:36 AM
Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...