“One of the purposeful consequences of overwhelm is that we see ourselves as the people politics happens to as opposed to being active participants in doing politics or shaping our political reality… But we are political actors, too, if we choose to be!”
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Love seeing this work from my old friend Ronnie on Trenton’s black history. “With these tours, we’re actually able to preserve that history by getting people connected and interested in them“ www.nj.com/mosaic/2025/...

"But instead of trying to work with Chinatown and other opposition groups, the mayor and City Council worked around them. This is a failure of leadership. Parker and Council are elected to represent all city residents — not just three billionaires."
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Happening now: This morning we are importing posts from our soon-to-be-deleted twitter account to this Bluesky account, using the Porto extension for Chrome. Seems as if it may take a few hours. How to: lifehacker.com/tech/use-por...

The dignity of trans people is not up for debate.

Either we're all surviving together or we're all going down. Solidarity is the only way forward.

Grateful to see @ruephilacouncil.bsky.social stepping up to protect Philadelphians when the only thing our mayor has said is that she looks forward to working with the Trump admin.

“This is a model for how to organize effectively, wherever you are.”
Appreciating this look at what made the Whole-Homes Repair Program a success. Now it needs permanent funding. www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

From the Time is Now, because the time is now.