Just...wow. This is one for the ages. Get ready to be inspired by @hcrichardson.bsky.social ’s powerful keynote address last night at the Lantern Service commemorating the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride. (She is introduced at about 1:15:00 into the video.) vimeo.com/1074289056?s...

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

—Louis Brandeis

Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.

NEW: Cory Booker Sets Record with History-Making Speech

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Creating a big tent is fine, great even. But that tent has to have a pole, a backbone, a set of values it believes in and policies it supports, otherwise it simply caves in and is no kind of shelter, gathering place or party at all.

There have to be at least a handful of Republicans who know that what they’re doing isn’t worth it…

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Took me a long time to actually get around to reading The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon, but so glad that I did!

Rating 5/5 stars

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The Midwife of Auschwitz by Anna Stuart is a book that will, simutaneously, inspire and devastate. In the end, worth the read.

Rating 4/5 stars

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Stormlight Archive Arc-1 is finally completed!
It was *amazing* - 'nuf said.

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People like Trump and Musk want us blaming each other instead of billionaires like them.

They want us to blame immigrants and working people just trying to afford food or rent, or obsess about things like gender.

It’s easier to pick our pockets if we’re fighting each other.

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Finished Every Deep-Drawn Breath by Dr. Wes Ely this weekend. Cried my way thru nearly every chapter.

Rating 3.5/5 stars

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#poemsfortheresistance

handle an oligarch
the same way you’d handle a god
defer
defend
devote
tell him he’s in charge

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Rebecca Solnit: “They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.”

Dawnshard is complete - only 3 more to go!

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