At the beginning of the week I said inaction was not an option. Today I downloaded this book. It’s a short one..and I’ve been told powerful. It contains over 100 things a person can do to resist a dictatorship

The first paragraph though:

"We write to stress our deep concerns with the reckless termination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, as well as to underscore the risk that halting any approved and awarded BRIC projects poses to our constituents."

Yesterday, 58 (yes 58!) members of Congress wrote to Secretary Noem and Acting Administrator Hamilton,

I paint almost every night after work…it is the only thing that calms my mind right now.

Dear @atlantic-ocean.bsky.social please consult calendar before producing one of these. It’s not time yet.