“… I am in love with freedom and that it is an affair of long standing and that it is a fine state to be in, and that I am deeply suspicious of people who are beginning to adjust to fascism and dictators merely because they are succeeding in war. From such adaptable natures a smell rises.” 4/4

“Where I expected to find indignation, I found paralysis, or a sort of dim acquiescence, as in a child who is duly swallowing a distasteful pill.“ 3/

“I feel sick when I find anyone adjusting his mind to the new tyranny which is succeeding abroad. Because of its fundamental strictures, fascism does not seem to me to admit of any compromise or any rationalization ….” 2/

@heidilifeldman I try to take breaks also and identify the good things that are happening in my community.

A new $1M donation helped expand the Center for Women’s History exhibits in Balboa Park in San Diego this month.

My little library in front of my house has gotten some increase activity […]

Take care, friends. Keep up your spirits and energy. 9/9

I’m no Pollyanna. We have a long hard struggle ahead. But even when the struggle is intense and trying, we win some of the battles in the fight for pluralist constitutional democracy in the U.S. and for government that is for the people’s wellbeing. No one in that fight is alone. That’s a huge […]

Even as the Roberts Court abandons the very ideas of law and adjudication in a constitutional democracy, federal district court keep up their efforts to keep those ideas alive. Here’s an example from today, re the Trump regime’s despotic efforts to control the University of California. 7/ […]

#iindiana won’t gerrymander for Trump. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/indiana-wont-gerrymander-for-trump/ 6/

I also had the chance to present to rural and newer Indivisible groups throughout #newmexico as part of workshop on communications for progressive groups. Along with two friends and colleagues, we managed to cover security and privacy, building a website, generating a newsletter, online […]

Closer to home, I have been supporting Indivisible Santa Fe’s food drive, which has gotten off to a solid start. My role has been mainly to get the drive’s online presence going. https://indivisiblesantafe.org/the-2025-indivisible-santa-fe-food-drive/ 4/

I’m so pleased and proud of this committee for raising close to $15,000 to fund 16 food banks, all of whom have been facing huge demand in the face of the Republican Fascist weaponizing people’s hunger to increase the Party’s power. I won’t close the drive until December 15. If you want to help […]

In the interests of keeping up my spirits and, I hope, lifting others’, I’m going to focus almost exclusively on what has been positive in the past ten days. 2/