Collapse resilience costs money. Tracking your spending gives you more freedom and flexibility in your life choices, supporting your collapse resilience plans.

Tracking your spending can be as simple as using a spreadsheet with categorized expenses that you calculate at the end of each month.✋ 🐾 🌍

🌍WHAT: Use a secure messaging app for your important communications.

🌍WHY: Apps like Signal focus on privacy & security, e.g., using end-to-end encryption and not collecting user data. When people are being harmed for speaking up, communication security and privacy are essential.

An independent federal agency is going forward with President Donald Trump’s sweeping elections executive order despite a barrage of lawsuits challenging it as an assault on states’ constitutional authority to run their own elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

When imagining my life, I certainly didn’t envision living in ecological, political, social & economic collapse.

Many of us still cling to the life we planned—which often includes assumptions about readily available food, power, safety, healthcare, democracy.🧵

Whether it’s the batch meal in your fridge or the canned peaches in your food storage, writing the relevant date in a prominent place on the container saves time & money & prevents food waste.

👉For batch meals, write the month/day you made them on masking tape & put it on top of the container.🧵

Despite the horrors happening now, we have the power to create a better world, both by demanding better from political & corporate leaders, and by committing to making choices in our own lives that advance compassion & justice & dismantle oppression & exploitation.

The ability to vote for tens of millions of Americans is under threat. This week the US House will vote on the SAVE Act. Contact your Rep. now and urge them to vote NO.🧵

Corporations need our money. We can wield our power by withholding our hard-earned dollars & getting our needs met in other ways--which also helps us & the planet.

There are numerous online & informal gifting groups. Join (or start) one near you. Gift economy = amazing!

Which is your favorite?

NEW: Trump's cuts to CISA, the federal cybersecurity agency that helps protects elections, have ended key training and services for local election officials.

"We may lose one of the most vital services," Arizona Sec. of State Adrian Fontes told Democracy Docket.

Republicans in power are stealing our money by trying to destroy Social Security, the program that almost all people in the US who work pay into every year and depend on in later years.

Right now more than 72 million Americans depend on these payments. See the 🧵 for how to take action.

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