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Baltimore is so scary that women and girls have picnics in the park.
August 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Baltimore is so scary that women and girls have picnics in the park.
“Reflexive control” is a cynical strategy, from the fmr. USSR. Carefully-designed provocations manipulate people into responding reflexively.
E.g: courthouse arrests provoke legal immigrants to skip court dates, justifying their arrest.
Creativity is the antithesis of reflex.
E.g: courthouse arrests provoke legal immigrants to skip court dates, justifying their arrest.
Creativity is the antithesis of reflex.
June 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
“Reflexive control” is a cynical strategy, from the fmr. USSR. Carefully-designed provocations manipulate people into responding reflexively.
E.g: courthouse arrests provoke legal immigrants to skip court dates, justifying their arrest.
Creativity is the antithesis of reflex.
E.g: courthouse arrests provoke legal immigrants to skip court dates, justifying their arrest.
Creativity is the antithesis of reflex.
May 15, 2025 (Thursday)
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May 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
May 15, 2025 (Thursday)
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The “enemy” is not a person. If it were, it could be confined. It is a constellation of habits, beliefs, language, actions, and reactions. It is a cultural ecosystem founded on fear, embracing scarcity, suspicion, and shame.
April 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The “enemy” is not a person. If it were, it could be confined. It is a constellation of habits, beliefs, language, actions, and reactions. It is a cultural ecosystem founded on fear, embracing scarcity, suspicion, and shame.
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
— Benjamin Franklin
— Benjamin Franklin
April 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
— Benjamin Franklin
— Benjamin Franklin
So now a temporary protective order in a civil domestic case is a reason to deport someone who has committed no crime and is lawfully in this country?
But the same alleged behavior is fine for higher office?
Ok, . . . .
But the same alleged behavior is fine for higher office?
Ok, . . . .
April 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
So now a temporary protective order in a civil domestic case is a reason to deport someone who has committed no crime and is lawfully in this country?
But the same alleged behavior is fine for higher office?
Ok, . . . .
But the same alleged behavior is fine for higher office?
Ok, . . . .
If you need a taser to protect yourself from constituents who disagree with you, then you’re doing Constitutional democracy wrong.
April 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
If you need a taser to protect yourself from constituents who disagree with you, then you’re doing Constitutional democracy wrong.
Jo Brown, Rock (©️2022) 8x10 oil on canvas board
April 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Jo Brown, Rock (©️2022) 8x10 oil on canvas board
We are not blameless for the misogyny that is the heart of this regime; misogyny, being so deeply-rooted, easily crosses gender, race, party & ideological lines to show up in ostensibly pro-democracy material. Check that, everybody. Neither gender nor race nor political identity makes us immune.
April 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
We are not blameless for the misogyny that is the heart of this regime; misogyny, being so deeply-rooted, easily crosses gender, race, party & ideological lines to show up in ostensibly pro-democracy material. Check that, everybody. Neither gender nor race nor political identity makes us immune.
In response to threats against Maine’s public education system, pro-democracy states should form a mutual-aid pact.
April 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
In response to threats against Maine’s public education system, pro-democracy states should form a mutual-aid pact.
Understand “reflexive control”.
We are being manipulated and provoked to respond in predictable ways. Instead of responding predictably, pause, and respond by creatively reframing the problem. Or by not responding, and instead following your own agenda.
This is core nonviolent civil resistance.
We are being manipulated and provoked to respond in predictable ways. Instead of responding predictably, pause, and respond by creatively reframing the problem. Or by not responding, and instead following your own agenda.
This is core nonviolent civil resistance.
April 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Understand “reflexive control”.
We are being manipulated and provoked to respond in predictable ways. Instead of responding predictably, pause, and respond by creatively reframing the problem. Or by not responding, and instead following your own agenda.
This is core nonviolent civil resistance.
We are being manipulated and provoked to respond in predictable ways. Instead of responding predictably, pause, and respond by creatively reframing the problem. Or by not responding, and instead following your own agenda.
This is core nonviolent civil resistance.
Some months ago I had an odd message at meeting, where I was a visitor, featuring this mural in Cambridge MD. I didn’t fully understand it until now.
It was about leaders being defined by followers. Artist: Michael Rosato
It was about leaders being defined by followers. Artist: Michael Rosato
April 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Some months ago I had an odd message at meeting, where I was a visitor, featuring this mural in Cambridge MD. I didn’t fully understand it until now.
It was about leaders being defined by followers. Artist: Michael Rosato
It was about leaders being defined by followers. Artist: Michael Rosato
A friend has a list on FB of everything.
I want to make a list of what pro-democracy advocates, want to keep or create:
Equity
Due process
Clean water
National parks
History, science & art ed
Universal health care
Tax incentives for artists
Solar energy
Gun insurance
What are yours?
I want to make a list of what pro-democracy advocates, want to keep or create:
Equity
Due process
Clean water
National parks
History, science & art ed
Universal health care
Tax incentives for artists
Solar energy
Gun insurance
What are yours?
April 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
A friend has a list on FB of everything.
I want to make a list of what pro-democracy advocates, want to keep or create:
Equity
Due process
Clean water
National parks
History, science & art ed
Universal health care
Tax incentives for artists
Solar energy
Gun insurance
What are yours?
I want to make a list of what pro-democracy advocates, want to keep or create:
Equity
Due process
Clean water
National parks
History, science & art ed
Universal health care
Tax incentives for artists
Solar energy
Gun insurance
What are yours?
Shaming people is a form of violence.
It has no useful place in a nonviolent movement, Gandhi taught.
Let’s make the pivot.
What you are FOR, & why?
We won’t get to 3% by using shame and humiliation. It fuels retribution.
How is our future better than the status quo?
It has no useful place in a nonviolent movement, Gandhi taught.
Let’s make the pivot.
What you are FOR, & why?
We won’t get to 3% by using shame and humiliation. It fuels retribution.
How is our future better than the status quo?
April 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Shaming people is a form of violence.
It has no useful place in a nonviolent movement, Gandhi taught.
Let’s make the pivot.
What you are FOR, & why?
We won’t get to 3% by using shame and humiliation. It fuels retribution.
How is our future better than the status quo?
It has no useful place in a nonviolent movement, Gandhi taught.
Let’s make the pivot.
What you are FOR, & why?
We won’t get to 3% by using shame and humiliation. It fuels retribution.
How is our future better than the status quo?
Baltimore today
April 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Baltimore today
This also happened today.
April 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This also happened today.
“US consumers warned to brace for higher prices due to Trump’s tariffs.” The Guardian
Are we greater yet?
Are we greater yet?
March 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“US consumers warned to brace for higher prices due to Trump’s tariffs.” The Guardian
Are we greater yet?
Are we greater yet?
