Linda Swanson
@linswan.bsky.social
Reposted by Linda Swanson
Looking for anti-war events near you or online? WBW’s global Events Calendar features actions, teach-ins, and gatherings from around the world. Virtual or in person, join the movement for peace!
World BEYOND War Events Calendar - World BEYOND War Events Calendar
Submit Your Event Submit Your Event Loading view. Events Search and Views Navigation Search Enter Keyword. Search for Events by Keyword. Find Events Hide filters Event Views Navigation List List […]
buff.ly
July 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Looking for anti-war events near you or online? WBW’s global Events Calendar features actions, teach-ins, and gatherings from around the world. Virtual or in person, join the movement for peace!
Why am I not able to post on Blue Sky Martin Niemoller's wise warning about how essential it is to stand up for the rights of ALL of us and not just wait until our personal group is in danger? I posted it on FaceBook, but when I tried to post it here, the "Post" button became inactive.
July 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Why am I not able to post on Blue Sky Martin Niemoller's wise warning about how essential it is to stand up for the rights of ALL of us and not just wait until our personal group is in danger? I posted it on FaceBook, but when I tried to post it here, the "Post" button became inactive.
Reposted by Linda Swanson
War with #Iran isn’t looming, it’s underway. This would be a military, political, and humanitarian disaster.
Congress must act: reject escalation, demand #diplomacy.
The public wants talks, not another trillion-dollar war. buff.ly/iouPEP8
Congress must act: reject escalation, demand #diplomacy.
The public wants talks, not another trillion-dollar war. buff.ly/iouPEP8
June 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
War with #Iran isn’t looming, it’s underway. This would be a military, political, and humanitarian disaster.
Congress must act: reject escalation, demand #diplomacy.
The public wants talks, not another trillion-dollar war. buff.ly/iouPEP8
Congress must act: reject escalation, demand #diplomacy.
The public wants talks, not another trillion-dollar war. buff.ly/iouPEP8
No one who writes an op-ed should be arrested, detained, or deported for expressing their free speech point of view.
rootsaction.org/free-rumeysa...
rootsaction.org/free-rumeysa...
Free Rumeysa Ozturk
No one who writes an op-ed should be arrested, detained, or deported for expressing their free speech point of view.
rootsaction.org
April 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
No one who writes an op-ed should be arrested, detained, or deported for expressing their free speech point of view.
rootsaction.org/free-rumeysa...
rootsaction.org/free-rumeysa...
Another important essay by Rebecca Solnit. We'll be at the Indivisible event in Charlottesville on Saturday. Where will you be?
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/people-have-...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/people-have-...
People Have the Power: Week Whatever of the Stupid Coup and the Pushback
I wrote the following early yesterday before the big news of the Wisconsin election in which Elon Musk's estimated $20 million and illicit bribes to voters did not net a win for his candidate and may ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Another important essay by Rebecca Solnit. We'll be at the Indivisible event in Charlottesville on Saturday. Where will you be?
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/people-have-...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/people-have-...
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. - Frederick Douglass
March 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. - Frederick Douglass
Heather Cox Richardson puts today's alarming events in an historical perspective.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-78...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-78...
“Democracy Is Fragile” and Trump’s Threat to Us All, With Heather Cox Richardson
YouTube video by Katie Couric
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Heather Cox Richardson puts today's alarming events in an historical perspective.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-78...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-78...
"If you are verifying information for yourself, you will not send on fake news to others.
"We do not see the minds that we hurt when we publish falsehoods, but that does not mean we do no harm."
from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
"We do not see the minds that we hurt when we publish falsehoods, but that does not mean we do no harm."
from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
February 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"If you are verifying information for yourself, you will not send on fake news to others.
"We do not see the minds that we hurt when we publish falsehoods, but that does not mean we do no harm."
from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
"We do not see the minds that we hurt when we publish falsehoods, but that does not mean we do no harm."
from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
A book for today: bookshop.org/p/books/on-t...
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
bookshop.org
February 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A book for today: bookshop.org/p/books/on-t...
Reposted by Linda Swanson
USAID was became an agency in statute in 1998 and cannot be dissolved by executive order www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-p... Congress even specifically prohibited reorganizing it without consultation last year www.brookings.edu/articles/why...
Can the President Dissolve USAID by Executive Order?
Congress established USAID in statute, and the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.
www.justsecurity.org
February 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
USAID was became an agency in statute in 1998 and cannot be dissolved by executive order www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-p... Congress even specifically prohibited reorganizing it without consultation last year www.brookings.edu/articles/why...
Reposted by Linda Swanson
OPINION | Snap out of it America. All the warning lights are flashing, writes @djrothkopf.bsky.social.
Yes, It’s a Coup and Yes, It’s Targeting You
January 6 was nothing compared to the current mob of thugs intent on tearing apart our country’s very system of government.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
OPINION | Snap out of it America. All the warning lights are flashing, writes @djrothkopf.bsky.social.
Reposted by Linda Swanson
from Meditations in an Emergency, my new newsletter, day three: But I do not believe the people of this country will submit to the destruction and the attempts at dictatorship. We are not submitting now. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/we-are-not-w...
February 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
from Meditations in an Emergency, my new newsletter, day three: But I do not believe the people of this country will submit to the destruction and the attempts at dictatorship. We are not submitting now. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/we-are-not-w...
Reposted by Linda Swanson
Get them out of government. Most not old enough to be elected to anything. One suspects they are part of Musk’s gaming posse.
Call them want they really are: HACKERS
This "DOGE engineers" thing is bullshit!
They are boy hackers! Plain and simple
This is 2016 Cambridge Analytics bullshit on steroids
This "DOGE engineers" thing is bullshit!
They are boy hackers! Plain and simple
This is 2016 Cambridge Analytics bullshit on steroids
February 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Get them out of government. Most not old enough to be elected to anything. One suspects they are part of Musk’s gaming posse.