Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

New! Earlier this year, it made headlines when private equity drove JoAnn Fabrics to bankruptcy.
@manpreetkalra.bsky.social & I discuss how it happened & talk about fast fashion, sewing, & women's work in society.
Also: Elvis, billionaire budgeting tips, & more
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"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Remember a few months ago when a private equity firm bought Philz Coffee & wiped out workers' stock?

In a new project with @manpreetkalra.bsky.social, we delve into that & how it's a symptom of a larger system built to siphon $ at every step.

www.artofcitizenry.com/podcast/priv...

This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent
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A Harvard study of IDF data finds that there are 377,000 people unaccounted for in Gaza.

That estimate is six times the number of people normally cited as killed.

Genocide.

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Fired up ye ol' victrola. 25 years and still kicking.

I no longer view the crisis before us as a GOP vs. Democrat issue, and I haven't for a long time.

This is a profound issue of choosing to fight supremacist politics, of necropolitics-- of whether you believe it's worth protecting people's right to live with a measure of dignity and respect, period

if you’re protesting or considering it, stop the bleed training is very easy and super useful: www.stopthebleed.org/training/onl...

also look up IFAKs and make your own with gauze, tourniquet, gloves, and any other supplies you want available to you for you in the event you’re injured at a protest.

hey don't forget to turn off biometric access to your phone and if you did happen to forget, in an emergency, pressing the power button 5 times on your iphone will lock it & it can't be unlocked again without the passcode even if you were silly & left face ID on 🙂

Fascists are not burdened by a need for ideological consistency.

Hence you see Jewish fascists at rallies with people carrying signs claiming COVID is a Jewish conspiracy, or gay Latino fascists rallying with Proud Boys who hurl homophobic insults. As long as they both hate ONE out-group in common.

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Major ick every time some Scientologist actor comes on screen.

I write my foraging book every morning before work. Sometimes all I need is to write one good sentence to be satisfied.

This morning’s sentence was “You live, you die, you do some stuff in between. If you want to live the fullest life I recommend hunting mushrooms be some of that stuff.”

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

It was a pleasure to be interviewed by @capitalb.bsky.social about my first novel, The Survivalists, and about how sometimes survivalism is about building community. capitalbnews.org/black-women-...