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I did a "What do we do now?" tarot reading last night. The advice card was Strength.
Everything we do matters. Every little thing. Be gentle, be fierce, be you. We need you.
Everything we do matters. Every little thing. Be gentle, be fierce, be you. We need you.
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Leftists really have to prioritize public libraries in budget fights.
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Leftists really have to prioritize public libraries in budget fights.
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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This whole article is really good and worth a read. Let's fight.
"Freedom. Equality. Democracy. I don't really care how well these poll. They're the truth. That truth is worth fighting for."
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
"Freedom. Equality. Democracy. I don't really care how well these poll. They're the truth. That truth is worth fighting for."
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset
We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This whole article is really good and worth a read. Let's fight.
"Freedom. Equality. Democracy. I don't really care how well these poll. They're the truth. That truth is worth fighting for."
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
"Freedom. Equality. Democracy. I don't really care how well these poll. They're the truth. That truth is worth fighting for."
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
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me: [existing]
world: hi I’m here to break your heart
world: hi I’m here to break your heart
August 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
me: [existing]
world: hi I’m here to break your heart
world: hi I’m here to break your heart
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draw whatever you want. release yourself from cringe. who has the time and space for that shit? have you seen outside? just draw stuff that makes you feel good. that's just like, the point of life man
August 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
draw whatever you want. release yourself from cringe. who has the time and space for that shit? have you seen outside? just draw stuff that makes you feel good. that's just like, the point of life man
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you can't do this alone
the scale of the problem is too large
so find your piece of the work
and find how it fits with others' pieces
and don't give up
the scale of the problem is too large
so find your piece of the work
and find how it fits with others' pieces
and don't give up
July 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
you can't do this alone
the scale of the problem is too large
so find your piece of the work
and find how it fits with others' pieces
and don't give up
the scale of the problem is too large
so find your piece of the work
and find how it fits with others' pieces
and don't give up
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.
May 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.
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There are a lot of bad things happening all at once, and it’s overwhelming to think about how to meet moments like this.
Jean says to focus on 1 or 2 things that you care about, understand fairly well, and are either local or involve a topic where you’re likely to have influence and find community
Jean says to focus on 1 or 2 things that you care about, understand fairly well, and are either local or involve a topic where you’re likely to have influence and find community
April 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
There are a lot of bad things happening all at once, and it’s overwhelming to think about how to meet moments like this.
Jean says to focus on 1 or 2 things that you care about, understand fairly well, and are either local or involve a topic where you’re likely to have influence and find community
Jean says to focus on 1 or 2 things that you care about, understand fairly well, and are either local or involve a topic where you’re likely to have influence and find community
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I’m afraid that if I keep looking at the news it’s going kill me but I'm afraid that if I stop looking at the news I’m going to die.
April 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I’m afraid that if I keep looking at the news it’s going kill me but I'm afraid that if I stop looking at the news I’m going to die.
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everyone: wow being a librarian is so cool you just get to read books all day
your local librarian: today I had to break up a knife fight in the encyclopedia section
your local librarian: today I had to break up a knife fight in the encyclopedia section
March 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
everyone: wow being a librarian is so cool you just get to read books all day
your local librarian: today I had to break up a knife fight in the encyclopedia section
your local librarian: today I had to break up a knife fight in the encyclopedia section
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Sick and tired
(Disclaimer: trans is at the head for a reason, but all else is random. Getting distracted by what should go where is exactly the petty distraction they want.)
February 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Sick and tired
(Disclaimer: trans is at the head for a reason, but all else is random. Getting distracted by what should go where is exactly the petty distraction they want.)
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“The existence of our nation depends on conscious, sincere citizenship. A republic cannot be sustained if dedication to it is cringe. Neither can it survive if awareness of its peril is limited to political hobbyists.”
open.substack.com/pub/sincerec...
open.substack.com/pub/sincerec...
The Stars and Stripes Forever - A Call to Sincere Citizenship
As we speak, great crimes are being perpetrated against our nation.
open.substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
“The existence of our nation depends on conscious, sincere citizenship. A republic cannot be sustained if dedication to it is cringe. Neither can it survive if awareness of its peril is limited to political hobbyists.”
open.substack.com/pub/sincerec...
open.substack.com/pub/sincerec...
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I know this sounds weak, I know it.
But kindness is one of the few things we carry that can make a difference for each other.
We can’t undo all this hate, but we can still make life a little easier for others.
But kindness is one of the few things we carry that can make a difference for each other.
We can’t undo all this hate, but we can still make life a little easier for others.
January 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I know this sounds weak, I know it.
But kindness is one of the few things we carry that can make a difference for each other.
We can’t undo all this hate, but we can still make life a little easier for others.
But kindness is one of the few things we carry that can make a difference for each other.
We can’t undo all this hate, but we can still make life a little easier for others.
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This Speaker vote should remind all of us that literally nothing Republicans try to do will be easy, or a foregone conclusion. And often, they are going to have to come to Democrats to enact anything at all. We have lost power but we are not powerless.
January 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This Speaker vote should remind all of us that literally nothing Republicans try to do will be easy, or a foregone conclusion. And often, they are going to have to come to Democrats to enact anything at all. We have lost power but we are not powerless.
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I count, this first day of another year, what remains.
—Jane Hirshfield
—Jane Hirshfield
January 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I count, this first day of another year, what remains.
—Jane Hirshfield
—Jane Hirshfield
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you have to read books or were not gonna make it
December 28, 2024 at 2:14 AM
you have to read books or were not gonna make it
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Billionnaires stole your living.
Not immigrants. Not minorities. Not people who follow a different religion.
Billionnaires. Noone needs a billion to live. Billionnaires could easily give you the money you lack and not notice the loss. They do not. They never will.
Not immigrants. Not minorities. Not people who follow a different religion.
Billionnaires. Noone needs a billion to live. Billionnaires could easily give you the money you lack and not notice the loss. They do not. They never will.
Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion
Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion
Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion
Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion
Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion
Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion
Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25
Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25
Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion
Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion
Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion
Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion
Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion
Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25
Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25
December 20, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Billionnaires stole your living.
Not immigrants. Not minorities. Not people who follow a different religion.
Billionnaires. Noone needs a billion to live. Billionnaires could easily give you the money you lack and not notice the loss. They do not. They never will.
Not immigrants. Not minorities. Not people who follow a different religion.
Billionnaires. Noone needs a billion to live. Billionnaires could easily give you the money you lack and not notice the loss. They do not. They never will.
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Two stages of writing:
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
December 4, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Two stages of writing:
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
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despite the world becoming scary i still have a perhaps niave but unwaivering belief that a better world is possible
November 21, 2024 at 6:22 AM
despite the world becoming scary i still have a perhaps niave but unwaivering belief that a better world is possible
Seeing this in the grocery store checkout line with the tabloids feels a little on the nose
November 18, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Seeing this in the grocery store checkout line with the tabloids feels a little on the nose
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I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 12:43 AM
I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
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One of fascism's main tactics is to physically and mentally exhaust you. To flood the zone with outrageous bullshit, to make you bite on a dozen pump-fakes — so that when the real shot comes, you're too worn out to react.
We need to pace ourselves. It's only been a week. Alert fatigue is dangerous
We need to pace ourselves. It's only been a week. Alert fatigue is dangerous
November 14, 2024 at 1:59 AM
One of fascism's main tactics is to physically and mentally exhaust you. To flood the zone with outrageous bullshit, to make you bite on a dozen pump-fakes — so that when the real shot comes, you're too worn out to react.
We need to pace ourselves. It's only been a week. Alert fatigue is dangerous
We need to pace ourselves. It's only been a week. Alert fatigue is dangerous
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It’s hard because everything we are starting to hear and see is being framed in a way that makes it feel inevitable and that’s the point. Nothing is inevitable, except that the sun will rise tomorrow. Inevitability doesn’t exist when humans have agency and we all have agency.
November 12, 2024 at 10:53 PM
It’s hard because everything we are starting to hear and see is being framed in a way that makes it feel inevitable and that’s the point. Nothing is inevitable, except that the sun will rise tomorrow. Inevitability doesn’t exist when humans have agency and we all have agency.