I'm only sometime sort of here ... but when I am, it's always good to read your updates <3

OMG I have so much anxiety about this, because it's always those $10 a month subscriptions you forgot about that'll jack your overdraft fees exactly when you need every penny. I hope things get easier soon. That money trauma spiral is real.

He’s been through a lot, you guys. Remember how hard he tried?

Right now the administration freely admits that they've incarcerated an innocent man in a foreign torture prison by mistake, but is asking the Supreme Court not make them bring him home.

The USA isn't Omelas.

And I'm not asking you to walk away.

I am asking you—begging you—to raise your voice.

I used to keep chickens, I loved it ~ but I wouldn't do it now given the risks of handling birds, especially those that come into regular contact with wild birds. My friends who have small farms and sell their eggs are finally able to compete, price wise, but I worry about them too.

"Your capacity to feel other people’s pain is inextricably linked to your potential to change the world... Evading your grief will only compound your angst and isolation, or even increase your tolerance for injustice. We cannot afford to let that happen."

#Organizing #KellyHayes

"Our capacity to do good can be nurtured. It can grow and flourish, but that cultivation is collective work. We cannot change the world alone... We must learn how to forgive and how to do the work of collective survival with people we don’t like or understand."

#Organizing #KellyHayes

"People who cannot self-regulate emotionally or engage in principled disagreement will not create stable, sustainable movements. You can’t organize people you hold in contempt."

#Organizing #KellyHayes

"It’s important to remember that our political aspirations have not been vanquished. We are not on the cusp of positive transformation, but that does not mean that all hope is lost or that we cannot breathe new worlds into being."

#Organizing #KellyHayes

"In the coming days, many will write about what to expect and how to resist. My biggest concern, however, is that many people of conscience aren’t ready to put up a fight—at least, not one aimed at our true enemies."

#Organizing #KellyHayes