States at the Core
@stacup.bsky.social
STAC envisions a future where people have renewed faith in democracy, democratic institutions are strong, and an inclusive democracy flourishes.
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1 day to January 20: Selfcare Sunday
Remember to breathe
Remember to breathe
January 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
1 day to January 20: Selfcare Sunday
Remember to breathe
Remember to breathe
2 days to January 20: Solidarity Saturday
For years, @praeyesright.bsky.social has been informing resistance strategies by taking the long-view and “focusing on interrelated anti-democratic movements, trends, and leaders”...
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For years, @praeyesright.bsky.social has been informing resistance strategies by taking the long-view and “focusing on interrelated anti-democratic movements, trends, and leaders”...
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January 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
2 days to January 20: Solidarity Saturday
For years, @praeyesright.bsky.social has been informing resistance strategies by taking the long-view and “focusing on interrelated anti-democratic movements, trends, and leaders”...
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For years, @praeyesright.bsky.social has been informing resistance strategies by taking the long-view and “focusing on interrelated anti-democratic movements, trends, and leaders”...
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January 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
8 days to January 20: Selfcare Sunday
The Importance of Play: “If you’ve got a body and a brain, you should use both to run around, take risks and maybe get a little better along the way.“
www.insidehook.com/wellness/sho...
The Importance of Play: “If you’ve got a body and a brain, you should use both to run around, take risks and maybe get a little better along the way.“
www.insidehook.com/wellness/sho...
Why Shooting Hoops Is Such a Good Idea for Adults
Hucking endless J's reminds us of the importance of play
www.insidehook.com
January 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
8 days to January 20: Selfcare Sunday
The Importance of Play: “If you’ve got a body and a brain, you should use both to run around, take risks and maybe get a little better along the way.“
www.insidehook.com/wellness/sho...
The Importance of Play: “If you’ve got a body and a brain, you should use both to run around, take risks and maybe get a little better along the way.“
www.insidehook.com/wellness/sho...
9 days to January 20: Solidarity Saturday
The ACLU has been on the front lines defending civil liberties for decades and is working to build a “firewall for freedom to protect everyone’s rights” against looming threats. More info and resources here: www.aclu.org/news/civil-l...
The ACLU has been on the front lines defending civil liberties for decades and is working to build a “firewall for freedom to protect everyone’s rights” against looming threats. More info and resources here: www.aclu.org/news/civil-l...
How the ACLU Will Fight Four More Years of Trump
During the first Donald Trump administration, the ACLU fought his unlawful policies more than 400 times. We’re even more prepared now.
www.aclu.org
January 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
9 days to January 20: Solidarity Saturday
The ACLU has been on the front lines defending civil liberties for decades and is working to build a “firewall for freedom to protect everyone’s rights” against looming threats. More info and resources here: www.aclu.org/news/civil-l...
The ACLU has been on the front lines defending civil liberties for decades and is working to build a “firewall for freedom to protect everyone’s rights” against looming threats. More info and resources here: www.aclu.org/news/civil-l...
10 days to January 20: Another authoritarian strategy is to undermine or attack physical or social infrastructure. Public schools are core to our collective social infrastructure...
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How Project 2025 Would Devastate Public Education | NEA
The 900-page blueprint for a second Trump presidency would gut federal education funding, sanction discrimination against LGBTQ+ students, divert taxpayer funds to private schools, and codify book ban...
www.nea.org
January 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
10 days to January 20: Another authoritarian strategy is to undermine or attack physical or social infrastructure. Public schools are core to our collective social infrastructure...
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11 days to January 20: Incursion is an authoritarian strategy where outside agitators make harmful inroads into places where they have no personal stake. Read about how citizens in Maine drove a neo-nazi out of their town: longreads.com/2024/10/31/h...
#Incursion #AuthoritarianPlaybook
#Incursion #AuthoritarianPlaybook
How Concerned Citizens Drove a Neo-Nazi Out of Rural Maine - Longreads
Christopher Pohlhaus wanted to build a fascist training compound in America's whitest state. His neighbors had other plans.
longreads.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
11 days to January 20: Incursion is an authoritarian strategy where outside agitators make harmful inroads into places where they have no personal stake. Read about how citizens in Maine drove a neo-nazi out of their town: longreads.com/2024/10/31/h...
#Incursion #AuthoritarianPlaybook
#Incursion #AuthoritarianPlaybook
12 days to January 20: Both the attempted coup of Jan. 6th and the disinformation campaign in Springfield, MO were examples of Networked Incitement: influential figures inciting large-scale attacks via social media.
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January 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
12 days to January 20: Both the attempted coup of Jan. 6th and the disinformation campaign in Springfield, MO were examples of Networked Incitement: influential figures inciting large-scale attacks via social media.
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13 days to January 20: Yesterday we marked 4 years since a Trump-incited mob violently attacked the capitol and democracy at large. Think about what you can do in your own sphere of influence to protect democracy: www.americanprogress.org/article/8-wa...
#Insurrection #AuthoritarianPlaybook
#Insurrection #AuthoritarianPlaybook
8 Ways To Protect American Democracy
To safeguard American democracy, it is important to both protect elections in 2024 and address systemic issues to protect those in the future.
www.americanprogress.org
January 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
13 days to January 20: Yesterday we marked 4 years since a Trump-incited mob violently attacked the capitol and democracy at large. Think about what you can do in your own sphere of influence to protect democracy: www.americanprogress.org/article/8-wa...
#Insurrection #AuthoritarianPlaybook
#Insurrection #AuthoritarianPlaybook
14 days to January 20:
“It’s important to remember exactly what took place.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3_O...
“It’s important to remember exactly what took place.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3_O...
WATCH: Jan. 6 committee shows new footage of Capitol attack
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
January 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
14 days to January 20:
“It’s important to remember exactly what took place.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3_O...
“It’s important to remember exactly what took place.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3_O...
15 days to January 20: Selfcare Sunday
“Self-care is really a process: it needs to be ongoing; it needs to be thoughtful; it needs to be intentional. You’re working for liberation. You’re working for joy.” -Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens
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“Self-care is really a process: it needs to be ongoing; it needs to be thoughtful; it needs to be intentional. You’re working for liberation. You’re working for joy.” -Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens
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January 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
15 days to January 20: Selfcare Sunday
“Self-care is really a process: it needs to be ongoing; it needs to be thoughtful; it needs to be intentional. You’re working for liberation. You’re working for joy.” -Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens
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“Self-care is really a process: it needs to be ongoing; it needs to be thoughtful; it needs to be intentional. You’re working for liberation. You’re working for joy.” -Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens
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16 days to January 20: Solidarity Saturday
Grace Lee Boggs maintained throughout her life the core belief that if people worked together, they could accomplish positive social change. “If we want to see change in our lives, we have to change things ourselves.”
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Grace Lee Boggs maintained throughout her life the core belief that if people worked together, they could accomplish positive social change. “If we want to see change in our lives, we have to change things ourselves.”
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Detroit History Heroes Episode 6 - Grace Lee Boggs
YouTube video by Detroit Historical Society
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January 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
16 days to January 20: Solidarity Saturday
Grace Lee Boggs maintained throughout her life the core belief that if people worked together, they could accomplish positive social change. “If we want to see change in our lives, we have to change things ourselves.”
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Grace Lee Boggs maintained throughout her life the core belief that if people worked together, they could accomplish positive social change. “If we want to see change in our lives, we have to change things ourselves.”
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18 days to January 20: “Successful movements organize campaigns based on realistic yet audacious assessments of what is possible.”
wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/how-...
wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/how-...
How we can meet the challenges of authoritarianism
This is not our first rodeo with authoritarianism. Americans have collectively risen to seemingly impossible challenges in the past, and we can again.
wagingnonviolence.org
January 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
18 days to January 20: “Successful movements organize campaigns based on realistic yet audacious assessments of what is possible.”
wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/how-...
wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/how-...
19 days to January 20:
January 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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December 31, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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21 days to January 20: There is inspiration for us in how the Chilean people heroically reclaimed their democracy…and lessons about what a corrupt American administration is capable of.
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ch...
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ch...
The Overthrow of Democracy in Chile — A Timeline
Article. Timeline by Bill Bigelow. 2023. A timeline of the overthrow of democracy in Chile — the fall of Salvador Allende and the rise of Augusto Pinochet.
www.zinnedproject.org
December 30, 2024 at 4:37 PM
21 days to January 20: There is inspiration for us in how the Chilean people heroically reclaimed their democracy…and lessons about what a corrupt American administration is capable of.
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ch...
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ch...
22 days to January 20: Selfcare Sunday
Mental, social, emotional, physical, professional, spiritual - there are so many different aspects of our lives we should be sure to nurture in fraught times. Try adding one activity from each category to your self-care routine!
Mental, social, emotional, physical, professional, spiritual - there are so many different aspects of our lives we should be sure to nurture in fraught times. Try adding one activity from each category to your self-care routine!
December 29, 2024 at 5:30 PM
22 days to January 20: Selfcare Sunday
Mental, social, emotional, physical, professional, spiritual - there are so many different aspects of our lives we should be sure to nurture in fraught times. Try adding one activity from each category to your self-care routine!
Mental, social, emotional, physical, professional, spiritual - there are so many different aspects of our lives we should be sure to nurture in fraught times. Try adding one activity from each category to your self-care routine!
23 days to January 20: Solidarity Saturday
Mijente lifts up the voices of vulnerable communities through campaigns, connecting across a wide network and serving as a hub for culture, learning, and advocacy-connect with them in the fight for justice.
mijente.net/blog/categor...
Mijente lifts up the voices of vulnerable communities through campaigns, connecting across a wide network and serving as a hub for culture, learning, and advocacy-connect with them in the fight for justice.
mijente.net/blog/categor...
December 28, 2024 at 4:52 PM
23 days to January 20: Solidarity Saturday
Mijente lifts up the voices of vulnerable communities through campaigns, connecting across a wide network and serving as a hub for culture, learning, and advocacy-connect with them in the fight for justice.
mijente.net/blog/categor...
Mijente lifts up the voices of vulnerable communities through campaigns, connecting across a wide network and serving as a hub for culture, learning, and advocacy-connect with them in the fight for justice.
mijente.net/blog/categor...
24 days to January 20: “How do I take action where I am?”
There are so many ways to deepen your community ties, but you don’t have to do them all on your own! Don’t underestimate the power of your voice when it joins in harmony with others.
prisonculture.substack.com/p/how-do-i-t...
There are so many ways to deepen your community ties, but you don’t have to do them all on your own! Don’t underestimate the power of your voice when it joins in harmony with others.
prisonculture.substack.com/p/how-do-i-t...
December 27, 2024 at 5:02 PM
24 days to January 20: “How do I take action where I am?”
There are so many ways to deepen your community ties, but you don’t have to do them all on your own! Don’t underestimate the power of your voice when it joins in harmony with others.
prisonculture.substack.com/p/how-do-i-t...
There are so many ways to deepen your community ties, but you don’t have to do them all on your own! Don’t underestimate the power of your voice when it joins in harmony with others.
prisonculture.substack.com/p/how-do-i-t...