Item 1. Ground, breathe, plan Longtime friend and collaborator Kate Barrow shared a new resource this week: a Resistance & Resilience-Building Guide for 2025. Item 2. Because... Among plentiful other horrors this week, Columbia just caved: Columbia agreed to ban masks, empower 36 campus police officers with new powers to
Item 1: Remember we're not alone * 2 minute video ➡️ booing crowd at a truly absurd WY Republican's town hall * Quick search ➡️ See if US Postal Workers are holding an action near you today * Longer read ➡️ Resistance is alive and well in the United States (Erica Chenoweth,
Item 1: Handy little resource for stress-bakers like me King Arthur Flour has a few different blog posts about egg replacements. I like this one because they show a side-by-side comparison photo of the same cookie recipe having been made with four different alternatives: No eggs? Here’s your guide
Item 1: Beautiful object A bunch of different quilters created individual squares that were then pieced together into the finished gem you see above. You can... ➡️ Enter the raffle for the quilt; it's a fundraiser for the U.K.-based organization Medical Aid for Palestinians. ➡️ Participate in the
M is for Monday and also for.. Mark your calendar Just the messenger! A smattering of upcoming events to consider: * Tonight ➡️ Movement Infrastructure Project organizing meeting * This Thursday in NYC ➡️ rally in Foley Square (info in image above) * This week ➡️ A bunch of "Neurodiversity Celebration week" online events
Item 1: Resistance is everywhere. If you hear anyone ask, "Why aren't people protesting?" ➡️ Show them this post from Waging Nonviolence. Item 2: "DC is worth it." Remember the ask on Wednesday? News tonight via Free DC: The Senate just passed by unanimous voice
There's a moment on this morning's Native Land podcast where co-host Andrew Gillum goes to grab a statistic about the national debt from the U.S. Treasury website, and remembers in real time that he should look elsewhere since we can no longer rely on our
Multiple friends in the District asked me to spread the word about this one. * A simple plea from theater-maker and lifelong resident Hannah Hessel * A couple of splashy IG slideshows from Tara Hoot * A budget breakdown, complete with whiteboard, from DC Councilmember Christina Henderson [Bluesky link; also on IG] Item
On Tuesdays, we art!* On a long drive this morning, I listened to the latest How to Survive the End of the World episode. In it, the hosts touch on how many "movement" people are not (or not only) organizers. Below = three exhibits of that. Item 1: Those
As Prerna Abbi-Scanlon illustrated yesterday, we are in the "First they came" poem right now. ICE has "disappeared" a Columbia student, green card holder, and husband to someone eight months pregnant, for exercising his right to free speech. If you're not caught up, here&
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Item 1: Events * Want to learn how to end an oligarchy? ➡️ RSVP for Sunrise Movement's online teach-in Monday night and/or sign up to host one! * Want to help save "one of the last good things on the internet"? ➡️ Last week I mentioned the many Wikipedia
Item 1: Make a weekend plan Something else The Adaway Group said last week on their polycrisis call was (paraphrasing here) that if you feel depressed, you might ask yourself: Am I burnt out and thus need to step back and recharge? Or am I disconnected, and what I need