Monday's three things

Julia Smith

30 Jun 2025 — 1 min read

Item 1. Now

If the Big Bill passes today, it will cut billions in funding for Medicaid, SNAP, education, and more. ➡️ Text RESIST to 24284.

Item 2. Anytime

The Horizons Project writes that political violence has a playbook and that we can make it backfire.

Item 3. Upcoming

It's Mark-Your-Calendar Monday!

[VIRTUAL] This Wednesday, 7/2, 8-9pm ET ➡️ Calling In, Not Calling Out: A skill for white people to organize our own with Loretta J. Ross (Showing Up for Racial Justice)

And some reruns in case you missed them last week:

[VIRTUAL] Tonight! Monday, 6/30, 8pm ET ➡️ #DisappearedinAmerica, "a training on how to meet with or call your sheriff and urge them to not cooperate with ICE in disappearing our neighbors... Help bring an end to these disappearances in your community." (Co-sponsored by The Workers Circle, American Friends Service Committee, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, and many others)
[NATIONWIDE] Sign up before Friday, July 4th ➡️ Pass out “Not My Tax Dollars” flyers on Independence Day (U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights)
[NATIONWIDE] Flexible ➡️ Volunteer and write letters (or host a letter-writing party) to PA voters ahead of their State Supreme Court elections in November, and help Vote Forward test a new approach to their GOTV campaigns.

Large crowd gathered under cloudy skies. Handmade signs have slogans like IMMIGRANTS HAVE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS and BRING KILMAR HOME. A rep from BAJI speaks at a mic.

Friday's one thing (with love from Maryland)

Weekend wish May we take even less shit than Judge Xinis. (That link is from The Hill; for a play-by-play of this week's hearings in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, dive into Anna Bower's Bluesky reporting for Lawfare.) P.S. This week I witnessed firsthand how

Tuesday's two things: Feminist mutual aid, a dad in ICE detention, and more

Item 1. Help a Los Angeles family A personal friend is leading this fundraising effort ➡️ Bring Jairo home: Support his family during ICE detention. Jairo had no criminal record and entered the US legally through "CHNV" humanitarian program. After getting married, [he and Melanie] retained an immigration attorney,

Close-up of a handmade poster at a protest in Baltimore. The sign reads THE WRONG ICE IS MELTING and has a sketch of polar icecaps with a penguin holding its own sign.

Tuesday's five ICE-melting, truth-telling things

Items 1-2. Melt ICE If you have a little money ➡️ I haven't met this person yet, but he is my neighbor, and now he has been detained by ICE. Resistencia en Acción NJ set up this GoFundMe for his legal fees and his family during this terrible time.

An otherwise perfect-looking ice cream cone upended on a white marble surface. The scoop is smooshed.

A bonus bouquet of Th/F/wknd things

This is a little longer than usual because (with a sick kid home from day camp) I neglected to click send yesterday! Stick with me through the Weekend Wishes if you can. Yesterday's collection Item 1. Small acts Did you love the Summer Reading Challenge as a kid?