A bonus bouquet of Th/F/wknd things

Julia Smith

27 Jun 2025 — 2 min read

This pic by Polina Tankilevitch came up in Pexels search results when I typed "Oops."

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? ➡️ Professor Peter T. Coleman's Your Summer Homework: 50 Small Acts... may be for you. (Columbia Spectator + this Google doc, all via The Horizons Project's newsletter)

Item 2. Small clinics

SCOTUS came for poor people again yesterday, specifically those who use use Medicaid to access cancer screenings and contraception at Planned Parenthood—and smaller clinics, too.➡️ I've linked to the West Alabama Women's Center fundraiser before, but they're still a long way from their 2025 goal. Their Exec Director also posted that their wish list includes car seats for their patients' newborn babies, if you're looking for a concrete way to help.

Item 2.5 FYI

Tomorrow the Supreme Court rulings in six major cases will come down.

➡️ Prepare your herbal tea / gardening gloves / group chat / protest sign materials / whatever will help your nervous system. [Ed. note on Friday: oof.]

Friday follow-ups + fire-lighters:

If you have a House rep and you give a shit about Zohran Mamdani and/or citizenship and/or Islamophobia ➡️ make this call now, please. (Bluesky)
Re: Mahmoud Khalil and Palestine ➡️ Do you have access to a living room with a TV and/or a yard with a projector? There's a mass call on Wednesday, July 2 to learn how you can host your own screening of The Encampments. (USCPR on Mobilize.org)
Re: Pride Puppy and other banned books for young people ➡️ the authors and illustrators of the books in the Supreme Court case respond to the ruling. (PEN America)
The other day I mentioned a training for volunteer court watchers in DC. If you're in New York and thought, "I wish we had something like that," great news ➡️ you do! (Calendly link via J. Wortham)

Weekend wish

May we be high agency people, and/or create the gatherings we've been waiting for. (Kate Barrow; Priya Parker)

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.

Monday's three things

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'