Eunice Lehm....

Black Out Friday. Info here. weaintbuyingit.com

Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.

I preferred the America where churches were safe places. thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-tr...

The US pays on average $187.48 for immigration detention per bed per day (ICE 2023 numbers). Thats more than $7 million per DAY for over 50,000 immigrants in detention.

And we can find $8 billion to feed the hungry?

$7 million doesn’t count the cost of deporting immigrants.

The Department of Agriculture says it cannot spend its $6 billion in reserves to address the $8 billion needed for SNAP in November. The administration did easily found $20 billion to prop up Javier Milei in Argentina.
Shell game.

A scene I would not have seen in Chicago when I lived there....I'm not comfortable with armed troops in our cities.

Let's get this up in SC (and all states). I like the name of the act: The Ratepayer Protection Act.

Here Comes the Sun Day

The New York Times covers Sun Day... and interviews the person organizing Portland's waterfront celebration extravaganza... where there will be giant puppets.

Solar adds more new capacity to the US grid in 2024 than any energy source in 20 years The US installed 50 GW of new solar capacity in 2024, the most new capacity added in a single year of any energy technology in over two decades.

electrek.co/2025/03/10/s...

The Sun Shone Across America Rhetorically, anyway

Our little Sun Day event made it into Bill McKibbon's newsletter. I encourage you to read The Crucial Years (not just today), and follow some of the pictures and reports from Sun Day. I'm excited to see more solar all across America.

The Sun Shone Across America
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

People across the US celebrate the power of the SUN yesterday on SUN day. What did you do that made use of the sun this week? (I used my electric bike and car.)

Wonder why EVs are so much mor efficient than ICE?

Trump is trying to kill solar power—here's how to fight back Rooftop solar is a clean power miracle. Why are we killing it with red tape?

www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Looking for ways to lower energy costs in your home? Here are some changes you can make to save the climate and your wallet with cheap, clean energy. #SunDayofAction @sundayofaction.bsky.social

Missed a Sun Day event today? You can watch this film (today or any other day...).

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Solar is the energy of the future, most countries using more than US. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Solar Is Liberation Solar is the only scalable way to slow down the climate crisis — and it will free us from the power of billionaires too.

Solar is booming...just not in the US. Learn more here.
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We need to pre-bunk, not just de-bunk misinformation.

8 in 10 Hispanics in the US are US citizens. The 9th is a permanent legal resident.

I find Latinx people are excellent neighbors: generous, kind, helpful, tax-payers, and law abiding.

Kimmel, Colbert and all the other comedians also made fun of Presidents Biden, Obama, etc. For as long as I've been watching comedy, the president and his party are always subject of jokes, some not kind. This is also true in other democratic countries where political comedy is even more popular.

Nothing about us without us.

We're at today's House Oversight Committee hearing about DC to make it clear DC communities don't want Congress's interference in our judges, prosecutions, sentencing, or police.

They can't talk about our communities without expecting to hear from our communities.

"....spending on ground beef — historically one of the fastest-growing categories — has hit a plateau." Many factors here, but I hope this also means more Americans are opting for some meat-free meals (cheaper, healthier, saves the earth!). And that farmers are growing more veggies and less beef.

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” Hanna Arendt

Tell your Senator to support the fix our forests act

The bipartisan Fix Our Forests act is moving through Congress! If you have a senator on the Agriculture Committee, now is a strategic time to write them a note in support of this legislation.

Take action for the climate 👉 citizensclimatelobby.org/get-loud-tak...

So we have police preventing people from drawing with chalk and national guard spreading much and picking up trash. Is this an admission that there's so little crime in the US?

The Wild Goose Festival Spirit | Justice | Music | Art - A four-day festival. But so much more!

I'm going to the Wild Goose Festival in Harmony NC on August. 28th. Check out the line up (I'm doing a workshop this year). There's still openings to come for a day or the whole weekend. Please post below if you're going this year. wildgoosefestival.org

Yes, it is a pretty white event! I'm going to one of the pre-events on race. That might be place to discuss whiteness more.

I'll be there and have a workshop as well.

I attend regularly and look forward to hearing you!

Why more doctors can't make ends meet Medical practice bankruptcies hit a six-year high last year.

Doctors are working more than ever and taking home less money. Does that mean we'll have less doctors, NPs, PAs in the future. There are government actions that could improve our access to medical care (hint: cutting Medicaid is not one of those helpful actions). www.axios.com/2025/08/12/w...