Daisha

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

I hope you feel a little okay. I hope you smiled once. I hope today grants you space for restful sleep at least tonight and maybe some energy for tomorrow. I hope you're hopeful.

Opinion | They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America

wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”

They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

I might buy this if I wasn’t from red rural America & still connected to those towns, but I’m watching Trump voters support Trump rescinding grants to build a needed daycare for their kids (he must have found fraud!) and to update their failing water treatment plant (democrats fault somehow?).

I looked for you! And we even were on the same side of the crowd even, but it was so big I missed you.

Why the Alien Enemies Act Should Be Repealed, Not Revived Karen Ebel and Grace Shimizu, whose fathers were held prisoner in U.S. internment camps, explain the grave cost of the Alien Enemies Act.

"[T]here is work to be done to solve our immigration challenges. But the only way our leaders should approach the Alien Enemies Act . . . is by acknowledging the fundamental injustice of wartime internment and . . . working to repeal the law, not resurrecting it." /fin
time.com/7268851/alie...

Red rabbit with text that says Economic boycott! Don’t buy stuff February 28. We have power. No Amazon Walmart target fast food gas. Ok small business. Use cash.

I’m looking forward to this (and buying less in general these days).

Yes, but he still wanted the money, so he was nice about it.

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns.

100% of his salary is paid by WA state.

Elon fired him. Share his story.

I appreciate how this article notes culture as a key front for resegregationists. If we go all in on a commitment to love and connect across differences, support real (ie human) art and artists across differences, and guard our own hearts and minds it’s a front we can win.

Thank you for this perspective. I’ve been on the fence about applying for a project (or rather re-starting an interrupted application) and need discernment as I assess the potential costs & risks of this grant for the artists involved. It’s heartbreaking. Communities deserve better.

An engineer once explained to me that an efficient system always has need available when a resource becomes free, and an effective system always has a resource available when a need arises. Mind was blown.

On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

For real, de Tocqueville commented on America’s tendency to carry out essential work via associations (the precursor of NGOs/nonprofits) back in the 1800s. This is how our nation gets a lot of shit done! Maybe this S. African (no shade to S. Africans generally) doesn’t know how we do things here?

YouTube video by CTV News FULL: Watch Justin Trudeau's full announcement | Canada's response to U.S. tariffs

Morning. I’m going to post Prime Minister Trudeau’s speech announcing the new tariffs on USA.

I recommend watching and sharing it yourself, because it’s got a message for both the Canadian and the American citizen. One I’m thinking news in the US won’t pass on. 1/2

youtu.be/nLB46AR_O94

Oh good grief. He even got wrong what real people in red states care about. Food & housing security, rural clinics, biofuels, farm loans, business development, community centers, medical airlift, search & rescue, etc. Our legislators are so out of touch.

This affects many of the community organizations I support that do crucial work and don’t have the margins to wait out a legal battle. This morning I’ll show up to support a job training program launch we worked on for years that may not be funded now.

I can trace my roots in economic justice work back to the moment I learned my local Walmart supplied SNAP (food stamp) application forms in the employee break room. And my city gave them tax breaks to build there in the name of job creation. Layers and layers of extraction.

Thank you for sharing your story. I relate to so much of this and haven’t taken the time to put words to it. I’d love to put it behind me, honestly, but I know I learned lessons from fighting that fight and those lessons are needed now.

I have a story like yours and husband raised conservative Baptist. We got out together and have wondered the same thing. I think being creative, logical question askers drew us to each other & freedom. We also took certain teachings seriously (❤️ your neighbor)
and couldn’t stomach the hypocrisy.

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Backlit trees and ferns along a forest trail

Nature has a way for f holding us, so we can hold each other ❤️‍🩹

YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY...

“The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.”

So yesterday I held this workshop on "everything artists and cultural practitioners need to know about this strange thing called AI", titled "debunking the tech-bro AI cult", in the Brut Vienna theatre, and here's the 5-page reading list I compiled for participants:
crackedlabs.org/dl/TechbroAI...

Scene from the movie, Alien, where Dallas and Ash are in the medical bay, discussing how to get the spider-like alien facehugger off Kane’s face.

Microsoft and Google users trying figure out how to turn off their ‘AI assistants’.

The Spanish Success Story This week we look into Spain’s economic recovery and how progressive policies helped bring it about.

New Economy Brief Digest - The Spanish Success Story www.neweconomybrief.net/the-digest/t...

Former Montanan here in solidarity. Thank you for being you. I can’t imagine the energy these bad faith shenanigans drain—both from you as a person and from the legislature’s ability to address real MT priorities like affordable housing and health care.