Zach Sasser ❤️ 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

I Just Got Trump’s “Buyout” Offer at My Job. Let Me Tell You How That’s Going. The new Trump administration’s effort to both get a grip on and dismantle the federal workforce has also been a dystopian farce.

Worth the read. Includes interesting notes about stripping protections that I was unaware of.

“I Just Got Trump’s “Buyout” Offer at My Job. Let Me Tell You How That’s Going.”

I’m not at all surprised. 💙

How do we resist? This is not rhetorical. Do we need to be writing our representatives?

What’s the most effective, regular practice of active resistance and accountability to the current administration?

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Panel 1: Mark Zuckerberg stands on the stage at a Meta all-hands meeting, wearing a little chain and a shirt that says "Cool Dude." "I think our company could use more Masculine Energy," he says into a mic. In the crowd, an employee raises their hand. "Excuse me, Mr. Zuckerberg," the person asks. Panel 2: The person stands up, asking, "By "Masculine Energy," do you mean a mature definition where men in power use their relative strength to protect and uplift those less privileged?" Panel 3: The person continues, "…or a more childish definition where men in power are free to be aggressive and harm others without being held accountable?" Panel 4: Zuck stands silent for a beat. Panel 5: "You're all fired," he says.

"Masculine Energy"

Mob Rule On Social Media and the Universal Experience of Poverty

“Under the condition of social media, pauperization, the internalization of unsatisfiable wants and needs becomes universal. We can all constantly see what we don’t have.”

Biden moves to lift state sponsor of terrorism designation for Cuba, part of deal to free prisoners President Joe Biden has notified Congress of his intent to lift the U.S. designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, the White House announced, as part of a deal facilitated by the Catholic C...

Too little, too late. My beloveds who live Cuba are not to be treated as pawns for our politicians. This only sets them up for greater sanctions in a time of great suffering.

Same!

@vlmy.bsky.social hello, friend!

No, I do not have an unpaid toll in Massachusetts. I’m sure you all know this is a scam, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to call it out.

It is odd to me, and sad, that I still see posts in public forums using “gay” as an insult.

In our Hanukkah prayer book tonight

“I get by with a little help from my friends.”

~Lennon/McCartney

Hear the prophets of old:

“Comes a time when the blind man takes your hand, says,

"Don't you see? Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe."

Don't give it up. You got an empty cup. Only love can fill, only love can fill.”

~Comes A Time, Garcia/Hunter

Happy New Year! While it may be a tough one, I plan to make it through on the dreams I still believe and the relationships that inspire me to dream! May it be so with you, too!

I support the following measures:
- Billionaire tax on all assets.
- Tax congregations of all faiths that have a regular attendance higher than 500.
- Variable corporate tax rate that ensures a 3-5% contribution to GDP paid on a sliding scale based on total revenue.

The existence of a billionaire class is an indication of the poor health of our society.

There is no reason a single person should have access to this much wealth, power, and social leverage. It cannot exist without the existence of impoverished people. Such wealth is not earned.

Strangely, I have a distinct memory of playing in my grandparents back yard and putting frogs in a wheelbarrow.