Kate Mereand

Start ups are dreamers. Daring to dream is always hard, and harder sometimes in times adversity. Yet the human experience is to dream, perpetually. What is your dream? What problem are solving? #wpays #2GI #entrepreneurs

Trump: “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.”

BREAKING: US inflation heats up to 3%, higher than expected.

as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:

we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.

the climate crisis is here, all around us

"Screenshot of a Twitter exchange: The first tweet by 'Libs of TikTok' lists grievances against fire department management and policies, sarcastically attributing them to climate change, including hiring a DEI manager, defunding fire departments, and mismanaging forests. The second tweet, a reply from Elon Musk, questions this perspective, suggesting: 'Wild theory: maybe, just maybe, the root cause wasn’t climate change?'"

People are dying and losing their homes while these dipshits blame women and people of color for it. Nothing but contempt for these despicable opportunists.

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

Keep connecting. Keep refining. Take care of you and those around you. Keep up the pursuit. You are changing the world, for the better. It matters.

You are contributing. You are adding positive energy to the collective field. You are shining a light in darkness.

That positive intention, whether you hit the initial goal or not, has impact. You may strive for years, you may change the idea a little or lot. You may pursue successive ideas.

That thing that you are doing, or thinking about doing, to make the world a better place…

It matters.

We persist.

But today I doubled down and sugar cookies will occur and be lovely.

So one of my main troubles with baking (there are many) is that when I want to bake the butter hadn’t been softened and by the time it is the inclination has often passed.

Baking cookies and I got flour all over. I feel so cliche in the very best of ways.

Man. All this weather.

It’s one of the classic internet arguments, to be sure

It’s important to note that the Cholula at Tryst is plentiful. This is important. We still don’t know where it went at Open City, and that’s a breakfast concern.

These are from the middle of the night Sunday into Monday when it first started to snow in DC. Went over to Malcom X Park just to see.

Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81 The poet and activist was a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni was working on her upcoming book of poetry, set to publish in the fall.

"We will forever be grateful for the unconditional time she gave to us, to all her literary children across the writerly world," said Kwame Alexander in the statement on the renowned Nikki Giovanni’s death

Today’s smol art

a bat with red lips is being held in someone 's hand with muaaaa written below it ALT: a bat with red lips is being held in someone 's hand with muaaaa written below it

Bats are cool. 🦇

I agree. It makes me think of the ways we talk about community as a place of extraction for upliftment of self. The idea of others supporting the one but not the reciprocity of that support. Or that reciprocity being a fond remembrance like an attaboy for helping me. Instead of an even exchange.

Published in 2020 by Jonathan Booth via GULC. Suggest anyone tracking immigration/detention/deportation issues look at forced labor in detention closley as we move into 2025. This suggests it has been happening though it isn’t supposed to. www.law.georgetown.edu/immigration-...

Art is magic from someone’s soul. When you experience it, remember what a gift it is.

Community is magic from many souls. When you experience it, remember what a gift it is.

It is your choice if you also want to give gifts to the world that chooses to give gifts to you. What do you choose?

Of gifts.

I wasn’t aware of byitts, I will check it out, thanks!

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I bought a power drill, my first ever. Rawr.

It’s from the local Ace which is an ESOP, second chance employer, and part of the employee ownership & cooperative ecosystem. Yay!

Where you buy matters—think about Small Business Saturday after the holiday folks!

Random, but my drink matched my shirt today. That was blue pea flower matcha, which I got because they ran out of lemonade.

Ok intro, at least partial. I support small business development through social, environmental, and economic justice oriented programs. I am also an artist (for fun not for sale). I have 2 cats; they are cute. I live car free.

I love how much I learn when I set out to teach. In prep, during, and after.