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if we want kids to love reading, we need to return to the ancient texts

Dorinda Medley from Real Housewives of New York says “I’ll tell you the state of the union. Not well bitch!”

a photo of a zine (small paper booklet) featuring a hand releasing butterflies into the air, plus text: "I didn't believe in the fight- the fight made me a believer: for people who want to take action: guante.info/actionzine"

Third in my series of mini-zines responding to questions I come across in my work/life:

This one highlights about a dozen resources each sharing specific, concrete actions people can take, especially if they're new to activism and still looking for their political home: guante.info/actionzine

Trump's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," and the trans community have one clear purpose:

If we are angry at each other, we won't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.

for some reason it's the mass firing of national park rangers that has fucked me up the most. what did a fuckin park ranger ever do to you

Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything? Yes. And You Can Too.

Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”

Lots of information and resources in this one.

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

We call upon our elected representatives to stand with us and to insist upon adherence to the rule of law and the legal processes and procedures that ensure orderly change. The administration cannot choose which law it will follow or ignore. These are not partisan or political issues. These are rule of law and process issues. We cannot afford to remain silent. We must stand up for the values we hold dear. The ABA will do its part and act to protect the rule of law. We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party or your views, change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less.

The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law."

Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so.

www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

YEEZY.COM YZY

kanye’s website, yeezy.com, is selling one item only - a white t-shirt with a swastika on it. $20. not a joke. how is this legal? why did the nfl run an ad directing folks to this site? i hate it here.

Serena Williams!

justice for freddy and jason

Yesterday’s live is now on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?featur...

yes, they made up a government organization to do a job that another government organization is already doing. did someone say something about "waste" ????

but GAO is NONPARTISAN and doesn't have any allegiances to trump/the billionaires trying to cut funding from essential government programs that serve the people (read: you + me) to ensure their tax cuts extend beyond 2025

...so they made up DOGE to do it for them

U.S. Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO) GAO provides fact-based, nonpartisan information to Congress. Often called the "congressional watchdog," GAO investigates federal spending and performance.

tell me why do we need DOGE when the Government Accountability Office already exists? (a: we don't)

"Often called a 'congressional watchdog,' GAO investigates federal spending and performance."

www.gao.gov

this is long and 100% worth watching

The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers!

Read, print & distro freely!

Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:

itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...

"The most important thing is not being right, it’s doing right." @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, The Confluence, Jan 29

"Many in the “opposition” prefer to profit off the threat rather than prevent it. The Vichy Dems’ heel turn is not new. You couldn’t see the heel because it was stepping on your face." @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, The Confluence, Jan 29

"AI will never tell the truth too early: that's why authoritarians crave it. AI knocks out the inherently human power of subconscious pattern recognition. AI will never challenge authority. AI will never dream." @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, The Confluence, Jan 29

The Confluence I’ve been right so long, I’ve been done wrong.

"Track the profit, not the prophet. America’s fortune’s been told and it’s sitting in offshore accounts." @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, The Confluence, Jan 29

severance theory: innie brains are in outtie bodies and outtie brains are in innie bodies, but they both know because they’re technically the same brains

“he won’t say” everyone’s new favorite phrase and arch nemesis of “you don’t say…”

hello to my new followers

one of these things is not like the other, current reads edition

DOGE Will Allow Elon Musk to Surveil the US Government From the Inside A former USDS employee called the repurposing of the Digital Service into DOGE an “A+ bureaucratic jiujitsu move.” It will give Musk and his associates access to unclassified data in every government ...

"...it's a move that will give centibillionaire Elon Musk and his allies seemingly unprecedented insight across the government and access to troves of federal data."

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These spaces, protectors, and practitioners, will be the ones that help usher us into our liberatory world.

Seek and support the wisdom protectors and practitioners all around us.

Find each other.

Go to neighborhood block association meetings. Hold community discussions. Join a community center. Have and join bookclubs. Have mini conferences.

Find your third places.

Librarians, teachers, educators, documentarians, caretakers, creators, artists, elders, writers, history recorders, archivists.

In person and online.

Join your local library. Form your own library.

Document everything you can.

Do skill and knowledge shares. Supply shares.

Seek and support the Wisdom protectors and practitioners, those who have wisdom and share it so that others have the knowledge too.

Those that are so powerful that the system often leaves them underestimated, under-respected, and underpaid.

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care a book by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Harsha Walia, et al. What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building powe...

It will be easy to fall into a pattern of dunking & reacting in these times. Performing disapproval can be a consuming pastime & it is not enough. Refuse to abandon vulnerable people. Build a rebellious culture of care. If you need help, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote a book to assist you.