Grace Kozak

Just have to share this, my mom created this with all dried flowers we grew on our family farm to win the local farmer’s market vendor costume contest 🥹😍 #bloomscrolling

Thanks for doing this! Donated to my local Indianapolis food bank

It is not our job to determine if resistance is hopeless. It is our duty to render it effective, at all possible points, while we are alive. It is the future that will determine if our efforts were victorious, not the present. To act fully in the present means to never face defeat.

I texted my dad to tell him that Google withdrew their bid to build a data center 20 minutes from me just moments before our city council was going to hold a rezoning vote and he was like “they’ll just build it somewhere else” 😭

Advent 2: What Sort of People Were You? Hail Zorp!

I hear the world is ending tomorrow! I wrote about that one of the last times the world was ending lol

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Another thing you can do is reach out to your friends in NYC and share the document with them to see if they would sign up.

I’m in Indianapolis but just texted the doc to two friends in NYC! Thanks for the invitation.

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.

Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.

And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.

Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

From my dahlia garden this week

In a FaceTime video call from the other firefighter to The Seattle Times, firefighters in their gear were seen sitting on logs in front of federal officers. Some firefighters were dismissed back to their vehicles. One firefighter attempted to walk over to his company vehicle to get something to drink and appeared to have been called back by federal officers. In images shared by firefighters from the scene, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle is parked nearby. Officers wearing “Police” vests are seen arresting a firefighter, while another appears to be restrained. According to one of the firefighters, they were denied the chance to say goodbye to the detained crew members. “I asked them if his (family) can say goodbye to him because they’re family, and they’re just ripping them away,” the firefighter told the Times. “And this is what he said: ‘You need to get the (expletive) out of here. I’m gonna make you leave.'”

this is a scene straight out of a war zone. the president has declared war on his own country.

#FlowerReport #BloomScrolling my first time growing a Bloomquist Jean dahlia 😍

"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest

if someone tried to "boost my in-car productivity" i would kill them

I'm the wrong person to tell 'that can't happen.' I think anything is possible. You have to build the power to impose your will.

A dahlia #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

Thanks for all of this helpful context. Are you aware of a resource tracking where these contracts are going in one place? I lead a national call for churches involved in immigrant ministry and I’d like to connect them to what is happening in their parts of the country

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

Zinnias are crazy this year. So are the dahlias. Also obsessed with the rudbeckia in our landscaping 😍 #bloomscrolling #flowerpatrol

Work from home menace, Kevin

It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.”

Thinking about Mike Davis as I see folks fighting back in MacArthur Park - “What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems.

This week’s #bloomscrolling and #flowerpatrol so far 🥹

Fascists can write “we’re going to give 700 quadrillion dollars to the Gestapo to build a new concentration camp in every city” on paper and there’s little we can do to stop that.

The infrastructure that makes it actually real passes by and through us.

That, we can and will stop.

Obsessed with her #bloomscrolling

First dahlia of the year is here ✨

#bloomscrolling #flowerreport

Thank you!

Just learned about #bloomscrolling and have some to share from Indiana summer! An almost open dahlia, coneflower, me and my dad at farmer’s market, and peony bouquets

I’m going g to be honest with us all here. If you don’t know anywhere to organize local to you, that’s a choice. I seriously see engagement EVERYWHERE.