j.c. Cockrell

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Not My Presidents Day- Santa Cruz

Musk is illegally shuttering USAID. Aid is not only vital to recipients, it's in US security interest HELPING PEOPLE IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
* Call your representatives
* Donate to NGOs serving your causes
* Tell them and your representative that you're protest the attack on USAID

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This evening at Año Nuevo State Park, bull elephant seals spar over control of the harem

Yes, resist the Project 2025 agenda but not by negative forces; rather, envision positive improvements. Apply your energy to move your neighborhood, our government, our world toward the better. Help make positive changes, no matter how large or small.

Yes, resist Project 2025, not by negative forces - rather, envision positive improvements. Apply energy to move your neighborhood, government, our world toward the better. Make positive changes, no matter how large or small.

#resistance #ResistFascism #changetheworld #goodtrouble

We don’t have to let this happen. Join your neighbors and resist.
#resistance #ResistFascism

Our institutions largely may be failing us, but we are not “on our own”. Joining together in protest and action, there are many more of us who together can accomplish much. Find your niche and join.

The Resistance:
It can be overwhelming for those who give a shit. Focus where you can make change. Practice self care. Despair is not an option.

Begin your resistance by choosing one topic you’re passionate about, and start working for that.

Yes, been looking for this.

It’s so overwhelming for anyone who gives a shit.

Working Families Party - Fighting for an America that works for the many, not the few. WFP is building a political home for all of us who see bigotry, bailouts, and business as usual in our political system and ask, "Is that the best we can do?"

Do you guys know about the Working Families Party?

"The Working Families Party is regular people coming together across our differences to make a better future for us all."

workingfamilies.org

Trump energy chief pick says linking wildfires to climate crisis is ‘hype’ Democrats criticize Chris Wright’s comments during US Senate confirmation hearing for energy secretary nominee

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Scientific studies contradict Wright’s claims. Climate change has, in fact, contributed to the increased frequency and severity of wildfires, including those in Los Angeles.”

JACK: A Special Counsel Podcast - MSW Media

DYK? Part 2 of Jack Smith's #SpecialCounsel Report is available to listen to during your morning run or your daily commute, thanks to @muellershewrote.bsky.social ⬇️ and it's free!

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Indivisible Santa Cruz County General Mtg on Tues & New Swag! - https://mailchi.mp/indivisiblesantacruzcounty.com/get-involved-21526140 #indivisiblesantacruzcounty #indivisibleguide #indivisible #savedemocracy #trumpsproject2025.....

Well-attended and enthusiastic meeting in Santa Cruz this evening, to organize opposition to the GOP 2025 agenda. Eight breakout groups formed to plan and kickoff effective actions - locally and nationally.
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Here’s Vol 1 of Jack Smith’s J6 report, concluding “…substantial evidence demonstrates that Mr. Trump then engaged in an unprecedented criminal effort to overturn the legitimate results of the election in order to retain power.”

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Here’s the official bipartisan J6 Select Committee report that concluded: “… a multi-part plan to overturn the 2020 Presidential election…the central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump,”

Jupiter, full moon, and full heart - camping tonight in Big Sur

The LA fires and increased climate disasters aren’t accidents—they’re the cost of oil & gas corp greed. They knew. Families suffer while they profit. Make polluters pay into an Insurance Relief and Disaster Mitigation Fund to cut premiums and protect communities.

The LA fires and increased climate disasters aren’t accidents—they’re the cost of oil & gas corp greed. They knew. Families suffer while they profit. Make polluters pay into an Insurance Relief and Disaster Mitigation Fund to cut premiums and protect communities.

Trump's track record of disaster misinformation as he casts blame over California wildfires As wildfires ravage southern California, President-elect Donald Trump has attacked Democratic officials, continuing a pattern of spreading misinformation amid disasters.

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While Canada and Mexico deploy crews to fight LA fires, the incoming US administration deploys threats to them and false insults to California’s leaders.

#textku
Blue and brown colors
Sky and sea and rugged coast
Big Sur in winter

Easy to lose sight
From cold water and dark days
Spread your wings and fly!

#textku

Just returned from Christmas in Yosemite

Happy Winter Solstice everyone in Northern Hemisphere!

All winter long...
where did we run
beyond gate and guardsman?
Guess, if you can!
- all winter long
we ran
to the sun,
the dance of the sun!

- song fragment, attributed to anonymous Native American

With Solstice rapidly approaching, and our world seemingly becoming darker, I think of this hopeful Wendell Berry poem;

_February 2, 1968_
In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter,

war spreading, families dying, the world in danger,

I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.

This morning, my backyard. Every morning we wake to another opportunity to learn something, feel something, to leave the unnecessary behind, and to act on the important things.

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” ~Vincent Van Gogh

Why would your account post information today about an event that occurred long ago, and not even include a date in the text?

Hi folks. Moved over to this platform for the fresh air. G’Morning!