It's a bit heartbreaking to see the gap between the funerary options people want and what they think they have to settle for.

Three Astonishing Take Aways from the American Funeral Preferences Survey | The Order of the Good Death Some of the 2025 survey results confirm what people in the funeral reform space have been saying for years. Some of the results shocked even us. Here are three key take aways.

NEW ARTICLE
Partnering with Tanya Marsh of Wake Forest Law School, The Order helped develop questions for an annual survey on American funeral preferences--confirming some long-held beliefs, while uncovering results that shocked even us www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/thre...

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Think creatively to stop or stall! You don't have to solve every problem. But enough stalling could buy time to new elections and changing who has the power and the money. Stalling could be enough if we all find ways to at least inconvenience and frustrate the efforts to do harm.

Every American needs to watch this:

EC Access Network - Advocates for Youth Join the EC Access Network to help provide emergency contraception to students in need. Get free EC pills, training, and support to launch EC access campaigns on campus.

Got a college student who would like to help make sure peers have access to emergency contraception? Deadline to apply is today today!

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YouTube video by Diocese of Iowa Communications A Letter to our Fellow Americans: a Joint Statement from 150+ Episcopal Bishops on ICE actions

I have such a fraught relationship with faith, but these voices remind me of all the love available in faith communities. Of opportunities for connection and the interdependence humans have always relied on for survival even when we also hurt one another in fear.

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These are spectacular!!

YouTube video by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul MN physicians on ICE obstructing care [FULL]

Powerful press conference with physicians in Minnesota detailing the risk to public and individual health and safety statewide as people forgo medical care for fear of detainment and family separation.

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“Please get the truth out about our son.”

Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.

Oh she’s EXTORTING US.

Respectfully, I think that's unlikely. These are people. Human beings. I think it's important we not engage in the same dehumanization that they are doing.

Thank you for raising this point.

Donate to Alex Pretti is an American Hero, organized by Keith Edwards On January 24, 2026, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a Minneapolis resident and American citizen wa… Keith Edwards needs your support for Alex Pretti is an American Hero

If you’re able, please support this verified GoFundMe for Alex Pretti’s family. And if you’re not in a position to donate, sharing it far and wide matters just as much. It’s at $300K and counting.

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RIP Alex Pretti,

He was my Dad’s ICU nurse. He read my dad’s final salute at the VA after he passed away. Never wanted to share this video, but his speech is very on point.

It's almost never a bad time to reach out to someone you think fondly of and say "Thinking of you and sending love for whatever you've got going on today ❤️" It's never been too long to own that it's been a minute and express love.

Oh neat! I'd never heard of thermal energy storage, but it makes sense given my experience walking near brick buildings on summer evenings even once the sun has gone down.

White People Against ICE: solidarity with Minneapolis and how we fight back everywhere · Showing Up for Racial Justice This week, a white woman did what those in power fear the most: she broke rank, rejected the racist lies aimed at winning over white people, and instead chose to stand in solidarity with her immigrant...

I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “White People Against ICE: solidarity with Minneapolis and how we fight back everywhere” - sign up no www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

@ordergooddeath.bsky.social I got everyone in my immediate family an end-of-life planner for Christmas, and we all sat for a couple hours filling them in as a family activity before Christmas dinner. It doesn't have to be weird ❤️💀❤️

‘It was the last time Mum smiled at me’: the choirs singing to the dying in three-part harmony A worldwide movement to sing gentle songs to the dying provides comfort, peace and release to both the suffering and the singers

Around the world people are gathering to sing to the dying in an effort to provide comfort, peace and release to both the suffering and the singers

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Is there anything we as Vermonters can do seeing as we already know our Confressional delegation does not support the federalization in support of the campaign in the Caribbean? It's hard to know how to advocate right now.

I am deeply concerned about the Trump administration's decision to deploy the 158th Fighter Wing of the Vermont Air National Guard (VTANG).

I unwaveringly support our service members and their families, but I do not support military action without Congressional authorization.

Words can’t express my rage. At least 2 students on lockdown at Brown University already survived mass shootings.
Zoe Weissman survived Parkland in 2018.
Mia Tretta was shot in the stomach in Santa Clarita in 2019 and watched her best friend be murdered.

And now…again.

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.

insanity.

Students’ main concern should be finals not surviving a mass shooting. Praying for the Brown University community.

Photo of the “Uprising of the Twenty Thousand” strikers crowd

11/22/1909 — The "Uprising of the Twenty Thousand” is a turning point for #womensrights + #labor #union; NYC shirtwaist workers #strike starts over wages+working conditions;within a day approx 20,000 wmn garment workers walk off their factory jobs #womenshistory #generalstrike #MassBlackout #boycott

Buy nothing - don't shop or buy gas or even groceries unless from small businesses

Post nothing - no socials except Blackout

Attend nothing - no travel or movies or pro sports

See y'all on the other side of the Blackout

#MBO #MB #BlockParty #MassBlackout #BlackoutForDemocracy

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