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This is how you know that it's not about the money. Because if it were, then libraries would not keep being defunded.

Library tweet

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Rest in Peace, for eternity.

"The slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) has been officially declared extinct. This is the first-ever recorded global bird extinction from mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia."

— International Union for Conservation of Nature

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"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Targeted Harassment of Faculty The AAUP has developed a toolkit to address the threat of targeted harassment of faculty.

@aaup.org has prepared materials for faculty who face these threats and harassment. 6/ www.aaup.org/issues-highe...

The real issue isn’t left vs right.

It’s not white vs black.

It’s not citizen vs immigrant.

It’s not gay vs straight.

The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.

Don’t ever apologize for that. Don’t ever apologize for cheering for your kid. More of this, please.

They then turned around to the parents streaming and apology for blocking the view. The response…

A little goodness for your feed…

I’m watching the streaming of my nephew’s middle school football game. The parents in front of the parents streaming are from the opposing team. When the opposing team scored, the parents in front stood up and cheered…

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

“Even if significant foreign aid can reach Gaza in the coming months to reverse the tide, scientists say that the long-term health consequences will be felt for decades.”

The Black Panthers didn't mock people for their lack of education. They taught people how to read

A lot of people need to hear this

Can You Tell Me How To Get To Sesame Street? A poem - “the way to sesame” you ask me, child, how to get to sesame street— where colors danced and kindness had feet, where the alphabet sang and monsters were sweet, where every soft soul had a front-row seat. but they cut the cords, closed the gate, turned laughter into a budget debate. called learning liberal, called love elite, left big bird grounded on a forgotten beat. yet still— we rise with chalk-stained hands, build the road where joy still stands. for every child with dreams to meet, we carry the map to sesame street. ©️MustafaSantiagoAli

“the way to sesame”
you ask me, child,
how to get to sesame street—
where colors danced
and kindness had feet,
where the alphabet sang
and monsters were sweet,
where every soft soul
had a front-row seat.

but they cut the cords,
closed the gate,
turned laughter
into a budget debate.👇🏾

Sesame Street and PBS may get some federal funding, but they’re still nonprofits that need support. Buy their books, watch the shows (even in the background!), donate, start storytime with a Sesame friend. We’re not powerless—support them or build your own movement. It all counts. #Pinks

"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing" - Raymond Williams

"To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality" - Bell Hooks

as Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it

some are guilty

all are responsible

THE GOOD TROUBLE CHECKLIST keep all your shenanigans in one place

someone needs to do something

and you are someone

what are you gonna do

‘Nough said.

McMorrow: What Trump has done is weaponize us against each other, when everybody needs hospitals, good schools, and health care.

It has become this battle for scarcity, when we’re the wealthiest country in the world. We should not be fighting each other for our basic needs.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident!” she shouted, “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” As she cried out the words she felt a mind moving in on her own, felt IT seizing, squeezing her brain. Then she realized that Charles Wallace was speaking, or being spoken through by IT. “But that’s exactly what we have on Camazotz. Complete equality. Everybody exactly alike.” For a moment her brain reeled with confusion. Then came a moment of blazing truth. “No!” she cried triumphantly. “Like and equal are not the same thing at all!” A Wrinkle in Time #4thOfJuly

fortify inside why spiritual practice matters during the rising authoritarian tide

Please believe me when I tell you:

Double the fuck down on your spiritual practice now.

You are going to need it.

And no, that doesn't have to be a prayer-god thing.

The thing that sustains and nourishes you.

That makes you more alive to yourself, the world, others.

More present.

More:

Photo of quill and top of Declaration of Independence.

"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." (1776) 🗃️

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Recycling food waste could slash methane emissions and reshape the global agrifood system | NationofChange

Composting food waste can reduce methane emissions. Easy to do. Proven technology. Really cheap.

“When finished eating, people tend to just toss what’s left: out of sight, out of mind,” Dou said. “But from the resource and environmental perspective, what happens after actually matters a lot.”

The takeaway is not that electoral politics will fix everything.

We know it won’t.

Obviously.

The takeaway is that people will show up if you give them hope & a way forward.

And that, my friends, can & must look like a lot of things right now.

Chicago Jewish Activists Embark on Indefinite Hunger Strike Over Gaza Hunger strikes have deep roots in Chicago—and across the country—as escalations in campaigns for justice.

Thinking about these folks today.

People make art under hellish conditions locked up in prisons as just one example. It's because making things affirms our humanity. So yes, make art during fascism. What are we fighting for? A free society FOR ALL where we can revel in beauty, culture and all good things.

@leahjuliett.bsky.social makes an impassioned plea to keep showing up for LGBTQIA+ people, especially kids, & everyone as the regime plans to shut down the 988 specialized services

Trevor Project: 866.488.7386 (txt 678678)
Trans Lifeline: 877.565.8860

And the Soviet Union