Daniel Graham

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There’s a directory of Black farmers: “The Black Farmers Index.”

Buy and uplift local. Many are small-scale specialists and located in urban areas. I found an organic resource in my area that I will definitely check out.

No Amazon. No Walmart. No Target. No Disney. No Google. No Apple. No Visa or Mastercard. And especially no Facebook or Twitter. Buy essentials such as medicine, food, and emergency supplies, of course, but make those purchases at small, local businesses and use cash. The purpose of today’s economic blackout is to send a clear message: We have the power.

#EconomicBlackout

Please use the 5 Calls app, or a rotary-dial phone, or telegraph, to get your reps out front and center, calling for mass participation in the economic blackout events of 2/27 and 4/18. With daily joint press briefings to remind us all why. I hear the Washington press corps are available these days.

It’s a coup unless we stop it. Search 50501 to learn about 2/5 demonstrations at every state capitol. In Olympia, there will be two: OneAmerica is leading a one at 12 p.m., and 50501 posters are advertising 2 and 2:30 as their start time(s). Tivoli Fountain, but follow 50501 posts for any pivots.

America, you broke through—the media, from small outlets to large, is finally picking up on what’s happening. Legislators, judges, and attorneys general across the country are speaking out. They hear you. We love you and are honored to serve you! 🦬💚🇺🇸

This is a coup. We need to adopt that frame and act in what capacity we are able.

Wash, rinse, retreat.

I suppose, to his “credit,” President 2025 has pushed the most MAGA-fied items to the top of the list. But the contradictions are already mounting, especially on the labor front.

Saddle Trump with references to Project 2025 at every mention. Reduce him to it. His base hates Project 2025.

I don't know who made this, but it's a handy list for us to keep track.

We must all find ways to, “LOL. No,” as though our lives depend on it.

With words, with actions.

After his executive order on sex, is Trump legally the first female president? The confusing and vague executive order underscores how complex sex is and why it’s hard to reduce it into a neat binary

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Is anyone hip to the existence of a rapid-response kind of database that keeps up with rightwing rhetorical devices along with powerful counters we can use to quickly expose and dismantle them?

Maybe it’s possible to resist injustice without invoking it quite so often and instead raising each other up and lending our “amen” when courage and truth break through the winter soil like daffodils.

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I was dating to at least half hope this would happen. Much too late, but much better late than never.

Joe Biden Frees Leonard Peltier The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.

With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier

Maybe the most insidious piece of doomscrolling is the way it has allowed our activism muscles to atrophy. Not everyone’s, I realize, but certainly mine. It’s on my agenda to get back into shape in this regard, and to try to operate out of a good mental and spiritual space. Hang tough!

Seems obvious. Will any Tennessee reps or senators be asked if they agree? @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty @RepMarkGreen @RepTimBurchett

Are you interested in U.S. legislative history? Newly-available complete dataset on all persons serving as legislators in the 50 state houses between 1900 and 2016: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Thoughts?

Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes More good news for those looking to exit Meta’s social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a photo-sharing app for Bluesky called Flashes. The soon-to-launch app is powered by the same technology that…

Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

Anthony Blinken is the Merrick Garland of Secretaries of State. One has to presume the incompetence is intentional. Now we get to brace for something much worse — and push back.