Alexis L. Richardson 🥄

Your reminder that credit scores in the US date to 1989. For much of their existence, race and gender were factors.

They were invented bc it had been made illegal to discriminate by race and gender in the US, so financial institutions wanted a facially neutral way to accomplish the same thing.

Expanding Our Capacity for Care & Compassion *New Format* Quick Ways to Self-Resource, Insight Timer Recs & an Astrology Sneak Peek

Unfolding Your Way subscribers (free!) receive practical tips for self-resourcing, a sneak peek at my #astrology readings, + #mindfulness & #sleep hygiene tips. This week’s issue includes Insight Timer recommendations & upcoming workshops in #PHL.

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Thrilled to hear @itsafronomics.bsky.social on @marketplace.org right now.

Heartfulness is Mindfulness This newsletter is grounded in mindfulness, sleep hygiene, and astrology. My purpose is to nudge you as nurture your intentional practices so you may cultivate and trust your inner authority, and acce...

My #mindfulness coaching side hustle now has its own newsletter. This week covers #joy & #suffering; my first sleep hygiene tip; what's happening in the astrology this week; and other reflections.

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Opinion | The idea of inflicting a 90s summer on children makes me anxious. Mainly because I was there — Guardian US It’s easy to see why some on TikTok are yearning for this kind of nostalgia. But as someone who lived through it, here’s why that’s a bad idea

“Alas, one glance at today’s headlines and no one should wonder why Americans might want to escape back to their “90s summers”. The past is, after all, another country. They do things differently there.”

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Voice of America aired Trump’s message to Iranian people during US bombings — Guardian US US-run news outlet had earlier been branded ‘propaganda’ and ‘leftist’ by the White House as it sought to close it

“Voice of America (VOA) may have been used to broadcast Donald Trump’s message to Iranians in Farsi during weekend military strikes…revealing how the crumbling, traditionally independent news service is possibly functioning as a conduit for presidential messaging.”

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Feeling drained every Monday? The issue might not be time off—but how you use it.

Enter “leisure crafting”: setting intentional, energizing goals for your free time. Not to hustle harder, but to restore smarter.

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Do not sleep on the new mansplainer-in-chief bsky.app/profile/thel...

"On Juneteenth...it is well to ponder that there is no longer any branch of government dedicated to protecting the life chances of those with less political power due to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, or sexual orientation.

This is deeply unfortunate."

That gorgeous post by @anya1anya.bsky.social that I am reminding myself of daily.

On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.

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Congrats🎉❣️

Startup seeks Trump emergency order for California tech city The Network State comes to Alameda County. Why is an unknown tech company drafting an executive order to declare a national security emergency?

"Donald Trump has used fake emergencies to take over the California National Guard and deploy Marines to Los Angeles. Will he use the same strategy to create a new tech-controlled city in California?"

#NetworkStates

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The Online Tools That Fueled ‘No Kings’ and the Trump Resistance Social media platforms, collaborative online tools, and encrypted messaging are all helping to power a massive, decentralized resistance to the Trump administration.

Jack and Fiona watched as Trump and Musk turned the US into what they call “a fascist hellscape.” So they turned to tech to organize, creating @stickittofascists.com.

They're one of many mobilizing online. And as millions joined the "No Kings” protests, these tools were powering the movement.

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Whether it's Democrats putting flyers on Chris Cillizza’s Tesla or Republicans assassinating Democratic lawmakers, it's time for both sides to turn down the temperature.

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The smiles…!

Breaking: Just In be Alert
Sources have indicated ICE has been inquiring about Montebello Ca. city hall permits to round up the construction workers and target them for deportation no matter their status, legal or undocumented. Demanding data. They are in suv cars now that vans have been exposed.

Hit the streets tomorrow.
Be nonviolent.
Be joyfully defiant.
Be defiantly joyful.
Ridicule him.
Condemn fascism.
Oppose I.C.E.
Affirm diversity.
Embody America.
Love your neighbor.
Refuse to be intimidated.
Be safe.
Be loud.
Be encouraged.
#NoKingsDay

Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmo...

NEW: Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon

The administration has canceled a deal, signed under President Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.

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Amazing. They're so focused on the cameras & their effects that they're not even considering doing anything to improve the actual driving.

Instead of putting in traffic-calming measures (or something) during the pause, they're going to do things to make drivers more aware of the cameras. 🤔

Throwback Thursday: The 7 Habits of Highly Enjoyable White People It's time to honor the upstanding citizens of white America.

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"...instead of concentrating on assholes, we should be studying the nature of cool-ass white people and what makes them so enjoyable... Today, we present a scientific examination of the tendencies of white people that Black people enjoy being around."

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The Dangerous Beauty of Normal Life Right Now Nothing is normal right now, but it doesn’t always feel that way

Gorgeous post by @anya1anya.bsky.social.

"We adapt to the unforgivable, we continue on despite the unimaginable, we pray in the rubble.

This is beautiful and nothing less than human, yet it is profoundly dangerous."

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Protest, Power, and the Violence Debate "We are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating."

@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.

If you read nothing else today, read this—whether you're protesting Saturday or not.

No paywall. Go forth and be learned.

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