dismissal is also your strategy with the checklist….dismissal is the admin’s strategy too…..a dismissal based approach won’t work

didn’t say it was about making nice….is about strategy….people who have zero working relationships with anybody who voted for this admin are going to miss parts of the picture in some areas of the country, that’s all

my point is that the binary either/or doesn’t work; my neighbors would “pass” your checklist and they still
voted for him — value checklists will doom the Dems, and already has — there has to be other ways to actually communicate with people like my neighbors rather than dismiss them altogether

things are so terrible politically I did something as a random act of hope that I never in a million years thought I’d do — adopt a cat. Adopt 2 cats! It is, somehow, an act of believing in a different order of value and possibility.

Pregnant doctor denied Covid-19 vaccine sues Trump administration Lawsuit takes aim at RFK Jr’s decision to advise against Covid vaccines for pregnant women and healthy children

Pregnant physician is denied covid vaccine... she suing RFK, Jr and entire Trump administration.
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I keep thinking about how Gov Abbott had plenty of funds to fly and bus migrants all across the country but couldn't come up with a million for a flood warning system.

both - my neighbors are “these people” - they live in a different information reality, are good people and neighbors, and exist deep within a value system based on that different information reality. Dems have to stop the binary “either they are brainwashed or they are sick” framing. It won’t work.

these numbers should still be chilling - that only 54% think it has gone too far, and 18% think it has just gotten started….I live around those 18% and it is not something to underestimate.

wtf — the AI of it and the evil of it and the absurdity of it and also the 4th grade level of imagination of it is, well, not unexpected at this point

Bookshop.org anti-Prime-Day free shipping July 8-11!!!!

YES - it’s astonishing how deeply oblivious Dem-friendly analysts/experts seem to be about this fact: Being “accurate/right” with explanations is not a good strategy for countering the current admin and we are tired of being treated like students instead of action-ready souls.

Nature Connection through color, texture, & pattern

This week's Nature Newsletter is out in time for the weekend with ideas of simple ways to connect with nature through color, texture, and pattern. Enjoy!

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Thank you!!!

My academic book publisher is making a deal for its catalog to be in some kind of contractual relstionship with AI-based acquistion and distribution. We can opt in or opt out. I have no idea how to decide or put their reasons in context. Could you post resources about that issue specifically?

The Bear season four review – finally becoming the show it was always destined to be It’s outgrown the ‘Yes, chef!’ rages and screaming matches in the pantry and morphed into something more tender, beautiful – and endlessly moving. Let the happy tears flow

I watched first 3 new episodes last night. Season4:2 just slayed me. So good. Subtle and raw, ordinary glimpses of human hearts in motion, exposed. Highly recommend.

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Bezos wedding: Venice protestors claim 'enormous victory' after venue change No Space for Bezos activist group tells BBC they are "very proud of this".

I’m hoping this story is true and an actual win for the non-1% in the insane landscape the super-wealthy believe they’re entitled to buy.

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Substack Did Not See That Coming Let’s set Substack’s “Nazi problem” aside for a moment. What if the bigger issue is being stranded on a collapsing platform... with a bunch of Nazis?...

“A different newsletter platform isn’t all I want, because newsletters aren’t the answer to a disintegrating media ecosphere. We need a world where a social safety net protects risky writing.… We don’t need better tools as much as we need each other.” Ana Marie Cox tells it straight.

Signs to police 'negative' history went up at Manzanar. Historians are nervous. "It sends a pretty clear message that your story is not welcome here."

I used to live near Manzanar so this particular erasure is especially tangible…the site is staggering, a place as important as Statue of Liberty in terms of the story we tell about the U.S.

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“I’m free to do the work only a human can do” is for me the crux—in art-making isn’t ALL OF IT as a singular process “the work only a human can do”? We can’t splice it out “ethically” because the facets of artistic creation are porous. There’s no “panopticon” perch where boundaries can be decided.

Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry Friends and family of Moises Sotelo ‘disappointed and disgusted’ after respected fixture detained outside church

I live in eastern WA wine country and this story from OR wine country is yet another staggering example of how ag labor in the U.S. is dehumanized and targeted. Without the efforts and skill of immigrant ag workers there is no wine and beer industry in the PNW.

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Feeling like life right now is the spider webs suspended between the tree and the boulder. And in-person gatherings and artistic creation are the tree and the boulder.

I lived in Indonesia in my 20’s and now look back on all the times I hiked volcanoes through the night and am thinking “Hmmm, maybe not the best idea…”

Heart Altar 12! liquid power as salve

New issue of Precipice & Cusp out today:

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the anti-Elon actions and momentum now needs to be directed at him - I don’t see how these congressional grilling sessions with him are effective - there has to be a coordinated strategy to counter him that the public also participates in, beyond calling reps etc

Compilation of massive 'NO KINGS!' protests today ✊
#NoKings

See photos from ‘No Kings’ rally in Tri-Cities as thousands join nationwide protests “I really do feel like this is about democracy.”

Tri Cities WA turns out again in red eastern WA and also of note: the local paper is crediting the numbers and acknowledging what’s happening
www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/a...

and also the headline - “vaccine moves” - like what, dance moves? should just be “vaccine lies” or “vaccine misinformation” etc etc - with coverage like that, LET npr be defunded - it isn’t accurate reporting, it’s propaganda adjacent communications

protest perseverance!

same….have been trying to come up with other creative/effective ways to diminish legacy media that is failing the moment and then shift support to outlets who are actually telling the story/stories most needing to be told rather than being propaganda-adjacent

Trump pulls US from plan to recover salmon population, calling it ‘radical’ Groups say president ‘grievously wrong’ after withdrawing from Biden-led deal to protect fish in Pacific north-west

so much to keep track and this is one story (where I live) that can’t fall through the cracks - also relevant as we approach 25th anniversary of Hanford Reach Natl Monument and 80th of Nagasaki/Hiroshima (river water used to make plutonium for the bomb)

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