Bryan Mercer

Just so spot on. I needed this from @asha-rrs.bsky.social.

In the Face of Overwhelm We owe it to each other to resist attempts to disorient, divide and distract us from the reality of government takeover by the billionaire Right.

“One of the purposeful consequences of overwhelm is that we see ourselves as the people politics happens to as opposed to being active participants in doing politics or shaping our political reality… But we are political actors, too, if we choose to be!”
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You won’t believe the hidden gems in Trenton’s Black history Discover the untold stories and fascinating sites of Trenton's Black heritage through these interactive walking and virtual tours created by local architects and organizations.

Love seeing this work from my old friend Ronnie on Trenton’s black history. “With these tours, we’re actually able to preserve that history by getting people connected and interested in them“ www.nj.com/mosaic/2025/...

The Sixers arena deal clears a major hurdle, and a failure of leadership in City Hall comes into sharper focus | Editorial Opponents of the project felt unheard. Supporters walked away with fewer concessions than they could have won. And a prevailing feeling was that the arena was shoved down the city's throat.

"But instead of trying to work with Chinatown and other opposition groups, the mayor and City Council worked around them. This is a failure of leadership. Parker and Council are elected to represent all city residents — not just three billionaires."
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This Chrome Extension Uploads All Your Old Tweets to Bluesky If you're migrating from X to the friendlier skies of Bluesky, you don't have to leave everything behind—Porto is an extension for Chromium browsers that imports all of your old tweets to Bluesky auto...

Happening now: This morning we are importing posts from our soon-to-be-deleted twitter account to this Bluesky account, using the Porto extension for Chrome. Seems as if it may take a few hours. How to: lifehacker.com/tech/use-por...

The dignity of trans people is not up for debate.

Either we're all surviving together or we're all going down. Solidarity is the only way forward.

Grateful to see @ruephilacouncil.bsky.social stepping up to protect Philadelphians when the only thing our mayor has said is that she looks forward to working with the Trump admin.

What organizers say they learned from a campaign to create a statewide home repair program in Pa. PA Stands Up, a progressive advocacy group, partnered with public policy nonprofit Dēmos to analyze what went right and wrong in a coalition's campaign to create the Whole-Home Repairs Program.

“This is a model for how to organize effectively, wherever you are.”
Appreciating this look at what made the Whole-Homes Repair Program a success. Now it needs permanent funding. www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Painting from Chris Ofili of Christmas Eve (footsteps), showing a man and woman dancing under the stars.

Painting of "Harriet Tubman en route to Canada" by artist Kimathi Donkor

From the Time is Now, because the time is now.