Colleen Ryan

This is obscene. 9/30, before the shutdown, US Treasury announced $8.8 million in Technical Assistance grants for Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) across the country. Now, staffers who administer those grants are part of the RIF (Reduction in Force) at Treasury.

Colleen Ryan's review of The Devil Reached Toward the Sky 5/5: This is one of those books that I can’t say I recommend – it’s too distressing – but which I deeply appreciate. In the acknowledgements, the author writes that he has come to think of his work ...

I don't often post reviews on Goodreads, but this quote attributed to Albert Einstein is going to be rolling around my brain for a while ... "I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth – rocks." www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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The power of the people is greater than the people in power. Take heart, friends! #OneMillionRising

#OneMillionRising is maxed out with 20k on Zoom and thousands more on streaming services - check out the recording later! #NoKings #DontLookAway

– so if women were now the enemy I could see why they might have been targeted; but being in real estate or litigation or estate law or corporate law appeared to offer no protection. All that was necessary was a law degree and a uterus: a lethal combination.”

This is not a drill.

until she “came around” to her captors’ way of thinking. So were dozens of other women.

“Of the others in our section, I learned little. Their names, sometimes. The names of their firms. Some firms had specialized in domestic work – divorces, child custody, and so forth ...

and that the state of emergency would soon be over. That was correct, but not in the way we’d assumed.”

The character we would come to know as Aunt Lydia was snatched out of her office, sent to a detention center, kept in squalid conditions, witnessed executions, and endured beatings ...

“My arrest came shortly after the Sons of Jacob attack that liquidated Congress. Initially we were told it was Islamic terrorists: a National Emergency was declared, but we were told that we should carry on as usual, that the Constitution would shortly be reinstated ...

If you’re familiar with the book or the Hulu TV series, you’re familiar with Aunt Lydia, who backs up the distorted religious ideology of Gilead with a cattle prod. The Testaments tells us the origin story of the Aunts.

They were Judges. Law Clerks. Attorneys.

FBI arrests judge, in dangerous escalation of immigration enforcement "It's a whole new descent into government chaos."

A law degree and a uterus: a lethal combination.

I’ve been thinking about “The Testaments” lately. The 2019 novel is a sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale” (1985) by Margaret Atwood.

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Timothy Snyder - Lesson 9 - Be Kind to Our Language. Words matter. Call it by its name - DISAPPEARING. “The Republican regime is DISAPPEARING people off the streets without due process.”

Hi - I'd be grateful if you would send the Zoom link. I've been writing a lot for my clients lately about seeds AND resilience!

Let’s continue to work to remind everyone of the vital work CDFIs do across NYS and across the country! #SAVEtheCDFIFund www.canva.com/design/DAGjV...

Share this flyer when you’re “out and about” – hand it out, wave it around, display it in your car / office / home window, tape it to a bigger sign, pin it to the back of your shirt – whatever! And share pictures of it in the wild!

CDFIs continue to meet enormous market demand, providing capital for housing, small business, and community revitalization. Support from the CDFI Fund allows NYS CDFIs to maximize our impact in New York's low-income areas - urban, rural and everywhere in between.

Good news – the US Dept. of Treasury has pushed back on last month's Executive Order targeting CDFIs, saying that the 11 programs of the federal CDFI Fund are defined by statute. But we can’t rest!

This is not a drill.

Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent (Gift Article) The order targeting the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, appeared to test the bounds of the president’s power.

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Not how I expected to be spending my Saturday, but here we are. Save the #CDFI Fund! Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies.
www.nyscdfi.org Community Development Financial Institutions have more than thirty years of documented success in providing capital to under-resourced communities - save the fund!

Good turnout for Albany #50501 #indivisible rally. Enough people to march around the NYS Capitol in bitter cold wind, snow and icy sidewalks. #Resist

Good turnout for Albany #50501 #indivisible rally. Enough people to circle the Capitol in bitter cold wind, snow and icy sidewalks. #Resist

If you’re in the Albany area, I’ll see you on the East Capitol steps at noon on Monday. #50501 #Indivisible

They’re literally searching for programs containing the word “transition” and cutting any associated funding. It’s ghoulish.

everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth’s treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. Hope just means another world might be possible, not promised, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope."

Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark - "I say all this because hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. I say it because hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency; because hope should shove you out the door, because it will take

USCRI-Albany received a stop work order and ended support to refugee families who arrived in Albany through the proper channels. Joan Baez said action is the best antidote to despair. Our neighborhood acted. Learn more about local orgs that help immigrants and refugees and join us. bit.ly/4aUTnIn

Do you have a Target 360 Same Day Delivery Account? It's very easy to cancel. Call 800-591-3869 and say you set it up before you knew that Target was going to abandon its DEI efforts. If it's a monthly subscription, cancel it; if it's annual, cancel and ask for a pro-rated refund.