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A reminder for these times.

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“Maybe something better.”
Slava Ukrani!

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”

I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

little farmer frog says "Compost the Oligarchy" Earthy Herbs @canna.pothecary

Who knew that the phrase, “May you live in interesting times” was actually a curse?

Tired, a poem by Langston Hughes I am so tired of waiting. Aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife and cut the world in two — and see what worms are eating at the rind.

If you're protesting tomorrow:

"I invoke my rights to silence and counsel and will not answer questions without my attorney present."

MEMORIZE THAT, because aside from asking if you're free to leave (or providing ID if you're in a stop and ID state), that's the ONLY thing you ever say to cops.

I remember watching Star Wars as a kid and asking myself, who would voluntarily join the dark side? I understood Darth Vader's motivation, but not the stormtrooper's.

Are you better off today than you were 16 days ago? No, you are not. Don’t try to gaslight me.

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

Dear @thedemocrats... "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus - and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!" -Mario Savio

Dear @thedemcoalition.bsky.social

READ IT. INTERNALIZE IT. ACT ON IT!

The site of origin of the 1918 influenza pandemic and its public health implications

Roger Marshall, M.D. (R - KS)
KS ranks 28th overall health rankings

TMYK: Kansas is currently experiencing the largest TB outbreak in US history. Kansas is also the likely origin of the 1918 pandemic.

Thank you for this.

Exactly!!! Where are the spines? Have they learned nothing in ten years??

Too many people don't yet realize how bad it already is. It's so, so hard.

Seriously. I've been writing to both senators, fat lot of good that it's doing. They're just... sitting there.

It's a bunch of people or pages you follow that you recommend to other people in a big lump.

South Korea’s President Yoon Is Indicted President Yoon Suk Yeol will stand trial along with his former defense minister and others who participated in his short-lived imposition of martial law.

This is the way it should be handled:

South Korea’s Impeached Leader Is Indicted on Insurrection Charges

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/w...

I just realized how tense I have felt since I woke up.

So this is your reminder to relax your shoulders, unclench your jaw, and take some deep breaths.

Take care of yourself. Put your own mask on before assisting another passenger.

Same on podcasts and also screaming

You can write to them on their websites as well.

What are you doing to stay sane?

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943