MaggieSheWrote

Judson Memorial Church (New York), instructing us that “if empathy is a sin, sin boldly.”

“One Big Beautiful Bill”?
Try one big, bold-faced lie.

They swore this mess wouldn’t add to the deficit…but the nonpartisan budget office says otherwise.

$2.4 TRILLION added to the deficit—and for what?
Tax cuts for the rich.

A green graphic white text reading "77% of voters say that homelessness should be address through housing and services rather than arrests" with a photo of the tops of three houses.

We can’t arrest our way out of homelessness.

To build safe communities that advance justice for all, we must invest in reaching people with the resources they need, when they need it.

I hear Black Southern horror is having a moment. Hoodoo and the Devil in my story in this anthology. Break the cycle of generational trauma through the power of murder.

The CFPB Has Been Gutted The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail.

Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.

Instead of using “emergency“ decrees to move us toward authoritarianism, Trump should declare our broken health care system an emergency and move us toward guaranteed health care for all.

When 85 million Americans are uninsured or under-insured, that’s the true emergency.

Was there ever any doubt?

I just had a completely civil, friendly, and actually interesting conversation with my mother about religion, so clearly the hell that neither of us believes and has in fact frozen over

The White House admits they sent an innocent father of three to the prison in El Salvador but they are still fighting to make sure he doesn’t come home.

The definition of evil.

Autism complicates the experience I’ve never heard anyone talk about what it’s like to do breast cancer while autistic.

promote. The goal is purely to try to live something tough that I think we all need to learn to do. It’s me putting my money where my mouth is. So it’s OK if nobody clicks through or likes or shares. That’s not the point today. The point is trying open.substack.com/pub/thething... 🦋

It themselves — or are supporting loved ones in the journey — feel less alone and uncertain. So I’m gonna close with a link to my most recent episode as part of my recommitment to being seen trying. Feel free to ignore this part of my post; the goal here was not to latch on to a moment to self- 11/

I’ve realized its partly because I don’t think it’s very impressive. I don’t have lots of followers and my writing and voice work is imperfect, but it is very much me trying to represent my experience as openly and genuinely as possible so that people who are going through or have gone through 10/

to be seen trying back. I’ve always hated self-promotion for a variety of reasons. When I launched my breast cancer blog & podcast & store last October, I did almost no marketing and I’ve done very little promotion since. I don’t even post about it on socials each week. 9/

And I think we have to practice it in our everyday lives too. I’ve long held the mentality behind “be seen trying,” though I never phrased it that elegantly. I’ve gotten away from it lately. Personal and health issues have made me cautious where I didn’t used to be and I want the willingness 8/

being seen trying, that we all learn to see the value in the work and the effort. Trying is its own form of success and can be inherently valuable. It’s how we change the course we’re on. Lots of people trying over and over and over. Publicly, collaboratively, persistently. 7/

including the success being made up of whole cloth – is a huge contributing factor to where we are as a country and everything that’s gone wrong…and it’s the biggest potential barrier standing in the way of making things right. I think it’s critically important that we all learn to embrace 6/

lie or buy their way into people’s positive opinions. It’s where all the posturing and whack-a-doodle made up stories come from. It’s where the rage and the lack of empathy and the desperate need to believe they’re the very, very best originates. The mentality behind success at any cost – 5/

and it’s never been useful, valuable, or productive – for the people or the organization. It’s also highly characteristic of the people currently in charge of this country – elected and otherwise. It’s all about image with those guys. It’s why they have to frame losses as wins, are willing to 4/

the end result - and only then if it’s a great result. That’s such a problem mentality. One that ruins the joy of the journey of trying and learning. One that makes people hide in shame & disguises the work that goes into getting the result you want. I’ve seen it 100 times in my corporate career 3/

message. But the phrase “be seen trying” really stuck with me. It’s such a valuable thing – and so contrary to the way we’re taught to think. We’re acculturated to believe we’re only supposed to be seen succeeding, to be seen winning, to be seen triumphing. That’s where we put all the emphasis: 2/

I saw a post I half-loved and half-hated on Threads this morning. It said one of the gifts Cory Brooker gave us yesterday was being human and imperfect and making it OK to be seen trying. I’d credit the OP if I could find it again; I didn’t repost because I was uncomfortable with the rest of the 1/

I think once people stop waiting for one person or one big galvanizing moment to "save us" and realize this is gonna take a lot of work from a lot of people for a long time we will maybe get somewhere.

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

FYI, April 1 is often a shit day for ppl on the spectrum. April Fools is confusing & exhausting for most of us & the cruelest “joke” is it kicks off autism acceptance month, during which we will be shouted down, shut down, ignored, rebuked, gaslit & flooded w/ableism by ppl claiming to support us

Someone tell DOGE! Brutal photo by huff post i love it

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

She was excellent so they thought she HAD TO BE A WHITE MAN IN DISGUISE. Michelle? Excellence. Must be a man. Serena? Excellence. Must be a man. The patriarchy is bullshit.