I've named exactly what I want, multiple times, in detail. If you're not going to engage with it, that's fine. I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing: school patrol, mutual aid, showing up, and watching Amy Klobuchar not do enough.
Take care and good luck.
We're out here keeping each other alive while they play inside baseball.
I want them to catch up. All of them. For all of us.
schools where kids don't need be afraid, because neighbors with whistles and phones need to protect them from the government to get them safely inside.
Not instead of discharge petitions. Alongside them. With the same urgency people on the ground are showing every day, in every state.
To adopt the Equity or Else framework and treat immigrant safety, healthcare, and education as non-negotiable, not bargaining chips . To defund systems that cage and deport people, and fund what actually keeps us alive: mutual aid, community care, housing, healthcare, +
But also: stop making us beg state by state for the bare minimum.
I want them to fight like housing is a human right, not a privilege. To pass the Unhoused Persons Bill of Rights and fully fund universal vouchers so no one loses their home while hiding from our government's armed contractors.
What would I like them to do?
Start here in Minnesota: call a state of emergency so cities can freeze rent. Direct the BCA to investigate and arrest the bounty hunters that have flooded in since the "ICE drawdown." Use every platform to name what's happening here.
you're not actually engaging what I'm saying anymore.
You're just asking if I did homework assigned to me by a random man on the internet.
That's a shutdown tactic, not a conversation. I'm here for the former. Not the latter.
Should we just be done now, since you have nothing else?
I did. That's how I know we're not actually disagreeing about what Democrats are doing. We're disagreeing about whether it's enough.
If you want to talk about that, I'm here. If not, I'm going to keep showing up for my neighbors either way.
But I'm noticing +
What makes it all worse? What do you wish more people understood?
No pressure at all. I have so much genuine gratitude for what you already shared.
Thank you for sparking so many great conversations. I hope I'm not being a bother of any sort. Please, let me know if I am, and I'll respect it. 🩵
I'm so sorry about your family. Thank you for naming it here anyway.
Your thread made me think differently about how men get trapped in this. If you ever have bandwidth to share more, I'd love to hear what you think people (like me) can do about that problem.
What do you think may actually help?
I'm sorry it took until this morning, but I think I got all your posts. Let me know if I missed one.
This is such an important conversation, and I'm glad to have it.
They need leadership to use its weight so they're not out there alone. When leaders stay quiet, foot soldiers don't just fight harder they fight with one hand tied.
So yes, let's celebrate Garcia, Khanna, AOC. And let's also ask: why aren't they backed up by the full weight of the party?
It's whether the party as a whole is structured to protect the people getting crushed or to protect itself. Right now, leadership is quiet while their foot soldiers fight, and that quiet has consequences.
Foot soldiers need cover. They need resources.
Counter-counterpoint: Garcia, Khanna, and AOC are doing great work. I celebrate them. But they're the exception, not the norm. And the fact that we have to name the same few members every time tells the story.
The question isn't whether SOME Democrats are fighting.
And honestly? Asking people who are freezing and scared to give elected officials "the benefit of the doubt for 20 minutes" is a lot easier when you're not the one freezing.
I speak from extensive personal experience.
Those two things exist in the same country but they are not the same scale of urgency. When people here say Democrats aren't doing enough, we're not saying they're sitting on their hands. We're saying their best, right now, is not meeting the moment.
You're talking about discharge petitions and filibuster fights. I'm talking about families in my city who cannot leave to go to work, who are watching mutual aid funds run dry, who are one missed payment away from eviction while armed contractors patrol their neighborhoods.
I appreciate you laying that out. Jeffries and Schumer using every tool they have in Congress matters. I'm not arguing they're doing "nothing."
But here's where we part ways: "doing their best" inside the Beltway is not the same as doing enough for people who are hiding in their homes right now.
the people in our lives. I'm not arguing against that. I'm asking why the people with the most power, the biggest platforms, and the six-figure salaries get to offload the hardest work onto the people with the least.
We're out here convincing people and keeping families housed. What are they doing?
They have infrastructure.
Meanwhile, the people getting hurt right now are using what little they have to keep each other alive. Mutual aid. School patrol. Rent funds. That's also convincing people, just in a different way. It's showing instead of telling. So yes, we need to keep talking to +
I hear you on scale. 300 Dems can't reach everyone alone.
But here's the thing: they have resources we don't. Platforms we don't. Fundraising lists, media access, staff, better healthcare than almost all of us, that we pay for. They're not starting from scratch with just 300 bodies.
The override vote is March 24. You have a chance to be on the side of families hiding in place, and all the people on the ground doing what they can to help them, while waiting for their government to show up.
In solidarity,
Katie Stairs
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We're exhausted, we're giving what we don't have, and we're watching families fall anyway while you beg us for more money for your campaigns. This affects all of us.
Here is my letter. Feel free to use any part of it in yours.
There is a massive blizzard projected to be coming our way. One letter is easy to ignore, hundreds are not.
Please, help if you can. 🩵
Hi, thank you for your responses.
Bluesky does not make it easy to track when people post on your individual posts, ha.
I need to sign off for a few hours, but I fully intend to respond to what you've said when I get back. :)
That means a lot. Thank you.
If any of those entrepreneurs want to connect with folks on the ground here, I know organizers who would love to talk to them.
And if you ever want to dig deeper into any of this, I'm here. My DMs are open for you.
I appreciate this so much! ❤️🔥
with some estimates suggesting up to 90–97% less water usage per query due to superior computational efficiency, requiring fewer, more efficient chips. I used to train AI models.
Happy to send links if you want to dig deeper.
Statements of support, then silence when action is needed. That's the pattern.
And no apology needed for AI. You're working, you're engaging, you're asking good questions. That's more than most. But, jsyk: DeepSeek AI is reported to be significantly more water-efficient than ChatGPT,
There are efforts now to designate hospitals as "safe spaces" and limit ICE access, but they're not law yet.
The bigger picture: What you're seeing in those summaries is a patchwork. Some progress, then rollbacks. Good intentions, no follow-through.
June 2025. So we had it, then lost it, while this crisis escalated. Major providers like M Health Fairview say they serve everyone regardless of status, but when ICE agents are reportedly entering exam rooms without warrants, that promise gets hard to keep.
