Cat Wei

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Thank you @poetrydaily.bsky.social for featuring my strawberries poem 😌🍓❤️

“Democracy cannot be preserved by only discussing how to save it. It can only be secured by policies that guarantee a good life for all.” @isabellamweber.bsky.social for @thenation.com , on lessons from Germany, following a very similar trajectory to the US

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The effects of anti-Tesla action Activists find an effective target for their energy. Also, you're not too late to help.

Tesla stock is down 14% since close of markets last Friday. What happened during that time? One answer: mass protests.

I describe what it was like at one such protest. What I saw fulfills what I describe as neuroscience-based requirements for effective action. samwang.substack.com/p/the-effect...

Thank you @versedaily.bsky.social for featuring my poem “Ode to America” first published by @glasspoetry.bsky.social - I first wrote it in 2021 and sometimes wondered later if it was too angry. But it’s a diagnosis. Now we have to make things better by moving toward the real dream of a collective.

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Excited to read at KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry on 3/3! 7-9pm. New poems, wtf America poems, pleasure poems, et al.

A gray cat with green eyes looking pensively intellectual

If mouse was Hannah Arendt

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

This is so real and a hugely important critique 📌

Be brave, cultivate empathy, stay focused, be proactive, and foster real connections—tips to keep democracy alive / defeat authoritarianism in 2025 from @george-lakoff.com—an amazing read

One week from inauguration and we are living in the heart of the evil empire. The earth doesn’t need us. We will destroy ourselves or we will destroy this cruel empire. The earth continues either way

The most perfect toe beans (this might become a cat account)

Oh no another social media app to lurk on / tell me this is going to be better