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drmcklein.bsky.social
Educator and artist developing personal and collective agency for structural and cultural change
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How will you spend Boycott Day, 2/28? Go to the library? Visit a State Park? Share a meal with neighbors? Protest oligarchs and billionaires? Take a walk to a public park? Provide mutual aid in your community? Spend at a local small businesses? Call your elected representatives? Plan(t) a garden?

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They want us to think we’re alone. We are not. The Resistance is Everywhere. Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.

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Lots of folks are asking what they can do to be helpful in this moment. I like the short list of action items that @choosedemocracy.bsky.social lists on their site. Democratic civil society is about being stronger together. Any effective strategy flows from that. choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

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Voting happens every day with your dollar. Plan ahead to buy essentials. Redirect support to small, local businesses. Use cash to avoid small business credit card fees. Align purchasing power with your values. Send a message on 2/28: The power of acting together is greater than the people in power.

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Analysis of 3 competing factions and their less-than-strategic actions: MAGA, Project 2025, and the “broligarchy”

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Join this online conversation between me and my colleagues @stevelevitsky.bsky.social, @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social, and Marshall Ganz about organizing and mobilization during democratic backsliding. Next Thurs, Feb 20, 4-5pm ET. ash.harvard.edu/events/organ...

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Paul & I just sent out a dispatch about how the right is using its own version of mass training to build breadth + depth for the MAGA movement. We need to do it better to fight back. Read more & sign up for a free subscription to the newsletter at: whirlwinddispatches.substack.com/p/more-thoug...

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"As always, art isn’t the only thing we need. As always, we do need art. Writing can help frame issues, shift narratives, and just bring people together. It won’t just happen inevitably, though; let these prompts be invitations for us all to be proactive and intentional." guante.info/2025/02/10/p...

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Here’s your 2025 scorecard, courtesy of Umberto Eco, philosopher/novelist who lived through Italian fascism

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Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

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To replaced by the Department of Indoctrination, Ignorance and Obedience?

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“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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Hi 💙 Friends — Help boost these new blue peeps under 5k! 🤘🏼 #NoDemUnder5k 🦋 #StrongerTogether ♻️ @onefish.bsky.social @sloopydeb.bsky.social @shepersistedera.bsky.social @machtnichts.bsky.social @jackie445.bsky.social @mnjamesj.bsky.social @deegirl.bsky.social @chipapa0.bsky.social

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small white dog emerges from a warm plaid blanket to bravely face the cruel reality of a meteorological and political winter

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“Bdote Forest Eye” witness to the sacred, the settler-colonial, the call to repair. A step on my journey, coming to terms with an ancestor’s participation in the genocide of Dakota people and the responsibility of redress in relationship and solidarity #art

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"Witness" 2022, carved long gun stocks #art #sculpture #gunviolence

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If I were a sculptor, But then again…yes “Grounded on Submerged History” 2022

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“Land Acknowledgment” 2023 - fir, maple, cedar, cumaru, stones, sinew A critical approach to this practice #art #sculpture

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First post Seeking hope

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