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laurentgc.bsky.social
IA, UX, Content; FIRE retired. Pissed-off optimist & open to chat about solving cool problems.
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If you're looking for some great databases of the ongoing resistance (as well as some other useful resources) here's a thread of where to start. 1. Check out Choose Democracy's website with incredible guides on action you can take: choosedemocracy.us

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 8 days ago • 1985 comments

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

submitted 13 days ago • 535 comments

Repeating: If there is data you use, archive it. Especially that proves inequity or studies marginalized communities. Census data. ArcGIS plug ins. Programs that connect different datasets. We are ging to have to bootstrap everything again, if we are lucky enough to rebuild.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

A 1 to white women. A 9 for fragile white men.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 15 days ago • 522 comments

Elon Musk is trying to shut down the CFPB, the agency that has forced big banks and corporations to return more than $21 BILLION to families they cheated.

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submitted 18 days ago • 175 comments

Here is a script you can use for any issue. Find your reps' # at reps.fyi or 5calls.org. Every time you see a news story that horrifies you: call, or something else about it. It matters to say what you believe. You are setting a norm.

submitted 20 days ago • 314 comments

These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.

submitted 25 days ago • 2228 comments

Ezra Klein: "That is the tension at the heart of Trump’s whole strategy: Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him."

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

I'm just going to (re)post this whenever I need to remind myself. Maybe it'll help you too? 1. Focus on things in your control & take ONE action there. 2. Limit your inputs. You can't help if you're paralyzed.

submitted 31 days ago • 25 comments

everything about this new Meta AI bot is so dystopian but for me the AI-generated images of nonexistent donated coats is up there

submitted 56 days ago • 305 comments

I gave; it's your turn to support medical access.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Annual reminder: Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders. Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.

submitted 76 days ago • 415 comments

“ICE cannot enter your home unless they have a warrant signed by a judge … Most of the time ICE agents will only have warrants signed by ICE officers, and those warrants do not give them permission to enter your home.” maketheroadny.org/deportation-...

submitted 79 days ago • 10 comments

Hi, I’m Lauren! I love: * The fantastic marathon that is parenting, * Little joys, like books and sudoku and cheese, * Big questions in niche topics about the human experience, * Noticing the good and the mundane, and * Repairing the world where I can. #promosky

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

If you're stocking up on Plan B, don't forget to send some to the Yellowhammer Fund: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment