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Permaculture, food security, snark, Canadian pride, and a dash of content strategy. If you’re looking for hope, try a garden. 🪴
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Yes! Gum up the works, stand in the way, “forget” the password, and just say no. Especially if you (currently) have the privilege to do so as a citizen who (as of yet) can’t be disappeared.

Black Women >>>>>>>

An advance look at Barry Blitt’s “Left to Their Own Devices,” the cover for next week’s issue. #NewYorkerCovers

It is vital that every action is documented and published. And that people read these stories. And record and reflect on these daily events. Don't look away. History is happening.

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Everyone should make a pilgrimage to nmaahc.si.edu while they still can... The realest American history, told so powerfully. Allow at least a full day. (You need a timed-entry pass, but it's free.)

Are you that discontented DOGE staffer? It might be time. You can reach out to me on Signal at joshtpm.99 (I'm not like Mike Waltz; I know how to use it.) You can also get me at joshtpm at protonmail dot com. Are you a federal worker with information I need to hear? I want to hear from you too.

The first #teslatakedown Global Day of Action event starts in just 2.5 hours, because New Zealand lives in THE FUTURE! And in just over 27 hours, Honolulu will close out the day. It's gonna be an incredible March 29, folks! #LFG

The World Cup in 2026 should definitely be taken away from the US. ⚽️🏆 America is clearly not safe to travel to. 🇺🇸 ❌ Note that it was a joint US-Canada-Mexico bid that won… so Canada and Mexico have serious leverage here. 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 v 🇺🇸 Failing that - mass boycott will cost the US more than it earns.

I visit often.

An update that’s actually useful!

As the U.S. revokes hundreds of visas to suppress activism, Kaveh Akbar writes beautifully and the pervasive fear--and the need to protect the rights of the most vulnerable. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog

BREAKING: On the Daily Beans podcast this week, our #GoodTrouble segment was to call Josh Kaul and ask him to DO SOMETHING about Elon buying votes in Wisconsin. Well, guess what #Leguminati ? www.wkow.com/news/state/w...

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Sigh.

TMC! WTF? If that’s how you feel, get out of Canada. Frickin’ fascism profiteers.

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

Visiting DC and all the amazing museums there was on my bucket list. Museums belong to all of humanity. I’ve been working very hard not to cry when reading the news every day, channelling my feelings into actions I can control. But this brought me to tears. www.bbc.com/news/article...

OMG how have I never seen this? Ah, les érections…

I think a big part of the strategy for those of us who are white and citizens is to get in the way and get loud. Local governments try to pass harmful policies? Get in the way. Local schools try to get rid of DEI staff? Get loud. And when ICE tries to abduct someone? GET IN THE WAY AND GET LOUD.

Going to share this absolutely CRUCIAL resource for people who want to create local ICE Watch Rapid Resource Teams. Head over to defendandrecruit.org, where you’ll find resources put together by Siembra NC. This includes an entire playbook on how to defend your community.

"In accordance with the New York State Shield Law, I have refused this filing and will refuse any similar filings that may come to our office..." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h... clerk.ulstercountyny.gov/news/countyc...

They made Quebec support the idea of Canada u guys fucked up so bad

What I do not think the Washington understands is that it’s not Trump in himself that’s discrediting us to the allies. Every now and then in a democracy, the people elect a turd. It’s that the Constitution gives them a Mad King Removal button and they are too cowardly and cynical to press it.

He tells it like it is.

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WIRED is interested in what jobs are being cut at HHS. If you're one of the 10,000 HHS staffers affected by the layoffs, feel free to reach out. You can find me on Signal at emullin.06 or email me at [email protected].

My aunt just got a *hilariously* passive-aggressive email from her congressional rep in a red state regarding my aunt’s many, many, many angry messages. Keep on tormenting these freaks.

Reminder: You can just…do stuff. You don’t have to wait for your boss to tell you to. You don’t have to wait to be told you’re good enough. As long as you’re not hurting anybody, and especially if doing it would help somebody… you can just do it.

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

A Somerville, MA resident sends along this image of all the people who turned out for an emergency rally today for Romeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University PhD international student who was essentially abducted by ICE yesterday. Thousands came "on six hours' notice."

Keep the Congressional switchboard number handy these days: (202) 224-3121

referring to pete hegseth as whiskeyleaks is one of the funniest things i’ve seen in a while. good job, guys.

I'm going to go ahead and put this ideological flag down: we need to bring the US reading level up. We absolutely need a way to make sure that kids are graduating at, ideally, a 12th grade reading level, but definitely above third, and we need to get adults to read more too

The whole world now feels this way toward us, TBH.

On the always wonderful @indivisible.org weekly call - we learned an Indivisible chapter just started in Ottawa! #ElbowsUp

Sculpture by contemporary US artist Alicia Eggert #WomensArt

This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

God bless Canada!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thousands call for the release of Rumeysa Ozturk in Somerville, MA. The Tufts grad student was abducted by ICE last night after publishing an article that was critical of Israel.

Brilliant! The best way to beat fascists is through mockery: www.threads.net/@grapeylyle/...

“I feel confident being in the front. I don’t want my children or grandchildren on the front lines of this fight, but it will likely come to that. We have reached a tipping point & that is why there is such raw emotion ... They know what they have to do and so do I. Don’t look away or disengage.”

“I hope you’re sitting down. For that six month period (April-Sept), the number of airline tickets booked between Canada and the United States is down anywhere from 71.4% to 75.7%.” onemileatatime.com/news/airline...

UK contemporary sculptor known as Anna & the Willow creates nature-inspired sculptures made from rods of willow #womensart

Time to block or mute all the "there won't be any consequences" despairing posters in your timeline. There's *zero benefit* to posting that shit and there's *zero benefit* to reading it.