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Ally to Trans, gender-nonconforming, LGBTQ, immigrant, disabled, People of Color human beings. Rabbi, artist, collage artist, baker, lover of herons and turtles, and so much more!
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Seems like a good time to tap the sign once again: would strongly recommend supporting non-billionaire owned news media - especially the independent, local, worker-run and/or reader funded variety

Action 32 (Feb.26): Protest at Tesla - Join the Takedown

While Republicans are trying to gut Medicaid, Maxwell Frost is calling out the grifter in chief! 👏👏👏👏

Hero

Woo hoo! The wins keep coming. We aren't out of the woods, but we are on a road!

Reddish Egret and the endless pursuit of fish... #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #thelittlethings

Sharing a new feed worth following

Action 31 (Feb. 25): Make a Lot of Noise - Oppose the Republican Budget Resolution https://buff.ly/3Qzqpog

Singing followers/fellow choir nerds: My partner is a musician working on a really cool concept album with a tiny (like 30 second) “choir of angels” and we want lots of voices! If you have a decent way to record and can read music and/or follow a midi we’d love you to join the chorus! Interested??

It's working!

Action 30 (Feb. 24): Download and print "Red Cards" for immigrants. https://buff.ly/439TT3e

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

Modah Ani—Starting the Day with Thanks Each morning, we say Modah Ani, thanking God for the gift of a new day. Gratitude begins the moment we open our eyes. And has the power to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

Amen!

My sermon for this Shabbat: what follows from the crash? (Last week's sermon). Tender words about the Bibas family, the prime numbers of human dignity and a new way of being Jewish in the world: humanitarian Judaism. open.substack.com/pub/rabbiest...

Tesla Showroom, Warminster, PA today

They say no one is an island. Heronkind would disagree.

This is what's happening

Heroes

#HeronMindfulness 💙

“consider this: It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic” @govpritzker.illinois.gov quoted in yesterday’s @hcrichardson.bsky.social post: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Action 28 (Feb. 21): Time for more thank you notes - at least three - in the mail. #100actionsfor100days

Hagen Scott and the other DOJ attorneys who resigned rather than be a part of this level of corruption are American heroes! We need to follow their examples!

Action 26 (Feb. 19): Start Tracking Legislation You Care About #100actionsfor100days

ACTION: Center for American Progress Action is collecting stories: *Have you once benefited from Medicaid or SNAP /still do? *Are you impacted by DOGE decisions? * Were the funds for your Headstart facility frozen? *Has a grant you relied on been cut? Share your story here.

Action 27 (Feb 20): Visit and use your local library #100actionsfor100days

Action 27 (Feb 20): Visit and use your local library #100actionsfor100days

ACTION: Center for American Progress Action is collecting stories: *Have you once benefited from Medicaid or SNAP /still do? *Are you impacted by DOGE decisions? * Were the funds for your Headstart facility frozen? *Has a grant you relied on been cut? Share your story here.

Action 26 (Feb. 19): Start Tracking Legislation You Care About #100actionsfor100days

Hagen Scott and the other DOJ attorneys who resigned rather than be a part of this level of corruption are American heroes! We need to follow their examples!

US Constitution cont'd Article 1 Section 3: The Senate The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.

Action 25 (Feb. 18): Support the Lawyers Suing the Administration. #100actionsfor100days Read today's post and all other past actions: https://elysewechterman.substack.com/p/action-25-feb-18

Section 2: The House of Representatives The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.

This too!

This is where I started to lose it. I cried for about an hour. We all have our breaking points. It's ok. Things are really bad and if we didn't cry now and then, we wouldn't be the people we want to be. Dried my tears. Offered a prayer to the universe. And then got back on the horse.

No longer shopping at Target (and letting the CEO know why) was one of my actions (#17). Waking up to this news reinforces my belief that what we each do, individually, matters. We all matter!

Make this the number 1 streaming song in the US.