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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

We’ve had this book from the library all month and I have to say it’s my favorite Seuss ever.

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

Posting this from months ago because we DO have homegrown experience with autocratic regimes in this country. In nearly half this country during the first 6 decades of the 20th century Black people lived under systems of cruelty, voter suppression, hate, state violence & corruption. Ask them!

Relevant History: The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 established the first comprehensive merit-based civil service system in the US. It was intended to do away with "The Spoils System" whereby unqualified people got govt jobs for their political loyalty, a bad system we've returned to.

In my downtime I’ve been doing a huge Terry Pratchett re-listen since November. I finally repeated all my favorites and decided to branch out into the Tiffany Aching series and I 🎵 LOOOOOOVE IIIIIIITTTT 🎶

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

To Use Their Language Is to Endorse Their Lies Rebecca Solnit https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/to-use-their-language-is-to-endorse-their-lies/

🔥 AMAZING. Today, the Baltic states disconnected their power grids from that of Russia. It’s taken years of prep. What a moment.

Yiiiiikes…got 30 minutes to learn about how Silicon Valley wants to dissolve the US into a bunch of feudal cities? youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Sweet old lady !

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

DEEEEEEEER FIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!