Like Ryan Coogler said, “Every day I wake up, I get to contribute. That’s what I’m focused on.”
And “I try to protect my love for what I do, as best I can.”
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Like Ryan Coogler said, “Every day I wake up, I get to contribute. That’s what I’m focused on.”
And “I try to protect my love for what I do, as best I can.”
Working out regularly and getting back into organizing have been good for my spirit. Annoying but true, lol.
With discourse, “I think the great difficulty or danger,” as James Baldwin said, “is not to make the event an occasion for the exhibition of your virtuosity.”
Like June Jordan said, ”I'm more careful about my health, but I'm also more careful about my happiness… also I don't pull punches so much.”
”I just try to get things done and say things as clearly as possible, and be as useful and as productive as I can be, and also I try to stay healthy.”
Talking about himself, Edward Said noted it was important to not “fall into routine, repeating the same catch phrases.”
Like Quincy Jones said, “We need more songs, man. Fucking songs, not hooks.”
Recently, Angela Y. Davis said, “The courage comes from a collective sense of strength. As one person, we can do very little. But as hundreds and thousands and millions of people, we can change the world.”
“New York City already requires businesses to post signs notifying customers when they collect biometric data, but the proposed legislation would make it against the rules entirely.”
A new bill in Washington State would ban bosses from forcibly microchipping workers.
The bill specifically says that an employer may not request, require, or coerce any employee to have a microchip implanted for any reason.
The price of a gallon of gas is expected to steadily increase this week.
Keep in mind that these horror stories are not new. Police have done this before, for many years, and mostly when they are going after people of color. The police state has long been in the making, often with liberal/bipartisan 'reform" support.
I watched a movie and one of the funniest scenes was when a social justice nonprofit worker said they are sick of stories and their colleagues were appalled.
Great explainer on the problem of ebook pricing for libraries.
www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/02/qa-p...
Hate-reading reminds me of Toni Morrison's point: "Even though I had a lot of responsibilities, it's amazing how much time there is when you're unhappy."
Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”
GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn
Frame from campaign ad by Rep. Dan Goldman. His face full on center frame under which is the caption in all caps “ABOLISH ICE”
Public pressure means something. Primaries can change policies. In NY-10, Dan Goldman has been running ads for months.
Primaried from his left by @bradlander.bsky.social, Goldman’s ads have gone from “Agents should have to carry ID” in January, to big bold graphics this month that say “Abolish ICE.”
States have started proposing steep reductions in disability services to cope with Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Idaho is the first to suggest scrapping home care altogether — An action with a high human cost. My latest @19thnews.org.
Spain has denied the use of its military bases to U.S. forces involved in the joint U.S.-Israel war on Iran, including for refueling, objecting to unprovoked attacks that Spanish officials say are a violation of international law.
The New York attorney general's office has ordered NYU Langone to resume gender affirming care for trans youth due to violating New York Human Rights law.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...
Bypass here.
archive.ph/4NboB
Toni Morrison said, “I think—in fact, I know—l deserve all the recognition because I work hard to produce what I know is my best work.“ She said I know, and I love that.
All bots are cops.
“I had opposed the U.S. war against Vietnam mainly because I opposed the draining of finite U.S. resources into weaponry and war. It was Dr. King's principled—and isolated—condemnation of that war that lifted me out of my prior, and mistaken, narrow-mindedness. Dr. King's impassioned analysis—that it was evil and racist to punish, poison, pulverize, and decimate another people, an innocent people, an Asian people of”
“the Third World—infused a new moral level of energy into my political activity. Dr. King budged me from the limiting perspectives of those days; as he insisted upon the sanctity of values and people I could neither see nor touch; as he taught and preached about connections that hold among suffering men and women everywhere—inside this country and throughout the world—I could not help but love him. He pushed me to think and feel way beyond ‘myself.’”
As many focus on the legality, cost-benefit analysis, or Congressional approval of war, it’s helpful to remember June Jordan’s moral opposition to war and how her perspective was impacted by Martin Luther King, Jr.
A way I do self-care and activism is joining protests I encounter when running or bike riding.
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CNN @CNN A student at Columbia University in New York was detained after federal immigration agents allegedly used deception to gain entry into a campus residential building, according to university officials From cnn.com
ICE officers have lied again--this time to enter a school dorm and arrest a college student. ICE is a corrupt and violent agency that needs to be abolished. Students deserve to feel safe at their schools and college campuses.
I love new running shoes.
Protest sign that says “Hands off Iran!”
It’s freezing but we’re out here.
Banning books wasn’t enough for Trump. Now he’s coming for public libraries.
For decades, public libraries in communities all across the country – like our own beloved Brooklyn Public Library – have been providing passport application services.
I hope if I make it to 83, I can be like Harrison Ford. Still full of wonder and delight at being creatively challenged, grateful for the labor of others, and able to walk up steps and hold a heavy object.
I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.
I marched and drummed in a bunch of anti-war protests. And a lot of people and orgs who were part of them didn‘t wanna deal with how racist the wars were.