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The Patriarchy's Secret Weakness | Why Withdrawal Works YouTube video by Therese

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"The Day the World Stops Shopping" by J.B. MacKinnon

White background with black letters that read: "Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community." ~ Bell Hooks

The Next Terrorist Attack And What Comes After (Updated)

Six months ago I wrote this post about “the next terrorist attack.” I republish it now (lightly updated) because my fear of this scenario has recently grown much greater.
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No Kings, Still No Direction A writer's refusal to be silent, sidelined, or small

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Children of the Holocaust buried their identities to survive | Aeon Essays Jewish children who were ‘hidden’ in Christian families during the Holocaust have much to teach us about memory and trauma

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Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day: A Reading List - JSTOR Daily With scholarship on Indigenous knowledge, environmental justice, resistance, and decolonization, this list honors Native sovereignty and self-determination.

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You’re Not Supposed to Remember the Book Every few months someone will admit that they read a lot but hardly remember any of it.

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Muir Woods exhibit is first casualty of White House directive to erase history "In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."

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We are losing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has helped educate, inform, and entertain millions of Americans.

Instead, we’re getting a vulgar new gold ballroom, which none of us will ever see.

PBS News is not going anywhere.

We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air.

We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

Quote from Cory Doctorows blog "Pluralistic" : "How frightening it must be to believe in a world without systemic explanations! It's a world where inexplicable spirits sweep across the land, engendering population-scale effects that are the result of millions of people making voluntary, individual decisions, disconnected from any kind of social phenomena. It must be terrifying, like living in a world secretly governed by demons or witches. It's the world of the conspiracy fantasist."

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Everything happening is a lot.
Take a breath. It’s not on you to fix all of it.
Find a corner of it you can work on.
Do a thing today that matters to you. Help someone you can help.
Don’t let anyone talk you out of trying.

REPORT: The Censorship Acceleration - An Analysis of Book Ban Trends After 2020 EveryLibrary Institute is a 501c3 organization that supports library funding in the United States.

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Guns are not permitted within 1000 feet of a planned parade or protest. So the same law would not protect someone that shoots anyone in the protest area.

Seeing that my adult and teen children still listen to Raffi on their work playlists makes me smile. To be fair, I still listen to Raffi as well.

Most resistance in the world is not about protests, but 'everyday resistance' James C. Scott discusses how political science only registers the tip of the iceberg of resistance in history.

wagingnonviolence.org/rs/2021/12/m... ” They overlook the fact that they prefer a form of resistance that is suitable to their own more liberal context, while it might be ineffective and even suicide for others, living in a repressive context."

A Quiet Subversion – Utne With the right frame of mind you can find peace anywhere, anytime.

www.utne.com/mind-and-bod... " Fenton Johnson put it nicely in a recent Harper’s essay when he wrote, “The call to solitude is universal. It requires no cloister walls and no administrative bureaucracy, only the commitment to sit down and still ourselves to our particular aloneness.” "

www.onelfs.org/new-americans/ might be because they have free immigration support and services.

If you want to read a new book coming out but don't want to buy it, a great thing you can do is ask your local library to order it. The more requests they get, the more likely they are to acquire it and then lots of people will get to read it who othewise wouldn't.

This advice is important now, and will be even more important in two weeks, when the next administration is going to flood the zone with horribleness, with the intent of overwhelming everyone into compliance. Pick your battles and keep your focus. Trust others are doing the same elsewhere.

"Vote with your wallet and take your business elsewhere. Elections are slow and politics are boring. But "vote with your wallet" turns retail therapy into a form of civics." pluralistic.net/2024/11/24/m...

"Voting with your wallet is casting a ballot in a rigged election that's always won by the people with the thickest wallets, and statistically, that's never you." -Cory Doctorow I just read this yesterday and have been digesting it ever since.

My son found a kitten at his place last night, so we have a new member of the family. Thank you cat distribution system!

"In the Garden of Beasts" Disturbing as Hell, Then and Now

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Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives. We are living through a time of un…

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"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." -Frank Wilhoit

Sitting here with a cup of tea and moving over to a new social, just saying hi.