Reading Rebecca Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell was enlightening for learning that most folks don't go Mad Max when disaster strikes. But the cops and the political leaders sure do.
Last day to request a free letter kit! 📨📨📨 As of now, there are still 73 full kits (envelopes, letters, stamps) and 112 postage-only kits (just the stamps) to send out.
📩 GOTV postcards and letters doc news: as we go into the last 50 days, I'm no longer updating this, but it'll stay up as a resource — many orgs are still taking signups for at least the next few weeks! OF NOTE: Vote Forward has *691* free-to-you kits right now and the request deadline is 10/1. :o
🐌 📩 🐌 📩 🐌 Snail Mail the Vote 🐌 📩 🐌 📩 🐌 "Don't just post… post" Hi! This is a partial list of orgs that support volunteer outreach via postcards or letters to potentially important voters in the 202...
Right! It's not news! At all! This has always been his jam - grift all day. "Oh but he's here to help ME. He's just taking from THOSE guys so I can get what's mine." Friend, you are in for a reckoning.
I am absolutely boggled by how many people don't get it.
Trump will ban abortion. Because in the criminal racket he runs, the best way to move forward is to control people. Making people potential criminals is great leverage. If everyone is a criminal, then everyone is beholden to you. And the people you don't like or need go to for profit prisons.
New Jersey Star-Ledger editorial board warning that Trump could ban abortion nationwide without Congress, either via the Comstock Act or a ruling from his Supreme Court appointees www.nj.com/opinion/2024...
All it would take is for Trump to see some political advantage in this.
I find it striking how in the aftermath of Helene, libraries are providing crucial community services like free wifi while cops are guarding stores with rotting food from potential "looters" instead of serving and protecting people. Worth considering how we spend local funding.
What are they using to stick them on, I wonder. I wanted to do this to one of my trees last Halloween (cool dragon eyes) but couldn't get them to stay on.
A really lovely, happy/sad story of friendship (gift link)
In 1974, a group of friends met the unthinkable with a lavish celebration. The real story behind a photo that captured the moment remained a mystery until now.