Lashing out at strangers may feel cathartic but it isn't organizing.
If you try to meet the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalized, things improve for everyone. And that ought to be the starting point for all of our work in communities.
Things I learned this morning: -The bridge is woke. -The ship that crashed into the bridge is woke. -It was a Russian or Chinese cyber attack. -But it was also a false flag. -Yesterday's legal experts are now structural engineers. -It will take between one day and ten years to build a new bridge.
I'll never forget the time our cat killed a bunny in the yard and my daughter, 5 watched stone faced while I buried him. "That will stop him from eating the cilantro," she said. It was the first moment I worried she might grow up to be a prosecutor
It’s the little ways people have changed that you can notice the most the slurred words and forgetfulness the unending colds and malaise and the constant illness nothing so dramatic as the end of the world but an accumulation of signs that the world as you knew it has ended.
Finally, this extends to the endless social media and IRL insistence that you are "going to hold people accountable." Nope, you can punish people but you cannot "hold them accountable." That's because people have to CHOOSE TO TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY and we know that we don't have a culture for this.
You can present ALL of the *facts* and make a great case and people will still do what THEY want to do with those facts and with that case. You're not in control of their actions.