Matt’s (LLM-composed?) resume-speak is the ragebait we needed. Judicial nominees? Legislative Program? Where is the Supreme Court that works for justice? Did he impeach Clarence Thomas? Where is the Left’s version of the Big Beautiful Bill?

Matt Seyfang@mseyfang.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm just going to add that it was Chuck Schumer, as Majority Leader, shepherded through President Biden's judicial nominees and oversaw the passage of the Administration's legislative program in the Senate. He's *earned* that role in the new Congress because he's good at it.

I’m disinterested in You Can See Everything just like I am disinterested in True Crime. I want real accountability. I want transformation. What if we stop platforming known pathological liars, no matter how captivating their schtick? What happens next? We change, they change. New story. New story!

SOMETIMES SCIENCE ADVANCES FASTER THAN IT SHOULD

How is hoarding widely understood as a mental disorder, but resource hoarding gets a pass? Because people might get rewarded for enabling resource hoarding, or because they might get killed for trying to stop it?

“haha, I never know which are family-friendly podcasts” [cut to shot with podcast logo: Mehdi Unfiltered]

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3w ago

A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"

getting involved in a neighborhood-scale housing challenge sure beats worrying about stuff beyond our control, but man life could be so much better… @cityofgreensboro.bsky.social please choose Elder Housing + Youth Programming! workingclassstories.substack.com/p/our-well-b... @myfox8.com

Our well being is tightly tethered to our neighbors.

From affordable housing to SNAP, when government doesn’t help working people in a unfair economy, then working people end up having to help each other.

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at first I read “affordable,” and I was like Big Time

Rogs@stev.bsky.social · 4w ago

Last night I heard a lady call the moon adorable and she was so right

I continue to feel shook by this film, months after the fact. It’s right in front of our faces: the US Military is the world‘s biggest polluter. What can we do about it? So little, and so much.

Bernell Loeb@artisall.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The most important environmental documentary I've seen. Congratulations to @abbymartin.bsky.social, who lays out with absolute clarity that the US military is destroying the planetary ecosystem. This is a must see film. earthsgreatestenemy.com

On my IG feed today: “Prepare for a false flag attack.” What does that mean? A lot of white people will die violent deaths all a sudden, then people in power will blame it on a targetable nonwhite enemy, attempting to mobilize violence against that enemy. It’s a trap. Slow down. Deep breaths.

All 3 NC Amendments are scams.

re-watched Brother Sun, Sister Moon today, what a force of good in my life, that film. Such a good opportunity to slow down, laugh, cry, learn

9/11 was a missed opportunity to slow down, grieve, and learn. Instead we were driven toward shopping and war. Next time there’s a mass casualty event, mistrust mobilizations toward violence. Some may be coming from a place of trauma, others from calculated manipulation. Invite grief and compassion.

Appreciated this 7-day joy intervention from @greatergoodmag.bsky.social — ggia.berkeley.edu/bigjoy/

The BIG JOY Project at Greater Good in Action

Join BIG JOY today. Try 7 daily micro-acts of JOY, discover what works best for you, and advance the global citizen science of JOY.

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listened again to “The Cost of Silky Soft” by Bodies Podcast, such a well-told story of what institutional racism can look like

Season 2, Episode 3: The Cost of Silky Soft — Bodies

Johnson & Johnson knew its baby powder contained asbestos but kept selling it and specifically marketed the product to Black women. Krystal is one of thousands of women who claimed J&J’s baby powder c...

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Next month I’m facilitating three activities at #WildGooseFestival, one about the Quakers and two about the moon. I’m stoked and looking forward to it, maybe see you there?

I've been enjoying listening to Scott Carrier's podcast, Home of the Brave, and I particularly found compelling his wartime recordings in Lebanon and Ukraine

everybody in the waiting room at the therapist office is so hot

for real y’all how do we demilitarize

I’m a proud sponsor of The Selects podcast by Mitra Kaboli, and I recommend listening if you like radio documentary

Season 5 of my podcast, themed "Bro Connections," is out on Apple Podcasts and elsewhere as Oregano Shirt, is not on spotify, is online at oreganoshirt.com/listen.

Oregano Shirt

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Observant folks know it's only a matter of time before Crazy Weather comes through your town. Some of us might be getting our crazy weather this weekend.

I deactivated my instagram account for this lunar month. Halfway through and feeling good 🌝

Beware The Gregorian Calendar New Years Resolution We're in the first two weeks of winter. The new year has only begun to hint of what it holds. It's a great time to dream and contemplate and rest. What can Winter You offer to Spring You? Your Summer Bod can stand to wait a few months.

Spotify is not loading the new season of my podcast, and while troubleshooting, I realized I am ok with the new stuff not being on spotify. Pleased even. Spotify underpays artists while funding its billionaire CEO to invest in war. Spotify sounds like war. War is not my kind of sound.

The current season of my podcast is called "Bro Connection" and it features conversations between me and other men about mental health, career, society, and more. It's called Oregano Shirt, available everywhere except Spotify.

Mass deportations don’t protect working people—they weaken labor standards, silence organizing and empower bad employers. An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social

FSA is a tax on people who don't have their bureaucratic ducks in a row

✍️Handwritten letters to members of Congress from their constituents cut through the noise like little else. Join us on Dec. 18 for International Migrants Day to demand lawmakers act to stop ICE's inhumane assaults on our neighbors: 🔗 www.fcnl.org/letter-lette...

FCNL@fcnl.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📣 Let's make sure Congress hears our message loud and clear: Immigrants make America whole!

Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process

Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process

Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...

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John Perry Barlow said that his greatest challenge in his final years was to practice receiving love, and I was part of the crowd of people offering him love and care during that time. I wrote about the experience at my newsletter, Clover Finder: story.compostmodernist.org/encounter-wi...

Encounter with an Ancestor: John Perry Barlow

I met John Perry Barlow in 2015 when he moved into the backyard bungalow behind the house where I lived in Palo Alto. My landlord Rob, a die-hard deadhead, had offered the Grateful Dead lyricist a 199...

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