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Reasons not to despair. Post 5. Ill-timed farts still make you laugh.

Reasons not to despair. Post 4. Any emotion other than fear is resistance.

About 1/5 of the crowd in Ypsilanti, MI.

Reasons not to despair. Post 3. Our collective story isn’t done.

Reasons to not despair. Post 2. We don’t know yet what will emerge out of this decay.

Reasons to not despair. Post 1. Our imaginations aren’t done.

@bendthearc.bsky.social Sometimes the courts work. Reason to celebrate. www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/u...

Judge in Harvard case accuses Trump admin. of using antisemitism as a smokescreen | CNN

A federal judge ruled in favor of Harvard University in a landmark victory against the Trump administration. The ruling restores more than $2 billion in federal funding for research frozen by the Whit...

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July 4, 2025: The Desecration of the Declaration of Independence and a Call for Renewal

If America is to remain what the Revolution envisioned in 1776, a nation governed by laws, then we the people must speak out, we must act and defend that vision.

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I've looked up lots of news sites, and I'm sure this isn't comprehensive but I count 65 different cities in MI that held No Kings protests. Many in red hot areas. Have I missed any? Please let me know.

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There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.

The visitors were most taken with the wreck of the submarine, and the records they found still preserved there. The submarine was so vast it had at one time held all of humanity, it seemed, submerged there upon the ocean floor. www.the-reframe.com/the-everythi...

The Everything & The Submarine

Fighting our present fascist nightmare by leaving the submerged life, and pondering the idle and foolish question of what the meaning of life is, anyway.

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“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” Steve Biko

“You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it." (2:21) Pirkei Avot (Ethics of Our Fathers). Organize.

"When the grace of love is revealed, be a mirror to reflect it." - Rumi

Super special experience this weekend - I saw the threatened Kirkland Snake in the wild. This isn't my picture though. I took a video, but my finger covered the camera. Oh well. Doesn't matter I got a really good look and am positive that's what I saw. Folks at the ranger station were jazzed.

Insomnia thought: hope is acknowledging what you want, it sparks one's imagination celebrating life and change. Expectation is anticipating people and circumstances will bend to your unspoken will. While one can't live without expectations, the world craves imagination these days. Cultivate hope.

I know the below isn’t Yiddish, nu? Old: May the heartburn after your every meal be strong enough to heat the Tsar’s Palace. Modern: May your security protocols grow as complex as an M.C. Asher drawing.

I know the below isn’t Yiddish, nu? Old: May a skunk open a shop in your nose and prosper. Modern: May every time you and yours break the Golden Rule, you and yours flatulate and sneeze simultaneously, while on a live feed.

I know the below isn’t Yiddish, nu? Old: May they find thousands of new cures for you each year. Modern: May every tear from every child you’ve separated from their families enter your bladder and scorch you each time you pee. Ideally, this would happen while you’re prepping for a colonoscopy.

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