I made this! Heeeeeee. Plus: this is one of the coolest programs I’ve ever heard of: using improv to teach girls leadership skills!! YES ✨😍

✨✨ Happy September!! TL;DR> Hire me! ✨✨ www.linkedin.com/in/deannazandt

A little light reading! deannazandt.substack.com/p/between-pa...

#thisis50👩‍🎤💖

I am very much enjoying Texas politics for once. jimhightower.substack.com/p/here-we-go...

Such a great feeling: while I'm prepping one of @jimhightower.com's columns for posting, I have to call him and ask him to send me the source for his criticism of Greg Abbott taking corrupt campaign donations because there's so many out there, I can't tell which one he's referring to *this time.* 🫠

🦁Help me find a venue for my 50th birthday party this August!🦁

Years ago, I asked friends what they would do if they weren't professional activists. Cecile Richards commented that she's always wanted to have her own taco truck. THIS IS OUR MOMENT TO HONOR HER LEGACY @ppact.org

I just went to open the NYT Games app but accidentally open the MTA app which speaks volumes about the state of… *waves hands* things.

I talked to someone who didn't vote in 2024. I asked her why. She said she hates Trump policies, but thought Kamala "couldn't speak well." I asked her what she meant. She watched a YouTube video that was spliced to make Kamala look like an idiot. This voter fell for it and stayed home. The point?

Funny story: The first time I met @jimhightower.com in person after I started working for him in 2005, I told him (before I knew that he literally does not own a computer and never has) that I thought it was really cool that he was kind of one of the original podcasters.

God bless these angels

Hi, friend. How many doors did you knock in rural America? Which rural Democratic candidate did you support? How many phone calls did you make to rural folks? Most of my neighbors don’t even have a Dem to vote for. It’s why I work so hard in rural spaces. Sincerely, A corn fed Democrat

The Trump/Musk $1 billion USDA cuts will absolutely hurt families, schools, food banks, and local farmers across Arkansas. Just look at the numbers. The real question: Why hasn’t Gov. Sanders used her close personal relationship with President Trump to stand up for Arkansas farmers and families?

Does anyone else feel like the goal of the coup is a @nealstephenson.bsky.social “Snow Crash” style dystopia?

The ruling class wants us hopeless. Because hopeless people don’t fight back. At GROWW, we organize working-class people in small towns & rural areas to win real fights in western WI. Hope is a skill. We build it through action. That’s why I stood with Bernie Sanders yesterday in Altoona, WI

🚨 Brag alert, not even gonna try for faux-humble: This is one of the things I've been working furiously for the last two years! I was put in charge of transitioning a print publication with a robust, mostly Boomer, subscriber base to Substack. jimhightower.substack.com/p/milestone-...

There’s someone close by, in a neighbor’s house that shares our block’s backyards, who is laughing so hard that it’s infectious. The sound is ricocheting off all the backs of the buildings and I can’t help but wonder how many of us are awake and giggling together. 😆❤️

Ken. Buddy. This isn't a framework for action. I support you and dug what you've built and what you've said you wanted to do, truly. This... this ain't it, friend. Hit us everyday folk up, we're chomping at the bit for taking this party back.

Our focus is on sharing resources and providing support to our community, NEVER on how to appease those who benefit from our silence and fear. We’re not going anywhere and will continue to be here for you when you need us 🖤

Maybe he’s onto something… #mentalhealth #ssri #prozac #depression

One of the most helpful, solid, hyperbole-free, dismissive-free, comforting things I’ve consumed about the last few weeks. @fivefourpod.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6NoN...

"Experts on tyranny point out that people are ill equipped to handle fascism because they make it look inevitable, and we lose our ability to envision the alternative." reframingamerica.substack.com/p/restoring-...

@iwriteok.bsky.social I shouted out your Woody Guthrie episodes as my pick for our recs this week at @jimhightower.com's substack. We're pretty obsessed with him and these were just such a delight! ✊https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/a-weekend-note-from-us-what-were

Ok, ok, ok. We are all scared and angry. But the bullshit some people are saying about rural people is infuriatingly ignorant and makes our work SO MUCH HARDER. You think all rural people voted for Trump and now they’re “getting what they voted for”? STFU RIGHT TF NOW.

Axing USAID isn’t just hurting developing countries. It hurts our economy too, because USAID pays farmers, researchers, businesses, universities, and nonprofits nationwide to provide food assistance. #USAIDRural #FarmersFirst #AmericansFirst

USAID supports Missouri Ag producers. I hope you’ll share… #USAIDrural

USAID supports Ohio Ag producers – businesses, universities, nonprofits, and farmers. #USAIDRural

Elon's war on the Constitution directly hurts Texas farmers. Here in Texas, USAID has an ROI well above its cost, realized in our groceries, food supply chain, our tech and research sectors, our teachers who impart agricultural sciences to the next generation of Texans. I support Texas, not Elon.

USAID is more than just foreign spending-- it also supports farmers and rural industry here at home. Here's how just Texas benefits. #USAIDRural

The Democrats say that if Elon Musk doesn’t stop breaking the law and seizing control of large swaths of the federal government, they will propose a new law about it.

This is eight years old but there are still some items to send @schumer.senate.gov to help strengthen his spine www.amazon.com/wedding/shar...

I need a filter for podcasts where if I don’t like the hosts, I can pay a fee and make them sound like @michaelhobbes.bsky.social or @alicefraser.bsky.social

That time in 2014 that @msifry.bsky.social was experimenting with a new technology called "live" "streaming" at @freepress.bsky.social's NCMR, and ran into @craignewmark.bsky.social and me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRcx...

Ohhhhhhh, I got a bit ranty ahead of these #DNC elections. I am SO. Goddamned. Tired. deannazandt.substack.com/p/beware-bew...

Didja miss us?! @alicebradley.bsky.social #comingsoonish

I keep seeing people call Pete Hegseth a “DUI hire” and I lose laughing each and every time.

thx @apple

I sincerely thought this piece was satire

1/ For Cecile Richards. May your memory be for a revolution.

If I had a vote in the DNC Chair race, I’d go with @kenmartin.bsky.social for being the most entertained by my green room shtick at tonight’s DNC Rural Council forum. I have my priorities.

Happy new year. deannazandt.substack.com/p/what-is-it...

One of the best things I’ve read about personal storytelling in a long, long time. sawcomics.substack.com/p/are-we-mak...

I was five years old when the 1980 presidential race was happening. It’s the first electoral memory I have, and I remember thinking that Carter seemed honest and Reagan was a lying huckster. Pour one out for one of the last honest men in politics.

Big shoutout to the theater-kid person working at the Knowlton Tourist Welcome Center in NJ yesterday. When I and a few others walked in, they greeted us cheerfully with, “Welcome to New Jersey! Have you heard about the sinkhole?” 😂 @visitnj.bsky.social

The way trans lives and trans issues are discussed in current society is the ultimate example of talking about people like they're not in the room *while we're in the fucking room.*

I would like my college profs to know that their hard work to create an honors program in linguistics while I was there was not at all in vain: I am the best person I know at spelling out onomatopoeia.

“Whenever I feel like writing a manifesto, then I know it’s time to go to bed.” - shant