That feeling of having a chronic health issue alleviated with prescription meds because you remembered to bring it up during your one annual doctor's appointment that your health insurance completely covers.

If someone wants to gift me a copy of Ammon Hennacy's "The Book of Ammon" or "An Autobiography of a Christian Anarchist" I would be forever grateful. Can't figure out why these books would be out of print. 😑

John Brown meets John Woolman

Poster I made for the Great Midwest Crane Fest!

My partner's cat died earlier this week, which means that my two cats are now the only cats. Tonight is the first night over 5 years where I'm sleeping with the bedroom door open and I'm wondering if either of the cats will notice they can leave the room while I'm sleeping.

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

Western Nebraska. Why? Because it is so deliciously devoid of anything.

"What charity must perform is the miracle of getting men to love poverty, of inspiring poverty in spirit. That is the only way it can replant Paradise in this dried up earth." Pie-Raymond Régamey goes hard at the end of Chapter 1 of his book on poverty.

Better Off Ted! The Veridian Dynamic commercials were some of the best corporate satire ever created.

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

Of the many writers to predict AI, only Douglas Adams got the tone right

Last year, we spoke with Rania Maayeh, the head of Ramallah Friends School in Palestine, and Omar Tesdell, the clerk of its board of trustees. Earlier this week, Israeli military forces conducted a raid on the city of Ramallah, extremely close to the school's campus.

The BPP held an entire anti-fascist conference in Oakland in the late 60s. People are over half a century behind on the realities of what they were saying about fascism in the USA, but it also speaks to how severely their politics were suppressed.

Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.

The Scient*l*gists keep sending me letters addressed to my parents' house asking if I read a book I bought from them 20+ years ago when I was a teenager (before it was common knowledge that they were a psycho cult). If you want an example of how they're still a psycho cult.

ICE officer playing Wolfenstein on his steam deck and shaking his head the whole time so his coworkers know he disagrees with it

We don't tax the rich so we don't have funding for critical public infrastructure so we have to rely on the rich to for critical services which makes the rich richer while public services degrade which increases our reliance on the rich so we don't tax the rich and don't have funding for critical pu

My work is going through a re-org with pay grades and today I learned that my grade and the one above me are now merged, and the relief I felt in knowing I can't rise above my current pay grade for a few more years has made this down-in-the-dumps week a lot better.

On this day in 1971, Black revolutionary George Jackson was assassinated in San Quentin Prison. He was a sharp critic of racial capitalism, prisons and the ruling class. He managed to smuggle out the manuscript of BLOOD IN MY EYE only days before he was murdered by prison guards. He was 29 yrs old.

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

My coworker and I called each other 26 times today if you want to know how this project is going.

Picked one of my Leavenworth eryngo after it turned purple, and it is a delightful native plant here in Kansas. I'm going to attempt to press it and hope the rest of them self-seed and come back next year. #BloomScrolling #BloomScroll

Resisting a new age of AI weapons will require all of us, writes William Hartung: Scientists to regulate their creations, students to demilitarize their universities, environmentalists to scorn the damage of data centers, and labor leaders to decry AI job loss.

It's 10:30 PM on August 9th and my neighbors are setting off fireworks for some reason.

When we talk about federal-local cooperation, this is what we mean. This is what ideal cooperation looks like.

On Hiroshima Day, let us draw strength from the tireless campaigning of the last Japanese survivors. Tadayoshi Ogawa: 'We live on something akin to a spaceship...we can fight over borders, over resources, and the spaceship and the life on it will suffer.' www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

I feel bad for any law student taking constitutional law rn

I thought this was going to go in a different direction, which is what makes these pamphlets delightful. @pendlehillusa.bsky.social Pamphlet #90, published in 1956. Young writes about poverty and the difference between poverty and simplicity. Of course, John Woolman is quoted.

the position of the roberts court is both that racism isn’t real and that the constitution mandates a colorblindness so strict that it neither recognizes nor can act on social inequalities. incidentally, this is essentially the court’s holding in plessy v. ferguson.

As we mark the 80th anniversary of the bombing of #Hiroshima on Aug. 6 -- and 3 days later, #Nagasaki -- more Americans say that the development of nuclear weapons has made our country less safe. @fcnl.bsky.social www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Americans don't know or understand the extent to which public money is now being funneled into private companies.

Great story in Hidden City Philadelphia about Quaker aid to government-displaced Japanese Americans during WW2. A coalition of peace activists, Quakers, and religious progressives opened a hostel in West Philly and organized college admissions to area schools.

Our common humanity demands action to stop the suffering in Gaza. One small but meaningful way to help is to take part in the #LettersForGaza campaign. Join thousands of people across the country and write a letter to your members of Congress today: buff.ly/u6E0V29

Google says my phone needs a new battery and recommends a service location. I ask them *on the phone* if they have a battery available for my appoitment date. They say yes. Fast forward a week, they call me 2 hours before my appointment to tell me they don't have a battery available.

Maybe this will be a good place to document my @pendlehillusa.bsky.social Pamphlet readings. This is #149 published in 1966. It's about intentional communities, specifically Ephrata, the Amish, the Doukhobors, the Shakers, the Bruderhof and Monteverde.

Conservatives who claimed Obama was using FEMA to build concentration camps really quiet now that it’s real

If you look at the Epstein story through the lens of his victims and their life stories you get a story about every powerful institution in public life failing on any measure of accountability but repeatedly being outmatched by the courage of teenagers, sex workers, and runaways

Amongst my black eyed susans were some false sunflowers that I have no idea where they came from. Besides the ground, obviously. #BloomScrolling

That said, I want to offer an important caveat that all of you probably already know: an EO is not a law, even if many authorities are currently treating them as such. So we shouldn't just accept whatever is asserted in them.

I have so many friends to whom I would send a poem postcard. Someone I wish I could send a poem postcard to is my grandmother who started my love of correspondence. Maybe I'll send one to her old house regardless?

Get your copy of *Fearless Benjamin: The Quaker Dwarf who Fought Slavery*, a children’s book I co-wrote with Michelle Markel, gorgeously illustrated by Sarah Bachman, coming Oct. 14, 2025 from @PMPress. Get signed copies of my other books on Benjamin Lay too! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3...

Every pew was full today at my Quaker Meeting for Worship. I've been attending for almost two years and this is the first time this has happened.

While I appreciate CVS allowing me to get free vaccines, their website is atrocious when it comes to giving me follow-up information on them or keeping track of the ones I've gotten. Is this vaccine a series? Who knows! It's a pharmacy secret.

Got my COVID booster and first shot for HPV today. Pharmacist noticed I've been getting a lot of vaccines lately and asked me about it. "I have concerns," I told him. He said he shared my concerns.

"Doing what they have to to win elections" never seems to include "treat Palestinians as human beings."

I love it when people tell me they got the mail I sent them. I used to not, but now that the USPS is essentially a whirling cyclone of mail and mystery, I appreciate knowing that it worked.

Suddenly remembered that I'm of that generation who were kicked off their parents' health insurance when we turned 18 and most of us went without insurance until we got a job after graduating college. Me and many friends had big financial setbacks because of this.

This was our most popular episode of the year. It's so full of practical wisdom for this moment that we think it's worth a second listen! Listen to the full episode: quakerpodcast.com/39-ways-nonv...

Was on a tourist train yesterday and a lady behind me exclaimed to her seat partner that she used chatgpt to choose her seat. Later, she said that chatgpt said that their seats had no one in front of them - they were in the third row. We were sitting directly in front of them.

backing any candidate who says "I will defund ICE on day one and prosecute the entire agency" if you're gonna dream, dream big