Did you hear the news about @chrismphl.bsky.social ? www.pym.org/new-philadel... #Quakers #Philly #soproud

Amazing artistic re-use cube-gallery.co.uk/artists/40-r...

Still an important reminder from a founder of Mennonite Mutual Aid #EverenceDev2019

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Ready-made community. And you can pick the one you like best. And your whole family will benefit. Yes, please. slate.com/life/2025/09... Thank you @gailcornwall.com for spelling it out.

Still a classic and the holidays are coming! youtu.be/LwWdLR_GiBk?...

"Always be kind" is a remarkable parenting lesson in wartime. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... Thank you @timothysnyder.bsky.social for the reminder.

The loss of international mail service doesn't mean things won't get delivered to the U.S. It just means that private companies will have to be paid to make the deliveries. Another loss of one of the great systems of international cooperation.

I feel like I made this mental switch a while ago. Cynical? Yes. Despairing? Not quite. Helpful? Not sure. But this article was clarifying for me. sojo.net/articles/opi... (you get two free articles without a subscription to Sojourners magazine)

We are NOT too old to go see live bands on Sunday night! So there!

I'm attending Represent PA's event, “Breakfast Briefing: Why PA Needs Independent Redistricting” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/representpa/...

It's been a long time since I went to my own yearly meeting in person. Since 2019 to be exact. And this is the first time I will go without my children. But being part of our larger community @quakerspym.bsky.social matters to me. I wrote about it back in 2019. robinmsf.blogspot.com/2019/07/in-p...

Lutterworth Press will be publishing this book about Mary Rabagliati, co-founder of @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social on 30 October - see below to pre-order now! www.lutterworth.com/product/joyf...

Crossing the Schuylkill, it's summer time edition

Happy 4th of July, Batman.

Pennsylvanians don’t like it when you take away their health care, food, hospitals or nursing homes! I may not be the only PA member leaving Congress 18 months from now. I voted NO again on the Trump Reverse Robin Hood bill - More details in my full statement: evans.house.gov/media/press-...

I am loving how our @repvalhoyle.bsky.social is speaking out this summer! She's right: trickle down cruelty is a good description of the economic policies that are being enacted. The immigration practices are already raining cruelly on the families of our neighbors.

Funny how I read this article right after Verizon customer service hung up on me twice. The first time was after two hours with the chat agent right before I got an appointment for onsite repair service. Second time, the hold music just cut off after 20 minutes. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I'm so glad someone clarified/debunked the "3.5% rule." Read on:

The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.

#NoKings in little ol’ Elkins Park today just outside Philly! We think about 300+ ppl.

Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) hosts WELCOME TO QUAKERISM, a 4-part online series on 3rd Thursdays at 7:30 pm on 6/19, 7/17, 8/21, 9/18. This fresh, engaging series invites Friends to explore the spiritual grounding, communal practices, and rich traditions of the Quaker way.

Learning and using effective bystander intervention training is one of the best ways of living your values I can think of. It's made a real difference to my life - it's part of the daily activism that keeps us safe in community together.

My friends, it's not just happening in a galaxy far, far away.

Safe and affordable housing is "really a baseline for anything else that you want to accomplish in your life." - me, last week resolvephilly.org/gih/power-ho...

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

In praise of adult hobbies. Mine are sketching with the colored pencils some friends gave me as a college graduation gift, reading fantasy-adventure novels, and small-scale gardening. What are yours? open.substack.com/pub/ayushith...? h/t to Will Bachman of Umbrex.com #notasidehustle

Leaning into the Quaker tradition of trying something different and seeing what works www.friendsjournal.org/risking-fait...

Sometimes silence is better than words www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Enjoying the Philadelphia Freedom Band and Flag Team concert @centercityphila.org #civicpride

I’ve released a report on 130 potential acts of corruption that benefit Elon Musk or his companies—one for every day he was a “Special Government Employee” in the Trump administration. These examples fit the Trump agenda: billionaires win, families lose.

The agency that runs the New Jersey Turnpike is replacing the more than 60 superchargers for Tesla vehicles along the highway after the state did not renew its contract with the electric-car maker.

Tl;dr: it would be easier to colonize Venus than Mars. [not a scientific recommendation from me, but a very interesting analysis]

saw a post saying we're not gonna see a human land on mars in our lifetime. i mostly agree but wanna sort of point out why. getting to mars: ez. solved. we've done it dozens of times with satellites, rovers and stuff. getting to mars has been solved for 60 years. but:

"Trump’s assault on globalization enfeebles the United States." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Morning Prayer: Loving God, as we start a new week, grant us the inner strength we need for the responsibilities we need to address the challenges we may face. Help us not to feel so overwhelmed but to address each moment as it comes. Keep us calm and nonanxious thru today. Amen.

Crossing the Schuylkill, rage-rage-against-the-dying-of-the-light edition

Opera Philadelphia at City Hall! Even the mike check is amazing. Concert starts at 6 pm. Thanks @centercityphila.org

Crossing the Schuylkill, rain, rain, go-away edition

If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.

make an observation about your pantry that also sounds like the title of a novel: THE TARIFFS MADE ME DO IT

We don't need permission to dance. #hope #future #global youtu.be/9SmQOZWNyWE?...

I also want to thank Mr. Dennis Sonnenberg, social studies teacher from Quincy Jr-Sr High School for bringing the opportunity to participate in Model UN to our small mountain, and changing the course of my life, 40 years ago. 🤯

I want to highlight the role of the high school students serving as UN Secretary-General giving advice from their experience as MUN participants and the college students serving as committee chairs at @wacphila.bsky.social Junior Model United Nations. IMPRESSIVE young people! #hope #future #global

The Cónsul of México in Philadelphia, Carlos G. Obrador Garrido Cuesta, spoke to the middle school students about his own experience in Model UN as a student and how it promotes creativity and understanding how deeply we are all connected to #global issues. #hope #future

In Monday am keynote, the superintendent of Philadelphia public schools talked about his college MUN at North Carolina A&T and subsequent US State Department experience. Yesterday, the principal of Bodine H.S for International Affairs talked about his high school MUN experience in Lebanon.

This week I am volunteering with @wacphila.bsky.social Model UN for regional middle schools. So impressed with these young people engaging constructively with hard questions. Including @temple.edu and St. Joseph U students who are chairing the committee rooms #hope #future #global

Now walking with the Friends carrying the Flushing Remonstrance from New York to Washington DC quakerwalk2025.org

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.