Fierce and clear strategy conversation. We —the people —need to show that we want an opposition party that is made of tough fighters across the ideological board against authoritarianism. Grateful for this and your team’s work @ezralevin.bsky.social and yours too @jenrubin.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥.

Enchantment so good for the heart in the midst of collective turmoil.

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels. The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

I know many of us are tired, scared & angry. When you can, if you can, channel that into doing what you can to help. Every day it's more clear the only ones who are going to save us ... are us. Whenever you start to say "people should do x," it's you. You're "people." We're "people." It's just us.

If you do not have the spine for this, no shame, but you have to resign and let someone else take the seat. World history is dancing on the head of a pin, no weak links.

It’s not going to be left versus center. It will be fighters vs capitulators. Big tent for anyone willing to fight.

Every federal worker who has been clocking in without pay, every protestor who showed up for No Kings, every voter who turned out for Dems Tuesday, every community member confronting SS ICE in our streets - all of us braver & better than these "leaders."

That’s just it. In the Democratic Party, the question isn’t moderate or leftist right now. It’s whether or not a dem understands that the old political playbook for dealing with the right is obsolete.

So incredibly moving hearing Stacey Abrams speak yesterday. She said something so powerful about the many ways we can work on democratic process in this time. “I can’t know what influence I’ll have so I try to stay curious. Work in teams to solve problems. Do good. And pull every lever I can”.

"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."

"A lot of us are going to come under direct attack, and a lot of us are going to resist by building solidarity and sanctuary": the solidarity with those under attack has been one of the most beautiful responses to the consequences of the 2024 election.

The sweet gift of the biggest moon of the year tonight, Beaver Moon.

Feeling today with all the election celebration fueling our ongoing work. Love this piece by Portland artist Lisa Congdon.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Californians should be extremely proud of themselves tonight. Thank you for Washington State for fighting for our Democracy. ✊🏻💙

"hope over tyranny "hope over big money and small ideas "hope over despair "no longer would politics would be something that is done to us. now it would be something that WE DO"

You did it, New York!! Congratulations from Portland ❤️‍🔥✊🏼

There are still a lot of hard times ahead, but remember this moment and what it means: We can win.

“Hope is a discipline and a practice” — Mariame Kaba ❤️‍🔥

In every single close race, ALL over the country, the fight for democracy is WINNING!!! Every single one of these I’m celebrating and teary (One may have given me a petty smile🤣)

Voters across the country have chosen freedom over fascism - and sent a critical blow to this regime of the bullies, for the billionaires. May these wins strengthen our resolve, power our resistance, and turbo charge our defiance.

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

The worst people are having a bad night. You truly love to see it.

A beauty pause moment on a walk. Such deep balm for the spirit these days.

Karla Strand writes in @msmagazine.com of Read This When Things Fall Apart: "Not a guide, this volume is a salve for the wounds we incur when doing the work, and its contents are the love and encouragement we need to continue tending the fires of resistance."

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'The night the sky showered us with stars" by Sarah Morgan, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt

the hallowed seam

These conversations feel like the deepest medicine and light right now.

One of the most practical things we can all do is get our money out of what’s funding fascism and get it into local community as much as possible. Remember every step we take in this direction helps.

So incredibly moving and strengthening hearting Timothy Snyder last night “On Freedom”. Such profound wisdom about how true freedom comes from being part of and co-creating an interconnected caring world where we help each other flourish.

ICE was / is in my neighborhood today. I showed up to a local elementary school during pickup with lots of other concerned and caring neighbors. It felt good to do SOMETHING. I think I will continue doing that.

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

NOV 14 – 16: Awakened Action returns next month! With Roshi Joan, Valerie Brown, Terry Tempest Williams, Rebecca Solnit, and Christiana Figueres. Online is FREE + by donation: https://bit.ly/43oaIH3 A few spaces remain to attend in person: https://bit.ly/42RSBcr

More specifically: in the face of so much destruction and disregard, it's vital to be reminded of our capacity to love and care for even the smallest things, that we can work toward restoration and repair, even (or especially) after catastrophic loss.

"We have most of the technologies we need to phase out fossil fuels and slash planet-warming pollution ... But we’ll never muster sufficient political will until our cultural consciousness shifts," writes @sammyroth.bsky.social: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/why-writin... 🔌💡 #ClimateSky

Oh this is so beautiful and so moving and so urgently true: Richard Powers on how to rewrite our future history, as a planet and as a people www.themarginalian.org/2023/01/05/r...

Encouraging and illuminating ~~

“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything to steer the future away from endless war and grinding down of the poor.Hope gives a future." -Rebecca Solnit

"You want a movement, I hear. We all do. But the question is never “will somebody do something?” They are. We are. Our job is to notice, and to ensure that none of our flames burn out." Also our job is to join in, where we can, how we can, with what we have. open.substack.com/pub/thewhite...

23 hours speaking out, thank you Senator @jeff-merkley.bsky.social !!!

My Oregon Senator taking another stand for our democracy❤️‍🔥 So grateful for @jeff-merkley.bsky.social and @chrismurphyct.bsky.social, you are with us for the Power of the People🙌🏼.

Also: the great @meganpiont.bsky.social has a zine called "We Marched! Now What?" that you can download, print, and share with friends! Loads of practical stuff in there of things to do! blacksky.community/profile/did:...

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Thank you to everyone at the #NO_KINGS rallies for making your voices heard & being part of history. The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular! So were the signs...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Patriotic lobsters #nokings

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.