I do this regularly & if you enjoy kids at all, it's great for everyone involved

If you like public transit, there's a rally today to keep it more useful, prevent a wasteful & inconvenient relocation, & fight off total developer control of downtown PVD neighborlyactions.substack.com/p/neighborly...

Going to STOP dissociating on this website and GO make dinner

You should testify next Wednesday June 10 about the public library budget and let the City Council know what you think about 600 new cops while the heads of the libraries testified last week that they need more money. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If you are a base-building org in NJ, or just a person with roots in the NJ organizing community and time to give to a project like this, I would love to hand off a website to you, along with the domains StandWithJersey.com/.org For free, of course.

People have been asking me if I know of a resource like StandWithMinnesota for New Jersey, and I haven't found something comprehensive. So, for the moment, I have put together all the links to NJ orgs, crowdfunding links, events, and stuck them on a page of SWM. standwithminnesota.org/jersey

Some stuff to do neighborlyactions.substack.com/p/neighborly...

My favorite kind of Reckoning essay: beautifully, challengingly written and packed full of eye-opening, essential new perspective to which I'd never otherwise have been exposed

It's No Metafeelings Monday. Today, if you wish, you can note & name what you feel w/o judgment, rather than feeling feelings about your feelings about your feelings. Once you do this, it's easier to decide whether/how it would be right to act on it--but you don't need to judge the feeling itself

Alright … I did this last year and I’ll do it again … This is for a WHT … Share links to things you want people to support with their dollars, this Pride … I’m thinking trans or queer creators / small businesses / causes … Subscribe if you don’t already: whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com

Last call for your "Neighborly Actions: They Happened to Me" stories! If you've done something/continue to do something that this newsletter showed you, will you share that w/me in a reply or at schapira DOT kate AT gmail? I'm writing about the newsletter for an art show on the theme of maintenance.

while we wait for the fancy commencement invitees to catch up, let's all do this in our classes, office hours, and conversations with students. (I do!)

It's Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday, our chance to practice gently ending the arguments inside our head with people who aren't present (or who it's not fair or not safe for us to argue with) when we catch ourselves having them. Do this as many times as you need!

I don’t mind being annoying about this. If you are a graphic designer, researcher, coder, social media person who cares about ending mass surveillance please connect with me. We need help ♥️♥️

there's always a little shit trying his best to make integrity passé because he has none

People who work in companies related to ecotoxicology and/or environmental (bio)remediation: do you have time to talk to me in the next week? I have questions about current workflows, barriers, existing solutions &what would make bioremediation useful in practice? DM me or reply here, thx!

If you're looking for ways to get involved with feeding people in your area, here are a bunch of ideas. 🧵: Community fridges are a great option: bsky.app/profile/tutu...

This is on Saturday & if you're near the Morgantown, WV area or know young people who are, share with them! It's going to be so cool. And it's FREE! A chance to make good stuff in good company.

"Let me settle the _____ once and for all" No You Will Not

i was such an avid reader of stuff i did not even get CLOSE to understanding as a kid and all it did was make me read more, and ask more questions about the world. there's a concerted effort from almost every consolidated power on this planet to make people less curious!!!!

What if i accidentally leaned too far over the electronics recycling bin at the transfer station…. 🤔

The dream, in a way

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Reposting this because today is World Dugong Day (as I'm sure you all already know)...

www.midsouthfoodbank.org My local. Does good work

Reminder that I'm a freelance reporter, contributor @truthout.org, and I run a newsletter covering politics and organizing. Please reach out with tips re: attacks on public education, divestment campaigns, local regulation of data centers, and all things disability. Contact in bio. RTs appreciated.

The One Weird Trick flavor of organizing opinions is incurious & does not spark joy

Short version of almost everything: there's a variety of reasons why people don't do useful or important things & when you know which reasons apply to you, &/or the person you're talking with/trying to do something with, you can seek workarounds for those reasons

We got a new food pantry starting up in Providence, looking for hands & donations www.gofundme.com/f/help-start...

does anyone know someone who's *really* into water mains in NYC and wants to talk to me about them (for journalism, maybe)

City geese flying over & yelling: always great, never not great

Demands: The hunger strikers are demanding To meet with the governor, release young, elderly and medically vulnerable detainees and to demand their freedom

My mom reminded me that today's the bday of her mom (who died a few years ago). Shoutout to Juliette Goldenberg & her love of her women friends, other people's business, & making shit up, gifts she passed to her daughter & granddaughters. The last photo I have, she's gazing at my mom w/deepest love

Still a need in Newark, NJ

Short version of almost everything: there's a variety of reasons why people don't do useful or important things & when you know which reasons apply to you, &/or the person you're talking with/trying to do something with, you can seek workarounds for those reasons

More layers in this thread also

a lot of people will be hesitant to join a mass member organization that is explicitly political even if said organizations do fun things; which is why coalition work and union membership is critical.

coincides with a decline in union membership. the ILGWU owns and operated its own vacation resort called Unity House for members from 1919-1989 in the Poconos.

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Hundreds inside an ICE concentration camp are on a work and hunger strike at Delaney Hall in New Jersey and other hunger strikes have been announced in New Mexico and Southern California. In Tacoma, WA, over 100 detainees announced the formation of the 'Union of People Kidnapped by ICE.'

Folks in Appalachian Alabama, Georgia, & Mississippi: I've got a paid writing opp for a young (18-25 roughly) journalist or writer in June, and am trying to spread the word! Would require reporting & interviewing. It is paid. Would love to connect w/ anyone interested: [email protected]

I accepted course correction on this one thanks to @sevier.io & have started a (very small-scale) AC/air purifier redistro for people in high heat areas of my city. Every day is another day when you, too, could change your dingdang mind

Childcare is also a good idea for budget hearings if your city has them, & now is the time to start nudging! Remember, the $ you want for the public good is probably in the police budget, so you want a lot of people calling on the city to spend it instead on, say, schools. & daycare. For kids.

Hey Oregon, tell these data center people to eat shit. Here's your toolkit www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it

This is unbelievable. The AI boom is now piggybacking on green colonialism, eating up any contribution to emissions reduction while causing harm to Indigenous communities. The Yakama Tribe has been fighting this pumped storage project for years, only to learn it would primarily power…a data center.

If you're local-ish to Providence: got good wholesale leads? Construction skills? Logistics wizardry? Point-of-service experience? If you have a bit of money, one of the people involved w/this has done it elsewhere & knows how to make your dollar stretch.

Colleges/universities as well. [YOUR INDUSTRY HERE], probably

The scene outside Delaney Hall last night, as protesters blocked an entrance as word spread guards were attempting to move Martin Soto, one of the detainees who is involved in a hunger and work strike inside. www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/25/p...

An archivist friend alerted me to this relational citation system that Deborah Khodanovich is working on. If it had existed when my book came out I would have used it. Can't wait to work with it/share it w/students when it becomes! Sign up to get notified when that happens dvorit.ca/relational-c...

I'm part of this team & we are getting started for real on Wednesday. Really excited ecori.org/south-provid...