Thanks to @brianxrayfilms.bsky.social and @sethpolansky.bsky.social for the chat, and make sure you all check out Igniting the Spark!

Today's 1st read: a dense-but-good scholarly article that I've had open as a tab forever. Identifying seemingly "small" acts of resistance enables people to see themselves as capable and resilient instead of broken or depressed. TW: violence + assault. www.responsebasedpractice.com/wp-content/u...

Our collective loss of existential appetite is a healthy response to a profoundly unhealthy situation. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Gonna take a second to brag about my awesome wife @maryhawkins.bsky.social, who illustrated these PSAs for swimming safety in NYC. She also created animated versions. It’s wild seeing her art on busses, in subway stations, on kiosks, etc, and I’m super proud of her! #NYC #PSAs #SwimSafety #Art

This morning's reading: "while the digital world has removed all friction, the physical world is where the friction still lives. Not the good kind... but the bad kind: the exhaustion of trying to hold together systems that no one’s willing to invest in anymore." kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-v...

We're still hoping to have Gotham games here, but in the meantime... www.change.org/p/say-no-to-...

This protest sign hits pretty damn hard, big props to this teacher

Today's reading: "We create more than ever, but it weighs nothing... movement isn’t meaning. ... Light things shape culture, but rarely shape us. ... Creation [is] a process of becoming....You don’t just create heavy things. You become someone who can." www.workingtheorys.com/p/make-somet...

This morning's reading... I'm hopeful-not-hopeful for our solarpunk future where not all of us make it? Ooof. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Alice Guy-Blaché, an early director who made thousands of films (at one point, her studio was putting out three a week!) but was erased out of the story of early cinema history... www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-...

The Sky Has No Edge... Stop motion with mosaics from Invisible Friends, a group of expat Russian animators. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-lc...

Reading this a little late, because: firehose, but... "The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration." newrepublic.com/post/192660/...

"If liberal democracy is to thrive and not just survive in the 21st century, we must develop a deeper understanding of the attraction of alternative political conceptions and their envisioned good life that competes with it." www.noemamag.com/from-statecr...

Thank you for voting!

“I am tired of mainstream media pretending that neutrality and gullibility are the same thing.” Thank you to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for that gem. Catching up on email newsletters, and that was lovely…

A hopeful history… I didn’t know the full story of Muncie Indiana: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

substack.com/home/post/p-... "It doesn’t reward depth, patience, or complexity. Instead, it rewards the immediate & the easily digestible. ...What does that do to creativity? Inspiration? ...what ideas never had the chance to grow because they were harvested too early ...their smallest form?"

This morning's reading: "this is dark stuff: A $160b AI company and a $2 trillion tech giant invoking the need to maintain technological—and implicitly, military—superiority over China...to justify eroding artists’ already meager rights and protections." www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/openai-and...

Members of the House AND the Senate are home during recess NOW through Sunday, March 23rd. This is our time to send them a message. Welcome home @schumer.senate.gov 👋 New Yorkers are calling on you to #Resign Times Square ✍️ @karinschall.bsky.social #StopTheCoup #FightFascism #RiseandResist

This evening's reading: a long, loving tribute to Gorton, a font whose letterforms that were right in front of us the whole time, aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

Today's morning reading: a whole set of bad practices in leadership and work/working-together cultures, written nearly 25 years ago by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun. I bet your favorites are on there... Go check! www.cwsworkshop.org/PARC_site_B/...

Our friends, Resistance Revival Chorus, were on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social with Paris Paloma. They sang the theme song to our Womxn’s March! Pure beauty & power 😭 Join us SATURDAY, MARCH 8 at 11am in Washington Square Park. @50501movement.bsky.social @womensmarch.bsky.social #womensmarch #Resist

Basically bookmarking this for myself: a project to categorize all those seen-it-everywhere aesthetics and design movements from the last few decades. (h/t to Patrick Butler for sending this my way...) cari.institute/aesthetics

The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to fire more than 80,000 employees.

So they really think I’m going to spend the next four years hanging on every word he vomits? Haha, that’s cute…and not going to happen. Anyway, tonight’s read:

I don't think I was prepared for this to be the first film I watched this morning... Amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=49-p...

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Check Tesla Takedown for event details and organizing information. If there isn’t one in your area, start one! Aim for a 12 PM gathering at your local showroom. Next week, let’s make an even bigger impact and show them how many of us there really are! Will you join?

Me: You know, I should really read something fun for #womensHistoryMonth. My TBR pile:

In 2018 Rise and Resist organized powerful protests and awareness campaigns in IDC districts to defeat Cuomo’s fake “democrats.” We need to remind people about this part of Cuomo’s history. He has never been on our side.

Very fitting that Cuomo announced his campaign on the first day of Women's History Month. Women will make him history. #hellnocuomo

I have supported DEI and Affirmative Action as something that we need as temporary measure until we have true equality but in one month Trump/Musk have convinced me that DEI and Affirmative Action must be be built into our system permanently.

I've found over the decades that some of my best long-term/slow-burn friends have been former crushes (incoming or outgoing). There's something about caring for someone enough to consider starting a romance but realizing that y'all shouldn't that alchemizes well. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/s...

For those who are Catholics & practice Lent. Would love to see this boycott of harmful corporations be incorporated into Lent. Isn’t this consistent with the values espoused in the New Testament? I am not religious but grew up in New Orleans so Lent after Mardi Gras was a thing.

This! If you can switch from Whole Foods to a different grocery store and buy your books from bookshop.org instead of Amazon, that’s still a big step even if you feel tied to Amazon for other items. If everyone divested 30% that’s more than if a few people divest 100%.

This is *really* good. Definitely worth a read. On The Walll and the appeal of fascism, and being a Gifted Kid and the way that distorts you.

Thing I read this morning: "I don’t know exactly that I have some sort of prescription to offer. I don’t wish to suggest ..that any of us should deal with 'reforming' bad men. But maybe, at least, we can take each other’s loneliness seriously." magdalene.substack.com/p/the-future...

Trump threatened to sue journalists, authors, and book publishers who use anonymous sources. Granting certain sources anonymity is a common journalistic practice, especially when sources fear retribution.

So they started out with ~100 existing staffers, 60 have now resigned. *21 FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY STAFFERS RESIGNED FROM DOGE, AP SAYS

Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded an FBI task force investigating foreign influence operations, including those targeting U.S. elections. Additionally, she restricted enforcement actions against individuals who fail to disclose lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.

New Yorkers: we have an assignment. We have 5 strong options for mayor on a ballot with 5 spaces. Learn about: @bradlander.bsky.social @jessicaramosqns.bsky.social @zellnor.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @blakefornyc.bsky.social

With less than 24 hours notice 1,000 people showed up for an Emergency Community rally at The Stonewall Memorial Monument to fight back against the NPS removing the T and Q from the Stonewall website. There is NO LGB without the T (or Q). We will NOT be erased and we will NOT leave anyone behind.

Uuuggghhh -- I just got a spam text that literally started with hashtag-FoodBenefits-hashtag and then said standard spam junk about how my account had been put on hold. There's so much chaos out there (and more to come). People who need/have food benefits is not a group I want scammers to target.

Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵

Yes please! www.usermag.co/p/freeourfee...

“A particularly heinous villain’: a disdain for Musk sparked protests across US. Members of Rise and Resist pictured in the Guardian’s story on the Resistance. Join us tomorrow, Monday, in Union Square and 14th St at 1pm. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #StoptheCoup #EndOligarchy #resist

"The pivotal cultural moment came ..when William Shatner went to space. More than anyone, he represented that older, more idealistic view of technology... [he] finally realised that he was not in Star Trek. He was in Idiocracy. And the rest of us are too." iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...

Protest at #Tesla at #Easton #Columbus yesterday for 2nd day in a row - people out at the mall stopped and joined in, lots of support from drivers passing by - people know we can’t trust #Musk! (Cont’d)