Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Time check - we need to move on to the next topic soon." Also: "That is NOT a proper noun."

The wind is so gusty tonight that I'm feeling the pressure on my eardrums even though I'm inside my apartment. 🤯

This is the work. This is the vow. To stay human in inhuman times. To carry light without blinding others. To speak truth without losing soul. To meet the moment again, and again, and again until the storm learns our name and the child knows they are safe to grow. - Robin Theiss

"Where do I stand?" is a more generative question than "how will it all come out?"

What is the signature of your effect? How do you change the environments you pass through? What magic, for good or ill, do you perform in the daily rhythm of your life?” - Rob Brezsny

“Everyone influences the world in some way. No matter how powerless we may feel, each of us is a creator who continually churns out energy that bends and shapes our world and the people in it.

Doesn't seem like this should be his job

Good morning... Not sure if folks can read the full post by Mark linked here since it's on FedBook but if you can, it's worth it to kick off a new week: www.facebook.com/mark.provost...

Just reading through the Epstein emails and thinking about the notion that "MeToo went too far." How about we put all the world's men on a remote island and have them justify re-entry into decent society one by one, judged by a jury of women? That would be far enough.

Each new day gives us another opportunity to try again. That's really all of it.

Great thread 👇

It's about time for another book review. Prophet Song, a novel by Paul Lynch is the 2023 Booker Prize winner. Its tension slowly grinds and increases, even as we are spared (most of) the grisly details of the fictional fascist takeover and civil war in modern-day Ireland. 1/3

Probably the most successful piece of legislation in US history, measured by social benefit generated per dollar spent. Also wildly popular, across demographics. Without any public discussion or consultation of Congress, the Trump administration has effectively killed it.

Like the rest of the world, the EU is accelerating the shift away from gasoline vehicles to EVs. The US is being left behind.

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

Reminds me of Nobel chemist Ilya Prigogine’s concept of “islands of coherence”: “When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.”

I love the idea that, amidst the darkness, we are witnessing (and have the historic, generational opportunity to commit to) “The Great American Raveling.”

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

🚨 If you lose power this weekend and use a portable generator to power your home: Be careful. Preventable carbon monoxide deaths follow every major power outage. (Published 2023 w/ @texastribune.org @nbcnews.com)

power outage the stars resume their old jobs #haiku #poetry

There's a reason protests are also called demonstrations. Because they are how we show who we are, what we believe, and why we act. When orchestrated well, they allow us to take our rightful moral high ground - making it more difficult for the enemy to succeed in attack.

Minnesota shifting narrative from "rabble rousing protesters" vs "law enforcement" to "people of conscience" vs "evil regime." This is essential to defeating authoritarianism - exposing who, what & why they are by demonstrating who, what & why we are. And MAGA knows it. www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

Shameful

About 2.7% of people in Canada are infected and/or experiencing life activity-limiting long COVID this week. The estimated cost of hospitalizations from this week's infections in Canada is $84.0M.

Infections in Canada this week are expected to result in 3,800 hospitalizations, 860 deaths (people who die at least 1 year earlier than they would without COVID) and 12,000 new long COVID cases serious enough to limit daily life activities.

yup, we rise up to the level of our training, not to the level of our imagined selves.

Recently I've been spending some time with pro-democracy leaders from other countries organizing against national strongmen. Their stories of organizing against authoritarians are eerily familiar. Among the many clear takeaways: stand up to bullies and go on offense because defense doesn’t win.

As you pay more for groceries, housing, and health care, Trump has used the presidency to enrich himself. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

Never forget that billionaires spend billions to convince you that voting doesn't matter. Don't help them. Voting isn't the ONLY thing we can do, but it is the most powerful check on the executive. "Don't bother voting because there'll be no free elections" is oligarch propaganda.

Just finished "The Island of Sea Women" by Lisa See, historical fiction about Jeju Island and its tradition of women sea divers. This novel taught me about a tragic period of South Korean history I hadn't known about. It's a story about friendship, surviving some terrible times, and being human.

Calling them “protests” is lazy, inaccurate and plays into the false narrative that’s being used to justify further escalation by the federal government. 3/3

The vast majority of what’s happening is communal self-defense. It’s not an about agitating or escalating. The whistles, the honking, the yelling — these are efforts by people to warn and protect their neighbors. 2/3

National media: Please stop describing what’s happening in Minneapolis as “protests.” There has been a modest, sustained protest outside the Whipple federal building, about 10 miles from downtown, but... 1/3

Scanning faces. Building databases. Fascism is here. 🇺🇸 And all the “tyranny” “don’t tread on me folks” are silent. Turns out they meant “tread on them” 🤷🏼

Dear NATO/EU allied leaders: stop meeting with Trump officials at the WH. It's a security risk. Host them on your turf. Psychologically it makes them have to face a world outside of the US.

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10

Garcia: They are, on one hand, putting names of survivors in these documents that are not redacted. And in these same documents, they're taking extra time and being extra careful to redact the names of the coconspirators

A crypto company with $4M in revenue and a $3B market cap that is led by Devin Nunes that merges with a nuclear fusion play is NOT going to develop a new technology. This is just what an overvalued company with no meaningful value proposition does before it pops. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

3. Leadership is about doing what is necessary, not just what is popular. Read literally anything our founders wrote about virtue, and the inherent risks to a society based on democratic processes to sustain the rule of law to the extent that unvirtuous people gain power.

2. What he says about climate is patently false (more on that later) but to the extent he's saying "politicians shouldn't do the right thing unless it's popular", I'd note only that that is a toddlers view of leadership. If the popular kids are mean, should you be mean?

“Traffic lights across the city were down, seemingly confusing the driverless cars —& halting them in their tracks. Riders and pedestrians posted videos of Waymos stuck at intersections, long lines of drivers behind them.” Less well known— driverless cars contribute to traffic congestion EVERY day.

Because Trump is nothing, he is useful as a mirror. His success mirrors the dysfunctions of our politics & media. His support mirrors the resentments & fears of his supporters. His fearsome reputation mirrors the insecurities of the left. He is showing us what *we* are.

Anyone who looks at Trump & sees *more than nothing* -- whether good or bad -- is not telling you anything about Trump, they are telling you about themselves, their own worldview, what they want. They are ascribing content, plans, intentionality, self-awareness, where there is none.

Because he is, in effect, a nullity, because there's nothing to him, because he is transparent, it follows that anyone who sees content, sees depth, is capable of being surprised, is *projecting*. This is why Trump is useful & somewhat fascinating: he is a blank canvas upon which people project.

Scientists at Yale say long COVID is part of a “long-established family of post-acute infection syndromes.” The biggest challenge is understanding its “underlying pathobiology.” They were “surprised” how often children are affected, noting kids are also vulnerable to “long-term effects.”

I want you to promise Prez you'll completely revise your worldview and drastically change your media consumption habits when January gets here and the invasion of Venezuela still hasn't happened. Apparently that's how this works.

100% this

Tech fascists believe they are going to merge with AI, live forever and colonize the universe as a species of self-replicating machines that eat the energy of the stars. We can think big, too. Anything is possible. Don't let billionaires monopolize the power of radical imagination.