Brand new data: Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!). These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates. Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.

A lot of people talk about how the NYC subway “feels dangerous” but please allow me to present the Dinosaur Bodega that was installed in my local stop

If you think something doesn't matter, you don't respond to it. He responded. The people have the upper hand.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

With alt text

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today

People treat it like there’s some kind of competition for who’s been victimized the most and not a collaboration to make sure we’re all victimized as little as possible

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

If you work in the Office of Special Education for the Department of Education and have been RIF'ed or if you work in a school that has been notified about it, please message me. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I'll protect your identity.

“The struggle isn’t going anywhere. But we must be fortified in joy, in laughs, even the weary and ironic ones.” Love this from @thebaltimorebanner.com www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

Not an educator, but if you personally want to get back into reading books, here's what helped me (thread)

This was definitely one of the "Oh God, that story is now burned into my brain" ones. Bradbury is the master of those. And yikes….

Attention students: Apply for Fall 2025 U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science paid SULI and CCI internship programs by May 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM ET. Gain paid research experience and work with us on #ParticleAccelerators. @Berkeley Lab @U.S. DOE LaserNetUS atap.lbl.gov/news/suli-in...

Saying that Tylenol causes autism is about as accurate as saying ice cream causes polio - and yes, people did believe that before the polio vaccine was introduced. They are both conflating correlation and causation.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Being intentional in how we address people’s intersecting needs can be a source of joy, as these Black sign-language interpreters in Baltimore clearly are: www.thebanner.com/culture/blac...

SR: It makes me furious because it takes us back 20 years to where we were after the Wakefield announcement. That's the kind of narrative we were getting then. And whether or not you can hold a job—my son, he might never hold a job—but he is still a worthy human being who deserves rights. 10/

We need to tell a better story than the opposition, together! Absolutely agree with @dannychivers.bsky.social, whose work and my working with him as an activist has influenced so much of my own thinking: newint.org/climate/2025...

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

This is how you do mutual aid in a way that also changes systems (in terms of changing attitudes /stigma and normalizing offering products for free): www.thebanner.com/community/pu...

“earth that is all at once a grave a resting place a bed of new beginnings avalanche of splendor” Appalachian Elegy, bell hooks www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148751...

We're going to be in movement for the rest of our lives, there's a world to win & so much between us and freedom. How do we make struggle sustainable? So ask yourself, what is the best use of my skills and resources. Limit yourself to that work, because you can't be everywhere.

We keep us - and our ecosystems - safe. If bigger institutions and systems won’t do it for us, we have to find ways to heal ourselves and the spaces we live and play in - including the soil. www.latimes.com/environment/...

We're recruiting NYC residents who are willing to set up a meeting to speak with their City Council member by the end of January 2026 to get them on record about supporting a 0.5% allocation of the operational budget for public libraries. If interested, sign up here & we'll be in touch.

People often say they don't know how to start and the reality is that you just start. You can figure things out and people will help you to do so if you reach out to them.

Everyone is affected - but some people are far more affected than others: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Environmental action has to be both meaningful and at least somewhat enjoyable for people to participate. This is a delightful example of that: www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

If the Netherlands can be known for its iconic windmills, why can’t other places embrace the aesthetic of their wind turbines? What if we see them as adding to the landscape rather than detracting from it? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I feel like the fact that so many people have so many negative experiences with Monopoly as a board game really proves the point of the original creator, Lizzie Magie, which was the negative effects of unchecked capitalism.

For some good news (because God knows we need it), ecological restoration can actually work! Bringing the wolves back is helping restore the entire ecosystem: www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

The most important finding of our new study is: so far, scientists have traced back at least 30,000 excess deaths per year TODAY due to the impact of climate change on heat and other disasters, malaria and dengue, and wildfire-related air pollution - a global economic loss of up to $350B USD.

Do you care about climate change? The Endangerment Finding on climate change from the EPA is the foundation for much the agency’s ability to regulate GHGs. Comment now to keep the admin from removing the funding and slow down the gears of fossil fuels! act.350.org/sign/sept-25...

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

Finally, a good use for all of those one-star National Parks reviews hilariously chronicled by @subparparks.bsky.social. Resistance comes in many forms. Too many mosquitos! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Have you submitted a comment on the Roadless Rule? It’s not too late! Agency staff have to read and respond to comments on proposed rule makings, so it’s one of the best ways to slow down the removal of environmental regulations: act.sierraclub.org/actions/Nati...

Solutions to improve kids’ health: - Safe streets for walking & biking - Accessible green space - Time for recess & lunch at school - Free healthy school breakfast and lunch - Universal health care - Quality affordable daycare and housing Solutions from RFK Jr. - Blame autism on vaccines

Walking school buses are great as a way to ensure kids can walk to school safely. I hate that they need to be used like this and the reason for them in this case but grateful for the neighbors who are protecting each other: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

this is an object lesson in why praising Dems when they do the right thing - and not just castigating them for doing the wrong thing - is good politics for those of us who want them to fight Van Hollen raised his profile by doing the right thing and the lesson he learned was keep fighting

Making transportation more sustainable and just puts less money in oil companies' pockets and reinforces community solidarity. To find out how to do that, check out the Transportation Equity toolkit I created with Raising Luminaries: booksforlittles.com/transportati...

Parental wisdom to my kids: “Don’t hit your brother with a car, even if he agrees to it. Even if it’s going 1 mph.”

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison got $110 BILLION richer yesterday. The average American makes just $272 a day. Excluding a few billionaires, Ellison earned about as much the entire US population did yesterday. Absolutely ridiculous.

One of the best ways to maintain hope and motivate action is to read about people who are fighting back. Here’s one great example: appvoices.org/2025/08/18/h...

“People are now putting up a gigawatt’s worth of solar panels, the rough equivalent of power generated by 1 coal-fired plant, every 15 hours. Solar power is now growing faster than any power source in history” - @billmckibben.bsky.social - A call to hope & action: www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Build community - they want us isolated. Share your resources (money, time, energy) - they want us greedy. Raise your voice (call Congress, attend a protest, film ICE) - they want us silent. Support vulnerable people (immigrants, trans folks, Hispanic & Black folks) - they want us to abandon them.

The time is now. Right now. Time for literally all of us to push back against fascism. You don't have to and literally can't do EVERYTHING. Don't worry about that! Just pick the one or two issues/things you know and care about and join the people who are doing practical things to help.

Just because a job is seen as prestigious doesn't mean it is well-paying or even has a fraction of the power it is percieved to have. I know of this because of my husband's experience as a cook in a very fancy fine dining restaurant, but it applies to a lot of things.

The thing about investing in public transit is that it *scales* — the more people use it, the better it gets. For everyone. Whereas the more cars there are, the *worse* everything about driving gets. Traffic. Parking. [Ever noticed that in just about every car ad it’s alone on the road? Yeah.]

My kids have loved the "Old Timers" area at the local county fair for years, especially the blacksmiths. I reflected on what it could teach us for now and the future, including a nod to the @grist.org Imagine 2200 project: welleatyouupweloveyouso.substack.com/p/extending-...

As the world is on fire, it’s important to ground ourselves in nature. It gives us a sense of wonder and reminds of things worth fighting for. Some fantastic fungi: appvoices.org/2025/07/25/a...