"I left our conversation feeling both grounded and lit up." I love helping people root and reframe... and feel like more is possible. Getting this note after a coaching chat was affirming.

After last week’s attack, I remembered this exchange between @warren.senate.gov & @karaswisher.bsky.social: 🎙️“Are you yourself fearful of your safety?” 👩🏻‍🦳“…I don't want to publicly answer that question...” 🎙️“Well?” 👩🏻‍🦳“I don't want to talk about it.”

I’m wondering how this whole “work to get social benefits” and “ai is wiping out jobs” thing is gonna shake out.

“We’re halfway between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day—the messy middle. Perhaps this in-between time is for thinking about all the in-between adults that love our children into being.” My sparkly neighbor shared an excerpt of our piece on creative kinship this week open.substack.com/pub/sparklan...

“The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.” 🐚 🌀The edges are where life evolves. In the sea, but also in our systems, organizations, and disciplines. Look to the edges. Happy belated, Rachel Carson.

Slides, cells, sticky notes, social missives— Does your brain ever get tired from thinking in little boxes? What’s gained? What’s lost? What’s changed?

Here’s the thing about me: I keep state fact sheets about Medicaid on hand when in the comments section. It’s honest work. I try to stay grounded. www.kff.org/interactive/... 👀

Can we build a world worthy of our daughters’ dreams? Reflections from an auntie and designer on Mother's Day on little worlds and worldbuilding. open.substack.com/pub/themeld/...

Apocalypse friends only.

This is disgusting. But it also the type of move that sets back 20 years of progress in digital services and community engagement. How will we reach communities in the future as a government if we’ve done the EXACT OPPOSITE from what we promised.

Although most abortions remain illegal in Alabama, the decision allows doctors and advocacy groups to tell patients about abortion options in other states, and help with travel and other costs.

Booker 25:05 > Project 2025. #filibuster

I’ve always thought that Facebook’s newsfeed was the equivalent of slapping an interstate highway through a vibrant neighborhood. Now, they are “beta testing” a friends only feed. Get real. The damage is done.

Indi is one of the only people talking about the deeper, cognitive aspects of design research. As someone who studied learning, I appreciate it so!

“Head in the clouds” “Blue sky thinking” My 13-yo neighbor makes the most fanciful things.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Long-distance auntie tips: 🎊 Mark not-so-mini milestones (potty, big kid bed) 💌 Celebrate in between holidays (eg valentines) 🚌 Join school drop-off when home 📆 Schedule or squeeze in 15-min-calls 📫 Send postcards from biz trips 📚Start book club

Don’t comply in advance. Hold fast, USADF.

Whenever a house republican posts, remind them (and their comment section) of how much of their constituency is on Medicaid/CHIPS. Link to fact sheet. Socialize facts. State fact sheets: @kff.org www.kff.org/interactive/... By county: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/02/06/m...

Designers must craft and hold processes where people can practice together. When people have a felt experience of what’s possible, they can make it reality. Especially now.

We need like 3 billionaire divorcées, stat. Stave off the apocalypse and help us birth something new.

#TheOscars are next Sunday. What if celebrities shared the mic with civil servants? Here are some of the pairings I’d draft: 🎤Cynthia Erivo and the NEA’s Maria Rosario Jackson 🎤Timothèe Chalamet and Kennedy Center’s Deborah Rutter 🎤The Wild Robot and National Park Rangers 💭 Who would you add?

This year is the 150th anniversary of Carmen. The @detroitsymphony.bsky.social is putting on a show— and they are live streaming it Sunday at 3pm. 🎭🎶 Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=83CV... (Bonus: My twin-in-law, Claire, is in the chorus.)

Neighbors helping neighbors. Who doesn’t need a giant cake to pop out of? Less facisim, more joy.

💯 I’ve always wanted to burst the bubble. If I was a foundation, I’d fund relational cross pollination: Imagine if every professional conference reserved: 10% seats for other professions 10% seats for students 10% for everyday folks & enthusiasts 70/30 Rule? Open to critique on ratios.

Amen. Canada and Europe are eyeing them. Even if you start with a temporary program while you get things sorted.

We’re all about to get really good at systems thinking in real time… …as our systems crumble around us.

A request for someone to build a spam-bot to crash this website: defendinged.org/join-the-mov... The founder is worried that schools are “smuggling” in DEI by calling it “belonging:” www.instagram.com/share/BALAXM...

An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

This auction house really picked the wrong person to try to screw over… ✅ Better Business Bureau on two addresses ✅ Platform reporting ✅ Bank fraud reporting Don’t mess with me and my Anni Albers lithograph dreams.

Congressman @beyer.house.gov will be going to USAID today with colleagues to shine a light on what is happening there, I think others will join us. Figuring out details now and will share but flagging now for press and public in the area

I may not be Lutheran anymore, but do not f* with my people. And you know WHY these payments largely go to faith organizations?! They are filling the GAP. The government largely stops supporting refugees/asylees directly after 90 days from resettlement. 90 DAYS.

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

Action: ☎️Add your reps #s to your phones. 👉🏻Reduce your friction to action. 💬Get comfortable with basic script: ⚠️“I’m calling about ____, Please do ____, It matters to/impacts me bc ___.” Or ✅“Thank you for _____, hold the line.)

Preach.

Just look at these fantastic spaces in brand-new libraries opened across the Brooklyn, NY, and Queens library systems last year (Sunset Park, Inwood, Far Rockaway)

You know what’s not efficient? Organizational whiplash, fear, transition, and churn. We’ll never know the true costs of this invisible debt. But I hope someone tries to make it legible.

Signals that I'm fed up: • A M*GA dude trolled an old post. I screen-shotted it and sent it to his mother • OAN News got my email address and can't unsubscribe. Sent an email to the president threatening to report to the Federal Trade Commission and quoted MLK. 👀

“We have to celebrate to get through these trying times.” Troy Anthony, Fire Ensemble BAM’s MLK gathering Timeline cleanse. Gather well in these dark times. Make light.

Is there a plug-in to hide his face? Think Baldessari.

Welp, MLK reading us: "When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men. ... Without this spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments." #MLKDay

During the eve of the election and new year, I sent out copies of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's "A Paradise Built In Hell." On the eve of this week, I'd like to do the same. 🐌 💌 Drop a reply if interested, I'll draw names

“Resist ‘brotopian’ futures. … The myth of freedom, without care. Growth, without tending. In fact, the future depends precisely on protecting and practicing different futures.” www.linkedin.com/posts/melani...

Severance. When we cut our ‘corporate corpus callosum’ — the bridge between our identities at home and work— what could go wrong? Dropping season two as companies drop their DEIB work is wild timing.

This is a perfect sentence: "All we’ve gotten in the past decade is example after example of how little these people know about anything other than making apps that destroy something you previously loved, by hollowing it out into a subscription service that no longer works and everyone hates."

A choir sings on after losing its church in the Eaton Fire. via @laist.com