We are living in an extremely violent era, in an extraordinarily violent war-making culture. We are all meaner, and more uncivil than we would be if we lived in a peaceable era, or a peaceable culture. I’m sure I am.

“We cannot achieve what we cannot imagine.” is one of Boulding’s core precepts regarding cultural change, integrated both into her theories, her research, and her peace organizing practices of what she called “utopic imagining."

We are living in an extremely violent era, in an extraordinarily violent war-making culture. We are all meaner, and more uncivil than we would be if we lived in a peaceable era, or a peaceable culture. I’m sure I am.

happy 250th to this shithole

They want to convince their followers that we are un-American, in the wrong country. But it’s them. THEY are in the wrong country. Their goals, plans, ideology are no less than an insurrection against the Second Founding - the constitutional framework for our country created after the Civil War.

“We cannot achieve what we cannot imagine.” is one of Boulding’s core precepts regarding cultural change, integrated both into her theories, her research, and her peace organizing practices of what she called “utopic imagining."

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I am relieved to see the Supreme Court reaffirm the basic constitutional principle of birthright citizenship. At the same time, I want to emphasize that Seattle stands with those affected by the earlier Supreme Court decision to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants. 1/5

Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately. Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. gizmodo.com/heres-why-we...

I've figured out a way to convert toxic radioactive waste into kids lunches. Where are my venture capitalists?

This whole "we're going to become Catholic thing and then call out the pope" is super weird to me because Protestantism is right here.

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ

the hubris is actually revolting May our disgust in the vile sadistic arrogance of white supremacy keep growing, may it sicken us enough so that we reckon with all the destruction it has wrong, and so the the world never allows these grotesque ideologies to take hold ever again.

What on earth do we do with a ruling class who denies the inviolable truth that all living things are profoundly interdependent upon each other? An oligarchy possessed by greed that conscripts and manipulates the masses into pursuing self-serving hyper individualistic interests?

NEW: Pope Leo XIV has sent a final letter to a right-wing dissident group ordaining four bishops tomorrow without his permission. Leo warned the “sin of extreme gravity” would carry grave consequences.

This all sounds fantastic.

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Residents from three New Mexico cities say their names falsely appeared on letters urging state environment officials to approve air quality permits for the controversial Project Jupiter data center after they were approached by canvassers for the project.

Excuse me- I should clarify: ON PAID LEAVE FROM WORK.

Depressed man on leave from work who supports medicaid work requirements:

"I don't know if they were guilty or not"?!? Are we really doing this?!?

This project felt wildly important to me. It erupted from my bone marrow. It may not be important to others - although I hope it will be. I’m pleased and proud that I built the container that I was called to build at least.

I really want something good to emerge for all of us.

Even if you annoy the crap out of me and I block you to protect my peace I’m still going to hope for your healing and well-being.

I've very recently started collecting our human dreams about AI as well. I'm no longer interested in what tech corporations and oligarchs envision about the present and our futures. I care about what we hope for and fear. Our dreams and visions matter.

I started collecting climate dreams as they were shared with me as well -

The 45 Dreams collection was started in Dec 2016 after the election and just as I was negotiating a new overwhelming cancer diagnosis and intensive treatment. Dreams were shared anonymously via website + an archive of 3000 dreams from twitter revealed many collective themes and dream responses.

I've been working on these dream collection projects alone and sporadically as life has permitted, over the past decade. Collaborators and advisors who are helping me think about new ways to share out these dreams, and let them generate their own cultural resonance:

I'm sharing a thread about a new collective dreaming archive that I'm building out! Elise Boulding says: "A continual sense of crisis cripples the social imagination" It felt essential to me to explore shared dreaming and imaginal visions of the collective challenges we face together Welcome:

I don't want our own social collective intuition and imagination to be so controlled and intentionally devalued and manipulated by oppressive forces that we forget how much creative power we hold when we gather around shared dilemmas, dreams, visions and creative acts. So: share a dream

expand the court. no more half measures. this is intolerable.

Everything in me says this is EXACTLY why Thomas visited the Speaker yesterday. To map out strategy after this "loss."

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

5-4 on Birthright Citizenship means it can go down in the future with a different composition of the court.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote UPHOLDS birthright citizenship, affirming the default rule that all persons born in the United States (with narrow exceptions) are U.S. citizens at birth. A total LOSS for President Trump and the effort to rewrite the 14th Amendment.

Actually studying our country's history shows that white conservative lawlessness is neither temporary nor incidental--it is a chronic, defining feature of the system we inherit. It is woven, in fact, into the practice of the law itself.

I need y'all to understand that I teach high school and there are teenagers already planning to leave the U.S. to because they will be studying science or medicine. They are SO serious about it - saving money, learning extra languages, and looking to see if there are familial connections abroad.

felt like I had to add something to this page: *all written by a human*

Oh, sorry - its my big mouth onsie day. All I'm gonna do is eat snacks and vegetate and comb my monster hair with my big comb.

I operate on an irrational belief that if we can free the most essential places inside our hearts we can negotiate these crossroads.

See, I kind of find this appealing. I mean, I don't want one. But I kind of wish I grew up in a world where everyone wore this at least one day a week at home.

You aren’t ever going to get me to worship a chat bot. This whole AI is a god we have made thing is true ego inflation from men who will tell you they have done all the ego death already.

“A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to permanently abandon its efforts to suspend funding for a $16 billion rail tunnel under the Hudson River, describing those attempts as “flagrantly” illegal.”

The more I had to say: I've said it now ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

“Its a HUGE — uh, space!”