Always a good reminder to hear.
Category Archives: Doing it Right
ICE Watch Programs Can Protect Immigrants in Your Neighborhood — Here’s What to Know
Teen Vogue continues to provide the tools to fight through this fascist nightmare. Surprising? Sure, but I appreciate the effort and will they give to do it.
Tribal groups assert sovereignty as feds crack down on gender-affirming care
If this country is going to survive with even a small chance of looking like it did in better times, it will be up to a couple blue states and the tribes to keep the faith. Everyone else has either knuckled under or given up since no one paid heed when they gave the warning alarms.
Here’s one area of human rights the tribal nations are leading on, as “progressive” politicians – calling you out personally Buttigieg – pull back/eliminate support for folks they should be caring and protecting.
Former NFL Player Chris Kluwe On His Arrest Protesting MAGA
Older news, but still good to call out bold behavior in the face of tyranny
What you can do: Ten ways to resist Trump II
Robert Reich has some good ideas in how to survive in this hellscape. Or at least some plans on how to hold back the worst of it.
Most of them boil down to being a good person, neighbor, citizen but that’s honestly in short supply these days.
Twin Cities Pride Nearly Doubles Fundraising Goal in Days
It was a huge risk for TC Pride to get rid of Target after it decided to join the bigots in the White House. Losing, at minimum, $50,000 in sponsorship money is a serious decision to make.
That said, crisis averted, and nearly even doubled in the days since that decision. It may not be long-term sustainable at the moment, but so glad folks stepped up to make it happen.
Biden commutes sentence for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in killing of FBI agents
It isn’t much, but still welcome (and long overdue).
Especially since the cops writ large are about to inflict crimes upon the whole populace in service to a racist autarch.
Teaching kids about Thanksgiving or Columbus? They deserve the real story
Improving this country includes – nay, demands – we teach our story better. More factually, more inclusively, more truthfully.
The next generation of firefighters learned how to fight fires while in prison
NPR covers the changing face of wildfire fires out in the West. It involves folks who were in the California penal system who volunteered (for the low, low price at $5 a day when not in the field)
Smithsonian covered the program a bit ago.
Transitioning from useful inmate to professional firefighter isn’t easy though. A former inmate is trying to make that easier.
This is America. Levar Burton edition
Saw this on Threads. It is a clip from Clipped but I gotta imagine there is truth there too.
Post by @leftfacetvView on Threads