So mote it be 🧿🧿🧿✨✨✨
Marisa Kabasthis might actually be how we achieve world peace
I have been kicked out of a Priscilla Presley lookalike contest & yelled at by Oprah. No regrets. Zines, snark, jokes, sociology, mutual aid, repeat. @ccriot carolynchernoff.com https://ccriotenterprises.etsy.com Etc.
Hollywood! We don’t need remakes or commercials. We need THIS:
Claire WillettI feel that we need a Jimothy and Moo Deng animated heist film
Turns out that one thing the US is GREAT at is reviving diseases thought to be mostly eradicated or close to it. Smallpox, you’re up next! (Sigh.)
ProPublicaOur analysis shows that the measles virus seen in Utah as recently as May is very closely related to one that circulated in Texas a year ago. Given our findings, one expert said it’s going to be difficult for the U.S. to prove measles isn’t endemic: https://propub.li/4vKYjs3
givebutter.com/SIAWI-presale Whether you believe hope is a disciple, a practice, or a verb, here’s something tremendous from @octoberk.bsky.social to support if you can;
News we can use;
ashley fairbankswell, I never expected to be published in a Stanford journal, but the McKnight Foundation asked me write my thesis to the philanthropic world after the MN ICE surge: when there is an emergency, just... give money to people on the ground doing the actual work. as fast as possible. radical, I know.
Facts. AND ALSO we managed to move past factory pollution, at least somewhat, even if briefly— TL; DR? Stop pollution: we’ve done it before and we’ll do it again. (But YEESH, evildoers. Way to go for now.)
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾Replace smoke stacks with data centers and it is THE SAME MOMENT
Public libraries are the data centers we need.
Harrisburg & Central PA Local NewsPennsylvania public libraries struggle to meet expanding community demands amid stagnant funding. As these hubs evolve into essential social service centers, officials warn that sustainable investment is critical to maintain t…
Thomas Paine: zinester.
Bo ThompsonThomas Paine is my favorite founding father. He was famously abolitionist and one of the earliest voices to point out the hypocrisy of fighting for independence while keeping slaves. He also firmly believed that keeping any friendship which required compromising your morals made you a bad person.
I never do stuff to boost or cReAtE cOnTenT for businesses but if you e ever met me you know why I might be all in on this one.
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On literacy as a threat to fascism, and the revolutionary power of zines and pamphlets—a thread:
Craig GilmoreSome thoughts on political education, the printed word, & the threat of the Prairieland convictions. Cabral caption trans: 'think more to for better action. Act more for better thought.' 1/
Zines are not a crime. Book clubs are not a crime. Literacy is not a crime, Support if you can? Even $3 is a lifeline.
Sarah Tuttleprairielanddefendants.com
Do we have any left at this point? Asking in all seriousness.
Luke O'NeilA few times a year we all gather around the computer to find out which of our constitutional rights we no longer have.