bsmall2Feb 13

> Those Buddhist monks on pilgrimage blow me away – they were just out there walking week after week for peace, implicitly saying "we are nonwhite non-Christian immigrants," and crowds across the south were literally joining them. They arrived today at the National Cathedral and the end of their peace walk, and that they were received there says a lot.

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/auspicious-omens-and-excellent-insubordination/
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Auspicious Omens and Excellent Insubordination

I started this out as a letter to a friend who's feeling down about where we as a nation are at in this moment, and I am still learning how this newsletter thing works so thought I could use the newsletter template to produce a private document, maybe a PDF,

Meditations in an Emergency
bsmall2Nov 18
> A society that perpetuates and protects this desire and arrangement is rape culture, and it’s been our culture throughout most of its existence... Trump’s is quite literally a pro-crime administration, as major branches of federal government are pulled away from pursuing criminals to persecuting immigrants, often violating the law to do so. The administration has sought to cut funding for and dismantle programs addressing domestic violence.
https://pixelfed.social/p/bsmall2/896317679394443086 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/06/epstein-files-rape-crime-trump
#RebeccaSolnit #TheHopeLady on #RapeCulture #TrumpSteinFiles [参照]
Brian Small (@[email protected])

37 slices 😂 And 10 or so halved horozontally 😁 again. おから🥕🎂‼️ #OkaraCarrotCake #おから人参ケーキ

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bsmall2Nov 11

> Another source of disappointment seems to come from the expectation that there will be some sort of obvious and logical building up toward regime change, rather than the reality that tipping points in particular and histories in general are unpredictable animals.

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/in-2025-we-showed-up-notes-on-resistance-to-the-regime/

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#ResistanceIsEverywhere

In 2025 We Showed Up: Notes on Resistance to the Regime

A young white woman in yoga clothes berating masked ICE agents in a parking lot this spring. A pope speaking up again and again for immigrants. Furious judges dressing down the Trump administration and ruling against it time after time after time, in response to the blizzard of lawsuits filed

Meditations in an Emergency
bsmall2Jul 6, 2025

> Many people are simply disappearing, their friends, family, employers, coworkers simply unable to find out where they've been taken. Thousands have been directly impacted; tens of millions are indirectly impacted as they find themselves living in fear of these fates, and it is ravaging both mental health and the ability to continue to participate in everyday life and earn a living. Many are, with good reason, afraid to leave their homes.

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/immigrants-a-love-letter/
#RebeccaSolnit #ICEThugs #USAImmigration #ICEBudget #uspol #TheHopeLady

Immigrants: A Love Letter

It has never been easy to be an immigrant to the United States – for most economic, linguistic, and cultural barriers make life here a struggle, even if they were escaping a worse life elsewhere. The utterly evil bill that just squeaked through in Congress, among other harms, aims to make

Meditations in an Emergency
bsmall2Apr 1, 2025
> “It is exactly what gives you hope when you see this happen–when you see how hungry people are for the truth. When it is offered to them, they seize it.” Truth has been at least as important as law in the shift of status of indigenous Americans, for even the legal gains seem to be built on a foundation of changed imagination and rewritten history. Columbus Day became an occasion to rethink the past, and rethinking the past opened the way to a different future.
https://tomdispatch.com/rebecca-solnit-on-hope-and-history/
#TheHopeLady #RebeccaSolnit #TomDispatch #uspol #ColombusDay
Rebecca Solnit on hope and history

Soon after the latest Iraq war began in March 2003 and the antiwar movement finally packed its bags and went home in despair, I received an email at my Tomdispatch e-box from Rebecca Solnit. She

TomDispatch.com
bsmall2Apr 1, 2025
When I learned to love The Hope Lady.
> This resurgence also demonstrates the sidelong ways of change: from an argument in Geneva to a land mass in northern Canada, from a critique of the past to a new path into the future, from ideas and words to land and power. This is how history is made, out of such unlikely materials, and of hope.
https://tomdispatch.com/rebecca-solnit-on-hope-and-history/
#RebeccaSolnit #TheHopeLady #TomDispatch #uspol #WorldPol #AnotherWorld
Show threadbsmall2Feb 5, 2025
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> ... nothing happening, including the intent to execute the 2025 agenda and yesterday's proposal to ethnically cleanse Gaza, is a surprise; this was all out in the open before the election, but delivered like the story about defenestrating the federal government in terms that were bland, mild, soft, a little boring...
https://meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/maybe-you-should-shout-fire-in-a-crowded-theater-if-its-on-fire-the-coup-continues/
@bsmall2
#MediaFilters #ManufactureOfConsent #TheHopeLady #Solnit
Maybe You Should Shout Fire in a Crowded Theater (If It's On Fire): The Coup Continues

Yesterday the Associated Press ran a story with this sentence in it: "Last week, regional managers for the General Services Administration, or GSA, received a message from the agency’s Washington headquarters to begin terminating leases on all of the roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide, according to an email

Meditations in an Emergency
Show threadbs2Jun 18, 2024
> “We’re happy here. We’re treated well. Everyone is equal,” she says. “Everyone is homeless. Everyone has their story and we are helping each other. If someone needs a diaper or milk for our little ones, we share amongst each other. If I have bread, I’m going to share with everyone else. And if others have food, I’ll eat too.”

#ParadiseInHell comes to mind, by #TheHopeLady #RebeccaSolnit
Brian SmallJul 11, 2023

From Rebecca Solnit's FB post:

.> This is the kind of thing I have in mind when I scratch out the parts of the speaking contracts I'm handed that demand rights in all technologies now existing and yet to be invented and infinite varieties of ownership of whatever I say and do and my appearance, etc. I don't want to be digitally digested into whatever's useful for some profiteer. I signed a contract this spring where I basically scratched out everything in it and then signed it and no one blinked, because the cannibals who write this shit are not the people who hand it to you. - https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-is-bringing-the-voice-of-the-dead-back-to-narrate-your-audiobook-7528cd96

#RebeccaSolnit #CorporateCannibals #SpeakingContracts #WritingContracts #TheHopeLady #HopeInTheDark #AI #AIorSalami #VoiceOfTheDeadAudioBooks

He’s Been Dead for Nearly 10 Years. Now He’s Narrating Your Audiobook.

Apple, Google and others embrace the new AI technology for recording audio versions of books

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