If you live somewhere that offers no-questions-asked mail-in voting, and your election commission gives you the option to automatically get mail ballots with each election, I would highly recommend doing this.

Earlier in the year a ballot just showed up in the mail. It was for the very local elections like school board, parks commissioner, stuff like that.

I almost certainly wouldn't have realized the election was even happening, but having the ballot in-hand made sure I voted in it.

Oakland Public Library has a backpack you can check out, that comes with (1) binoculars (2) nature guide and maps and (3) a compass

https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S183C3354086

#Oakland #PublicLibraries #Libraries #California

RT @[email protected]

"Will you migrate to Post, Mastodon, or somewhere else?" seems to me the wrong question. For me, the highest value of Twitter is hearing directly from people engaged in freedom struggle against Russia, in Iran, in Chinese-speaking lands. Where do THEY go? How will I follow THEM?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1603751028846903297

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

On this day in 1986, Elie Wiesel delivered his timeless Nobel Prize acceptance speech https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/12/10/elie-wiesel-nobel-prize-speech/

The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words.

Genocides do not start with mass murder. That's where they end up.

Genocides & other mass atrocity crimes begin with words - specifically, with powerful people dehumanizing a minority.

Once they are seen as less than human, anything is possible, even mass murder.

👉 You can speak out loudly today for the rights of others, or you can stay silent & wait for tomorrow, when your rights will be taken away too.