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Philly Girl with Colorado roots. Just finished a debut novel, Into to the Ancient Future. 
Please save the planet.
https://open.substack.com/pub/reedgalen/p/dear-rally-organizers-time-to-move?r=nwmx&utm_medium=ios This sounds like great advice for some of the moral outrage moments I’ve seen on this app. Also, “No permanent friends, no permanent enemies.” (A relevant and profound organizing maxim.)
Dear Rally Organizers: Time to Move Out of Your Glass Houses

Let me tell you a quick story.

The Home Front

A man powers home for eight years using a thousand old laptop batteries

Link: https://techoreon.com/a-man-powers-home-8-years-laptop-batteries/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548217

A Man Powers Home for 8 Years Using 1,000 Old Laptop Batteries

A man has managed to power his home for eight years with a system using more than 1,000 recycled laptop batteries. This ingenious project, based on the use of

Techoreon
Timothy Snyder wrote: "Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Millions of you, around the world, have put these lessons to good use; it has been humbling to learn how from courageous and creative dissenters, protestors, and oppositionists. I am delighted to have this special chance now to share the lessons again. I was honored when John, a wise advocate for civil discourse and civic engagement, volunteered to read them aloud." https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Thinking about...
I've been begging ZeitOnline editor Jochen Wegner to translate and open their stellar coverage of America's fall for Americans. Here is a fine example: A European Declaration of Independence from America. Highly recommended. Vielen Dank, Jochen, mein Freund.
https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-03/europe-us-independence-relations-english/komplettansicht
Europe and the US: Thanks America, That’ll Be All

Andy Warhol, Big Mac, iPhone: It was a grand American epoch. But it’s over. Europe must finally emancipate itself – just not as awkwardly as Jürgen Habermas might like.

ZEIT ONLINE

"DOGE Has 10 Staffers at Social Security in Hunt for Dead People."

Musk’s #DOGE looks for evidence at the Social Security Admin to support its claim that there could be millions of dead people receiving public benefits.

Two sworn statements filed in fed court late Wed show that the SSA has staffed up in recent weeks to include 4 special govt employees & 6 more DOGE staffers on loan from other departments.

#Sabotage #SocialSecurity #Purge #SSA #Coup #Musk #USPol
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-13/doge-has-10-staffers-at-social-security-in-hunt-for-dead-people

Senator McCormick,

You use the deficit as a shield to justify cuts that will hollow out protections of ordinary people. But you could also lower the deficit by voting to let the 2017 tax cuts for you and your mega donors expire instead.

I understand the Republicans plan is to pass more tax cuts instead of continuing our needed programs. The deficit won’t be any smaller when you’re done.

Where I come from that’s called a “bait and switch” or, more simply, a scam.

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@GottaLaff Laffy, please put this out. Can't access my Social Security Account. Neither can any of my friends. When I first tried, got this message, then just a blank page. Also reports that phone lines to senators are down.