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Thursday, January 15, 2026
Activist post
Resistance anyone can do. Please help apply pressure. This is from the Chop Wood, Carry Water newsletter.
Ed note: my email to corporate was rejected. Maybe blocked or full box.
Interesting that the Assistant Director definitely has a name that suggest immigrant or offspring of immigrants. You would think they would be more amenable to helping.
There's a phenomenon of at risk people siding with authority to protect themselves, despite history's showing that never works in the long run. But as to immigrants, all of us who aren't indigenous or enslaved are immigrants.
So much that's terrifying coming out of the US these days and so many people living in fear. The latest on the news here is that the orange idiot is now trying to do away with the mid-term elections, to say nothing about what he's trying to do to Greenland. Canadians are definitely climbing on the fear train knowing that we quite likely will be next in his crosshairs.
There's also a lot of resistance, and successes that aren't being reported. A couple of major funding cuts have been quietly reinstated, but you wouldn't know unless you follow people like Chop Wood, Carry Water, or Daily Beanz, or Contrarian, or Heather Cox Richardson etc.
Thank you.
ReplyDeleteLeast I can do.
DeleteThings are definitely getting worse for you all. Keep fighting the good fight the world is with you
ReplyDeleteThank you for your welcome encouragement. It's helpful.
DeleteThe whole thing is inhuman treatment
ReplyDeleteYes, so we're chipping at the edges to help break it open.
DeleteResist and persist!
ReplyDeleteWords to live by.
DeleteInteresting that the Assistant Director definitely has a name that suggest immigrant or offspring of immigrants. You would think they would be more amenable to helping.
ReplyDeleteThere's a phenomenon of at risk people siding with authority to protect themselves, despite history's showing that never works in the long run. But as to immigrants, all of us who aren't indigenous or enslaved are immigrants.
DeleteWhat a world where we know about detention centres, visiting detention centres and reception rooms.
ReplyDeleteWho knew? And who could have imagined Minnesota to be in the front lines?
DeleteSo much that's terrifying coming out of the US these days and so many people living in fear. The latest on the news here is that the orange idiot is now trying to do away with the mid-term elections, to say nothing about what he's trying to do to Greenland. Canadians are definitely climbing on the fear train knowing that we quite likely will be next in his crosshairs.
ReplyDeleteThere's also a lot of resistance, and successes that aren't being reported. A couple of major funding cuts have been quietly reinstated, but you wouldn't know unless you follow people like Chop Wood, Carry Water, or Daily Beanz, or Contrarian, or Heather Cox Richardson etc.
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