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@rbreich.bsky.social alert - from Jesse Dollemore: youtu.be/qQ9K_aQTuPw?...
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Just finished Hunted ;-) and started Empire of AI. Love our local library!
Always. With family in Lithuania, I understand the stakes. Slava Ukraini!
[COMMENTARY] For decades, environmental, social and governance systems have focused on stopping harm before it happens. And while these systems have helped reduce future damage, they remain largely unequipped to deal with the harm that has already occurred. ** The views expressed are author's.
The lion, with its majestic mane and the loudest growl of all the big cats, is today a vulnerable species with decreasing populations in extremely fragmented habitats. For World Lion Day on Aug. 10, Mongabay looks back at some of our coverage this year of the challenges that Panthera leo faces.
Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9.
#BelieveInYourself, attain #prosperity, and #dotheimpossible this week! #youcandoit ❤️
American, and right there with you.
#YESquote: Hood Wellness/ Tamela Gordon - "There is no crystal strong enough to transmute the fluidity of #racism ...For those of us who exist w/in #marginalized #intersections, #wellness can never be in pursuit despite our identit[y] [but] must always prioritize it." #WellnessForAll bit.ly/4lZNZby
Meiselas: And it's certainly not anti-Semitic to criticize what Netanyahu is doing...you can have basic humanity and speak out against atrocities that are happening in Gaza and watching people starve to death, and that does not make you antisemitic at all.
"If you do not acknowledge your yearning, then you do not follow yourself, but go in foreign ways that others have indicated to you." #CarlJung #SharedFacts #BrainFunction #HumanReasoning
Thank you for sharing - however, the #LIVEdammit #CafePress shop has been taken down: CafePress is marketing shops that sell #AlligatorAlcatraz merch. Looking for an #eco-conscious #ethical #printondemand platform for products that walk their talk! #WeWontProfitFromPain #HealTraumaDontCauseIt
We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...
#WolffBites: Stephen Colbert got fired, CBS sold him and us out, billionaires and Trump won. But we long ago lost a free press. To be free, it would have to NOT be owned by billionaires. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
A great man, a great journalist, and a great patriot has died. #RestInPower. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...
The word "hatred" in the Bible means "lack of compassion," an apathy, coldness, abstractness that prevents love of neighbor or is indifferent to it. But the Western rationalist tradition has inculcated [abstraction] into our patterns of thinking & acting...[educating] us in hatred. bit.ly/4kxtIcG
#GianluigiGugliermetto: We need to admit that evil is ruling, w/o ID'ing individuals dominated by evil...& w/o building for ourselves a world of pleasant lies. The sooner we find strategies for...stability at this time of chaos, the sooner we will be able to counteract chaos itself. bit.ly/443R7f4
He's quite right that the individuals escalating the situation are criminals and insurrectionists: JAN6 insurrectionists.
Hey friends - So, PhilaWrites has been moonlighting as #LIVEdammit. Oops. Time to get our alt personalities straight: #MentalHealth + #YESquotes are headed to @livedammit.bsky.social. This feed will focus on ghostwriting, copywriting, & conscious business. Don’t miss out—follow both!
#YESquote: Burnout/Emily+Amelia Nagoski - "We’re not saying you should take 42% of your time to rest...if you don’t take the 42%, the 42% will take you. It will grab you by the face, shove you to the ground, put its foot on your chest, & declare itself the victor.” 20% off till 5/31! bit.ly/3FmStZY
#YESquote: But What Will People Say?: Navigating #MentalHealth, #Identity, Love, & #Family Btw #Cultures / Sahaj Kaur Kohli/"...We must have more conversations about how #communitycare is a form of individual #self-care and individual self-care is also a form of community care." bit.ly/44UhjuA
Chief among the "mistakes": ignoring Muslim voters, not questioning election results when experts were petitioning her to do so, & certifying the election with multiple-multiple reasons not to do so. We are in our current crisis because of her action & inaction. Complicit, tainted, untrustworthy.
If you could light up the world with a bookshop, what would it carry? What are the books you turn to for encouragement, empowerment, & wisdom in dark times? What are the books you always recommend to friends? What are the books that leaped off the shelf exactly when you needed them? bit.ly/4kle5Fd
Or, as modern science indicates, a dance of interdependence and deep interconnection. Corruption belongs to human(un)kind, not nature.
#YESquote: Grief Is For People/Sloane Crosley - "It’s unpredictable, this stage of grief. Just when you think you have a handle on it, a crack opens up where the crazy gets in. The pain is a weather system that builds and expands, occasionally touching down, like lightning.” bit.ly/3YZHex5 #Save20%
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You want to talk about resilience? Look at this thing. Still holding light. Still feeding fungi. Still in the shot. Falling apart isn’t failure. It’s participation.
If you've ever felt lonely and disconnected as a human, or wondering about life beyond Earth, this is better than a #YESquote - a rich and relatable story from a #YESpage. Captured from #HowToDoNothing by @jennitaur.bsky.social - too good to limit. Enjoy! bookshop.org/a/109848/978...
The LIVEdammit bookshop expanded! Browse the shelves: bit.ly/4d6DQ9F Mental Health Awareness Month-save 20%! Creating a Meaningful Life Healing the Wounded Spirit Doing the Inner Work A World Bigger than We Imagine Living Fully in Apocalyptic Times Spirituality & Spiritual Practice Gender Mysteries
Nurture your #mind and #spirit (or a friend's) while you support #indiebooksellers and undercut #Amazon - and save 20%, only till midnight of 5/31!
#YESquote: Microjoys/Cyndie Spiegel: “I’ve only ever known impermanence. It taught me that though life may be fleeting and fragile, it is equally stunning & profound in its precariousness. What is here today may not be tomorrow; loss & grief are simply layers of a life—a life lived.” bit.ly/4kxFnb7
“The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.” -Euripides
#YESquote - How to Do Nothing/Jenny Odell - on shifting from self-driven, "git 'er done" rush-rush errand-running into paying attention: bookshop.org/a/109848/978...
#YESquote: Catherine Gildiner/Good Morning Monster on surviving #concentrationcamp: “1st: shock, 2nd: apathy, 3rd: depersonalization... [Viktor] Frankl...points out that in every situation, there is always freedom of choice, even in extreme suffering.” #GiveYourLifeMeaning bit.ly/43CFvAo
#YESquote: from Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States. #LIVEdammit
"...And transcending them is the ultimate point. The bittersweet is about the desire for communion, the wish to go home." #Balance #LIVEdammit #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth bit.ly/4d6DQ9F
#YESquote: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole/Susan Cain - "The tragedy of life is linked inescapably w/ its splendor....Yet to fully inhabit these dualities—the dark as well as the light—is, paradoxically, the only way to transcend them....
Happy belated birthday!!
#YESquote: The JOY Plan/KaiaRoman - "They say laughter is the best medicine, & for good reason. Laughing releases endorphins, the brain's "feel good" hormones that activate the body's opiate receptors & reduce pain while increasing pleasure." #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #Save20% bit.ly/4d6DQ9F
May is #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth - 20% off selected titles at Bookshop.org/shop/livedammit! #Selfhelp, real #selfcare, finding #hope, #grieving, unlocking #stress, healing #trauma, rewiring #anxiety, overcoming #stigma, and more. #Votewithyour$$ - Bookshop.org supports indie booksellers!
#YESquote: The Wild Edge of Sorrow/Frances Weller: We are shaped for closeness & intimacy w/ our surroundings. Our profound feelings of lacking something are not reflection of personal failure, but the reflection of a society that has failed to offer us what we were designed to expect bit.ly/4d6DQ9F
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos
May is #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth - 20% off selected titles at Bookshop.org/shop/livedammit! #Selfhelp, real #selfcare, finding #hope, #grieving, unlocking #stress, healing #trauma, rewiring #anxiety, overcoming #stigma, and more. #Votewithyour$$ - Bookshop.org supports indie booksellers!
#YESquote: The Hope-A Guide To Sacred Activism/Andrew Harvey: "We are being asked...not to "fix" the existing system, but radically transform it so...our choices [no longer] threaten our lives & [those] of millions of species. We can only do this by radically transforming ourselves." bit.ly/4d6DQ9F
#YESquote: Buddha's Brain: Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love & Wisdom / Rick Hanson: "Given the negativity bias of the brain, it takes active effort to internalize + experiences & heal - ones. When you tilt toward what's +, you're actually righting a neurological imbalance." bit.ly/4d6DQ9F
#YESquote: The Great Reimagining/Theodore Richards: Why, if our scientists tell us we will destroy ourselves if we do not change, do we fail to change?...I believe our spiritual lives must be reimagined to honor 3 areas...long neglected: diversity, simplicity, & interconnectedness. bit.ly/4d6DQ9F
#YESquote: Dark Gold: The HumanShadow & The Global Crisis/Carolyn Baker - "To protect its own control & sovereignty, the ego instinctively puts up a great resistance to confrontation w/ the shadow; [catching] a glimpse of the shadow, the ego reacts w/ an attempt to eliminate it." bit.ly/4d6DQ9F
#YESquote - How to Do Nothing/@jennitaur.bsky.social: "When ppl long for some kind of escape, it's worth asking: What would 'back to the land' mean if we understood the land to be where we are right now? Could 'augmented reality' mean simply putting your phone down?" Find it here: bit.ly/4d6DQ9F
Looking for wisdom, hope, healing, & purpose in hard times? These are the books I loan out and never get back...now in a curated e-bookshop! Mental health, spirit, nature, activism—and every purchase supports indie bookstores, not Amazon. 📚 www.bookshop.org/shop/livedam...
This guy's a hero. Good shit, Senator.
www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine...
Oopsie...can't imagine how those unintended consequences happened! * Tariffs * International food aid * Social Security .......
Nice article from NYT: recently fired feds engaging with senators. Shout out to Senator Jim Banks, Republican of Indiana, for winning Biggest Asshole of the Week award. đź‘Ź #StandWithWorkers #HoldTheLine www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...
The work of Wisdom Projects begins with a critical, deep notion: #Children and #youth should never be harmed and they should learn to do no harm. When we uplift #peace for our youngest, we set a standard of #justice for adults and everyone. Support us at www.patreon.com/c/wisdomcomm...
8 percent of the #community that we serve are #trans or gender-questioning. #TransRightsAreHumanRights for us. Every living thing is #biological. All identity and community is constructed and we must construct ourselves to be #loving. Everyday we celebrate #TransDayOfVisibility!
Thank you, Toni!
Proud of journalists & outlets still standing up to power in the face of threats while Big Law, corporations, and other institutions capitulate: Wired, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Miami Herald, Techdirt, Marisa Kabas, the Unpoulist, ProPublica, MSNBC. (Feel free to add others in replies)
Toni, the book tour is for Miracles and Wonder, yes? Matthew may be interested in it...he is ***swamped*** this month and next, however, so it wouldn't be for awhile.
Here’s a Broad-billed hummingbird, my antidote for doomscrolling today.Look at those tiny feet! 🪶 #birds #broadbilledhummingbird #arizona #hummingbird #nature #photography
Faced with repression, suppression & oppression, #living becomes #resistance. Remind yourself & others to LIVE, dammit! b/c "the world needs you," "you're not done yet," "you can do this," & "you are perfectly imperfect" w/ LIVEdammit products; 10% benefits @wisdomprojects.bsky.social bit.ly/41Z5pwk
Thank *you* so much, tree! I was honored to work with you on this project, and am deeply grateful for your support for LIVEdammit. Blessings on you and your powerful work!
Thank you for your support and sharing, tree!
It baffles me that people keep responding as if this junta had any intention at all of keeping America safe, healthy, solvent - they don't! Their whole intent is to GRIFT. Benefiting Americans isn't even an idea. When we start responding from that realization, realistic responses will be possible.
Friends, I am honored to announce LIVEdammit's newest post: part 1 of a 2-part profile of the Executive Director of @wisdomprojects.bsky.social, Miss tree turtle, as she shares her journey from a childhood of poverty & abuse to her present role as healer/peacemaker. bit.ly/41WsDmM
Reaching out to friends, neighbors, and people of good heart....Chachi, my former cat-sitter, has lived her life giving to her community. Now, as she recovers from cancer, she needs our help. Any donation of any size helps, and sharing helps too - Thank you!! www.gofundme.com/f/chachis-st...
Thank you, Antonia!
Sharing widely - thank you!
@joyannreid.bsky.social Thank you for your powerful voice - keep speaking truth to power!
Now more than ever it's important to stay balanced and resist emotional manipulation. Learn to tackle all-or-nothing thinking, doom thinking & other cognitive distortions: www.escapeyourthinkingtraps.com
The #News brings #pain, #wounds, & #suffering—the #ViaNegativa on steroids–and sometimes overwhelming #despair. So we should admit how #vulnerable we are & encircle ourselves in a robe of #light as we “witness the wounds of the world.” And know that we are #notalone. bit.ly/4aW465c bit.ly/40YsiPX
The #Antichrist #archetype stands for #evil, raising questions of our participation & #complicity in works of evil. In what way are we complicit - or choosing not to be - in the destruction of #democracy & the 248-year #AmericanExperiment? bit.ly/3Tz8mQW
If the Anti-Christ were president, he might be thinking this…. bit.ly/4aR2Gt0
Print this one out and put it on your refrigerator
Our people across #MD08 are rightly demanding answers about President Trump's systematic destruction of federal programs and the civil service. Federal workers—I'm convening a webinar on the latest developments and resources to fight back. Sign up to gain access upon its release:
What you need to know about Trump’s tariffs and the rest of Trump’s madness robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-n...
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I can think of at least eight federal laws that have been broken by Musk and his goons over the last few days, and at least two provisions of the U.S. Constitution. They must be stopped. Some thoughts: robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-mu...
When a tsunami has crashed over the nerve-center of the nation and everything you know is tumbling in the spin — when assaults on fundamental human decency are coming from all sides — where to find your feet, where to catch your breath? Here are some tools to try... livedammit.com/on-living-wi...
Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare. Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.” We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
Imagine if, after years of homelessness, the kindest community in the world took you in. Now imagine fighting to stop your neighbors' homes burning in the #EatonFire, while yours somehow survives in the toxic wasteland. Please help #Courage devote his life to #RebuildingAltadena. bit.ly/3EghVPZ
Please add your name to Preserve the Character of Altadena, CA, and Protect Its Residents! www.change.org/p/preserve-t...
Meet one of my #heroes: Courage Escamilla, a young #activist doing round-the-clock networking and organizing to help #Altadena recover, resist #predatorydevelopers, and rebuild from the #EatonFire. Please help share his growing #resourcehub site - thank you! couragetheactor.com/altadena/
Trump and his lackeys want to divide us. They want white people to blame Black and Latino people for every tragedy. And they want Black and Latino people to react not only with hurt but with justifiable anger. We must not let them win.
Friends, I'd like to introduce my new site, LIVEdammit.com, affirming the choice to live fully despite today's chaos & destruction. I am seeking interviewees & guest bloggers willing to share the tools & self-care practices you use to shift from despair to intentional living. Interested? Ping me!
Now more than ever it's important to stay balanced and resist emotional manipulation. Learn to tackle all-or-nothing thinking, doom thinking & other cognitive distortions: www.escapeyourthinkingtraps.com
Investigative reporter Greg Palast identifies how Orange Mussolini won. This needs to make it into mainstream media....and the courts. youtu.be/8NfY2I75fdI?...
TheBaltimoreBanner.com and BaltimoreBrew.com
The Baltimore Banner and Baltimore Brew have been the go-to destination for Baltimore Sun reporters fleeing the Sinclair takeover.
Friends, it's been a long time coming, but I'd like to introduce my reinvented blog, Https://www.livedammit.com , affirming our experiences and the tools we use in clawing our way back from the grief of these times to intentional living. I'm seeking interviewees with stories and tools to share!
In light of Trump II’s predictably cruel and bonkers beginning, many people are asking: “What can I do now?” Here are 10 recommendations. robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-c...
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@elizabethemay.bsky.social Well said! And please consider the indigo-blue mid-Atlantic states, too... ;-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpCL...