Welcome 🌻 to Friday’s Roundup of Good News!
Sometimes, life just sucks. And it’s going to suck for a while.
But that doesn’t mean that we don’t still have power. That we don’t have agency.
And sometimes, even when the world out there is dark and somber, sometimes when you least expect it, sunlight breaks through. Earlier this week I was reluctant to meet with the son of a family friend, because the father is completely maga, who wouldn’t even believe me when I tried to explain that illegal border crossings always drop during the summer because it’s over 100°F and people die. But I had to participate in the get-together, and discovered that the son — who is like a nephew to my husband — is not maga at all! As Timothy Snyder says, it’s important to go out and meet people in person — “to make eye contact and small talk” - even if you’re an introvert. Do it! It’s good for you, and good for the planet.
Everyone here knows we are under siege, but please, keep on working and pushing back. If you can only bear to do ten minutes of resisting a week, then do that.
Peaceful protests can make a difference. Sometimes we won’t see the positive results immediately, but trust that they are making a difference. So protest. Put up signs. Support real journalism. Hector your elected officials. Do the next right thing.
And do something nice for yourself as well.
Every now and then, sunlight will break through. Make sure you enjoy it.
Come on in, dear gnusies, and see what some of the good guys — at home and abroad — are doing to fight the evils of our time.
Technical note: when I got up on Friday morning to complete this, I discovered that the bluesky flutters had all become invisible. Most of them reappeared later, after I had done lots of editing.
Regular Scheduled Programming
No one here is naïve; we are aware of the many who are fighting to destroy our country. Some of us expected it: the cheating, the lying, and the chaos. But we are here to read the efforts and the positive results of those (including us and our fellow gnus) who are working so hard to save our country and the planet from those very bad people. We are furious with them for what they are doing and we are letting them know.
Remember:
💜Although they lie all the time, reality matters. And our goals — based on reality — are more popular.
💙 They want us to be demoralized. The best way to keep up your spirits is to fight. So, take the time to recharge your batteries, make sure to protect yourself, your family and your friends, but find ways to contribute to the well-being of our country and our world.
🗽 Reports on Resisters 🗽
People are protesting! Maddow reports on what people are doing during her Monday nights, so that’s always worth a watch and a listen.
11 Peaceful Protests and their impact Oliver Noble Mental Floss
Let’s look through the past 200 years of peaceful protests—from tragic to triumphant to just plain weird—and remember their historic impacts.
- Cherokee Resistance to Forced Relocation // 1838
- Salt March // 1930
- White Rose Resistance // 1942–1943
- Montgomery Bus Boycott // 1955–1956
- Kent State Demonstrations // 1970
- Pureora Forest Protest // 1978
- The Singing Revolution // 1987-1991
- Tiananmen Square Protest // 1989
- Lusty Lady Strike // 1997
- Nurse-In at Applebee’s // 2007
- Wisconsin Public Employees’ Strike // 2011
They don’t always give immediate results, but they do make a difference. Maddow reported how the protests in Belgrade, Serbia, made the local government admit that a document was forged.
Hands across Chicagoland: literally 30 miles of protests! Michelle Gallardo ABC 7 Chicago
LA GRANGE, Ill. (WLS) -- People protested new policies from President Donald Trump on Sunday in a rally called "Hands Across Chicagoland."
The protestors lined streets while wearing black.
From the Chicago to Aurora and everywhere in between, the protest was billed as a 30-mile long human chain that began in Aurora and ended in Chicago's Little Village. While the turnout may have fallen short of the tens of thousands of protestors organizers were predicting, it was still significant.
"It's going to take everyone all the time to make a difference," protestor Teri Lee Nordstedt said.
And especially Tesla and ICE
In the middle of the night!
Not just rallies. A billboard campaign, here’s an example
🎩 Maru. A special shoutout to Bruce Springsteen The Farce
Just the sound of the phone ringing from the White House has been enough to make most law firms, universities, and major media conglomerates crumble like month-old bread.
Bruce is doing the opposite.
After only seeing the headlines, I finally watched the video. It’s stirring and relatable in a way that only an artist of Bruce’s caliber and mass appeal can be.
But it's not only that. After the first few beats, Bruce's words offer a model for the kind of speech that every “normie” Democrat should be getting whenever they can get in front of a crowd, especially a crowd that just isn’t filled with normie Resistance-type Democrats, whom I love but already get what’s going on.
Bruce is modeling fearlessness for his millions and millions of fans.
And as he’s doing it, he’s using his platform to do what most elected Democrats have too reluctant to do: He’s making the case for mass mobilization as the ultimate check on Trump by informing America about the “very weird, strange and dangerous shit” being done in the names and possibly will be done to them.
Trump gets that. Bruce is one of the few Americans resourced and brave enough to stand up to a rogue president. That’s why Trump is trying to sic his Department of Justice on Bruce, as a warning to any celebrity who might speak out against this regime.
Another entertainer standing up: Jimmy Kimmel cancels Jake Tapper Angelica Cheyenne, MSNBC
CNN star anchor Jake Tapper won't be making an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight.
While Jake was scheduled to appear on the late-night talk show on May 19, he no longer will be since they sho has been canceled. The X, formerly Twitter account, Call to Activism, announced the news.
Tapper was planning to push his Biden bashing book. As Biden just announced serious cancer, that was in especially bad taste. I have also read many questions about the accuracy of the book.
Anyway, good job, Kimmel!
Go, Worcester MA!
Washington state nurses join lawsuit against cuts David Keepnews, WSNA.org
The Washington State Nurses Association has joined with eight other plaintiffs in a lawsuit against federal health agencies seeking restoration of databases and other resources pulled from those agencies’ websites. The suit was filed by the Perkins Coie law firm on May 20, 2025, in the U.S. District Courts for the Western District of Washington, in Seattle.
Our coalition partners are a combination of Washington groups—the Washington State Medical Association, and the Washington Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics—along with the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, AcademyHealth, International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, Fast-Track Cities Institute, National LGBT Cancer Network, and the Vermont Medical Society.
Also, I must note the funny name of the author on this piece. Original and it inspired him to go into journalism? Or a name chosen to promote his place in the profession?
Another ally (for the most part) — the courts. tRump’s administration ordered to reinstate funding for environmental projects Cristen Hamingway Jaynes EcoWatch
In a huge win for environmental advocates, a federal judge on Monday ruled that the Trump administration must restore $176 million in grants to six cities and 13 nonprofits across the United States.
The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Gergel in Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the first permanent injunctions challenging an administration that has frozen funding, dismantled agencies and fired federal employees, Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) said in a press release.
“This is a huge victory for these organizations who can now get back to work improving their communities. While defendants have announced their intent to appeal this ruling, SELC’s team is energized and ready to continue this fight all the way to the Supreme Court until all the grants represented in our case are restored once and for all,” said Kym Meyer, SELC’s litigation director, in the press release.
And:
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BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Department of Education and ordered the administration to reinstate employees fired in a mass termination.
This can't happen without cnogressional approval, she ruled.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-05-22T14:45:03.841Z
And make sure, if you can, you go to or you somehow find a way to support the 6/14 No Kings protests:
Washington, D.C. — Today [May 5], Indivisible and a coalition of pro-democracy partner organizations announced the NO KINGS Nationwide Day of Defiance on Flag Day (June 14). The actions are set to take place during Donald Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C., on June 14. Instead of allowing this military parade to be the center of gravity, activists will make action everywhere else the story of America that day.
💣 Republicans: Party of Crimes and Chaos 💣
Casey DeSantis’ charity under investigation Tallahassee Democrat
The battle over Hope Florida, a project spearheaded by Florida first lady Casey DeSantis, kicked into a new gear with news that a criminal investigation may have been opened into a $10 million "donation" from a Medicaid settlement that was then sent to a political committee to fight a constitutional amendment that her husband, Gov. Ron DeSantis, didn't like.
“Based on what?” DeSantis said May 20 after a reporter asked about the probe, which was first reported by the Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau.
“Everything that’s been thrown at (Hope Florida) is pure politics,” DeSantis said. “I believe in this program deeply and stand by it 100%.”
🚚 💙 Democrats Deliver 💙 🚚
NH lawmaker takes on Avelo Airlines Kaysa Jalbert, 13 WGME
A New Hampshire lawmaker is fighting back against ‘Avelo Airlines’ after they signed a deal with ICE to fly deportation flights.
According to Seacoast online, New Hampshire state Rep. Seth Miller D-Dover launched a boycott campaign against the airline and raised about $6,000 dollars to have two billboards put up in New Haven, Connecticut.
The billboards message reads "does your vacation support their deportation? Just say avel-no!" Seacoast online reports the airline sent Miller a cease-and-desist letter, alleging trademark and copyright infringement, leading to the removal of the billboards.
Democrats were not in a position to stop the damned bill. But they spoke up, over and over, and pointed out how the vote in the middle of the night shows the GOP has a lot to hide Ben Blanchett, Huff Post via Yahoo News
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) on Monday called out House Republicans for scheduling an upcoming meeting in the wee hours of the morning to weigh in on President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
“If Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ is so great, why not debate it when people are still awake? Wouldn’t you want everyone to know how great it is?” asked McGovern, ranking member of the House rules committee.
“Why are you debating it at 1 o’clock in the morning? I think that’s prime time in Guam.”
Again, overperformance by team blue in a special election!
Note this is not technically a flip as this seat was held by a D, but that D was off working with Rs. More on the election: Jared Gans, The Hill
Sutton, a businessman who has led a nonprofit for years, defeated Republican Nachman Caller, an attorney who previously ran for state Assembly a decade ago. His win keeps the seat in Democratic hands after the resignation of former state Sen. Simcha Felder, who resigned from his position last month to take a seat on the New York City Council.
The result seemed uncertain as Felder is a conservative Democrat who previously caucused with the state GOP conference for years. Felder repeatedly ran unopposed on the party line for the Democratic and Republican parties.
State Senate District 22 encompasses a part of Brooklyn that overwhelmingly voted for President Trump in the November presidential election.
But the district includes a heavily Orthodox Jewish area. Sutton has close ties to the Sephardic community as a co-leader of the Sephardic Community Federation.
Now, this was a low-turnout election in a district with unusual demographics. We can’t say for sure that this indicates what will happen in other parts of the country. But it sure beats going the other way!
💜 Unity?💜
One thing we have seen:
Note that although we are making a big difference in some places, others — Portugal and Poland, for example — are not secure.
But this is good:
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Great to see this.
"The European Union will donate 5.5 million euros ($6.2 million) to support Radio Free Europe following a freeze on U.S. federal grants to the media outlet by the Trump administration, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said."
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) 2025-05-20T21:15:28.464Z
Romania! People here surely know that Romania, despite earlier predictions, went with the non tRumpy candidate in their election last Sunday. Here’s some information on him. Anjali Thakur, NDTV world
Romania has elected mathematician-turned-politician Nicusor Dan as its new president, delivering a clear victory over hard-right nationalist George Simion in a high-stakes runoff election. The 55-year-old secured 54% of the vote, according to AFP, in what is being seen as a strong endorsement of Romania's pro-European Union trajectory and a rejection of far-right, isolationist politics.
Dan, currently serving as the Mayor of Bucharest, is no stranger to success. Long before he entered politics, he was recognised as a math prodigy, winning two consecutive gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in 1987 and 1988.
Notably, he achieved a perfect score of 42 both years, a feat that placed him among the world's top young mathematicians at the time.
Following his Olympiad triumphs, Dan studied mathematics at the University of Bucharest before pursuing advanced degrees in France.
As a mathematician, I LOVE this.
Also, look at this: About Leo XIV, the new pope, from Wikipedia:
In 1973, Prevost was going to attend Tolentine College, an Augustinian seminary in Olympia Fields, Illinois,[32] but it closed that same year.[31] He promptly enrolled in Villanova University, an Augustinian college located near Philadelphia, where he earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in mathematics in 1977. ✂️
He returned to his father's native Hyde Park to obtain a Master of Divinity (MDiv) from Catholic Theological Union in 1982 and taught physics and math at St. Rita of Cascia High School in Chicago's Wrightwood neighborhood during his studies
I think — and of course I am biased in this opinion — people who truly love math tend to love actual facts. You know, truth. And Leo is showing love as well:
And:
For much of my adult life, I have had trouble tolerating Christians, because of the terrible hypocrisy, the racism, the misogyny and the televangelists and the terrible scandals. Like Gandhi said, “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” It is so good to see Pope Leo XIV going against the cruelty of kings.
Also, the first world leader Leo XIV met with was Zelenskyy. Cool.
tRump has gotten the UK and Europe to work on resolving their differences Bmnnews.com
Nearly a decade after the United Kingdom (U.K.) voted to leave the European Union (EU) under Brexit and amid shifting relations with the U.S. under President Donald Trump, Britain and the EU significantly bolstered their trade and defense partnership on Monday.
In what is the largest deal the bloc and the U.K. have agreed to since the controversial Brexit vote in 2016, the two economic powerhouses agreed to increase defense ties and slash red tape, making it not only easier for U.K. food and visitors to access the continent, but also granting fishing rights to EU vessels off of Britian’s coastline.
The agreements have been described as a “reset” and championed by U.K. Prime Minister Kier Starmer, who opposed Brexit, and EU leader, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who said, “At a time of global instability, and when our continent faces the greatest threat it has for generations, we in Europe stick together.”
Note this is a real trade deal, not the nonsense tRump has been spouting.
📥Actions You Can Take 📤
Tax-exempt organization complaint referrals. 13909. You can fill this out for the NRA and lots of other organizations. How about if some of us white folk go into some of the MAGA churches and video record what they’re saying?
Voting rights. This may be the biggest issue threatening our democracy right now. Besides contacting your representatives at the state and federal level to do the right thing (depending on who they are),you can support and contact these organizations:
ACLU — American Civil Liberties Union
Democracy Docket — founded by Marc Elias, so important in fighting the challenges after the last election.
Fair Fight — founded by Stacey Abrams
🌱Grass roots. Join with local communities to make a difference. It could be your local Dems. It could be your school board or your library. Reach out to people. We all need each other these days.
🏃 Run for something. If you want to run for something, but have no idea what to do, these people will help you. They also like money and volunteers to help those people who are running, so even if you’re not in a position to stand for office, you can help.
👎 Defund the seditionists. This is a list with companies that sometimes have donated to the seditionists. The list is long. You will recognize many of the corporations, and you probably have a relationship with some — either you are a customer, a shareholder, or maybe even an employee. Contact them and compliment or complain, but let them know you are watching. Forward it to others.
🐍Schadenfreude 😈
Target bows to tRump, sales fall because ETTD
Rick Wilson compares Elon Musk to roadkill, because of the law ETTD
If I’m remembered for nothing else—and there’s a nonzero chance I won’t be—it will be for a single ironclad political law that holds across time, space, and every variable in politics: Everything Trump touches dies.
What started as shorthand for the emotional, legal, and reputational annihilation of Trump’s cronies has metastasized into something bigger and bleaker. It now includes America’s global influence, our economy, our system of government, our rule of law, and the increasingly fragile scaffolding of liberty itself. Even Trump’s most obsequious sycophants—especially them—eventually get the knife. Some in public, many in private. Most don’t even realize they’ve been iced out until they wake up to a New York Times headline about Trump “losing faith” in them. (It’s usually the Times because, yes, he secretly loves the mainstream media.)
And now, the latest name added to the long, sad ledger of MAGA roadkill is none other than former Co-President and Viceroy of DOGE: Elon Musk.
Remember Elon just a few short months ago? He wasn’t just powerful—he was the power behind the throne. The real Prime Minister of the United States. The Lord Regent of Dark Elite Ultra Gothic Hyper Cyber MAGA governance. He had Trump on speed dial, could make senators grovel with a tweet, and walked the White House halls like he owned the place.
The big problem is that tRump’s currently touching the country, so we will continue to suffer from that.
And, because this is Schadenfreude, and a second helping tastes even better, here’s more on How Trump Killed Tesla Jonathan V Last The Bulwark
How much does it cost to drive a Cybertruck?
The base sticker price for Tesla’s electric truck is $70,000,1 but that’s not the real cost. The real cost is the depreciation.2 When you go to trade in your Cybertruck, how much is it worth?
We have some answers. But before we get to the math, let’s go big-picture: Why should we care about the depreciation on a Tesla?
Because it’s part of a counterrevolution. ✂️
The anti-Tesla movement is one of the most successful cases of social coordination in American history. In the span of six months the Tesla brand has been made radioactive.
This isn’t a subjective view. You can see it in the data.
UK and Europe target Russia with sanctions after failed tRump-putin call Peter Beaumont and Pjotr Sauer, The Guardian
The UK and Europe have announced major sanctions against Russia as it became clear that Monday’s call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had failed to deliver any meaningful concessions from Moscow.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Tuesday accused Russia of “trying to buy time in order to continue its war and occupation” as Putin declined to support the US-proposed 30-day unconditional ceasefire already agreed to by Ukraine.
The UK said its sanctions would target dozens of entities “supporting Russia’s military machine, energy exports and information war, as well as financial institutions helping to fund Putin’s invasion of Ukraine”.
“Putin has so far not put in place the full, unconditional ceasefire that President Trump has called for, and which President Zelenskyy endorsed over two months ago,” the Foreign Office said.
📣 Let’s Honor Truth ☀️️
This week we’re honoring Media Matters, a group that has been monitoring and correcting the right-wing misinformation machine since 2004.
Media Matters for America is a web-based, not-for-profit, 501 (c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
Launched in May 2004, Media Matters for America put in place, for the first time, the means to systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation - news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda - every day, in real time.
Using the website mediamatters.org as the principal vehicle for disseminating research and information, Media Matters posts rapid-response items as well as longer research and analytic reports documenting conservative misinformation throughout the media. Additionally, Media Matters works daily to notify activists, journalists, pundits, and the general public about instances of misinformation, providing them with the resources to rebut false claims and to take direct action against offending media institutions.
Media Matters was founded by David Brock, formerly conservative, when he did great damage to the country by challenging Anita Hill and helping to saddle us with the bribe-me-with-an-RV Clarence Thomas. But when engaged to help take down the Clintons, especially Hillary, he became disgusted with his work and changed sides.
Brock is no longer listed as part of Media Matters’ leadership but they continue to do important work. I don’t have the time to monitor the RW misinformation machine, nor do I have the tolerance. But Media Matters does, and they help us push back by their investigations and corrections.
🌹 Let’s Celebrate Love ❤️
San Jose dry cleaner guy helps the unemployed Annalise Freimarck San Jose Spotlight
When Ali Shirkhodaei immigrated to the United States from Iran at 28 in 2006, he didn’t know how difficult it’d be to get a job, even with his molecular biology degree. He job hunted for a year, with no idea he’d eventually run a successful dry-cleaning business in Campbell. Shirkhodaei did know he wanted to infuse his career with acts of kindness, no matter how small, and bring the spirit of Tehran’s city streets with him.
One of Shirkhodaei’s newest services at family-owned Lux Cleaners & Alterations does just that. He provides free, speedy outfit cleanings to any unemployed customer heading to a job interview — no questions asked, no limit. About five to 10 customers use the service a week.
“I think it will definitely give them some hope that the community they live in (cares) about them,” he told San José Spotlight. “It’s not about just getting, it’s about giving. That’s the part that brings all of us joy.”
Shirkhodaei first thought of the unique idea a few months ago after talking with other dry cleaners across the country who wanted to help their communities during tough economic times. He knows high-tech workers caught in the swell of Silicon Valley’s mass layoffs at companies like Google, Meta and Microsoft. He understands how difficult it is to be unemployed and wants to give back to the community that’s supported him since his business started in 2010.
📎Odds & Ends 📎
More than 1 in 4 cars sold in 2025 expected to be EV Paige Bennett, EcoWatch
According to the Global EV Outlook 2025 report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), 2025 is set to be big for EV sales. The report predicts that about one in four cars sold worldwide this year will be electric, despite overall market uncertainties.
In total, the agency has anticipated that more than 20 million EVs will be sold globally in 2025.
Based on the report findings, IEA reported that the EV market share is on track to pass 40% of all car sales by the end of the decade.
“This year, we expect more than one in four cars sold worldwide to be electric, with growth accelerating in many emerging economies,” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said in a statement. “By the end of this decade, it is set to be more than two in five cars as EVs become increasingly affordable.”
Let’s just make sure they’re not Teslas!
Hero saves women and their purses:
China’s CO2 emissions drop, possible peak Cristen Hemingway Jaynes EcoWatch
For the first time, a surge in China’s renewable energy output has led to a drop in the country’s carbon emissions, despite rapidly increasing power demand.
The emissions decline marks a major milestone in China’s energy transition, according to an analysis by Lauri Myllivirta, lead analyst and co-founder of the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) in Finland, published by Carbon Brief.
“Growth in clean power generation has now overtaken the current and long-term average growth in electricity demand, pushing down fossil fuel use,” Myllyvirta wrote in the report. “The current drop is the first time that the main driver is growth in clean power generation.”
The report said China’s total power demand rose 2.5 percent in the first quarter of this year, while thermal power generation — mostly from coal and gas — fell by 4.7 percent.
🐦 I do a lot of other writing. Newest offerings: Messing with the Myths — two books so far in this series. Older offerings: the Crow Nickels (chronicles), about crows who want to save birdkind from extinction (Hunters of the Feather). Mysteries based on Jane Austen’s novels, such as The Meryton Murders. Others based on history and Greek mythology, e.g., Jocasta: The Mother-Wife of Oedipus. All titles also available through Kindle Unlimited. Want to support me but not interested in my books? Buy one and donate to a library.
💙 What You Can Do to Rescue Democracy 💙
It turns out that participation in democracy is not just an every-four-years event but requires active participation, like, whenever you can find time.
I know it’s tough to see the path forward. And I can’t guarantee that there is a path forward. But people who are smarter and braver than I have seen ways to move ahead.
Their (the fascists’) plans really are dark, but many of them are also dumb, in the sense that they don’t make sense. So many of them cannot succeed.
Here are some quick hits.
- Stay involved. Yeah, that’s tough. I want to look away too, but by taking simple actions you can make a difference. Keep contacting your representatives, both in DC and at home.
- Support causes that will fight. Send money if you can. Also, spread their news with clicks and conversation.
- Slow them down. Oppose and block at every turn.
- Make tRump unpopular. Doing this weakens him. And it should not be that difficult. The GOP made a lot out of Biden is old and eggs cost too much. Well, tRump is older than Biden was at the beginning of his term and tRump has no policies that are going to bring down inflation. And a host of other problems, like he’s a convicted felon.
- Divide the GOP from each other. They are a coalition based on contradictory promises, so there’s plenty to work with.
- Keep telling the truth and showing love.
- Make sure to pace yourselves in this marathon and to practice self-care.
Current projects:
Look in the comments for Progressive Muse’s report on Postcards to Voters
And Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny Lessons:
(1) Do Not Obey in Advance; (2) Defend Institutions; (3) Beware the One-Party System; (4) Take Responsibility for the Face of the World; (5) Remember Professional Ethics; (6) Be Wary of Paramilitaries; (7) Be Reflective if You Must Own a Gun; (8) Stand Out (this means, speak up, even when others do not); (9) Be Kind to Our Language; (10) Believe in Truth; (11) Investigate; (12) Make Eye Contact and Small Talk; (13) Practice Corporeal Politics; (14) Establish a Private Life; (15) Contribute to Good Causes; (16) Learn from Peers in Other Countries; (17) Listen for Dangerous Words; (18) Be Calm When the Unthinkable Arrives; (19) Be a Patriot; (20) Be as Courageous as You Can.
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💙 President Joseph R. Biden: “Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we all are created equal and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear, demonization have long torn us apart. The battle is perennial, and victory is never assured.”
💙 Sir Winston Churchill: When you’re going through hell, keep going.
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TRUTH MATTERS. LOVE MATTERS.