Congrats Ami!

It certainly reinforces the separation!

Seems like an easy win for authors to support local gatherings around their methods, no?

I wonder if a Mel Robbins practice club would hit.

Nurturing a theory:


Self-help books largely fail because they put all the responsibility on you to do it all yourself.


When you struggle to implement their proven system, it feels like it's your fault.

This is it right here.

Damn it’s back.

Not just abstract notions of what the solution needs to be—I mean actual, this-is-what-you-can-do-and-why-it-will-work solutions.

Who is offering an actual plan for how to reverse our civic unraveling?

Every day I see article after article explaining in yet another way why things are bad, yet I see so little focus on the potential solutions.

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Reminded me of that one too. McDonalds employees are the real intelligence apparatus.

Nailed it

“How do you explain this gap in your resume”

“I was working for the Antimemetics Division”

“What’s that?”

“What’s what?”

Reading about antimemetics for the first time.

Or am I?

Also: nice to know my top artist from 2024 was the same as my top artist from 1994.

I did listen to this one a bunch when practicing it for piano karaoke, but still… top 0.05%? That seems pretty impressive for such a mainstream artist.

Libraries are offering free health and wellness classes across the US Libraries around across the U.S. are helping people get healthier. They offer fitness classes, food pantries, cooking classes, conversations about loneliness and mental health, and even blood pressure...

Libraries are offering free health and wellness classes across the US

There are lots of people who you can follow who are hopeless or caught in an endless cycle of doom. That’s not me.

As bad as this time is, as dangerous as it is, we’re not bugs on the windshields of history. We have agency. We just never never give up on our country. I won’t.

If you’re looking for some quality family programming to watch over the holidays, I can’t recommend Klaus (2019) enough.

Netflix.

I don’t begrudge people for being sad and angry and having doubts about our path forward as a country. I have felt and feel those emotions. But as flawed as our democracy is, I refuse to give up hope in it. I refuse to give up hope in America. I refuse to give up hope in my fellow Americans. 3/

Just as important, we need new strategists who are part of the communities where we need voters. We need relational organizers on the ground all year, every year. We need more data and less anecdotes based in the political persuasions/aspirations of politicians.

Don’t act like you haven’t grown up watching Star Wars and the like.

Where the rebels overcome impossible odds to thwart the bad guys in power.

You’ve been training for this all your life.

Kinda ironic when you think about it, no?

The left should be the ones with grand, specific plans for things they want to change and make better, and the right should be the ones not really focused on sweeping changes.

There are local elections happening in my city in 2025.

Do you know if any are happening in yours?

One thing they will need to do: find super simple sound bites that hammer home the fact that this is the incumbent regime's fault, every day.

Because the repubs are going to do everything they can to blame what happens on everyone but themselves.

What is the left's version of Project 2025?

"How much data I never thought would put me at risk have I inadvertently exposed?"

From a convo with a friend

Q: Is this true?
Q: If so, how do we turn that into a resistance strategy we can each commit to?