Catalyst N Compost

See that CERT vest? A good time to get involved and trained is *before* the next disaster. Are you involved in organized neighbors, CERT, or other voluntary helpfulness?

rest in peace to Wendell Berry

Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]

Richmond BPAC’s summer trail cleanup …

People whose only motivation for not doing bad things is avoiding punishment should be kept away from all positions where they wield power to hurt others. He completely lacks any moral compass and doesn’t even understand the concept.

I am a decorated veteran. This guy is one of my heroes!

Today I signed an Executive Order for every worker exposed to extreme heat on the job. It requires multilingual heat safety guidance for workers, a review of construction site heat safety practices, and heat illness prevention plans at every mayoral agency.

There is no word in the English language to adequately describe the anger and frustration and disbelief that Americans are feeling….

People want repairable no-tech things! I love seeing the way people seeking out analog devices too.

KQED radio reported that PGE and other CA utilities are spending 12 mil to defeat Steyer and have endorsed Becerra. So, if you're following the money in this race, this news item may help you decide who to vote for.

Judge me by my enemies. Corporations like Chevron, PG&E, and Meta are spending nearly $50 million against me—and only me—because I'm the only candidate who will take on the corporate interests ripping off working people and families. Game on.

I aopteciate writing by hand and typing for different purposes. I also know that literacy is not the only way to learn and remember things. The oral tradition of passing along knowledge and wisdom has had great success where it’s embedded in culture.

Today I stood in solidarity with UNITE HERE Local 11 and their members at Sofi Stadium, which include the stadium’s janitors, dishwashers, servers, bartenders and cooks. Together we called on FIFA and KSE, the owner of Sofi Stadium, to demand that ICE play no role in the World Cup.

US Agriculture Secretary Rollins: “The good news is that 4.5 million more people are now food insecure (most of them children) in the United States.” That is essentially the gist of her real quote. This is frighteningly the type of achievement the regime is constantly bragging about.

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress beforehand, or our allies, or coherently explain to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

Show me one person on a bike rolling through a stop sign and I’ll show you 100 drivers speeding in an elementary school zone.

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion. That's roughly $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. People do not want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

Okay. Time to call your democratic senators and tell them that Bovino’s demotion and humiliation WILL NOT SUFFICE to fund DHS.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

It’s a death cult

How do we prepare for this level of ice terrorism?

We've all got our gripes about DC Dems, but mine is: why the fuck aren't they saying "Stephen Miller is really the president" or "I hear Stephen Miller jokes about how Trump will sign anything". It took like two days of "Elon is really the president" before he was banned from the white house!

Imagine if the oligarchs, dictators, & wannabe world rulers turned their apparently insatiable ambition to working toward climate solutions instead of making wars & harassing people. What if we could put them on the frontlines of the wildfires? Would they be able to change their priorities?

🔥🔥🔥🔥 📌 Don’t wait until it comes to your town — be prepared ❌ Don’t assume “it won’t happen here” What does this admin struggle with — Organized, early, boring preparedness

Peter Karl Fellenz is an ICE deportation officer from Shakopee, MN. He participates in violent kidnappings and has terrorized Minneapolis for years. Please print and post this flyer to keep your communities safe. Somali, Spanish, and Hmong versions follow. #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE #MPLS

www.emilyk.art/protest-prin...

Without losing track of, or giving up on, the wider situation, focusing on local mutualism is, I think, key to maintaining resilience.

Despite what we are often told, this line from Mamdani’s inauguration speech is what true pragmatism actually looks like: “Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.”

This is exactly what one would expect. The hatefilled, fear-mongering, mean-spirit ed set are really good at reaching out to people desperate to feel a sense of belonging and power. We who believe in love need to do better at countering their efforts.

What animal would be a good mascot or symbol for community resilience and readiness? (And why?)

Earlier this year, the director of CalTrans presented this chart to members of the state Senate’s Transportation Committee, showing a dramatic rise in deaths on California's roads. No lawmakers asked about the chart. Or what CalTrans was doing about it. 1/9

California has some of the weakest DUI laws in the nation. Here, DUI-related deaths have been rising more than twice as fast as the rest of the country. But this fall, a state bill to strengthen DUI penalties was gutted at the last minute. calmatters.org/investigatio... 8/9

Positive masculinity.