Make Your Damn Bed

"Indivisible is a movement for people who are determined — people who turn fear, anger, and grief into action. People who come together in community to hold each other up, protect each other, and fight for our values. If that sounds like you, we invite you to join us.

We can’t tell you that everything will work out OK over the coming years—no one can. But we can tell you with a lot of confidence that nothing will be OK unless we fight for it.

And there’s so much that’s worth fighting for." - Indivisible

The  Practical Guide to Democracy on the Brink: https://indivisible.org/resource/guide

Safety + Security Guide: https://indivisible.org/resource/safety-security-and-digital-preparedness-second-trump-administration

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The current establishment is banking on us giving up our power. They want us to forget that we pay their bills, we hire them, and we fire them. They can work out their contracts but if they don’t deliver? We have to hold them accountable. 

Today I share concrete strategies to pressure your representatives and reclaim some of the power they’re so desperate to convince you they’ve taken. 

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The current establishment is banking on us giving up our power. They want us to forget that we pay their bills, we hire them, and we fire them. They can work out their contracts but if they don’t deliver? We have to hold them accountable. 

Today I share concrete strategies to pressure your representatives and reclaim some of the power they’re so desperate to convince you they’ve taken. 

Access the "Guide to protecting democracy" here: https://indivisible.org/resource/guide 

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There are no perfect revolutionaries, and Gandhi is no exception, but that doesn't mean we can't learn from their work. So, as Gandhi reminds us, "We must never lose our faith in humanity.”

And he's right. We are all connected, we are all in this together, and cooperation is the best bet for winning this thing - for us, our allies, and unfortunately our enemies, too.

THE SOURCE: https://wagingnonviolence.org/metta/2025/02/gandhis-faith-in-humanity-is-a-call-to-action/

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"... we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end.

We shall fight in the Bronx and along the border, we shall fight in the national parks and forests, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the streets, we shall defend our nation, whatever the cost may be.

We shall fight on the public beaches, we shall fight to protect the public lands, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

And even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this nation or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our teenagers and youth would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World that is our beautiful multicultural future, with all its renewable power and grassroots might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old." - Winston Churchill

"I don't know when this regime will end or how, but I know that it will, and that we have a role to play in that and whatever comes after." - Rebecca Solnit

The source: https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/people-get-ready/

Choose Democracy's mailing list: Choose Democracy

Handbook for nonviolent resistance campaigns: https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/handbook-for-nonviolent-campaigns/

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Cooperation is good for the goose and good for the gander, but it's built on trust. Our current society does a lot of work to convince us that we can't trust each other - and that is to our detriment. I'm here to remind you that humans are worthy of trust + cooperation.

The main resource: Cooperation: https://open.maricopa.edu/culturepsychology/chapter/cooperation/

Big Think: https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/secrets-of-cooperation/

Strategies to reduce social loafing: https://www.athleticinsight.com/sports-psychology/social-loafing

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In multi-cycle versions of the prisoner's dilemma, the most successful winning strategy was tit for tat (and later, tit for two tats) because it was:

Nice, (didn't defect first)

Retaliatory, (so they didn't get exploited for being too nice)

Forgiving, (they retaliate, and then return to cooperation. Not petty or vengeful.)

Non-envious (they didn't strive to get more than their opponent.)

I think this can teach us a lot about cooperation and mutual-beneficiaries, even in relationships where we have to work with people we don't like or trust.

Cooperation is still a better strategy than constant fighting, and that is exciting to me.

THE SOURCES:

Prisoner's Dilemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#The_iterated_prisoner's_dilemma

The Evolution of Cooperation Book Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation

Tit for Tat strategy wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat

Check out this Veritasium video for more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScpHTIi-kM

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Believe it or not, in the official studying of strategy within game theory, cooperative strategies fared the best, even amongst those selfish motivations. Let's talk about the prisoner's dilemma and what we can learn from the thought-experiment.

Game Theory Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory

Prisoner’s Dilemma wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#The_iterated_prisoner's_dilemma

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Today we discuss the Twilight Zone, its controversy, and a few of its more profound (and controversial) episodes.

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If you don't like this stuff, you can also let me know by emailing [email protected]!

The source: https://www.rogerebert.com/features/the-metaphor-years-writing-lessons-from-the-twilight-zone

The other source: https://gamerant.com/twilight-zone-most-controversial-episodes/

And this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Serling

Some of the episodes I discussed are broken down here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shelter_(The_Twilight_Zone)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_Street

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_the_Night%E2%80%94Color_Me_Black

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obsolete_Man

Access the full guide to The Twilight Zone here: https://www.twilightzonemuseum.com/show/index.php

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Today we’re talking about Rod Serling’s dealings with censorship and how he turned his frustrations into something profound and timeless.

“The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.” - Rod Serling

Article 1 I referenced: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/early-run-censors-led-rod-serling-twilight-zone-180971837/

Article 2 I referenced: https://jfk.blogs.archives.gov/2024/12/18/jfk-in-the-twilight-zone-rod-serlings-letters-to-president-john-f-kennedy/

Article 3 I referenced: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/rod-serling-about-rod-serling/702/

Serling Quotes: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/840774-the-writer-s-role-is-to-menace-the-public-s-conscience-he

Read about Emmett Till: https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/emmett-tills-death-inspired-movement 

VIDEO: The Emmett Luis Till documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvijYSJtkQk&rco=1

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