shimonides

@shimonides.bsky.social

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Thoughts and prayers mostly. Passionately Jewish, legally wed, on the verge of becoming a minor poet or something. Languages! Converted to Minnesota some years back. http://michaelgetty.com 🇨🇦

3. Beware the one-party state. The parties that remade states and suppressed their rivals were no omnipotent from the start. They exploited a historic moment to make political life impossible for their opponents. Vote in local and state elections while you can.

2. Defend institutions. Institutions do not defend themselves. They fall one after th eother unless each is defended from the beginning. Choose an institution you care about -- a court, a newspaper, a law, a labor union -- and take its side

A dozen eggs for US$5.69

1. Do not obey in advance. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.