It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Contact your representatives, US folx. Yes, even if you're scared. Yes, even if you think it doesn't matter, even if you think they won't listen. Write an email if you can't make a call. Call after hours and leave a message. Call during office hours if you feel up to it, but do something. Call every day. Email every day. Fucking bother your rep. They work for you, not the other way around.

Your single call is not the point. The point is the aggregate of calls and emails. The point is that even "safe" Republicans don't feel really safe right now. The point is that "safe" Democrats are feeling pressure from the left due to the success of DSA candidates. You think they won't listen, and they'll probably try to make you think they're not, but they do, in the aggregate. The midterms have them running scared right now, and now is the time to shut this shit down.

Popular leftist voice: These right wingers are fat! They don't eat their vegetables. They eat bland unseasoned food. They eat mac&cheese. They eat chicken nuggets. They eat French fries. They think Olive Garden is fancy. Virtuous leftists eat Virtuous diets that are both Virtuously nutritious and Virtuously sophisticated, and accordingly thin and fit!

Popular leftist voice: These right wingers are children! Everyone is 12. They resent being controlled. Their brains are immature. Virtuous leftists are mature enough to deserve autonomy, which they demonstrate by being mature enough to unquestioningly and uncomplainingly doing as they're told and not seeking autonomy!

Popular leftist voice: These right wingers are uneducated! They're illiterate. They read trashy books. They listen to audiobooks. They didn't go to college. They think 20 year olds are old enough to have children even though obviously enlightened leftists know that that's a college aged child who should be playing outside. At college.

recognize that now is part of "revolution" too, and not waiting for permission or strict organizing to start "doing things" is important when consensus leads to stagnation

view collective as less of a duty and more of an agreed co-interaction. They are not beholden to or duty-bound to collectives, which makes deciding to do something for the betterment of others imo more meaningful than those who do so out of obligation

overlap with egoists/hedonists/etc is often a really important antidote to doomerism. The idea that joy and bliss and happiness can be found in the immediacy and not in a future utopia is extremely helpful (ironically so) for long-term action.

Doomerist "there is no future there is only today :(" aka "nothing can be done"

Nihilist "there is no future there is only today" aka the things we do right now matter and we can change things immediately with our everyday action

And was like, uh, are you missing something there, buddy? Like all that red in northern Africa? Because that's a lot of red.

And I was going to give them the benefit of doubt, since I don't know much about the climate in Northern Africa, aside from Morroco and Egypt, which seem like really hot places, so you know, maybe it's normal there?

But nope, that's not the case:

Some selections from the article:

"The region has been experiencing some of the most intense heat waves in recent years, but in many cases they’ve been under-reported due to misconceptions about Africans’ ability to withstand them.

“Africa is seen as a sunny and hot continent,” said Amadou Thierno Gaye, a research scientist and professor at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. “People think we are used to heat, but we are having high temperatures for a longer duration. Nobody is used to this.”

I am not uptight about privacy because I'm hiding something. I'm uptight about it because the people who dismiss my right to privacy are dangerous to you and me and our families, personally, all the time.

The Florida Everglades immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” has served its purpose, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday, closing the makeshift facility heralded by the Trump administration and denounced as inhumane by civil rights groups.

DeSantis said the center, which opened in July 2025, was always meant to be only temporary until more permanent detention centers could be secured and federal officials now have that capacity. “We stepped up because there was a gap, but my hope is that they’ll be able to handle that,” the Republican governor said at a news conference at the facility.

More details in these 2025 articles: