Monday, April 07, 2025

in the news

There is a new Hunger Games novel--Sunrise on the Reaping--and it's the anti-AI, anti authoritarian reading I want for next weekend.

A friend sent me this explainer on the Insurrection Act, which may be invoked as early as April 20th, and it is fucking terrifying. 

I'm signing on to a letter at work urging our college leadership to proactively seek out other small colleges to launch a cooperative defense. This is such a generous and ingenious initiative and I'm so proud to call the lead author a friend.

Pic: I guess I kind of made the news 🤣.  That's the back of my head next to L's snow-white mane in the news story about Saturday's protest. (We're standing in formation to sing on the steps of the capitol; the crowd is on the lawn in front of us.)

16 comments:

Nicole said...

You made the news!!!
I hope the smaller colleges can band together to make a stand.

Jeanie said...

Thanks for the link. I'll check it out. Three cheers on your "news coverage!"

Lisa's Yarns said...

Love that you can spot yourself and your friend in the news coverage of the event. I am going to read about this insurrection act but am terrified to do so…

Jenny said...

I read the link about the Insurrection Act. I want to sign up to be a disorderly clown!!!

StephLove said...

These are such frightening times...

Nance said...

I knew that was you! LOL
Thanks for the link. I'm not sure how I feel about the author's strategy, but I'll read it again and think about it.

J said...

I haven’t read the link yet but I shall. I am really hoping that all of this worry about insurrection act and Marshall law and so on is unfounded. It doesn’t FEEL unfounded though.

maya said...

:P
And I hope so too, Nicole... not to sound dramatic, but I do believe it's our only hope of survival.

maya said...

Ha. Thanks Jeanie.

maya said...

I thought there were some good ideas in the article for resistance, so it was not all doom and gloom, Lisa.

maya said...

Me too, Jenny! I can fill my pockets with lots of random stuff lol

maya said...

TRULY!!

maya said...

Nance--I know you're joking, but I did NOT recognize myself from that angle (and was dismayed that my trichotillomania had left a permanent track in my scalp).

maya said...

Fingers crossed it doesn't come to pass. And now I'm in two minds about the proposed 4/19 protest. Will it show T that the people will not be messed with or give him the excuse to put the IA into effect on 4/20?

Gillian said...

Funny.

maya said...

:)

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