Nothing says freedom quite so much as the state scrutinizing your every offhand remark for wrongthink.

New US visa rules will force f...

I posted this on the #Tutor #Mentor blog this week. https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2025/06/tips-for-starting-leading-volunteer.html

Share with others and help constantly improving, volunteer-based youth serving programs grow and reach more k-12 youth in your community.

Make sure donors are involved because w/o consistent, flexible, funding programs can't operate or grow.

Today's Daily Create:
#tdc4905 #ds106 #MYfest25 Theme – Environmental Dignity
https://daily.ds106.us/tdc4905/

While the Daily Create chugs along for the usual crowd (I’m looking at y’all, thanks), we are encouraging participants in the July-August Mid Year Festival (MYfest) to join in the fun. Each Wednesday we will offer a specific daily create related to one of the MYFest themes. Join along, and show folks how the TDC is done!

For today, create or share an image that suggests the theme of (or the […]

#DailyCreate #Ronald2008 #tdc4905

I did searches on Bing and Duck Duck Go today for the words "tutor mentor planning". My website, blogs and visual essays showed up multiple times on the first two pages. I hope people are using the ideas to help volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs reach K-12 kids in more places.

Use different words than planning in your search, such as 'maps' or 'collaboration' and see what you find.

I do these searches to see who else is sharing similar ideas and to try to connect.

I did searches on Bing and Duck Duck Go today for the words "tutor mentor planning". My website, blogs and visual essays showed up multiple times on the first two pages. I hope people are using the ideas to help volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs reach K-12 kids in more places.

Use different words than planning in your search, such as 'maps' or 'collaboration' and see what you find.

I do these searches to see who else is sharing similar ideas and to try to connect.

“OK, Boomer” just got flipped on its head. At protests across the country this past weekend, older Americans turned out in force, leading chants, waving signs and showing that resistance has no age limit. And their passion isn’t just inspiring. It might be what helps save democracy in 2026 and beyond. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/senior-voters-trump-resistance-grantifa

As Senate Republicans rewrite the reconciliation bill that would gut Medicaid and SNAP, we’re making sure key GOP senators hear from their angry constituents. Help us disrupt Trump’s Tax Scam by calling voters in target states and connecting them with their senators: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/792462/?utm_source=indivisible

Mapping the political violence destroying American democracy
https://thedemlabs.org/2025/06/15/mapping-the-political-violence-destroying-american-democracy-melissa-hortman-john-hoffman-alex-padilla/
#politicalviolence

This is scene of #NoKings protest on June 14 in Mt. Prospect, Il. People occupied all four corners of this intersection, with signs and chants of protest. I'd guess 200-300 people were there.

Share to honor the life of Rep. Melissa Hortman! 💙

Know that she wasn't killed by a "mad man", she was killed by a Trump supporter in a political act of violence...

This is frightening: Minnesota Democratic Sen. John Hoffman and Democratic Rep. Melissa Hortman, along with their spouses, were shot overnight by a suspect posing as a police officer. A manhunt is underway.

Be careful (and peaceful) protesting today.

“The most corrupt Presidency in American history.”
-Maine

We’re not just rallying against a fascist king, we’re exposing the Trump regime’s corruption, crimes against humanity, illegality, treason…
#Corruption #TrumpRegime #Kleptocracy #Kakistocracy #Crimes #Inhumanity #NoKings #FreeSpeech #Protests #Fascism #PoliceState #USPol
https://www.ft.com/content/548161ee-0cfb-4f0c-90ea-b3ff3567f09d

This is the page in the history book where future generations may ask, “Why didn’t more people speak up?" Don’t let this slide.

I just watched Alex Padilla get thrown to the floor and cuffed after trying to ask Noam a question at a presser.

The Senate is meant to be only second to the House of Representatives in power in our system of Democracy. They are fewer, older, and meant to be the wise body of the government, serving longer than presidents, and running less often than reps.

If you're waiting for the sign that things have gone too far, it's passing you by.

America is neither safe nor free.

@billclawson @pluralistic Essentially, political power in the US is now divided between a repressive death cult and a fundraising business, and the reason that the death cult keeps winning is because at least you can get people excited about joining a death cult.

After, or before, you go to a protest, do the learning to better understand issues and more effectively connect with others trying to solve the same problems.

I posted this today. https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2025/06/after-or-before-march-do-reading.html

After, or before, you go to a protest, do the learning to better understand issues and more effectively connect with others trying to solve the same problems.

I posted this today. https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2025/06/after-or-before-march-do-reading.html

Padilla: "WE. WILL. HOLD. THIS. ADMINISTRATION. ACCOUNTABLE."

His pauses, not mine.

They better, because we are in deep shit, people. #fascism

MORE:

"I encourage everybody to please peacefully protest."

What kind of country is this?

Senator Alex Padilla was handcuffed for asking questions at a press event — detained for doing his job.

And DHS’s response?

They’re here to “liberate [the people] from the government of California.”

Speed run to authoritarianism.

Over the summer get to know youth #tutor #mentor programs in your community. Volunteer and/or donate as they launch fall 2025 programs in August/September. I share lists of Chicago area programs at https://www.tutormentorexchange.net/chicago-area-program-links