Notices by Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 (susankayequinn@wandering.shop)

I love to see it (and do it).

REMINDER: in a crisis, all the tales of neighbors turning on each other, violence and chaos, cats and dogs living together... are fairy tales. They are the specter the state raises to justify violence on the citizenry to maintain control. In reality, people automatically pitch in and help their neighbors during a crisis.

People get maximally creative in a crisis. We find a way to survive, it's what we do best.

*This* is the time for communities to come together and support each other and to understand who is actually harming them, why we have #SNAP in the first place, the limits of private charity...

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...and that some places will step up and help you far more than others, and those people will be your friends (or 🤢try to indoctrinate you).

This is visibly mobilizing HUGE numbers of people, way more than No Kings and...

#SNAP
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...if Rs thought this through AT ALL, they would never never NEVER give us a reason to mobilize, coordinate, and work together to ease suffering.

Because that's their kryptonite.

But they only understand punishment and suffering.

That is why we will win.
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#SNAP

@nikatjef it boggles the mind that you'd even *want* your military to have to have a second job to survive

Republicans, faced with the consequences of their own actions (40M Americans stripped of food assistance), are desperate to portray anyone getting SNAP as “lazy”.

Kids. Disable folks. Vets.

40M people are on food assistance because rich fucks are greedy.

Maybe America will see that clearly now.

The food-affordability crisis really has 3 things happening at once:
1-general economic crisis due to tariffs, terrorizing immigrants (and citizens!)by snatching people off the streets,huge cuts in government programs, etc: this is causing a rise in costs across the board, including food costs.

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2 - a bill Republicans pushed through this summer cut funding for food pantries and SNAP (by about 20%). Even before the bill, the Trump administration was just unilaterally cutting food aid everywhere: school lunches, US AID, etc. This was happening before the government shutdown.

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3 - the government shutdown means 40M people who receive SNAP are not going to get their food money starting Nov 1st. This is about $6B per month in food that's just stopping. There's virtually no way for private donations to even begin to compensate, but you can see people scrambling to try...

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...which I am doing too & using it as a way to community build and educate.

BTW, the government has contingency funds it can use to fund food aid during a shutdown... the Republicans are refusing to use it because all of this starving of people is on purpose.

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Hey, look what landed in my mailbox! A #solarpunk graphic novel from @renanbernardo.com! And it's gorgeous 😍🌞

This is your periodic reminder that Republicans in Congress wake up every day and decide to be traitors and bend the knee to King Trump... they could literally stop all of this *at any time* and they choose every day not to.

FYI

This is SO IMPORTANT:
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social defending JOY as something we deserve & *must have* in the fight against fascism

@jesscraven101.bsky.social "fascism cannot live where there is joy, connection, community, mutual aid &FUN"😍

you need to watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J6o7RXPSNn0

why it works: community, fun

JOY IS FASCISM'S KRYPTONITE
There is a reason why (when I was handing out zines as Lady Liberty at #NoKings) the JOY and HOPE zines went fast and first.

You can download those here: https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/zines

@guante.info @dorkydino.bsky.social h/t to @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social

omg I love this
@revmagdalen

The People: NO KINGS!
Trump: I will literally tear down the White House

OMG 🤣💀
https://www.newsbreak.com/raw-story-2096750/4301395639208-jd-vance-s-motorcade-hit-with-shrapnel-after-artillery-mishap-during-celebration-report

"JD Vance's motorcade hit with shrapnel after artillery 'mishap' during celebration: report"

ME, yesterday, before this LMAO: