Circle Time // 3.26.26
How are we doing, fam? It’s a loaded question these days to be sure, but I’m sending everyone my equal parts of whimsy (still a work in progress) and rage, in solidarity.
Hard to believe we are a quarter through 2026, that the trees and greenery are coming back to life, and we have a day in the 80º range forecasted for next week. I’m in a season of transition with work shifts, health shifts, and trying to find a better balance of juggling the realities of my work and the realities demanded of me with my health and personal life. Doing my best, dropping things along the way, and trying to find those pockets of joy in between.
We’ll be skipping Circle Time next week, and be back on April 9th for our next issue— onto this weeks, we go!
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Took advantage of the temperate weather last weekend to tackle lots of spring yardwork and garden prep, and a long overdue garage clean-out. Maybe wasn’t the best choice for my body right now that has been having some flare-ups with chronic illness (my symptoms of hEDS has become much more prominent post-Covid), but mentally it felt really nice to be physically active in the outdoors, get some dirt on my hands, and be off screens. Nature is always healing!
Don’t miss out on the No Kings March, happening this Saturday, 3/28— if you are able to attend, you can find the nearest march here (you don’t need to sign up, just show up).
Kicking it off with 3 pieces of good news!
In a special election in Florida for a state senate seat, Democrats flipped the seat with Emily Gregory— this district is home to Mar-a-Lago, where Trump just voted by mail (despite calling vote-by-mail “cheating”) for his endorsed candidate, Gregory’s opponent.
OpenAI is cancelling Sora, their genAI app that had massive deepfake concerns. Pop. That. AI. Bubble.
Governor Mikie Sherrill just signed 3 pieces of legislation to help protect NJ residents from ICE— on top of also suing the federal government for the attempt to turn a warehouse in Roxbury into a concentration camp / “detention facility.”
What’s been happening, ICYMI, rip-the-bandaid-off style:
ICE is now at dozens of airports across the country, to “help” the TSA workers with the record-long lines due to the DHS shutdown (resulting in TSA workers not getting paid).
🚨Steve Bannon said the quiet part out loud, and said that ICE at airports is a test run for the 2026 midterm elections. There are laws with perimeters of safety around polling sites to discourage voter intimidation, but we all know ICE presence will be a problem for turnout. Time to start organizing with mutual aid and poll worker groups!
They already arrested a woman in front of her young child at SFO.
Delta announced they’re suspending their “special services” desk perk for Congressional members, as a result of this DHS shutdown.
Speaking of the DHS shutdown, it’s day 41, and Senate Dems have now tried to end this NINE times, offering to fund everything else but ICE’s deportation funds from the bill and asking for them to be unmasked and require judicial warrants, but Republicans refuse. TSA has lost 480 workers since the shutdown began.
In this video I also break down more of the political nonsense (spoiler alert, grifters be grifting) driving the DHS shutdown, post office battles, and the war on vote-by-mail:
U.S. expected to deploy 1000-4000 troops from 82nd Airborne to Middle East for Iran war. We’ve seen this movie before.
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