Let’s Do This!
Emergency Meeting: Defend Our Federal Grants, June 25th
RSVP HERE so we can plan seating and materials.
Dear Neighbors,
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes a sweeping rewrite of the rules governing federal grants — the funding that supports our local hospitals, schools, roads, housing, and food programs. The proposal would let political appointees decide which grants are awarded and allow active grants to be canceled mid-project. The public comment period closes July 13, 2026.
We're hosting a community meeting to help you understand what's at stake and, more importantly, what you can do about it.
Thursday, June 25, 2026 · 6:30–8:30 PM
Keystone Church (5019 Keystone Pl. N.; across 50th from Meridian Park)
At the meeting, we'll cover:
Writing and submitting a comment to the Federal Register — this can be as simple as four-sentences; we'll guide you through.
Reaching out to your elected officials (federal, state, county, city)
Encouraging organizations you belong to to comment as well.
We hope to see you there.
Fixing Climate Communications: A New Global Report
Climate can be prioritized with the right narrative. Keep the focus on the personal consequences, the chemical cause, and the promising cure. If we tell stories of love, health, money, and power, we can regain momentum and make climate action a top citizen priority, and a message that spreads.
Elon Musk and the Rise of Cult Capitalism, Prof. Adam Bonica
“At $1.34 trillion, Elon Musk’s net worth is no longer a measure of corporate earnings; it is an exercise in cult capitalism. His wealth is underwritten entirely by collective faith in his power to deliver a future that has not yet arrived. The market is not tracking traditional value—it is pricing belief. Musk’s fortune is the world's first trillion-dollar pitch deck.”
See the amazing interactive graph; scroll to the right.
Now Where?, Bill McKibben
“… a way to understand the Trump presidency, including its “excursions” into Venezuela and Iran, is as a reaction against this new reality: the desperate attempt by Big Oil, and by a would-be Big Man, to assert what Trump keeps calling “energy dominance.” We were trying, as it were, to “roll coal” on the rest of the world, with war but also with Trump’s other tricks, especially tariffs. His bet was that America was so militarily powerful, and its market so attractive, that we could coerce other countries into going along with his vision of a 1950s world where America used its oil supremacy to keep atop the heap.”
The Beauty Of Restraint, Jason Anthony
“The tension here lies largely in the myth that working full-tilt on “fixing” climate change will also resolve the biodiversity crisis. In reality, there is only the biodiversity crisis - a jargon term for the fate of life on Earth - and the heating climate is a major component of it. But if we’re not actively restoring lost habitat, reducing chemical use in agriculture, dreaming up ways to reduce ocean acidification and deoxygenation, and conserving areas of land and sea necessary for large-scale resistance to rising extinction rates, then we’re not paying attention. A world full of solar panels won’t be enough.”
Trump’s One Beautiful Hunger Crisis, Catherine Rampell
“Trump’s solution to this emerging food affordability crisis is to take away programs that help people afford food.”
A Memo Of Little Understanding, Rev. Cameron Trimble
“American power performed strength and discovered its limits. Iran endured pressure and remained. The region absorbed the consequences. Ordinary people have waited for leaders to stop making the world more dangerous. A memorandum of understanding has now been signed. What’s still unclear is how much real understanding has actually been gained. … That’s the deeper question we face: Can a nation learn from the failure of coercion? Can power become humble enough to tell the truth about its limits? Can we imagine diplomacy that begins before violence is unleashed instead of after it’s exhausted?”
