The marijuana companies have been making money like crazy for years and now they’re pissed that someone else is getting a piece of the pie.

Luigi

From Peter Coyote on Substack - I’m watching the Los Angeles reaction to ICE raids with trepidation and regret. Three years ago I taught a class at Harvard on the “theater of protest”— designed to help people understand why so many protests turn out to be Republican campaign videos working directly against the interests of the original protest.

A protest is an invitation to a better world. It’s a ceremony. No one accepts a ceremonial invitation when they’re being screamed at. More important you have to know who the real audience Of the protestis. The audience is NEVER the police, the politicians, the Board of supervisors, The Congress,etc. The audience is always the American people, who are trying to decide who they can trust; who will not embarrass them. If you win them, you win power at the box office And power to make positive change.Everything else is a waste. There are a few ways to get there.

Number 1 let women organize the event. They’re more collaborative. They’re more inclusive, and they don’t generally bring the undertones of violence men do. 2 appoint monitors, give them yellow, vests and whistles. At the first sign of violence, they blow the whistles and the real protester sit down. Let the police take out their aggression on the anarchists and the provocateurs trying to discredit the movement. Number 3 dress like you’re going to church. It’s hard to be painted as a hoodlum When you’re dressed in clean Presentable clothes. They don’t have to be fancy they just signal the respect for the occasion that you want to transmit to the audience.Number 4, make your protest silent. Demonstrate your discipline to the American people.Let signs do the talking. Number 5 go home at night. In the dark, you can’t tell the cops from the killers. Come back at Dawn fresh and rested. I have great fear that Trump’s staging with the National Guard and maybe the Marines is designed to clash with anarchists who are playing into his hands and offering him the opportunity to declare an insurrection. It’s such a waste and it’s only because we haven’t thought things through strategically. Nothing I thought of is particularly original. It was all learned by watching the early civil rights protests in the 50s and 60s. And it was the discipline and courage of African-Americans that drew such a clear line in the American sand that people were forced to take sides and that produced the civil rights act. .The American people are watching and once again if we behave in ways that can be misinterpreted, we’ll see this explained to the public in Republican campaign videos benefiting the very people who started this. Wake up. Vent at home. In public practice discipline and self control. It takes much more courage.

Will LA be our Kent State? Will it matter?

I shared this with a friend, who has 5-10 more years to work and i thought she would respond about retirement. Instead she said that’s how she feels as a mom to adult kids.

I have 2-6 years to go. I really like the work but admin is becoming increasingly difficult to tolerate. It makes me sad to think about someone else helping my school kids because i bailed on them. Someone said you sound workaholic but it’s really just about feeling needed and productive and helpful.

What’s extra stupid about this law is that it doesn’t just ban THC. It bans all cannabinoids other than cbd and cbg. Who choose those? Cbn, cbc, thcv, and everything else will not be processed, sold, studied in Texas.

I have a shoulder injury. I’m down to 6 pain pills and i’m so anxious about requesting more.

Usonian?

Someone here recently shared a quote - The next war will be between the rich and the poor and the rich will win before the poor realize they’re at war.

We find food because men -

1- keep asking what there is to eat, and

2-can’t find things in the panty or fridge without help.

Mac and green chili queso

Agree. Sour and spicy are not the same thing!

I work in schools. The smell of a high school hallway is so repulsive. I don’t even understand how they date each other.

There’s a joke here about his wife and his brother getting sucked in, but I haven’t figured it out yet.

I hope they donate it to an animal shelter

No one fails. You can’t drive yourself to elementary school.

Also in north Texas. Didn’t go but did make a few phone calls - Chris Van Hollen and the two Texas Republican representatives who voted no to vouchers. Not much, but more than i did yesterday.

Playing the 10 mil game.

Another post suggested calling him with support. Googled him last night and left a message. Took one minute.