"I attended a training in Brooklyn last weekend with approximately 1,000 other New Yorkers where we learned strategies for resisting ICE and protecting the people they seek to hurt. Whistles were given out as favors. It was inspiring and electric.

If we can salvage one bit of light from this moment—maybe even just a spark—it’s that while Trump’s rule is punishing, it is not impenetrable."

#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
/2

"We can extinguish his hate by being the light.

Wishing a very Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate."

#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
/3

"I think there is something beautiful about always lighting the light. Right? The light in the darkness. Righ?. So, you know, it's how do you want to live, folks? We have one life. How do you want to live? Do you really want to go down this rabbit hole of Randy Fine and all these hate mongers and Laura Loomer? It's a miserable place to be."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
/4

thelefthook.substack.com/p/how…

How To Heal and Move Forward After the Bondi Terror Attack

Muslims and Jews aren't going back and our communities won't be used as cannon fodder for hatemongers willing to exploit tragedies for the sake of profit and power.

^{THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)}

"And if you don't believe me, look at Donald Trump, the world's most powerful man who late at night or, sorry, early in the morning, just wakes up with hate and bitterness in his heart, has all the money in the world, five billion dollars thanks to crypto, has failed up in life, escaped all accountability. If I were him, I'd be sleeping, drooling, watching TV and golfing and drinking a Diet Coke."

#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
/5

"But even then, still miserable. So even all the wealth and all the power and having a cult at his service still hasn't given him joy, grace, dignity, and peace.

It's right there in front of you. It's corrosive, folks. It's corrosive. Hate just eats you up inside. There's a better way to live. So light a candle."

#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
/6

"Every day brings something else that makes you want to curl up under the covers and make yourself less visible.

But that’s exactly when reclaiming your voice matters most.

Because reclaiming your voice – literally or metaphorically – is an act of resistance all on its own."

~ Michele Hornish

#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
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michelehornish.substack.com/p/…

Go Sing Your Song: Joy as Resistance and Fuel

Michele does the brave thing

^{Michele Hornish (Small Deeds Done)}

"If layers of life have covered over things you used to love, I hope you take this as a sign.

Go sing your song."

#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
/8

"Joy comes to the world not in a single, triumphant finale, but in the midst of one terrible ruler’s reign. The Advent we await happened in a moment like our own."

~ William J. Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
/9

ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/…

Advent Joy Interrupts Reigns of Terror

^{William J. Barber, II (Our Moral Moment w/ Bishop William Barber & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove)}

"I see in Christmas an invitation to see differently: God in the social outcast, life on the margins reimagined as the centre of gravity.

That way of seeing is the Christmas gift that keeps on giving."

~ Justine Toh

#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
/10

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A hidden life in the era of social media can still change history, as the story of Jesus shows

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

Ben Jennings' commentary on the heroism and moral witness given by Ahmed al-Ahmed in the antisemitic Bondi Beach attacks when he ran towards the shooters to try to stop them and was shot as a result of his bravery.

Light in darkness….

#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas #Muslims #AlAhmed
/11

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…