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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄
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Anthropologist, speaker, educator. Plant medicines, Land Back + organizing for collective liberation. Is Gaeilgeoir mé 💚 she/her 📍 Tkaronto

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Opening up your humanity lets in crashing waves of hundreds of years of suffering in your lineage and the entwined lineages of your kin near and far, and that's a pretty serious thing to process in the body and we don't talk enough about how important that processing is to effective changemaking
February 8, 2026 at 2:56 PM
The purpose of pointing out systems is to give us a concrete goal for dismantling them and putting something new in place.

Our solutions need to be based on an understanding of how people turn into monsters in the first place. Leaving the systems intact will create an endless supply of new monsters
February 8, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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This is critical, and applicable to so much of what we see going on in the world. Don't throw the Nazis out of office; dismantle the systems that enabled them.
If you're focusing only on the people in the Epstein files, you're missing the bigger picture.
February 8, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Many of the people I'm close to don't feel everything as intensely in their bodies as I do, and they just don't understand what it's like. It's really hard to explain the subjective experience of feeling the pain of the world's suffering children every day.

Healing work is what keeps me alive
February 8, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.
February 8, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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UK Labour is a case study in what happens when you prioritize winning over actually standing for something. They chased the center-right so hard they’re basically just the Tories in red ties now.
Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.
February 8, 2026 at 2:23 PM
If you're focusing only on the people in the Epstein files, you're missing the bigger picture.
February 8, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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February 7, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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The amount of Facebook pages I’ve seen post some variation of “this is a bird watching page but you can’t enjoy the beauty of nature or the spectacular birds if agents of the state shoot you repeatedly in the back” is heartening. There are a lot of people being shaken out of apolitical malaise now.
February 7, 2026 at 2:08 PM
I picked such a good day to plan a hike
February 7, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Every Reddit community right now:
February 7, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Zohran Mamdani
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 7, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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February 7, 2026 at 12:54 AM
I recorded a bunch of videos sitting on my floor today and I think I gave myself literal rugburn on one ass cheek
February 7, 2026 at 12:33 AM
If you want to feel hope flowing through your body, read the comments in here
In a city packed with mighty real estate titans, they are the small ones.

New York landlords say they are at their breaking point as Mayor Zohran Mamdani begins to implement even more aggressive tenant-friendly policies.
NYC’s small landlords say they won’t survive Mamdani plan to freeze rent
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has criticized landlords and vowed to freeze what tenants in rent-stabilized apartments pay monthly.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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"They bought or inherited aging apartment buildings, hoping to bring home a little extra cash"

... bought, or inherited, whole ass apartment buildings
In a city packed with mighty real estate titans, they are the small ones.

New York landlords say they are at their breaking point as Mayor Zohran Mamdani begins to implement even more aggressive tenant-friendly policies.
NYC’s small landlords say they won’t survive Mamdani plan to freeze rent
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has criticized landlords and vowed to freeze what tenants in rent-stabilized apartments pay monthly.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:51 PM
It takes a lot to program a human to hate, fear and dominate others, but several thousand years of internal and then external European colonization managed to do it.

Now children are raised with authoritarian values forced on them from day one:
Men are not trash.
Perpetuating the narrative that “men are bad” helps normalize rape culture by making it seem like it’s just inherent to their nature. It’s not.
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February 6, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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Bennie & Clovis Martin, inventors of the po' boy sandwich, to striking workers:
"We are with you till h--l freezes, and when it does, we will furnish blankets to keep you warm."

Let's bring this energy to 2026:
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Notable Sandwiches #137: Po' Boy
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I trip merrily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...
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February 6, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Yes! This is what I'm saying—every crack in the system is an opportunity to welcome disillusioned people into the movement for collective liberation. The right are doing it, it's long past time we offered something better
Maybe a timely men’s support group which could help young men
“Bitcoin Bro Support Group”

A lot have lost a lot of money and maybe would be needing support- and we could steer them to positive masculinity.
Great question. In the "What to do" section in this article, I have some thoughts!

hilaryagro.com/2026/02/05/m...

And more resources here:

hilaryagro.com/resources/#p...

Encouraging men's groups is a key tool: mensgroup.com/start-mens-g...
February 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Maybe a timely men’s support group which could help young men
“Bitcoin Bro Support Group”

A lot have lost a lot of money and maybe would be needing support- and we could steer them to positive masculinity.
February 6, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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Hey men and masc peeps: here are some resources for dealing with young men who need community and help grappling with their anger and violence.
How to talk to struggling men? Nonviolent Communication training is the place to start: nvcacademy.com

Starting a men's group is also a hugely beneficial step. Make sure the stated and practiced values of the group are decolonial, feminist and anti-oppressive: mensgroup.com/start-mens-g...
So, jumping off from your excellent talks about men being conditioned into authoritarian lifestyles… what would be some of the things we can say to these guys? How do we reach them? I was inspired so much by Ian McKellen’s The Strangers case yesterday, but how do we reconnect their humanity?
February 6, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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I recommend this, and the materials have come a long way since Marshall B. Rosenberg's original ones, which could be a little abstract and technical

(loved his hand puppets though!)

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How to talk to struggling men? Nonviolent Communication training is the place to start: nvcacademy.com

Starting a men's group is also a hugely beneficial step. Make sure the stated and practiced values of the group are decolonial, feminist and anti-oppressive: mensgroup.com/start-mens-g...
So, jumping off from your excellent talks about men being conditioned into authoritarian lifestyles… what would be some of the things we can say to these guys? How do we reach them? I was inspired so much by Ian McKellen’s The Strangers case yesterday, but how do we reconnect their humanity?
February 6, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I feel what you're saying in my heart. I think it's very reasonable for women to focus on themselves and their healing. Myself and other people can do outreach work for the collective, and you can contribute to the movement for liberation in whatever ways you're able to. Trust us to carry the rest ❤️
To be fair, I am also pissed that women are expected to be the emotional punching bag for men, their therapist, etc. In usa, I avoid men I feel are toxic on a personal bc it could endanger my life. Women’s rights are literally under attack and lost the right to abortion.
February 6, 2026 at 4:38 PM
How to talk to struggling men? Nonviolent Communication training is the place to start: nvcacademy.com

Starting a men's group is also a hugely beneficial step. Make sure the stated and practiced values of the group are decolonial, feminist and anti-oppressive: mensgroup.com/start-mens-g...
So, jumping off from your excellent talks about men being conditioned into authoritarian lifestyles… what would be some of the things we can say to these guys? How do we reach them? I was inspired so much by Ian McKellen’s The Strangers case yesterday, but how do we reconnect their humanity?
February 6, 2026 at 4:33 PM