Committed Citizen
@committedcitizen.bsky.social
Wield your power to change the world for people, animals, and the planet.
Friends, we’ve decided the most effective course forward in these challenging times is to merge w/ our sister initiative, @collapseresilience.bsky.social. Since there's a lot of overlap & since collapse is happening even faster, we can best support you by merging. Please follow CRC! W/ gratitude. ❤️
July 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Friends, we’ve decided the most effective course forward in these challenging times is to merge w/ our sister initiative, @collapseresilience.bsky.social. Since there's a lot of overlap & since collapse is happening even faster, we can best support you by merging. Please follow CRC! W/ gratitude. ❤️
We're trained be dependent on our phones, computers, EVs & other electronics. But they all have dire costs for people, animals & the planet—including because of mining rare earth minerals.
Via the BBC: “mining just one tonne of rare earth minerals creates some 2,000 tonnes of toxic waste.”🧵
Via the BBC: “mining just one tonne of rare earth minerals creates some 2,000 tonnes of toxic waste.”🧵
July 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We're trained be dependent on our phones, computers, EVs & other electronics. But they all have dire costs for people, animals & the planet—including because of mining rare earth minerals.
Via the BBC: “mining just one tonne of rare earth minerals creates some 2,000 tonnes of toxic waste.”🧵
Via the BBC: “mining just one tonne of rare earth minerals creates some 2,000 tonnes of toxic waste.”🧵
This world wasn’t built for justice—it was built for profit, power, and control.
But it doesn’t have to stay that way. We can build something else.
🌱 Choose kindness over consumption.
🩵 Fight for justice—for people, animals, and the planet.
🤝 Join mutual aid.
The world is made—and we can remake it.
But it doesn’t have to stay that way. We can build something else.
🌱 Choose kindness over consumption.
🩵 Fight for justice—for people, animals, and the planet.
🤝 Join mutual aid.
The world is made—and we can remake it.
July 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This world wasn’t built for justice—it was built for profit, power, and control.
But it doesn’t have to stay that way. We can build something else.
🌱 Choose kindness over consumption.
🩵 Fight for justice—for people, animals, and the planet.
🤝 Join mutual aid.
The world is made—and we can remake it.
But it doesn’t have to stay that way. We can build something else.
🌱 Choose kindness over consumption.
🩵 Fight for justice—for people, animals, and the planet.
🤝 Join mutual aid.
The world is made—and we can remake it.
💵 Budgeting Is Resistance.
Every dollar we DON'T give to exploitative corporations is a blow to their power.
Spending carefully & intentionally—on local food, mutual aid, worker-owned co-ops, reused goods—resists extraction & builds resilience. Let’s turn our budgets into tools for justice!💪 🌍
Every dollar we DON'T give to exploitative corporations is a blow to their power.
Spending carefully & intentionally—on local food, mutual aid, worker-owned co-ops, reused goods—resists extraction & builds resilience. Let’s turn our budgets into tools for justice!💪 🌍
July 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
💵 Budgeting Is Resistance.
Every dollar we DON'T give to exploitative corporations is a blow to their power.
Spending carefully & intentionally—on local food, mutual aid, worker-owned co-ops, reused goods—resists extraction & builds resilience. Let’s turn our budgets into tools for justice!💪 🌍
Every dollar we DON'T give to exploitative corporations is a blow to their power.
Spending carefully & intentionally—on local food, mutual aid, worker-owned co-ops, reused goods—resists extraction & builds resilience. Let’s turn our budgets into tools for justice!💪 🌍
Eating animals drives climate change which drives out of control wildfires.
Another great reason to go vegan.🌱 🌍
Read more: sentientmedia.org/meat-industr...
Another great reason to go vegan.🌱 🌍
Read more: sentientmedia.org/meat-industr...
June 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Eating animals drives climate change which drives out of control wildfires.
Another great reason to go vegan.🌱 🌍
Read more: sentientmedia.org/meat-industr...
Another great reason to go vegan.🌱 🌍
Read more: sentientmedia.org/meat-industr...
Building solid relationships—especially outside our bubbles—is some of the most challenging & important work for creating a compassionate, just world.
Finding common ground, leading w/ curiosity, practicing grace & working for mutual understanding are key to cultivating communities of solidarity.🌍
Finding common ground, leading w/ curiosity, practicing grace & working for mutual understanding are key to cultivating communities of solidarity.🌍
June 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Building solid relationships—especially outside our bubbles—is some of the most challenging & important work for creating a compassionate, just world.
Finding common ground, leading w/ curiosity, practicing grace & working for mutual understanding are key to cultivating communities of solidarity.🌍
Finding common ground, leading w/ curiosity, practicing grace & working for mutual understanding are key to cultivating communities of solidarity.🌍
Communicating with compassion isn’t just a kind thing to do—it’s an essential strategy for influencing others.
While our anger at cruelty and injustice is justified, people are more open to change if they’re not feeling judged, defensive, or attacked.🧵
While our anger at cruelty and injustice is justified, people are more open to change if they’re not feeling judged, defensive, or attacked.🧵
June 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Communicating with compassion isn’t just a kind thing to do—it’s an essential strategy for influencing others.
While our anger at cruelty and injustice is justified, people are more open to change if they’re not feeling judged, defensive, or attacked.🧵
While our anger at cruelty and injustice is justified, people are more open to change if they’re not feeling judged, defensive, or attacked.🧵
People aboard the Madleen are risking their lives to bring aid to Gaza. Worldwide, governments & corporations are stripping away our rights & destroying the planet.We have a responsibility take action in whatever ways we’re able. No one's coming to save us. We must save ourselves & each other.🌍 💚
June 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
People aboard the Madleen are risking their lives to bring aid to Gaza. Worldwide, governments & corporations are stripping away our rights & destroying the planet.We have a responsibility take action in whatever ways we’re able. No one's coming to save us. We must save ourselves & each other.🌍 💚
Republicans are working hard to strip us of healthcare, food, clean air & other protections to give billionaires even more tax breaks.
Rogan’s List has a helpful guide for what we can do to fight back. Choose at least one action & wield your power:
susanrogan.substack.com/p/action-gui...
Rogan’s List has a helpful guide for what we can do to fight back. Choose at least one action & wield your power:
susanrogan.substack.com/p/action-gui...
June 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Republicans are working hard to strip us of healthcare, food, clean air & other protections to give billionaires even more tax breaks.
Rogan’s List has a helpful guide for what we can do to fight back. Choose at least one action & wield your power:
susanrogan.substack.com/p/action-gui...
Rogan’s List has a helpful guide for what we can do to fight back. Choose at least one action & wield your power:
susanrogan.substack.com/p/action-gui...
Had enough authoritarianism, corruption, kidnapping, cruelty & destruction?
Join the NO KINGS Day of Defiance on June 14 and wield your power to fight for democracy and a more just, compassionate world for all. 🌍 💪
👉 Find out about events in your area at www.nokings.org
#NoKings
Join the NO KINGS Day of Defiance on June 14 and wield your power to fight for democracy and a more just, compassionate world for all. 🌍 💪
👉 Find out about events in your area at www.nokings.org
#NoKings
June 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Had enough authoritarianism, corruption, kidnapping, cruelty & destruction?
Join the NO KINGS Day of Defiance on June 14 and wield your power to fight for democracy and a more just, compassionate world for all. 🌍 💪
👉 Find out about events in your area at www.nokings.org
#NoKings
Join the NO KINGS Day of Defiance on June 14 and wield your power to fight for democracy and a more just, compassionate world for all. 🌍 💪
👉 Find out about events in your area at www.nokings.org
#NoKings
Capitalism is killing us, yet the system compels us to contribute to our own exploitation & destruction.
Building community, mutual aid & alternative systems—& increasing our own self-reliance—are key to dismantling these destructive systems & creating a world founded on compassion & justice. 🌍💚
Building community, mutual aid & alternative systems—& increasing our own self-reliance—are key to dismantling these destructive systems & creating a world founded on compassion & justice. 🌍💚
May 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Capitalism is killing us, yet the system compels us to contribute to our own exploitation & destruction.
Building community, mutual aid & alternative systems—& increasing our own self-reliance—are key to dismantling these destructive systems & creating a world founded on compassion & justice. 🌍💚
Building community, mutual aid & alternative systems—& increasing our own self-reliance—are key to dismantling these destructive systems & creating a world founded on compassion & justice. 🌍💚
Avelo Airlines has put profits before people & is operating deportation flights, aiding ICE and the US government in illegally & inhumanely kidnapping & deporting people w/o due process.
🌍Sign up to pledge to take action and get a toolkit of suggested actions: defendandrecruit.org/stopavelo/
🌍Sign up to pledge to take action and get a toolkit of suggested actions: defendandrecruit.org/stopavelo/
May 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Avelo Airlines has put profits before people & is operating deportation flights, aiding ICE and the US government in illegally & inhumanely kidnapping & deporting people w/o due process.
🌍Sign up to pledge to take action and get a toolkit of suggested actions: defendandrecruit.org/stopavelo/
🌍Sign up to pledge to take action and get a toolkit of suggested actions: defendandrecruit.org/stopavelo/
Community free stores, gardens, lending libraries, mutual aid, swaps, cooperatives, and voluntary simplicity can boost personal & community self-reliance amid tariffs, supply chain issues & other challenges.
Explore local initiatives and help yourself and your community thrive.💙🌍
Explore local initiatives and help yourself and your community thrive.💙🌍
May 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Community free stores, gardens, lending libraries, mutual aid, swaps, cooperatives, and voluntary simplicity can boost personal & community self-reliance amid tariffs, supply chain issues & other challenges.
Explore local initiatives and help yourself and your community thrive.💙🌍
Explore local initiatives and help yourself and your community thrive.💙🌍
Currently, it’s still legal to keep nonhuman primates captive as “pets.”
👉 Urge your US Rep. to cosponsor the Captive Primate Safety Act to prohibit private possession of these highly intelligent, socially complex beings who deserve to live free in their wild homes.
Here's the what/why/how:🧵
👉 Urge your US Rep. to cosponsor the Captive Primate Safety Act to prohibit private possession of these highly intelligent, socially complex beings who deserve to live free in their wild homes.
Here's the what/why/how:🧵
May 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Currently, it’s still legal to keep nonhuman primates captive as “pets.”
👉 Urge your US Rep. to cosponsor the Captive Primate Safety Act to prohibit private possession of these highly intelligent, socially complex beings who deserve to live free in their wild homes.
Here's the what/why/how:🧵
👉 Urge your US Rep. to cosponsor the Captive Primate Safety Act to prohibit private possession of these highly intelligent, socially complex beings who deserve to live free in their wild homes.
Here's the what/why/how:🧵
🌍Nooks & crannies
We try to make the most of little spaces, like this corner where we planted a blueberry bush.
We try to make the most of little spaces, like this corner where we planted a blueberry bush.
May 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🌍Nooks & crannies
We try to make the most of little spaces, like this corner where we planted a blueberry bush.
We try to make the most of little spaces, like this corner where we planted a blueberry bush.
🌍Espalied trees
We're lucky to have an espalied apple tree along the side of our home. Our cohousing community has a variety of espalied fruit trees to help maximize space and production.🧵
We're lucky to have an espalied apple tree along the side of our home. Our cohousing community has a variety of espalied fruit trees to help maximize space and production.🧵
May 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🌍Espalied trees
We're lucky to have an espalied apple tree along the side of our home. Our cohousing community has a variety of espalied fruit trees to help maximize space and production.🧵
We're lucky to have an espalied apple tree along the side of our home. Our cohousing community has a variety of espalied fruit trees to help maximize space and production.🧵
🌍Containers
We found several free or cheap containers that we've placed around our front porch.🧵
We found several free or cheap containers that we've placed around our front porch.🧵
May 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🌍Containers
We found several free or cheap containers that we've placed around our front porch.🧵
We found several free or cheap containers that we've placed around our front porch.🧵
🌍5-Gallon buckets
We like to experiment, so we're growing "normal" crops like kale in buckets, but also trying out crops like grapes & a columnar apple tree.🧵
We like to experiment, so we're growing "normal" crops like kale in buckets, but also trying out crops like grapes & a columnar apple tree.🧵
May 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🌍5-Gallon buckets
We like to experiment, so we're growing "normal" crops like kale in buckets, but also trying out crops like grapes & a columnar apple tree.🧵
We like to experiment, so we're growing "normal" crops like kale in buckets, but also trying out crops like grapes & a columnar apple tree.🧵
🌍Vertical planters
We're experimenting with this vertical planter. We also hope to build planter boxes to post vertically up our fence.🧵
We're experimenting with this vertical planter. We also hope to build planter boxes to post vertically up our fence.🧵
May 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🌍Vertical planters
We're experimenting with this vertical planter. We also hope to build planter boxes to post vertically up our fence.🧵
We're experimenting with this vertical planter. We also hope to build planter boxes to post vertically up our fence.🧵
🌍Raised beds
We plant a variety of food, flowers & herbs in raised beds we built ourselves.🧵
We plant a variety of food, flowers & herbs in raised beds we built ourselves.🧵
May 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🌍Raised beds
We plant a variety of food, flowers & herbs in raised beds we built ourselves.🧵
We plant a variety of food, flowers & herbs in raised beds we built ourselves.🧵
🌱Growing at least some of your own food is a critical strategy, especially during these times of tariffs, supply chain challenges, and the climate crisis.
We have only a small area to grow food, but we’re making the most of it!
👉Here are 6 ways we’re growing our own food:🧵
We have only a small area to grow food, but we’re making the most of it!
👉Here are 6 ways we’re growing our own food:🧵
May 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🌱Growing at least some of your own food is a critical strategy, especially during these times of tariffs, supply chain challenges, and the climate crisis.
We have only a small area to grow food, but we’re making the most of it!
👉Here are 6 ways we’re growing our own food:🧵
We have only a small area to grow food, but we’re making the most of it!
👉Here are 6 ways we’re growing our own food:🧵
There have been numerous times in history when we the people have had a chance to transform the way we live.
Now is another opportunity.
We can rise up together, dismantle harmful systems and institutions, and build new ones founded on compassion and justice for all beings. 🔥 🌍
Now is another opportunity.
We can rise up together, dismantle harmful systems and institutions, and build new ones founded on compassion and justice for all beings. 🔥 🌍
May 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
There have been numerous times in history when we the people have had a chance to transform the way we live.
Now is another opportunity.
We can rise up together, dismantle harmful systems and institutions, and build new ones founded on compassion and justice for all beings. 🔥 🌍
Now is another opportunity.
We can rise up together, dismantle harmful systems and institutions, and build new ones founded on compassion and justice for all beings. 🔥 🌍
Cass Sunstein highlights the importance of speaking out for animals, even when we're afraid.
"When people believe that something is...wrong, but silence themselves, all they need is a...permission slip. When they start to get it, things can change."
Read: casssunstein.substack.com/p/animals-ma...
"When people believe that something is...wrong, but silence themselves, all they need is a...permission slip. When they start to get it, things can change."
Read: casssunstein.substack.com/p/animals-ma...
May 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Cass Sunstein highlights the importance of speaking out for animals, even when we're afraid.
"When people believe that something is...wrong, but silence themselves, all they need is a...permission slip. When they start to get it, things can change."
Read: casssunstein.substack.com/p/animals-ma...
"When people believe that something is...wrong, but silence themselves, all they need is a...permission slip. When they start to get it, things can change."
Read: casssunstein.substack.com/p/animals-ma...
🔥 Take action now to protect endangered species & their homes!
Government agencies are once again doing their best to destroy decades of positive progress, this time with the Endangered Species Act.
A proposed federal rule would rescind the definition of “harm” in the ESA. 🧵
Government agencies are once again doing their best to destroy decades of positive progress, this time with the Endangered Species Act.
A proposed federal rule would rescind the definition of “harm” in the ESA. 🧵
May 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
🔥 Take action now to protect endangered species & their homes!
Government agencies are once again doing their best to destroy decades of positive progress, this time with the Endangered Species Act.
A proposed federal rule would rescind the definition of “harm” in the ESA. 🧵
Government agencies are once again doing their best to destroy decades of positive progress, this time with the Endangered Species Act.
A proposed federal rule would rescind the definition of “harm” in the ESA. 🧵
Many people are passionate about global issues like climate action, but feel isolated because these topics are rarely discussed. To create a just, compassionate world, it's important to talk about these issues: e.g., what concerns & excites you; how it impacts daily life; what changes you're making.
May 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Many people are passionate about global issues like climate action, but feel isolated because these topics are rarely discussed. To create a just, compassionate world, it's important to talk about these issues: e.g., what concerns & excites you; how it impacts daily life; what changes you're making.