The wild plum in full bloom yesterday with stormy sky behind. I’m grateful for these precious days outside in the yarden, and for time inside gathering online with several communities, and for sleeping pretty well most nights and for adventuresome dreams. Everything feels so fragile right now. All I can do is keep going, practicing courage and resilience in loving this life and engaging in healthy resistance where possible. The regime has gone far beyond the pale, crossed the rubicon it’s said, with its predictable but no less shocking willful disregard of Supreme Court orders to return the kidnapped Maryland father from the gulag he was shipped to in El Salvador: They have acknowledged it happened because of “an administrative error,” but pretend they can’t undo it. Did these people base their playbook on Orwell’s 1984?! Or any of the other dystopian fictions of the mid-20th Century? It sure feels like it. Too horrible to be believed. Remember this name: Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Pay attention to what becomes of him. A Maryland Senator tried to make contact with him today in El Salvador and was denied access to visit or even speak on the phone with him. Abrego Garcia is a practice case for the US, dipping its toe in the bloody waters of a coming wave of disappearings if Americans do not rise up to quell this dictatorship.

On a lighter note, federal worker still employed are facing chaos and despair as reported in The Atlantic. There will be events and marches around the country this Saturday, and another big National Day of Action on May 1. We are at an inflection point. We need to amplify, amplify, amplify the truth about the imminent collapse of the country we have known all our lives at the hands of the biggest conspiracy we’ve ever seen, bigger than anyone has ever seen, a conspiracy forty plus years in the making to turn over the US to a fanatical fringe of religious zealots. . I worry every day about the ramifications. We must persist in vocal protests of ever greater magnitude. And, I hold active hope for the possibility that this great upheaval will trigger the downfall of the patriarchy which has run this planet into the ground for the past several thousand years. If only women ruled the world. Most people who voted for Kamala are suffering the pain of their awareness of what’s happening; most of the people who voted for the other guy are probably buying the propaganda and not even aware of this urgent constitutional crisis; and the ONE THIRD of eligible voters who didn’t vote for anyone last fall might be wishing they had. What really scares me is the feeling that most Americans still have their eyes closed, their heads in the sand, numbed by the TV shows that have nefariously prepared them to accept this exact world.