John Colagioia

On my blog: What a Piece of Work https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/03/15/piece-work.html
Let's (start to) detoxify the masculinity.
#politics #rant #womensHistoryMonth

On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Memory Heap, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/03/14/memory-heap-2.html
This week sees the rest of a series of short Russian poems.
#freeCulture #bookClub

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 03/09 to 03/13 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/03/13/week.html
This week, we have online depression treatment, CBP tracking via ads, housing inequality, child marriage, loyalty shifts, bad-business fees, Wikipedia contributions, Epstein blackmail, and Women's History.
#linkDump #socialMedia #quotes #week

Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we—because we don’t question these things.

Rose Wilder Lane

#Quotes #WomensHistory

Why loyalty shifts are key to defeating autocrats https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/03/why-loyalty-shifts-are-key-to-defeating-autocrats/

Once “first movers” have taken a stand, others will be inspired or emboldened to follow them, either by changing their beliefs about constitutional abuses or by acting on beliefs that they had held all along.

#USPol

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Past Prologue https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/03/12/past-prologue.html
For this episode, we need to talk about loyalties and war crimes, but probably mostly Garak.
#sciFi #starTrek #closeReading

In all ages we have had artists and orators; people who held the sacred fire as their inheritance among men an inheritance more powerful than gold, or wonderful jewels, or landed estates.

Helen Potter

#Quotes #WomensHistory

Child marriage comes with a price tag: 75 billion https://19thnews.org/2026/03/child-marriage-report-columbia-sandberg/

The United States has a comparatively low rate of child marriage, but its continued legality has drawn the attention of researchers who want to eliminate the practice altogether.

#ChildAbuse #Economy

The tasks are done, and the tears are shed. / Yesterday’s errors let yesterday cover; / Yesterday’s wounds, which smarted and bled, / Are healed with the healing that night has shed.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

#Quotes #WomensHistory

Five solutions that could help solve housing inequality https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/03/five-solutions-that-could-help-solve-housing-inequality/

For families spending over 50% on housing — considered severely cost burdened — financial stability becomes nearly impossible. More than 70% of households earning under 0,000 annually fall into this trap.

#Housing #Inequality