Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly

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Toolbox: Classroom: Escape velocity! (I can EDIT there 😉)

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Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· 12d

Faux irish wolfhound. Possibly a Yeti dog. Just ask my grand daughter.

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· 23d

Left without comment.

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Jul 7

Just sayin’.

Cap embroidered with “Sanford Levinson was right about everything.”

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Jun 2

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· May 8

Looking forward to this book.

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DUKE
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Who Tells Your Story
On the
Who Tells Your Story
Sanford
Levinson
"At a time when struggles over public memory are so urgent, it is critical to understand how this concept works and has varied across spac and time.
This volume which bring together a… (link to website above)

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Apr 12

This man is all of us!!!!

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Apr 7

Albert Schweitzer's Reverence for Life Ethical Idealism and Self-Realication Mike W. Martin Seems like a good thing to listen to today. And this is a timestamp for the day that DJT bomb threat-ed Humanity on a global scale.

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Apr 5

The range of influence as I see it is AI as the storyteller, The Tale, against the promise of AI as a method of building information, The Tool.
In the alternative news platforms, AI is a Pied Piper and the tune he plays is mesmerizing. I personally cannot unsee the influence of AI on “market copy,” the font choices, the sentence structure, the editorialization. I actively use AI as a tool, a mirror and bridge to solutions I can outline but need to learn the processes to get to the solution. That is the potential waiting to be implemented. The need for accessibility to rooms of power and accessibility to the Epstein files collided in front of me six weeks ago, in late February 2026.
Call it a personality quirk but being a Proud-Do-Gooder is proof of my stubborn streak. I am no stranger to improvisation and building something remarkable out of unremarkable materials. I have a life history of invisibly doing what needed to be done under adverse conditions. Accessibility was the problem at hand. Dropbox is the preferred file sharing platform being used by citizen journalists. So I started asking questions, I started testing parameters. I started pushing against the conceptions of what Dropbox could do for engaged citizens. I had come to recognize social media is a consumer platform. Dropbox is not the first consumer platform I have repurposed as a tool for civic access, and it won't be the last.
The database can be accessed free of charge. Building it and making it freely available is my act of defiance against unqualified power and is an echo of the spirit that lived in my mom, Alice Lorraine Hill. Continue to the next folder and spend a few moments reading the README file. It will give logistical information about how to use the database I call Alice’s Cause.
-Rainey

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Apr 5

@clareraynor.bsky.social you caught me at a pivotal moment. Will you read this for clarity? I don't know how this can be used yet, a Kevin Costner level of faith is on display in continuing to build it. LOL Accessibility is the war. The Epstein files are the battlefront. Pixels are the weapons.

Gate 1 README
Alice’s Cause is a seed of discontent with unqualified power that fell on the fertile soil of crowd sourcing. This crowd sourcing of citizens investigating the Epstein files was introduced to me from a YouTube video feed that auto played. I reached out after watching an interview, thinking I might have some skills to help.
My skillset is construction document handling at the installation level. I write as needed, but I am not a writer. I do not have a deep familiarity with the details of the Epstein cases and editorializing is not my cup of tea. When I have an opinion to share, I bring receipts. It is who I am. That is the perspective I entered into the crowdsourcing arena with.
Evidence. Evidence. Evidence. A set of drawings is useless without the ability to collate information. Drawing plans are a veritable diaspora of information that is critical to building according to plans. The DOJ releases were not so foreign in concept in that collation is everything. That collation cannot happen without access. So I started asking questions. I chased down the wrong path and chose to use AI as a tool. Claude wrote code. I asked questions. Time and again I hit against “trade talk” that slowed me down. But I learned. I built, I defied expectations. My toolbox now had AI in the top tray. And I had an accessibility problem to solve.
Unqualified power, people in positions of authority because of family or wealth, exists because the little person is dis-invited from the civic table and denied access to the rooms where decision making happens. A quick brush up on history introduces the quadrant of power recognized as clergy, nobility, commoners and the press. Our digital age has introduced a virtual forum of popular opinion expressed through social media. It transcends geographic, social and economic barriers to communication. It held promise and warnings simultaneously before AI burst into the virtual forum.

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Mar 19

Hat tip to all the friends here on the Bluesky!

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Mar 11

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Establish, through federal legislation, eighteen-year terms for Supreme Court justices with appointments staggered such that one nomination comes up during each term of Congress. At the end of their term, justices will transition to an appeals court or, if they choose, to senior status for the remainder of their life tenure, which would allow them to determine how much time they spend hearing cases on an appeals court.
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Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Mar 6

So, um, yeah. Late night coding has consequences. LOL

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Mar 5

A is for Alice www.losartistasvisions.com/alice

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Feb 2

I think this is the video creator.

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Feb 2

From a video of Portland. Not sure who to credit. When I do I will put it in the replies. What projectile from the Feds did that damage to the flag?

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Jan 28

@aoc.bsky.social I was today years old when it dawned on me that Trump et al are trying to trigger the global defunding of the American economy by other nations who have invested in the US. They gotta be thinking 🤔 nah, not working out for us anymore. Sell! Sell! Sell!

Screenshot of the movie trading places during the sell off scene.

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Jan 28

Pretty sure Madison was saying the fish rots from the head here. Re: executive appointments. ⬇️ “ I think it absolutely necessary that the president should have the power of removing from office; it will make him, in a peculiar manner, responsible for

founders.archives.gov

REMOVAL POWER OF THE
PRESIDENT, [19 MAY] 1789
Removal Power of the President
[19 May 1789]
The House took up the establishment of executive departments. JM moved the creation of foreign affairs, treasury, and war departments. The debate centered on the clause vesting in the president alone the power to remove the officers heading these departments. Smith (South Carolina) contended that impeachment was the only constitutional means of removal.
Mr. MaDIsoN Did not concur with the gentleman in his interpretation of the constitution. What said he would be the consequence of such construction? It would in effect establish every officer of the government on the firm tenure of good behaviour, not the heads of departments only, but all the inferior officers of those departments would hold their offices during good behaviour, and that to be judged of by one branch of the legislature only on the impeachment of the other. If the constitution means this by its declarations to be the case we must submit, but I should lament it as a fatal error interwove in the system and one that would ultimately prove its destruction. I think the inference would not arise from a fair construction of the words of that instrument.
It is very possible that an officer who may not incur the displeasure of the president, may be guilty of actions that ought to forfeit his place; the power of this house may reach him by the means of an impeachment, and he may be removed even against the will of the president; so that the declaration in the constitution, was intended as a supplemental security for the good behaviour of the public officers. It is possible the case I have stated may happen; indeed it may perhaps on some occasion be found necessary to impeach the president himself; surely therefore it may happen to a subordinate officer, whose bad actions may be connived at or overlooked by apresident; hence the people have an additional security in this constitutional provision.
I …

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Jan 25

Seems about right, no?!?

Madison spoke on the subject again in the very first Congress that sat under the new Constitution. On May 19, 1789, the House debated whether to let the President not only appoint but remove the Secretary of State and others whose offices were being created.

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“I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing from office,” Madison said. “It will make him, in a peculiar manner, responsible for their conduct, and subject him to impeachment himself if he suffers them to perpetrate with impunity high crimes or misdemeanors against the United States, or neglects to superintend their conduct so as to check their excesses.”

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Jan 16

So congress “off shored” the process of citizen complaints to lobbyists. WTAF And @richardprimus.bsky.social suggests congress has their own form of learned helplessness. American folk have some fixing to do.

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Jan 15

That is an example of number three on my folk argument for impeachment sent yesterday to the 119th congress. Just saying.

Except from open letters sent to quote of the house, making me the argument for impeachment of DJT

3. Negligence
Preoccupation with remodeling and demolition to buildings unnecessarily
and unlawfully while a government shutdown was in need of genuine leadership. An objective comparison of the events schedules in the last year with presidents past would likely show clock hours for DJT that would not qualify an hourly worker for insurance. Conflation of his various golf courses as workplaces. DJT allowed Elon Musk to publicly brandish a chainsaw while Russ Voight enacted an anti-bureaucratic massacre on the federal government as detailed in the Project 2025 manifesto. He allows Stephen Miller to orchestrate a resurrection of the blight of spirit that brings Jim Crow into the 21 century.

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Jan 13

screenshot of an open letter. Full letter linked at end of thread.

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Jan 13

Folk Constitutionalist, kinda a nice ring to that. (HT to Kevin Elliot) Faxed 7:58am PT to Clerk of the House as an open letter to Congress, signed Everyday Jane. document link at end of thread.

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Jan 13

@rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social please allow me to introduce myself. I am fan girl of your mama! ☺️

Cartoon image of an excited young woman with the caption “fan girl.”

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Jan 12

Play-Doh sculpture of a man screaming. It is unfinished and the head and upper torso are being held by the child artist. It’s impaled on a cocktail sword.

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Jan 11

The descriptions in my videos will be in flux a bit. It’s a process where urgency overrides perfection. I want to share the process. Following my gut for sniffing out how to make sense of things. I am just a construction worker. I need a job to do and sharing this helps lower the stress. 3/4

Description
"Those who commit the murders write the reports," commonly attributed to Ida B. Wells.
Today I have some chores to do.
I am going to listen to this audio book while my hands are busy.
Trigger warning is NOT a strong enough declaration. But bearing witness hurts and hiding our heads in the sand does not serve the mission of reinventing democracy well. Human animal is currently ascendant on our streets and our media.

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Jan 11

I have been learning how to make YouTube more efficient as a digital journal. Maybe this is new information for others also. Not every video creator puts information in the description. I do. I really want to call attention to Ms. Ida saying the Reports are written by the murderers. 2/4

Screenshot of the pop-up menu with description as the top choice

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Jan 11

Rep Crockett spoke truth yesterday calling Renee Good’s death a lynching. A Red Record is eerily salient right now. I chose to discuss that the day Renee died, before I knew the details. It seemed important that lynching is remembered for what it was. Pls look at the picture. Read the “alt”

Screenshot of a YouTube shorts video regarding civic learning. A red arrow points to a circled vertical “…” symbol representing a menu choice.

Kitchen Table Civics with Qwilly@diya25· Jan 10