Dr. GPat Patterson
@drgpatpatterson.bsky.social
Proud Community College Prof • Author of The Daisy Chain: A Neighbor's Guide to Mass-Cooperation • Writes @yourweirdofriend on Substack re: ☑︎ Play-Based Adult Education ☑︎ Trans + 2SQ Storying ☑︎ Technical Communication in Grassroots Movements ✨they all day✨
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The Daisy Chain: A Neighbor’s Guide to Mass-Cooperation
How to Funnel Our Protest Numbers into a People-Powered Neighborhood Movement to Resist Political Abuse & Grow a Future Young People Deserve
yourweirdofriend.substack.com
I'm a community college prof & tech writer who studies people powered organizing. I wrote this field guide to mass-cooperation & mass-noncompliance during fascist times, after 23 years of research and recent training is strategic nonviolence from the ICNC and AEI. [Downloadable format coming soon.]
This right here is Nazi shit, and any person acting as a quisling will be remembered.
ICE is refusing to return personal items to people who've been released, including driver's licenses and passports, proof of immigration status, employment authorization documents, cell phones, wedding rings, cash, and more.
This is illegal. The ACLU of DC and ACLU of Illinois are suing.
This is illegal. The ACLU of DC and ACLU of Illinois are suing.
ACLU sues ICE over refusal to return personal items to detainees after release
One of the seven named plaintiffs, an immigrant from Russia, had his work authorization documents and his wedding band seized by ICE and has been unable to retrieve them after five months.
www.courthousenews.com
October 17, 2026 at 9:51 PM
This right here is Nazi shit, and any person acting as a quisling will be remembered.
The third part of The Daisy Chain Appendix illustrates just some of the hundreds of ways people reweave the fabric of our communities so that our political abusers cannot keep us disconnected, dispirited, and trapped in a cycle of abuse with them.
Appendix, Part 3: Menders Cluster
from The Daisy Chain: A Neighbor’s Guide to Mass-Cooperation
yourweirdofriend.substack.com
October 17, 2026 at 9:50 PM
The third part of The Daisy Chain Appendix illustrates just some of the hundreds of ways people reweave the fabric of our communities so that our political abusers cannot keep us disconnected, dispirited, and trapped in a cycle of abuse with them.
What in the world-wide whiteness is this? This B.S. right here is up there with the time I once convinced Jackie Jemson I was an apothecary who could cure her stomach ache with heavily diluted Crayola paint water in juice jars. Only I was 8 & just watched the friar scene in Romeo and Juliet. WTAF.
"Several legal ethics experts said that if a person is not a licensed lawyer but is identifying as one, that presents serious ethical and legal problems.
“A J.D. degree does not make you a lawyer,” said Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York University School of Law.
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“A J.D. degree does not make you a lawyer,” said Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York University School of Law.
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Katie Zacharia calls herself a lawyer. Legal experts aren’t sure.
There’s no evidence the new White House press secretary was admitted to practice law in the United States.
wapo.st
October 14, 2026 at 11:05 PM
What in the world-wide whiteness is this? This B.S. right here is up there with the time I once convinced Jackie Jemson I was an apothecary who could cure her stomach ache with heavily diluted Crayola paint water in juice jars. Only I was 8 & just watched the friar scene in Romeo and Juliet. WTAF.
As someone who has organized Get Out the Vote efforts for 20 years, I'm begging you to listen to @jesscraven101.bsky.social and VOTE EARLY. Also, invite a friend. If you can, get involved in Get Out the Vote efforts. This is the most significant election of our lifetimes. You must vote.
Jess Craven (@jesscraven101)
Here are five reasons it’s critical to vote early in these midterm elections.
substack.com
October 14, 2026 at 10:59 PM
As someone who has organized Get Out the Vote efforts for 20 years, I'm begging you to listen to @jesscraven101.bsky.social and VOTE EARLY. Also, invite a friend. If you can, get involved in Get Out the Vote efforts. This is the most significant election of our lifetimes. You must vote.
This is the second part of The Daisy Chain: A Neighbor’s Guide to Mass-Cooperation. The Founder’s Appendix helps us resit abusers’ “divide and conquer” games and, instead, pool our time, attention, resources, and energy at the hyper-local level-- so they can't make us desperate. (It's my fave one!)
Appendix, Part 2: Founders Cluster
from The Daisy Chain, A Neighbor’s Guide to Mass-Cooperation
yourweirdofriend.substack.com
October 14, 2026 at 10:54 PM
This is the second part of The Daisy Chain: A Neighbor’s Guide to Mass-Cooperation. The Founder’s Appendix helps us resit abusers’ “divide and conquer” games and, instead, pool our time, attention, resources, and energy at the hyper-local level-- so they can't make us desperate. (It's my fave one!)
An essay on the brittle racist chauvinism of white Christian nationalists: "On Joan of Arc & Becoming as Children"
On Joan of Arc & Becoming as Children
It’s time for adults to remember for whom and what they stand. Shed your cowardice.
yourweirdofriend.substack.com
October 14, 2026 at 4:22 PM
An essay on the brittle racist chauvinism of white Christian nationalists: "On Joan of Arc & Becoming as Children"
Reposted by Dr. GPat Patterson
Reposted by Dr. GPat Patterson
Reposted by Dr. GPat Patterson
Reposted by Dr. GPat Patterson
Reposted by Dr. GPat Patterson
Reposted by Dr. GPat Patterson
We can't keep paying the human and economic costs of the Trump administration's mass deportation crusade.
A broad path to citizenship would create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, generate an estimated $1.7 trillion in GDP growth, and raise wages for everyone. It's the right move for all of us.
A broad path to citizenship would create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, generate an estimated $1.7 trillion in GDP growth, and raise wages for everyone. It's the right move for all of us.
Trump’s Deportation Agenda Is Worsening Affordability
A new report from the ACLU and AFL-CIO shows how mass deportations are killing jobs, raising prices, and harming businesses.
www.aclu.org
October 13, 2026 at 3:47 PM
We can't keep paying the human and economic costs of the Trump administration's mass deportation crusade.
A broad path to citizenship would create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, generate an estimated $1.7 trillion in GDP growth, and raise wages for everyone. It's the right move for all of us.
A broad path to citizenship would create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, generate an estimated $1.7 trillion in GDP growth, and raise wages for everyone. It's the right move for all of us.
It's time to stop asking men WHY and start traveling in packs, learning self-defense, and absolutely DESTROYING the lives of men who rape, so that they have no safe place to go but over the edge of an active volcano. Barring that, I recommend steel toed boots and aiming for the nuts.
October 14, 2026 at 4:40 AM
It's time to stop asking men WHY and start traveling in packs, learning self-defense, and absolutely DESTROYING the lives of men who rape, so that they have no safe place to go but over the edge of an active volcano. Barring that, I recommend steel toed boots and aiming for the nuts.
Reposted by Dr. GPat Patterson
Reposted by Dr. GPat Patterson
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Miss Major Griffin-Gracy was a veteran of the Stonewall uprising, a former sex worker, and an advocate for over 50 years for the trans and gender-nonconforming community.
October 13, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy was a veteran of the Stonewall uprising, a former sex worker, and an advocate for over 50 years for the trans and gender-nonconforming community.
Reposted by Dr. GPat Patterson
Reposted by Dr. GPat Patterson
Did Sam Altman raped his younger sister. Repeatedly. He started raping her when she was three years old. He was 12. He continued raping her for years. All of these pieces of techno-fascist shit are rapists. The whole lot of them. Share the shit out of this. The CEO of OpenAI is a child rapist.
Did Sam Altman SA his sister and why is the legal deposition locked?
She wants to release the videos, the court says no
historyofwomen.substack.com
October 14, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Did Sam Altman raped his younger sister. Repeatedly. He started raping her when she was three years old. He was 12. He continued raping her for years. All of these pieces of techno-fascist shit are rapists. The whole lot of them. Share the shit out of this. The CEO of OpenAI is a child rapist.
Reposted by Dr. GPat Patterson
Our neighbor Nox is in need of some paid subscriptions on Substack or, barring that, some funds sent to him via Cashapp. Nox is a Black trans man who became homeless after losing his job. His mother, who is transphobic, made living with her untenable. He's living in hotels and needs our support.
Nox Jackson (@noxthesynners)
This piece is really important and carries the summary of my experience and needs as far as being housing insecure goes. It is closer to midnight where I live and now I will have to struggle to get 13...
substack.com
October 14, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Our neighbor Nox is in need of some paid subscriptions on Substack or, barring that, some funds sent to him via Cashapp. Nox is a Black trans man who became homeless after losing his job. His mother, who is transphobic, made living with her untenable. He's living in hotels and needs our support.