Cara Lopez Lee

I carry my passport, just in case. I hate doing it, in case thugs simply take it. I hate doing it, because it makes my stomach roll thinking of what this says about our society. I hate doing it, because it underscores my privilege and the terror suffered by those who don’t have it.

This is a real post from the official WH account. This is what he’s done to lower us all down to his base level.

An exodus of American heroes, marching out to defend Freedom of the Press:

A tray full of grapes next to a packing station

"Gia" has been working in Delano CAs grape harvest for more than a dozen years. "Right now I am harvesting grapes in these trays and then I take them to my coworkers to pack them in bags. It's hard work, but I'm good at it and it helps pays the bills for my family." #WeFeedYou

We need more leaders who take seriously the escalation of these sorts of terrorizing symbols, hate speech, and threats of violence.

We need more leaders with the courage to call out evil and help guide the U.S. into the light.

Painting of Carl Sagan with the following: What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head - directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. - Carl Sagan Cosmos

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.📚❤️

#Booksky #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity

Photo of a Japanese woman with dyed red hair and yellow and black dress sitting on the edge of an art installation with a yellow platform and walls covered in large black dots, on the platform is a large sculpture of a yellow pumpkin with black dots in vertical lines

Yayoi Kusama with her artwork Pumpkin, 2010 #womensart

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

JOHNSON: “What I’ve seen is the abuse of law enforcement by radical leftist activists. Most recently, the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers who were protesting ICE down there.”

The only example he could conjure 🧐

Careful, naked protestors, you might put an eye out!

Overwhelmed, I find it increasingly difficult to originate posts.

Much of what I want to say has been said, over & over.

So I repost what shakes me to the core, in case it helps even one person to know: here’s more evidence, America is in a dark place…but here you & I are, still shining a light.

Monochrome photograph featuring a close-up of a large ancient living tree in a flat landscape with other trees in the distance, the tree has many branches forming a rounded flat canopy viewed from underneath

'Heart of the Dragon, Socotra, Yemen' by photographer Beth Moon on her fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees of the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa #WomensArt

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Spectacular! 😱😍

Colorful red-gold-indigo print of a graphic-design indigenous woman with long black and indigo hair layered with faint indigo flowers, looking at the viewer over her shoulder. A red eagle or hawk spreads its wings in the foreground, about to fly over her shoulder. A red sun hangs behind her. Text says: Indigenous People are the Future.

May we all honor Indigenous people today and every day! 🙏🌺💕

US painter
Laura Wheeler Waring,
Woman with Bouquet, c.1940 #womensart
#BlackHistoryMonth US

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

Print featuring a view over a colourful furrowed field landscape to a flat horizon on which a single windblown tree grows under a sunset pinky blue sky

The work of contemporary Northumberland artist and printmaker Rebecca Vincent #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Yes! Unsettling even. 🫣😂

That is so cool! Congrats 🎉

Excellent choice. I never get tired of this song.

Painting of a hilly landscape reflected in still water in colours of purple green and blue

Georgia O'Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1921 #WomensArt

Print featuring three bottles of different shapes in a row all filled with blue flowers and resting on a surface with a busy pattern in blue

'Cool blues' by Vicky Oldfield, contemporary UK printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Stylised painting of a white woman in a soft blue dress holding a round stringed instrument with a long neck on her lap and holding it as if playing

Tamara de Lempicka,
Blue Woman with a Guitar, 1929
Polish painter who created her work in an Art Deco style #womensart

WGN-TV creative services employee taken to the ground, handcuffed by immigration agents. wgntv.com/news/operati...

Artist Susanna Bauer adds thread and crochet to dried leaves, creating miniature artworks #womensart #Autumn #Fall

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice: