Cara Lopez Lee

I love living in California 🌺

Sea life on the Northern California coast #StunDay #Photography #Nature #SeaLife #Starfish #Mussels #SeaAnemone #PacificCoast #California 📷

“Since March last year it has affected 20,000 sq km of coast – an area twice the size of greater Sydney – and ranks among the worst for marine mass mortality globally, killing millions of sea creatures...”

Life on Earth is dying of climate change, while our leaders wage wars that will make it worse

An immigrant was surprised I warned her having a green card for 10 years didn’t ensure her safety from detention & deportation. She said so long as she didn’t go to protests, the “news” said she was safe. I said the news she watched was funded by regime backers. She looked at me like I was nuts

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

The embroidery produced by Otomi (Hñähñu) women of Mexico is known as Tenango Embroidery. Created with an "Otomi Stitch", the colourful designs of animals, plants & rural life represent the stories & beliefs of the people who produce this specific form of embroidered expression #Womensart

🌳 ¡El mejor invento ya existe… y crece en la naturaleza!

Women's liberation protest sign, New York, August 26, 1970. Tens of thousands of women marched along Fifth Avenue to Bryant Park to demand equal opportunity in employment and society #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

Joni Mitchell, Laurel Canyon, 1969 singer, songwriter, musician, painter..... genius #WomensArt
(Photo G.Nash)

Same. I could swear I have a photo of this view in Honolulu 😍

Sigh. Beautiful.

Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876-1923)
Dutch painter who specialized in semi abstract landscapes
 #WomensArt

Mamdani to Expand 3-K by 1,000 Seats, Including on Staten Island Mayor Zohran Mamdani will announce that New York City is expanding free preschool for 3-year-olds, adding 1,000 seats to meet demand across the city.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to announce on Tuesday that New York City will add 1,000 free preschool seats for 3-year-olds this fall to meet demand for the popular program and to address neighborhoods that have not had enough seats.

“We need to recall that these detention centers that the federal government uses are for profit.

They cannot have empty beds, because otherwise they don't make money. So they keep the detainees as much as they can, until they know they will be replaced by more detainees, newer detainees.”

Yes! Why else endure all 8 hours? 😜

Same!

Yup!

I just want to make sure that everyone knows Trump's war of choice in Iran is costing us $900 million a day according to the latest figures

Not $900 a day, not $9,000 a day, not $90,000 a day, not $900,000 a day, not $9 million a day, not $90 million a day

$900 million a day

Name A Movie Starting With The Letter J #moviesky #filmsky

People should be more terrified by this. Taking it to its worst conclusion, I picture a dystopian near-future in which nobody has any idea at all what’s happening anywhere, even things we witness with our own eyes.

I picture looking down an endless hall of mirrors reflecting nothing

Belvedere Park (originally Soledad Park) in East L.A. dates to 1942 and was bifurcated by the Pomona Fwy in the 1960s but remains a gem. Grab yourself a burrito from La Azteca Tortilleria, eat it on the outdoor seating of the "floating" amphitheatre, and you can't have a bad day.

"I found myself, I made myself, and I said what I had to say.”
- Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938)
French artist
#InternationalWomensDay

It’s about time someone said it out loud on a national news show.

Major Gen. Paul Eaton (ret.) — on Trump’s interest in putting boots on the ground:

“We have a situation where someone called a malignant narcissist is unfortunately drifting into a state of dementia that is difficult to manage.”

The Black Death’s counterintuitive effect: as human numbers fell, so did plant diversity New study finds that plant biodiversity collapsed in landscapes where arable production was abandoned during and after the Black Death era.

As a participant in the rewilding movement, I found this case for course correction surprising and illuminating. theconversation.com/the-black-de...

'Spring at the Window' by Tetyana Yablonska (1917-2006), Ukrainian painter #WomensArt

Polish doctors jailed for denying woman abortion | Euractiv Poland's centrist ruling coalition promised to reverse the most restrictive elements of Poland's abortion laws before their election in 2023

Good news, we guess. But the largest abortion provider in Poland is still Abortion Without Borders.
“Iza was not the first or last woman in Poland to die for lack of a safe abortion. I hope there are no more,” Mara Clarke of @supportabort.bsky.social told AFP.
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Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums Creators say they’re offering Africans a ‘hopeful, utopian feeling’ of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/f...

The story behind Nina Simone's protest song, "Mississippi Goddam" | American Masters | PBS It was a bloody Sunday in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963 that inspired the singer and pianist Nina Simone's famous protest song, "Mississippi

Nina Simone wrote a very powerful protest song called Mississippi Goddamn which ended up leading to her career as a rising black musician to skid off the rails. She writes about the way her government lied to her and millions of other African Americans.
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Wow. so beautiful. as if you turned the images into a mosaic of stained glass.