Melinda Hurst Frye

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

We are in a serious govt shutdown, but instead of negotiating, Trump posted several pics of his WH bathroom remodel today and now this. He is currently headed to Palm Beach for another golf weekend.

There it is.

But we can't fully staff our national parks right now.

These people are ghouls without souls. They cannot be reformed.

This is not a fight about tax credits.
This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin.

Thank you for sharing!!! And watching my most awkward self! XOXO!

As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous.

Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.

Remember in 2024 when South Korea’s president declared martial law in order to cling to power and 1 million people protested?

Then both parties immediately impeached AND removed him from office, leading to him being arrested earlier this year for inciting an insurrection?

Okay good. Me, too…

Alex Kydd
Ocean, Nature & Travel Photographer

I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.

We’re heading into an era of climate uncertainties with more extreme extremes. We have unemployed meteorologists all over this nation. They should be employed in state Govs, county Govs, city Govs, corporations, sports/venues, and so on.

We need mass Meteorology hiring!

Seattle! For weeks now, trained rescue response folks have been going into the Jackson Federal Building to witness, monitor, and video ICE kidnappings. Those folks ARE NOT BEING ALLOWED IN today...

Whenever law enforcement agents are given a quota of a specific number of people to arrest or detain, especially with the WH policy director screaming at their superiors to hit those target numbers, bad things are going to happen. Quotas always result in civil rights violations.

@kuow.org @npr.org @maddow.msnbc.com @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social @thestranger.com @nytimes.com PICK THIS UP! The feds want spectacle to justify their actions. The protesters are PEACEFUL. The SWAT guys and cops and feds are the ones disappearing people, throwing gas, and carrying weapons.

Watch this. It’s important.

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Oh, I see who it is… Ink Factory! They specialize in visual notes, how cool!

Who is the artist?

The thing about cancer is, Trump is making it easy for polluters to dump cancer-causing chemicals into our air and water, while defunding and firing people who work on cancer cures, while also ending millions of people’s ability to afford cancer treatment.

There is no bottom to this pit.

They are charging a sitting congresswoman with a crime for performing her lawfully required oversight of ICE.

This is an incredibly undemocratic step that should make people painfully aware of where we are at.

🔊 Just added the new “Radio Free Europe 2025 (Jacknife Lee Remix)” to our We Are Hope Despite the Times playlist. Tune in to spin the reimagined single—supporting Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s fight for a free press—alongside 18 other tracks which keep us moving forward.

found.ee/rem-wahdtt

US Venice pavilion adds new guidelines for ‘American Values’ The application’s updated guidelines require submissions to ‘reflect and promote American values’

The State Department has published the grant application for the US pavilion with a revised agenda insisting on the promotion of ‘American values and policies’ and on ‘countering negative stereotypes’ artreview.com/us-venice-pa...

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

The Whitehouse wants to cut $300 million from US Forest Service Research which is 95% of our budget.

Goodbye job.

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

I teach workshops pretty often, in lots of different shapes and sizes for Photo Center NW and beyond. My faves are about experimenting and/nature photo play, also reading/discussions on writing as it relates back to work and the work of others.

Republicans are in power because Republicans cheat.

Houston should retain their own tax revenues and tell Texas to fuck off. No taxation without representation.