Becca

While living in CA in the first Trump term, I made myself a bumper sticker to support international families like mine. I just recreated it as a car magnet that can be adapted to feature any country's flags! Lots more custom items available here too: www.etsy.com/ca/shop/West.... Ships from the US.

Trump sent troops from the National Guard to Chicago days ago, and they have unleashed havoc on the city. Troops have thrown gas canisters at protesters, deployed tear gas on streets w/ no warning, and raided apartments in the middle of the night, zip-tying children & separating them from families.

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

Don't look away.

I've just made this sign available at cost for protest signs and lawn signs www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4....

BC is fast-tracking US doctor & nurse recruitment — and it's working.
• Since March, 2,962 healthcare professionals have expressed interest in moving to BC
• No extra exams for many international MDs

Know someone ready for a change? Their next chapter starts here: bchealthcareers.ca

First page of a letter from Gov Ferguson to AG Bondi

I sent her a response today: Washington state will not be bullied or intimidated by threats and legally baseless accusations.

A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

"Back in the early 1950s, Germans who lived through the Nazi era warned Chicago journalist Milton Mayer that they had “become used to being governed by surprise” and told him how each step toward Hitler’s eventual tyranny was incremental." www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

2017 2:00 PM EDT Whitman is the Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School and the author most recently of Hitler's American Model. American Nazis parade on East 86th St. in New York City around 1939. Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images IDEAS To say America today is verging on Nazism T feels like scaremongering. Yes, white nationalism lives in the White House. Yes, President Donald Trump leans authoritarian. Yes, the alt-right says many ugly things. But for all the economic pains of many Americans, there is no Great Depression gnawing away at democracy's foundations. No paramilitary force is killing people in the streets. Fascism and Nazism have not arrived in the United States.

Interesting to find this old article from 2017 and think about it in the context of TODAY.

time.com/4703586/nazi...

#iceprotest #losangeles #nationalguard #marines #fascism

The illegitimate, lawless, and authoritarian regime in control of the government of the United States is at war with the people of the United States.

Ten Homeschooling Parent Myths Debunked Here are 10 common myths promoted by homeschooling parents—as well as the realities.

Did you know that homeschooled children have significantly higher rates of past-year prescription opioid misuse, benzodiazepine use, tobacco use and non-marijuana illicit drug use, and past-month nicotine dependence than low dropout risk children?

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Life with fibromyalgia 🤦🏼‍♀️

A woman smiling, with a butterfly sitting on her shoulder

My little friend who spent 20 minutes on my arm as I walked around the Butterfly Garden 🦋

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa discusses state of U.S. democracy Nobel Peace Prize laureate and journalist Maria Ressa has long fought for global press freedom. Her book, "How To Stand Up To A Dictator," detailed her experience running the news site Rappler under t...

"If you do not hold the line at this crucial moment — this is the moment when you are strongest — you will only get weaker over time...

I have said this over and over since 2016. Without facts, you can't have truth. Without truth, you can't have trust. Without these, we have no shared reality."

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Today I voted in Canada for the first time, as a new Canadian citizen!! 🇨🇦🎉. Of course, I voted for a strong southern border, to keep Trump out. 💪🏼

Voting for the first time today in Canada, as a new Canadian citizen!! 🎉🇨🇦

I'm voting for a strong southern border 😉. Because FUCK TRUMP.

Winston Churchill, on Canada: "no state, no country, no band of men can more truly be described as the linchpin of peace and world progress". 🇨🇦

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

RFK Jr. is wrong about autism His lies endanger neurodivergent people — and everyone else.

New in PN: RFK Jr. is wrong about autism

"The Trump administration's attack on difference, the idea that people who are different are a tragedy and a burden and that they have nothing to contribute — that is fascism. And it is a danger to almost everyone."

The inconsistency and hypocrisy is mind-numbing.

As someone born and raised in California, and now a new Canadian citizen, I agree with Charlie Angus here. The governor of California should use his influence and time to try to protect the people of California from Trump policies, instead of begging for tourism dollars.

It's important for people to understand that we're on a trajectory that eventually leads to political prisoners (first non-citizens, then citizens) being sent to these camps.

We need due process in normal circumstances, but we ESPECIALLY need it for the cruelty and incompetence of this administration. 💔

As a mom and an ESL teacher to immigrants/refugees, this breaks my heart.

It's an amazing place that I go out of my way for, and it's an extra bonus that buying delicious baked goods there supports a family business!!