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“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.”

Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

It's Lance.

Billie Eilish Calls on Billionaires to Support People in Need: 'No Hate, But Give Your Money Away' Billie Eilish donates $11.5 million from 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' tour to charity and calls on billionaires to support people in need during hard times.

I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD

Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?"

She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.

I feel seen.

FDR Memorial, Washington DC.

-RIP East Wing-

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The image is an X post by user Joshua Reed Eakle from 20 hours ago, stating: "The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens. Few understand this." The post includes a profile picture and a verified badge.

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

I Believe That Marriage Should Be Between a Man, a Woman, and His Mentally Ill Wife Who Lives In the Attic Call me old fashioned, but I believe in traditional values, the ones we’ve stood on for centuries. That children are the future. That family comes ...

"I believe in traditional gender roles, which have served us well for generations. I expect my husband to be the breadwinner, while I take care of the home, and his first wife wails and paces the floors in the night from somewhere above our heads."

Give it to him, Bernie!

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury

Keep reading, friends. 📚

America will never correct it's mistakes if teachers are not allowed to teach about them.

The Weight of the Table A Family Conversation About America

At a family dinner, five questions unravel what America means today, love, loss, truth, and the weight we carry. Raw, honest, and unflinching. Pull up a chair. The conversation starts now.

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Underrated skeet!

Remembering America’s civil rights icon, the Honorable John Lewis.

He is forever cherished in Georgia and especially in Atlanta, where he served as the Representative in our state’s 5th Congressional district.

Good Trouble. Necessary Trouble. 💙

Excerpt from here on not normalizing concentration camps: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/guns-or-fireworks

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Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.

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The path for Democrats is very clear: have good ideas, believe in them, state them clearly, stick to them, act decisively in support of these ideas, speak to the young half of the electorate, support other democrats who do these things. Follow Mamdani and Lander's example or fade into nothingness.

THEN WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT CONGRESSMAN?????

Find compassion in your heart please.

Screenshot of a list of the 27 specific grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump has committed at least 15 of them in whole or in part, highlighted in yellow and listed below: "1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. 3. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither (partial offense) 4. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. 5. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. 6. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. 7. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. 8. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: 9. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: 10. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: 11. For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: 12. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 13. (Partial offense), abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: 14. (Partial offense), and destroyed the lives of our people. 15. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and (partial offense)"

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III, and I count at least 15 of them that Donald Trump has also committed in whole or in part.

Particularly notable right now:
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."

Carl Sagan in 1986 on the problems with media and science literacy.

He hath ribbons of all the colors i’ th’ rainbow

Picture of a red and green bird standing on a branch, with the following quote: In a time of hate Love is an act of resistance In a time of fear Faith is an act of resistance In a time of misinformation Education is an act of resistance In a time of poor leadership Community is an act of resistance In a time like this Joy is an act of resistance Resist. Resist. Resist. - Loryn Brantz

In the face of hate, anger, and division, find and expand the resistant strength of love, joy, and community. We need every bit of it—not only to withstand and defeat the onslaught, but to move forward together and build into the next chapter.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere…”

- Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr

THE SACAJAWEA EXPEDITION
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The SAVE Act Could Threaten Voting Access—And Repeat History The 1907 Expatriation Act made it impossible for some women born in the U.S. to vote.

"A century after the suffrage movement, the SAVE Act threatens to echo the harms of the Expatriation Act. While it’s supporters claim it will target non-citizen voters, instead it could prevent American women from voting."

You may not have realized this yet, but we are ALL Kilmar Abrego Garcia.