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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?”

Preach Mallory McMorrow!

Watercolour painting of a cat called Kimi.
#cats #petportraits #art #throwbackthursday #paintings #watercolours

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And that's how it's done.

YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko THIS Is The One Video You Need To Watch Today.

THIS Is The One Video You Need To Watch Today.

Make it two…
Happy Wednesday✨

There should never be shame in needing help from a food pantry. But this is gut-wrenching: working every day, not getting paid for weeks, and needing a food pantry you didn’t need before.

What’s shameful is that this is completely avoidable. Republicans need to get back to DC and negotiate.

ICE thrives on fear & lies but the law is clear: no signed warrant, no entry. Across America, people are standing up, filming raids, refusing to open doors, & protecting each other. This isn’t just one city’s fight: it’s everyone’s.
Know your rights. Stay ready. Stand together.

In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.

Claude Monet, Sunrise, 1873 #art

🧵 RT is streaming Trump-Lula meeting

Trump about Bolsonaro in Lula’s presence:
'I’ve always liked him… feel very badly about what happened to him'

Q: 'is it on the agenda today?'

Trump: 'NONE of your business'

On My Last Leg An illness returns after a quarter century.

“When one is unwell, it becomes even more apparent that what matters most is love, and the rest is largely noise.” Lucinda Rosenfeld writes about the resurgence of her multiple sclerosis.

The Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie was the perfect antidote to the Great Depression: in a single, inexpensive, hand-held serving, it contained the very richness and comfort that millions of people were forced to live without in the late 1930s. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/oluwlN

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

What is the Insurrection Act? Here's what Trump has said about using it Experts told PBS News that worries about the Insurrection Act arise from legal uncertainty about how it can be applied.

He’s creating an insurrection to use the laws against us, so we will not have elections..

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

So happy I’m in the Blueskies 🦋

Try everyday to be like
✨Jane Goodall. ✨

In Letitia James Case, Some Black Women See Their Own Family Sacrifices

In Letitia James Case, Some Black Women See Their Own Family Sacrifices.

The federal indictment of New York’s attorney general centers on a home she purchased for a relative. It is an act that rings deeply familiar to many.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/n...

Here’s Trump’s plan for rigging elections.

NOW👇

Five Questions with Doctors Peter Hotez and Michael Mann The War on Science Continues

Here's what you need to know about Trump's war on science & medicine, from two incredible experts, @michaelemann.bsky.social & @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...

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CBS been cooked

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

That's their plan, to privatize all that we currently consider government responsibility. Then our taxes go directly to the oligarchs. It's 21st century feudalism. And if you don't know what feudalism means, read this.

www.medievalchronicles.com/medieval-eur...

Exactly.