Rayn

Skyline cleanse.

Minnesota’s flags will fly at half staff in honor and remembrance of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman.

She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed.

lol this is a real post on Gavin Newsom’s TikTok account

💥 Dallas came THROUGH. This is what people power looks like.
#NoKings

#nokings #savannah
And here’s a lady getting arrested for wearing a medical mask

🏆 to whoever came up with and coordinated the No Kings protest at Ocean Beach, San Francisco.

Don’t miss it…absolute fire.

Massive crowd of No Kings marchers.

Massive crowd of No Kings marchers.

Stay classy, San Diego. #NoKings

Seriously CAN NOT believe I saw my girl and sat so close! We sang together and had a grande old time. At least she sang and I sang with her haha. #cowboycartertour #beyonce #beyhive

Texas students say K-12 DEI ban and other anti-LGBTQ+ bills threaten their safety, voice and mental health Students are concerned the legislation could silence supportive teachers, dismantle safe spaces, lead to overenforcement and prevent honest conversations about identity.

“In today's world, simply existing as a trans person has become an act of resistance. And in a society that politicizes my existence, just living authentically becomes an act of defiance.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/04/29/t...

White House comes out with sharp spending cuts in Trump's 2026 budget plan President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget plan would slash nondefense domestic spending by $163 billion, while increasing expenditures on national security.

⚠️ The White House budget proposal would fully eliminate IMLS—the only federal agency for library services—in FY2026. This would gut access to information and opportunity, especially in rural areas.
We can’t let this stand.
apnews.com/article/trum...
#FundLibraries

To all those who said boycotting Target was a waste of time. It wasn't. Keep it up, y'all!

Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

Blue Lives Matter

If you haven’t seen this, you need to!

Trump is short-selling America—deliberately tanking the economy so that businesses and entire industries bend the knee and beg him to save them.

Thanks, @chrismurphyct.bsky.social, for sounding the alarm.
Now, what is Congress going to do about it?

Thank you, Senator Cory Booker! #Resist

Christian nationalists don’t actually believe in heaven or hell or they wouldn’t act the way they do…

Adulting is just endless hours of having to wear pants.

🫨🫨🫨🫨

#blacksky 🤣🤣🤣🤣

✅ DEI Commentary of the Day™ 🧵

"Costco’s decision to stand by DEI efforts sent a clear message: 'Black America, we see you, and we value you.'"

by James S. Bridgeforth, Ph.D.

chicagodefender.com/the-cost-of-...

It’s great to see you. How’s the fam?

📍Montevideo, Uruguay

#travel #gaytravel #blacktravel #uruguay #montevideo #rambla #afroenby #nonbinary

The final minute of sunlight for February 27, 2025 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Waterfront at la rambla

Dramatic sunset

The final scene.

I watched the sun and some clouds dance the ballet of sunset. These photos don’t come close to capturing the drama of it all. #sunset

La Rambla, Montevideo, Uruguay

All the way from Montevideo, Uruguay! What’s up, Flashes!? I hope you don’t mind me flashing you. 😜 #uruguay #montevideo #gayuruguay #blacktravel #gaytravel #nonbinarylife

An image you might think are stars but they're not, each speck of light is a galaxy, some, the deepest red ones, are the oldest objects ever observed.

Hubble Deep Space Field
Constellation Fornax
Distance. The farthest galaxies are roughly 13.4 billion light years away.
Photo show's over 10,000 galaxies
Exposure time 11 days 7 hrs
They aimed Hubble at the darkest area of the sky, and looked back to nearly the beginning of time.

An old abandoned road filled with mountain lupine. With the forest lining the edges.

Somebody somewhere
Needs flowers tonight