Marie Valencia

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Planned Parenthood is closing their last 2 clinics in Louisiana -- one in New Orleans and one in Baton Rouge. Over 10,000 Louisianans get healthcare at PP each year. Now, they're all out of luck, thanks to all the funding cuts and costs of operations heaped on PP due to the LA GOP.

On Aug. 3, 1857, Frederick Douglass warned that a nation avoiding struggle would never find peace.

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress,” Douglass said during his “West India Emancipation” speech at Canandaigua, New York.

He was right. The Civil War came. History repeats itself.

be extra weird and whimsical today

First Friday was a cute look,so many more events to come in Aug!🪬 #18b #vegas #vegasartists #tarotandtruth

He lost an election and refused to accept the results.

He forced the Smithsonian to lie about American history.

He fired the head statistician bcuz he didn’t like the jobs numbers.

He can’t handle the truth. We elected the biggest pussy/coward/sore loser in all of human history.

Good morning 🌞

Same as the post sadly. I don’t think I could do it better here.

🌱Dahlia Karma Prospero.

A decorative water lily form… my favorite form. Lavender pink blooms with darker lavender highlights. About 5”. Foliage is to be dark green, but ours is suffering a bit of a mineral deficiency.

In today’s @latimes.com print edition: My column on an endangered wildflower that only grows in Nevada’s Esmeralda County, and the massive lithium mine that conservationists say would wipe it out.

A reasonable sacrifice to help solve the climate crisis? Take a read: www.latimes.com/environment/...

What the presence of sheep means to the Diné

How to look at Milton Snow’s historical images of a livestock genocide on the Navajo Nation.

www.hcn.org/issues/57-8/...

Grateful for venues like Taverna Costera,that are doing such an excellent job of supporting smaller shows and performers in the Arts District.✨

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

A five-petaled white flower with a purple center. The petals are fuses into a tube with little filaments coming off them. The leaves of the plant are serrated and spear-head shaped.

My Datura stramonium in bloom.

"Is there room in my heart
For you to follow your heart
And not need more blood
From the tip of your star?"

#witchsky

Freshly harvested tomatoes in a field

"Ana", a CA Central Valley farm worker harvests tomatoes piece rate. She shares: The work is not easy. I need to fill and carry two 24lb buckets of tomatoes, rush with a bucket in each hand to where the trailer is and then hurry back into the field to harvest more. #WeFeedYou

Inside Alabama’s threats to prosecute abortion helpers When Roe v. Wade was overturned and abortion became illegal in Alabama, helping people get out of state came with the threat of jail time.

Looking for heroes, you say?
Let us introduce you to the abortion rights activists who took on Alabama's attorney general—and won. So many lessons here for the post-Roe era. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

What I cannot fathom is why any court is allowing Alligator Auscwirz to exist.

Inhumane detention facilities violate the 8th Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.

A reminder: The perpetrators in the Epstein files are Oligarchs, and so are the ones protecting them.

Sen. Alex Padilla introduces legislation for pathway to lawful permanent residency for immigrants Amid weeks of immigration raids in SoCal, Sen. Alex Padilla announced legislation intended to expand existing pathways for immigrants to obtain lawful permanent residency.

Sen. Alex Padilla introduces legislation for pathway to lawful permanent residency for immigrants

abc7.com/post/senator...

Bet this robot thinks women are too emotional.

Terrific hat,sir!

drew bread

The more you speak the truth and acknowledge it, the angrier a narcissist gets.

Some mornings,I'm a Sativa Diva.🌞🍃
@rovebrand.bsky.social

A breathtaking view of NGC 6188, also known as the Firebird nebula, located about 4100 light-years away in the constellation Ara.

This gas cloud harbours a cluster of young stars called NGC 6193

(Credit: ESO/VVVX survey / video by Universal-Sci)

He’s suing his girlfriend’s doctor for prescribing abortion pills. Could this gut access everywhere? Texas lawyer Jonathan Mitchell is going after a California doctor, Here’s why that’s terrifying.

“The whole game for Jonathan Mitchell is to get into federal court, both because he wants to shut down doctors in shield-law states, like everyone in the anti-abortion movement, and because he wants a federal court to weigh in on the Comstock Act.”

Maybe it’s not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate. - Ozzy Osbourne

Wednesday is with us again, so grab your family and friends and drag them out to buy a book! - Michael

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The UN's top court in a landmark climate decision says a 'clean, healthy and sustainable environment' is a human right.

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Painting featuring three young Indian women, sitting facing left in different coloured saris

Three girls (1932)
by Amrita Sher-Gil #womensart