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If you need to know, all you have to do is watch where the money goes.

If I am Killed... If I am found dead, If I am reported to be gone, If by gunshot, by police, By any report of violence, Know this: I was unarmed. I carried no gun. I wished no harm to others. If arrested by rule of law, I likely did not resist. Violence I have set aside in life. I wish only to know peace. Peace is not guaranteed in our culture.

The cherry blossoms were out in full effect the other day.

Omniroll xkcd.com/3060

Is the death penalty here justice? Yes, a form of it.

Is it the only path to justice? I don't believe so.

I'm also not one of the victim's survivors.

Our penalties reflect our society though, and it says a lot about America where we're still using the firing squad.

1884 Susan B. Anthony addresses U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote, 16 years after legislators 1st introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment. 1910 Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris becomes the 1st ever licensed female pilot 1941 1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies) 1945 International Women's Day is 1st observed 1945 Phyllis M Daley is 1st black nurse sworn in as US Navy ensign 1948 US Supreme Court rules in McCollum v. Board of Education that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional 1983 President Reagan 1st known use of term "Evil Empire" (about the USSR) in speech in Florida 1986 Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history and one of the most enduring aviation mysteries 2024 A report by the Pentagon into UFOs since 1945 finds no evidence of aliens or extraterrestrial intelligence

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bumblebee foraging pollen from a white flower

The first bee I've seen this year! I was lucky to get this handheld at 10x zoom from my smartphone. #nature #bee #spring #flower

Took a nice walk after the rain cleared. I might right a story about this tree.

The USA has had two major plane crashes in the last 4 days.

The USA had previously not suffered a major plane crash for 16 years.

‘DEI’ programs have existed for decades.

So what was it that changed in the last 14 days or so to suddenly cause so many crashes?

I do an outline with the rough cut of what I want to happen, thinking of different points as chapters. Then write the chapters where my head is at at the time. it doesn't have to be written sequentially that way, so the what happens next isn't the only necessary path forward.

A true fact of life.

AOC spot on , this is what leadership looks like.

The cruelty is the point.
They want you to panic.
They want you to give up.
They want you dead.
Don’t let them win.
You have to live.
Better days can only come if you’re still here.

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As we endure these unprecedented assaults on our institutions and Democracy by Felon47 please take these wise words from James Baldwin to heart! We are the #Opposition let’s make their inhumanity our sole focus. Call it out every damn day!!

Tree growing tall with moss on all surfaces.

Go outside, touch grass. Or around here, it’s moss.

A crow is perched on the branch sticking out of a moss covered stump in a pine forest

The Crow

I spent so much money at Disney World waiting for the magic to happen. The magic happened in mundane moments, not by buying things. I kept spending money waiting for my 9-year-old to feel the magic I felt when I was a kid, but it felt like I was doing everything wrong.

I kept spending money waiting for my 9-year-old to feel the magic I felt when I was a kid, but it felt like I was doing everything wrong.

The Surveillance Tools That Could Power Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Border enforcement agencies have spent billions assembling surveillance tools to track and find people. These could be critical in President Trump’s immigration agenda.

Apps and ankle monitors that track asylum seekers. Databases packed with fingerprints and faces. To carry out mass deportations, President Trump's administration could access a stockpile of tools that is nearly unmatched in the Western world, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

I’m so sorry, Christopher. Please know we will always remember and honor your mom’s uncle. That bigoted behemoth in the White House will never succeed in erasing the legacy of the brave, brilliant Tuskegee Airmen.

I get asked “why are you always talking about racism. You have an easy life.”
Me: There’s no easy life for Black folks. Everything I work for could be gone tomorrow. All I have is the fight in me. I will use my voice, platform, position, words, and the freckles on my face til freedom rings or I die.

What worries me about this current fervor is the people could see pictures and video of it happening and still be good with it. There is a level of cruelty and shamelessness in this version of fascism driving us toward atrocities I don't believe would turn even with clear evidence.

This is why every party needs a cleric.

They're using the power of 3 to summon something to get them out of there.

A “hoax.”

I have experienced a curious mix of feelings while having a significant portion of my life’s work in books and the art of my friends distorted and vandalized by post-literate fascists for the last few years. The feelings right now are uniquely awful.

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Or just leave the wicked sour fruit alone. Up to you.

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