Creative life of LouLou

It isn't dead, only on chemo. We are fighting back so stop acting like we gave up. Because... you could be next. So help us and encourage us to do better! 💙

This is one of America's saddest days, but it pales in comparison to the days that are coming for so many here.

The dark orange sun is setting across a bay with silhouettes of pine trees in the foreground and orange-tinged grey clouds to the left background. A single star is visible in the top left hand corner.

Nova Scotia sunset
#sunset #photography #EastCoastKin #peaceful #nature

Update on our trip to Alligator Alcatraz. We are being denied access.

Black and white photo of a little white girl kneeling on grass outdoors next to a toy wagon with “Gail Ann” stencil painted on it. She is smiling and hugging a big shorthaired tuxedo tabby cat who looks very happy standing beside her.

Photo from my collection, the back says “Gail and landlord’s cat”. No other info/date.

Imagine this is you.

You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.

Ironic isn't it?

For those of you that don’t know geography, Uganda is in AFRICA just like Musk, Mamdani is an African American. Btw, Canadians and Mexicans are also AMERICANS, we are the USA and We don’t own the Continent.

Some people are working on gathering at the Capitol steps to show support for Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York. If you can’t be there in person, you can still show your support from wherever you are.

Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

ICE now has over 70 billion dollars to build more concentration camps.

Just in time for Independence Day.

God damn you, America.

Mike Johnson just said if you are for reducing the deficit, this bill is for you.

The bill adds 3-4 trillion dollars to the deficit.

They just lie.

'Born on The Farce of July'

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/born-on-th...

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Agreed

One last word on the matter before I mute myself. We've heard a lot about how words against genocide sound antisemitic to sensitive ears. Well I'm a brown Muslim immigrant so I know words hurt, but fuck me I'd never say they're on the same level as killing kids. Get some perspective for fuckssake

A cardinal fledgling!!!! 🪶

Seems to think the camera is a little sus…

#birds #birdnerd #cardinal #nature #birdfeeding

A garden with lots of native flowers exploding out of a garden bed

I know I post about it every time I’m here but hot damn the Fishtown pollinator garden looks so goooooood. So many colors! Absolutely swarming with bumblebees and other bees.

@thespencerhakimian.bsky.social

I love how she immediately pivots to the golden dome missile defense system

Rep. Dean: "The senators voted on this not knowing exactly what was in the bill. I bet they loved the part about no sales tax on silencers. Really, folks? We want to make silencers more plentiful in this country at the behest of the representative who owns gun stores? Conflicts of interest abound."

I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong The health secretary has made many inaccurate statements about vaccines. But the science is clear that vaccines have dramatically reduced childhood illness, disability and death.

Dr. Jake Scott's rebuttal of recent claims by RFK Jr on vaccine safety and conflicts of interest. "I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong." theconversation.com/im-a-physici...

ten minutes ago i bought three samosas for five bucks at the store and after one bite I said Ahmed who made these, this is the best samosa I've ever had in my life and he said MY MOM MADE THEM THIS AFTERNOON FOR CANADA DAY, I'LL TELL HER YOU SAID THAT and guys this is the Canada we need to fight for

Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept.

"As violence erupted, his charging document said, he told other rioters who were attacking law enforcement officers, 'Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!'

He then raised his arms in celebration after breaching the Capitol in a face mask... and escaped through a window..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...