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Andrea Gibson, a Poet of Love, Hope and Gender Identity, Dies at 49

Regret
is a time machine
to the past.

Worry
is a time machine
to the future.

Gratitude
is a time machine
to the present.

No one books
my travel for me.

I decide where
I want to go.

~ Andrea Gibson RIP

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BREAKING: An enormous peaceful protest has broken out in Los Angeles in defiance of Donald Trump’s ICE raids. This is how it’s done.

Prairie Warblers are among my very favorite birds. They show up mid-April in my Appalachia Ohio and their ethereal song always makes my heart skip a beat and take flight as they flit like little drops of sunlight through the canvas of spring green and redbud pink. #hopeisthethingwithfeathers

From a great turnout for an anti-Project 2025 protest in Athens to this incredible show by Yagody from Ukraine, today was full of resistance, hope, music and community … and we all needed all of it. 🇺🇦✌️🎶💪

Trying to run a nonprofit arts organization in the US right now is like a chaotic game of whack-a-mole or Frogger or maybe Ms Pacman which was always my favorite video game. Anyway. Fun (not) times.

Thou shalt not snatch people off the streets for their opinions.

Goldberg talks about what he witnessed in the Signal group chat The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg talks about what he witnessed in the Signal group chat.

What a dangerous circus our government is right now. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

I'm taking my kids to The Everglades next week. Hoping we still have a National Park to visit. Thank you @altnps.bsky.social for ALL you're doing to protect our Parks and our amazing natural resources. @maytheforestbewithyou

Ohio State cuts diversity offices, programming COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio State University announced its next steps in reviewing the institution’s diversity, equity and inclusion policies, which will include discontinuing the Offi…

“If S.B. 1 succeeds in Ohio, it will embolden politicians everywhere to kill higher education under the guise of ‘neutrality'. This is a warning: the fight for academic freedom isn’t just Ohio’s fight, it’s America’s fight.”

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I don't know how much impact this one-day corporate boycott will actually have, BUT, I do believe that choosing to spend my $ today and everyday with smaller, locally-owned business will have an impact!

Super distressed country.

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Discovered that album working at a coffee shop in Old Town Alexandria and it was on pretty heavy rotation for a while.

To erase trans people from Stonewall is to erase the Stonewall movement for LGBT justice. Period.

This is disastrous for the nonprofit arts ecosystem. It's absolutely essential to support our local arts organizations if we want them to survive.

Getting my PBS Passport account set up has been an absolute BALM. I'm adrift without my public media. Support funding for NPR/PBS!

First lineup roll out for www.nelsonvillefest.org! 🔥

Icy Athens roadways. Stay safe! 🥶

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde asks Trump to show mercy to LGBT people and migrants Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde made a plea to the president in a sermon that Trump later criticised.

“Let me make one final plea, Mr. President. Millions have put their trust in you and, as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now." www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Stuart's Opera House - Impact Stories - Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Stuart’s Opera House and Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Partner to Support Arts Education in Southeastern Ohio

Grateful for this partnership between www.stuartsoperahouse.org and Osteopathic Heritage Foundations to support arts education! osteopathicheritage.org/stuarts-oper...

The rich hoard their money. That is all. Here's a beautiful Tourqouis-browed Motmot to hopefully soften that blow.