Jennifer Harper Tapler | Maui

This is what I call “I’ll do anything to distract myself from the dumpster fire that is our country” right now. #takingamentalhealthday
#paintbynumber
#deepbreaths #1448daystogo

Be safe out there, Maui!
Emergency Alert just sent to our phones. Not sure if it’s island-wide or what? We live in Maui Lani area of Kahului (flooding is not normally an issue)
#maui #mauiweather #mauiflooding

Thank you, Pete Buttigieg

Can I just be be like cryogenically frozen or something for the next 4 years and then just wake me up when this is over if we’re good? I’m so tired.

This is a gut check.

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#resist

I forget… is it 1 Tribute from each district or 2? It’s 2 right?

Thank you for being the beacon of truth we can cling to through the ongoing storm. You are appreciated and admired. A true inspiration.

I never imagined these scenarios and am continuously shocked that this reality seems to get worse each day it continues.

Very Important

Rising to the Challenges: A Conversation on Democracy with Representative Jamie Raskin Register Now

Some Democrats have expressed frustration that Democratic Party officials and electeds aren’t doing enough to pushback against the Trump administration.

Congressman Jamie Raskin is hosting a moderated zoom call about this tomorrow.

Anyone can join.

Please tell us what you (and other Dems) are doing about this RIGHT NOW. I’m a frontline healthcare provider. Will my Quest patients have coverage tomorrow? My husband’s a psychotherapist. Will the NPOs he works with be open tomorrow? Our clients are PANICKING right now.

#resist

I’m the woman out here in the rain putting a hot pack on my tortoise, who doesn’t even like me, because I’m worried it’s too cold for him. And by cold, I mean it’s like 66 on Maui right now. 🥶
#petsky
And yes, that’s a temperature controlled house made just for him that he refuses to go into. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Wait, what does this mean, exactly? ALL grants and loans? Like student loans?? Because a huge swathe of college kids are just now returning for the semester and tuition hasn’t been paid yet. Are all of these kids just fucked?

This steady rain in Kahului for the past hour is so beautiful! Much needed.

This is unacceptable! Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, reporting that Navajo citizens in Arizona and New Mexico have faced “negative, sometimes traumatizing experiences” with federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants after Trump’s recent immigration orders.

I never thought I’d say this, but I think Joe Exotic might be right…

Heading to book club. It’s nice to get out and not think about things for an hour or two.

Excited to watch this one!!

So happy to see you here!!

Second part of extremely long tweet by Colombian president Gutavo Petro, auto-translated from Spanish. hands of the white libertarians, heirs of Lincoln and of the black and white peasant boys of the USA, before whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached, after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the USA and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization at that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resisters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. My land is of goldsmithing existing in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, and of the first artists of the world in Chiribiquete. You will never dominate us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom and who is called Bolívar opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful, They are somewhat timid, naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, now Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, immigrant in the USA, Your blockade does not scare me; because Colombia, in addition to being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and it will offer you its sweetness. COLOMBIA FROM TODAY IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OP…

This goes hard (part 2)

Extremely long tweet by Colombian president Gutavo Petro, auto-translated from Spanish. Continued in next post. Trump, I don't really like traveling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some worthy things, I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, there I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like bullshit to me, because they should unite. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller. I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, in the history of the US, are memorable and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are inside the US as well as inside my country. I don't like your oil, Trump, you are going to end the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a shot of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can, with your economic strength and your arrogance, try to carry out a coup d'état as they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, 1 resisted torture and I resist you. I do not want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you cannot accompany me, I will go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you did not understand it, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my town which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You do not like our freedom, okay. I do not shake hands with white slavers. I shake the

This goes hard

Same.

You do not have to answer anything about your neighbors to anyone.

Gift idea for your MAGA relatives -

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