Natalie 💖 Silver Spring

How To Uplift & Fight Back From Home: Join Us Nov 25 – Dec 2 for The Mass Blackout And where to shop to support the small businesses most affected by anti-DEI rollbacks and destructive tariffs. Solidarity isn't seasonal.

How To Uplift & Fight Back From Home: Join Us Nov 25 – Dec 2 for The Mass Blackout
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Amen, from an agnostic sister.

I hope you're right, but all he has to keep doing is tell his zombie followers that Biden and Obama are to blame and they will believe him.

They're able to separate "We The People" from a fascist government. They realize what's at stake.

Thanks for sharing, John!

Here's one from Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.

We won't back down!
❤️🤍💙
#NoKings

Trump Targets Birth Control With Federal Shutdown Layoffs In the States

Let me get this straight.

Black and Hispanic women use contraceptives.

Racist TrumpMAGAs don't want any women to have access to birth control.

So Black/Hispanic people that MAGA hates and has been deporting will now have more children.

What am I missing?

jessica.substack.com/p/trump-shut...

Could Princess Awesome take down Trump’s tariffs? Princess Awesome, an online clothing shop based in Silver Spring, is struggling to stay afloat with tens of thousands of dollars in added costs from new tariffs.

I'm supporting this small, online business.

Delightful clothing and gifts.

Take him down, ladies!

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Beyond appalling.

www.instagram.com/p/DPd2Rm0jhP...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

I recently learned about the 72 Japanese microseasons from a fellow naturalist. I was born when "the swallows return". Lovely.
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For those in need a nice poem ...

#poetry
#inspiration
#perspective

For One Who Is Exhausted, a Blessing John O’Donohue with a gift for the tired soul. A poem on slowing down until our strength to move forward returns to us.

"Draw alongside the silence of stone
Until its calmness can claim you."

Blessings to my yoga teacher, for always knowing what to say.
onbeing.org/blog/john-od...

#breathe #empathy #poetry

When he's gone, and his cult deflates without its 'Dear Leader', more than half the country will have PTSD. But we will recover when a president with a heart and soul restores our government's empathy and functioning. I just have to believe that; it's what keeps me going.

Would anyone else on @bsky.app love it if we refrained from posting photos and videos of the person who every minute of every day thrives on the media spotlight and likely has created the highest incidence of PTSD of any country in the history of the world?

#MakeItStop
#DontFeedTheMonster

We are facing the most brazen rollback of civil rights in generations.

On July 17th, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities are mobilizing to ensure #GoodTroubleLivesOn and carry John Lewis’ legacy forward.

➡️Find a good trouble event: social.demcast.com/s/65nTti3j

O, Canada. You're so close to us, yet so far.

This American yearns for the leader you have in @mark-carney.bsky.social. Thank you for your empathy with the horror we're facing in the US. It means a lot. We're trying hard to change things here, and won't ever give up!

Happy belated Canada Day!
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Capitalism: Anybody can be rich.

Communism: Nobody can be rich.

Socialism: Anbody can be rich, but no one should be poor.

Me, too! I've always been particularly captivated by Florida's big, puffy clouds against a blue sky. Truly magnificent.

I agree! Loved every page. @orionmagazine.bsky.social keeps outdoing itself.

When I was a kid in the 1960s, my mom would take us to the duck pond with a bag of Cheez Doodles. Now a naturalist, I can only say: Yikes! 😮

Elrich defends MoCo after Trump designation as ‘sanctuary jurisdiction’ County is within compliance of federal law, executive says

Keep your masked ICE thugs out of my county!

"We stand with our resident immigrants. We will follow the law, but not abandon our values. We won't allow our communities to be divided, or the contributions of our immigrants to be erased."

#DefendImmigrants

bethesdamagazine.com/2025/05/30/e...

FEMA denies NC appeal for Helene recovery match FEMA will not reverse its decision to deny matching 100% of the State of North Carolina’s expenditures used for Hurricane Helene recovery.

www.cbs17.com/news/north-c...

NC handed Trump its electoral votes on Election Day 2024.

The party that's always wished to delegate governing to the States is now spitting in the face of States.

HURRICANE SEASON begins in 9 days.

#TheCrueltyIsThePoint
#FEMA
#DisasterRelief
#Hurricanes
#Wildfires

www.cbs17.com/news/north-c...

pithy

As I head outside to tend our garden and immerse myself in its renewal and beauty ... thank you.
#gardening
#earth

"Be in dialog with love."
- Pope Leo XIV

Amen.

❤️✝️🔯☪️🌍

"When I scan the news, nothing makes sense. When I step outside and raise my binoculars to the sky, everything does."

A very favorite author, @edyong209.bsky.social in his e-newsletter buttondown.com/edyong209.

Ed, thank you for saying so beautifully what's in so many hearts. 💚🐦from Maryland.

Sending ❤️ to our Canadian neighbors and friends. Wishing @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social a resounding victory.

#CanadaVotes

What do you think?

MUSK = Makes Up Shit Kakistocrat

#MakesUpShitKakistocrat
#funnynotfunny
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