Eileen Drennen

“They’re trying to kidnap someone” On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.

"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Lafayette, IN showed up yesterday, as did thousands of other towns, here and overseas

This is really the whole ball game right now, *particularly* among the institutions that make up civil society.

(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)

AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver

Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.

This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.

Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.

And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

At Least Now We Know the Truth It’s ugly, but necessary to face.

"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States"

from @davidfrum.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Exactly. Democracy requires your bravery

Some federal workers are ‘getting wealthy at taxpayer expense,’ says Elon Musk, whose companies have received at least $20 billion from the government

See here's how to do a headline.

fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

Keith Jarrett’s “The Köln Concert” never fails

Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.

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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

Heartbreak for CBS News We must take back the press for the American people

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Oh yes, I am a snowflake who can't handle uneducated social losers repetitively shouting slurs and bots re-posting the ravings of idiots who are themselves pawns suckered into defending the cruelty of oligarchs by declaiming political slogans. Oh wait, that wasn't what they meant by "echo chamber"?

Indeed I did — how bout you?

If you grow up in a house with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, you learn to surround yourself with book friends

Writing together — in workshops, writing groups or co-writing spaces — allows us to race past our inner brakes and censors to surprise ourselves in the page.