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YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson Today in Politics | Explainer

Heather Cox Richardson @hcrichardson.bsky.social explains it so well and in great detail on her channel youtu.be/HBuYkPIYx6o?... ...and this was just Today.

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More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.

Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.

Beautiful and devastating all at once.

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#BelleIsle, #Detroit, #MI

#birds
#photography
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#BirdWatching
#birdsofbluesky
#nature
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YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

Wow. This is the first time I heard Talarico speak. What a bright light. He's great. 🧨 And CBS wouldn't allow Colbert to air it which is why it's only on YouTube. 🌟🌟🌟
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Valentine Card circa 1835, the Brooklyn Museum. ❤️

I'm saving this for that happy day when I can say, 'See? Even the clouds are dancing in the sky!'

Ireland announces scheme to provide basic income for artists The Basic Income for Artists (BIA) project is believed to be the first permanent one of its kind in the world.

After a trial over the last few years, Ireland has launched a permanent scheme giving a basic income of €325 a week for artists.

2,000 will be eligible, and successful recipients will be chosen at random from applicants, who must be "professional artists" (definition tbc).

Painting of a view of a park with figures and tall bare trees in front of a rising early spring sun causing long shadows on grass

Emma Haworth, contemporary London-based painter known for her observations of the streets and parks, with a hint of otherworldliness #womensart

Bad Bunny reminded millions:

America is a continent. The United States is just one country in it.

Great Performance of Love and Unity

I'm talking about friends these days. And loneliness. This watercolour print is called Friends Matter. Even animal ones. Look: we matter, and we matter to each other. Love is what connects us. To ourselves. To each other. To nature. To the animals. To the earth. Friends matter! You matter to me.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

The path teaches if you let it.

#SlowDown #NatureAsTeacher #FindYourRhythm

Heads are going to explode 💥

Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.

All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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This is Muslim New York: artists, thinkers and politicos on defining a new era for the city A burgeoning set of Muslim creatives and intellectuals are thriving amid the backdrop of Zohran Mamdani’s rise. We ask 18 of them about this historic moment in New York City life

The melting pot has been freezing lately, which doesn’t mean it isn’t still hot…💫🤩

Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit searches X office, Musk summoned French police raided the offices of Elon Musk's social media network X and prosecutors ordered the tech billionaire to face questions in April related to a widening investigation into the platform, th...

Cybercrime - Part of a widening investigation into the platform, to include AI chatbot Grok; Europe and US increasingly at odds over big tech and free speech.

Kudos to Mayor Mamdani.

This is what economic justice looks like.

And it's a reminder of how we can fight corporate greed at the state and local level. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/mamdani-ice-delivery-workers-settlement-backpay-uber-gig-workers-million/

“Light Melts Ice”, 24x24. Acrylic on canvas. Trying to express reactions to our current state of affairs. I want to be hopeful yet very aware of where we are. These are crude and I will probably continue on this after it dries. But it felt good to let anger and outrage flow.

Feb. 1st, Northern Hemisphere - Happy Imbolc ~ an ancient Celtic festival marking the midway point between the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox, and awakening Earth from its Winter slumber.

Mamdani Names Nonprofit Leader and Ex-Rikers Inmate to Run N.Y.C. Jails

(free to read) “Under Mayor Mamdani’s leadership we will chart a path of hope, healing and transformation,” Mr. Richards said. “His administration made clear that the future of Rikers is not endless confinement, scapegoating or demonizing.”

In a Shuttered Macy’s, You Can Feel the Pulse of Fulton Street

(a free read of something different) An artist has created an installation in the former department store in Downtown Brooklyn, using light patterns triggered by sounds. He was “transfixed by the poetry of where the hustle of the street meets the building.”

Distress signal, Minnesota-style. #ICEOutOfMinnesota

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

🍃 Plato

🎧 listen this is heartbreaking 💔

@coldfishstix on TikTok for the whole track

A red hat, inspired by a symbol of resistance to Nazi occupation, gains traction in Minnesota A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

CALL TO ACTIVISM (@calltoactivism) 🚨BREAKING: A massive banner of Alex Pretti has been reported in Times Square. In the image, he’s wearing scrubs - honoring his parent’s wishes to show the world how Alex lived - not just how he died. ...

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YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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