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This is a BIG reason I wrote Burn It Down. I was v tired of doing One Bad Man stories & wanted to shout from the rooftops that every He's Just One Bad Man is NOT a one-off--each 1 is propped up by multiple interlocking systems of enabling, protection & even celebration. The SYSTEMS are def evergreen

My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

A photo portrait by Max Hemphill shows a young Black woman in profile wearing a durag and a camo baseball cap.

Got to spend time with the inimitable Lauren Halsey for Family Style:

“Funk is like, Fuck it! I’m going to do it anyway. I’m going to transcend. I’ll do it no matter what.”

www.family.style/art/lauren-h...

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

My household consists of 2 adults and 2 kids yet we own 31 tea mugs.

😂🤣🤭

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

I don’t use soul in a religious sense but rather the way psychologists Carl Jung and James Hillman and the Romantic poets like Keats, Wordsworth, and Blake use it: to speak of the experience of depth in our lives.~Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

"The unconverted ego wants one thing and one thing only: control—and it wants it now. It never wants to change, in fact, it hates change." ~Richard Rohr, 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯

Having fun 🕺 isn’t hard 💃 when you’ve got 🕺 a library card 💃

Creativity & magic are the same thing so think like an artist. Experiment. Use materials. Try multiple techniques until you find some that fit you. Fail. Fail again. You won't feel the energy moving through you every time, but show up and do the work anyway so that when it is there, so are you.

Good thread.

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.” ― Anne Carson (Translator), 𝘎𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘓𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴: 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Watching the breath trains you to watch the mind, to observe the flow instead of reacting to it. The Trauma of Everyday Life Mark Epstein

garden sparrow. regular visitor- did not leave his name.

Small, swift and simple
wings carry sparrows aloft
to high feathered paths
if we are not meant to fly
why then do our dreams have wings

#tanka #poetry #photography #Canada

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I genuinely cannot emphasize this enough.

Law enforcement manufacturing evidence and testilying isn't novel to the Trump administration. It's not even more common. They're just worse at it so they're more easily caught doing it.

Unforgotten This cold case drama series follows detectives as they uncover the truth from the past.

If you recently canceled streaming services, might I suggest supporting your local @pbs.org station?

I have been binging this lately.

www.pbs.org/show/unforgo...

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

They have music (recorded, sheet - sometimes instruments) and passes to museums you can check out too!

I do not recall my father ever playing music in the car or at home.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth." - Hermann Hesse

#Trees #Nature #Gratitude #Beauty #Photography #Life #NaturePhotography #Beauty #Light #Peace #HermannHesse #Truth

Fascinating that the dominant logic even amongst the left seems to be that the logic of capital will save us from fascism and boy do I have bad news for y’all on that front.