Tracy W

Political violence must always be condemned.

This is not normal. A sitting president refusing to call the governor of a state after two elected officials were shot, one fatally, is beyond words. A typical president, regardless of politics, would pick up the phone. Offer condolences.

This Week In The Big Picture With Donald Trump and his MAGA faithful, every accusation is a confession.

This week, Trump has escalated the weaponization of his Justice Department to a disturbing new level with new charges against a Democratic member of Congress. And when it comes to the Trump administration's abject cruelty, it's worth digging into the motives at the heart of it. Read more here.

No one experiencing the tragedy of a miscarriage should be arrested, much less abandoned in jail for 5 months with a $100k bond. But that’s exactly what happened to Mallori Patrice Strait in Texas. Women, particularly women of color, in this country are no longer allowed dignity even in extreme loss

"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

In today’s atmosphere, it’s obvious why a book warning of totalitarian censorship would be in the American Library Association’s list of most commonly challenged books

If he does this, we should use for toilet paper.

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

USAID informed employees via email that it is terminating 2,000 workers and placing thousands of foreign service officers and other direct hires worldwide on paid leave, effective tonight.

From Heather Cox Richardson:

Here is a list of companies openly supporting Project 2025.

*And for those of you leary of the reliability, I have checked these companies against the donations registered on Goods Unite Us and they correspond.

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

✅ DEI Employer of the Day™

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"We believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI], and call on our associates, customers, and communities to hold us accountable to showing it every day."

The NAACP Black Consumer Advisory encourages consumers to 'buy-in' on companies that back their values.

President Musk seeks access to US tax system.

www.africaninsider.com/world/musks-...

The VP of the US responding to a journalist. What a great role model for our kids.

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

Fuck Airbnb

Love Thy Neighbor A poem

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We Harvest What We Sow We’ve forgotten empathy.

A timely read

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Eleanor Maguire, Memory Expert Who Studied London Cabbies, Dies at 54 By watching the brain process information, she discovered that a specific region plays a key role in spatial navigation — and that it can be strengthened like a muscle.

'Her studies revealed that the hippocampus can grow, and that memory is not a replay of the past but rather an active reconstructive process that shapes how people imagine the future.'

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/s...

100% WHERE ARE YOU MARK CUBAN? AND WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS WHO CARE ABOUT DEMOCRACY? THEY HAVE THE POWER TO STOP TRUMP AND MUSK BUT DO NOTHING. WHY? BECAUSE THEY’RE CORRUPT AND OR COWARDS.

Dr. Clotilda Douglas-Yakimchuk (1932-2021) was a pioneering Canadian nurse and community activist. She was the first Black graduate of Nova Scotia Hospital School of Nursing, founded the Black Community Development Organization, and was an advocate in environment and health issues.