H. Valli

"We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states"

— Langston Hughes

“Break My Stride,” by Matthew Wilder.

if the system is held up by allowing impunity for pedophiles then the system needs to be destroyed.
if you ever thought 'justice for the omelas child!!!' - well, there's the omelas children right there.

Order your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site Today That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.

So there's a black girl scout troop trying to raise money to to to Europe but they aren't close to their goal as of yet. Please share this and buy some cookies if you can

digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/reagan...

"Don't engage, just block" is part of what makes Bluesky awesome

I was wondering if having the Supreme Court strike down his favorite economic/foreign policy tool would make him stroke out. His doctors must have him on some amazing meds.

A Noble hasn't fucked the royals like this since the Magna Carta.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

Oh yes. I still want him to go down (whatever “down” looks like for a former royal), but I want him to drag as many people from Epstein’s circle as possible along with him.

My aunt voted for Rick Snyder to be governor of Michigan (you might have heard of him for such accomplishments as lead poisoning an entire city) because he’d gone to high school with her kids. Wasn’t their friend or anything, just same school.

UK: Prince Andrew arrested.

South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.

Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.

USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

EMILY DICKINSON, JEDI KNIGHT

Not so clumsy, nor so random -
As a blaster - in its rage

More elegant - the weapon
More civilized - the age

WATCH: “That’s not America. That’s not Tennessee. I’m ashamed of those sons of bitches.”

A decorated veteran from a family of soldiers warns Republican anti-immigrant Stephen Miller bills are creating a “Gestapo”.

(Bonus: turns out this patriot is a Holler fan 🎉)

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.

It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

Opinion | In the Resistance, We Drive Minivans

Wonderfully written NY Times piece by a local dad involved in the resistance, really echoes with a lot of what we’re feeling: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o... (gift link)

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

This is the why more people should have a goth phase. Wandering through old cemeteries is very instructive.

I saw an ad on the subway that I thought was for a 5/14 No Kings rally and I was like “wow they are really going all out” and then I realized it was an ad for a Springsteen show and he just really hates Trump

FDA reverses course, agrees to review Moderna’s flu vaccine The FDA reversed course and told Moderna it would review its application for a new flu vaccine, the company announced Wednesday.

Public pushback matters... and reveals levers of power.

www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/f...

These numbers demand a complete rethinking of immigration in this country and accountability for the terrorism of DHS/CBP/ICE.

Aesthetic reforms are just not enough.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

Craft Supplies for Park Slope Women's Shelter The Park Slope Women's Shelter serves unhoused women with mental health and/or substance-use disorder diagnoses in NYC. Due to an incident this past year, the shelter is attempting to rebuild and re...

HELLO, FRIENDS!

The women's shelter where I volunteer lost almost all of their art and craft supplies last year. I can't fix everything, but I have a big network here, and so do a lot of you, and I'm pretty sure that together, we can fix this.

www.thingstogetme.com/2169641a9c163

These are the same people who have forgotten that Boy George was hugely popular in the 80s and that Neil Diamond used to pack arenas signing about immigrants being super space awesome.

There's just a chunk of America that has worse object permanence than a 12 month old.

The only response to "trans people in sports??" should be "this does not affect your life in any way at all and is a set of dangling keys intentionally distracting you from the pedos who are robbing our pockets and poisoning our lakes and rivers for their sick addiction to power"

"We are reviewing the ruling and weighing our options," a spokesperson for the FTC said. "The Chamber of Commerce is a left-wing, open borders supporting activist group.” The Chamber is the largest business lobby group in the U.S., whose board includes executives from FedEx, Sempra, Abbott Laboratories, Fidelity Investments, Meta Platforms, Microsoft and Nasdaq.

libs getting the chamber of commerce in the national divorce, sure, why not, welcome aboard
www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...

When I started watching, the video had 1,652,494 views. By the time I finished it had 1,694,490 views. Over 40k views in ~10 minutes.

It’s Pączki Day in southeast Michigan; in this instance it’s lemon filled.