Dr. Cordova

Ty! 🤩 Hey @nbcnews.Bsky.social #olympicchampion #nathanchen’s world record still stands. His artistry is incomparable here: watch his blades flow with each note of music as arms/hands/body positions express both nuanced and passionate moments of LaBoheme. 💫🎶Oh yes, multiple quad jumps happen, too. 🥇

@hipcinema.bsky.social Hi N! Please send me news here and check my timeline. I can’t respond to emails. Thanks! 💗☮️✊🏽⚖️🌈🌍🌊…🪁

State Department orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service.

Voter Suppression

The "show your papers" SAVE Act would require US citizens to show a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. Thanks to @librarianjones.com and @everylibrary.bsky.social for spotlighting the State Dept's shuttering of library passport centers.

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Tell Your Senators: Protect our Democracy, Vote NO on the SAVE Act Contact Congress today!

Tell the Senate: Save Democracy. Defeat the SAVE Act!

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Seattle introduces emergency legislation that would ban new detention centers, jails The moratorium would temporarily ban detention expansion within city limits for 365 days.

Seattle introduces emergency legislation that would ban new detention centers, jails.

The moratorium would temporarily ban detention expansion within city limits for 365 days.
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Figure skater Kagiyama Yuma smiles widely and gestures to his ear, seemingly listening to the audience. A man in a Team Japan jacket stands behind him, looking on with a pleased expression.

Kagiyama Yuma feeling the love from the audience 🫶

#MilanoCortina2026

These key strategies could help Americans get rid of their cars  » Yale Climate Connections Research points the way to a more climate-friendly, diverse, and desirable transportation system.

Going car-free is the best thing most people can do for climate. To reduce car dependency, cities should promote car-free living, supporting compact cities through policy, and investing in public transportation, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, and shared mobility options.

Macro photograph of a purple and white flower with a long, pollen covered stamen

I’m loving all the early flowers popping up on the property.
This is Tree Mallow.
Sebastopol, California
#flowers #photography #art #macro

Yuma Kagiyama skating to I Wish at the #Olympics #FigureSkating team event part 2

A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., on foot, completing a 15-week trek for peace from Texas apnews.com/article/budd...

Maxim Naumov emerges as a voice of reason at Olympics: ‘Do things out of love, not fear’ Having dealt with his own tragedy, figure skater hopes to inspire others to "do what they've always wanted to do."

“he described…what it meant to have the spirit of his parents out there on the ice with him.… At the end of his skate, Naumov said, ‘It’s almost like I closed my eyes and I opened them again and I was on my knees and just looking up and saying, look what we just did.’”

😭

YouTube video by The Bilingual Professor What is Translanguaging? | The Bilingual Professor

What is translanguaging? Here's my one-minute hot take, which I hope serves as a springboard for discussion with educators and those working with multilingual populations <3
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Credit to Canadian figure skater Elladj Balde #IceTorch
#OCanada 🇨🇦🍁😁 #Olympics

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.”

This is why we need to be telling our stories.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Renee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA:

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Good Things that Saved Me Today When the world seems dark, get out of your head and into the world

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Abolish ICE.

There’s no reforming it.

There’s no compromise.

There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

“This isn’t a moment, it’s a movement”

This is the Delaware Bay in North Cape May near Harpoons.
Not the beach, not sandbars just frozen water for a long way out. Salt water ! Present temp, 18 degrees.

A Message From Neil

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Signal Security Checklist | Digital Security Checklists for Activists This guide helps you take control of your private conversations on ...

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“We didn’t do all that because we are heroes and saviors. We did it because we understand the meaning of our faith: that we are all connected. We join together. We are a part of a people, a body of humanity that is made in the image of a loving and beautiful God that wants all God’s children free.”

CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.

There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.

This is my favorite guide.

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

www.boggscenter.org/thinking-for... by #SheaHowell BoggsCenter: “For Dr. King, that way toward loving communities begins with a revolution of values against racism, materialism, and militarism…Mutual aid, direct resistance, witnessing of injustice, and reaching out to stand with each other ...”

It is not enough to abolish ICE. We need to abolish the police and cages and build other institutions and relationships that can bring us genuine safety. Abolition is less an act of demolition than a construction project. It is creative creation, the boundless, boundary-less struggle to make our collective lives better, what Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls “life in rehearsal.”

Robin D.G. Kelley
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