Jen

Girl standing next to cosmic crisp apple trees

Pumpkin patch

Picking pumpkins and apples

Entrance to Carlsbad Caverns

Old Guano trail

Golden crown beard

Water over the trail

more from Carlsbad Caverns NP NM

Prickly pear in the foreground.. little girl with umbrella in background

Large bird probably a turkey vulture flying over Carlsbad Caverns NP

Purple flower, silver leaf night shade

Went on a road trip. 3 national parks. Here's Carlsbad Caverns NP

Flowers outside shake shack .. 🐝🐝🐝

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie J.D. Vance is Wrong (About a Lot of Stuff)

an informal yap session about jd vance's recent interview over at the nyt youtu.be/NqpmOGdzlWI

Beaver dam!! 🦫🌳

Pacific bleeding heart -- pink, heart shaped flowers growing in the forest

Forest ridge with ferns, trees and moss

Dirt road in the Mt Baker-Snoqualmie Nat'l Forest

Spent today wandering around Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie Nat'l Forest with my daughter and it felt so good to be out in the fresh green world 💚

Ernest S. Harbaugh, a Cybertruck owner from Ohio, states that 28 children laughed at his Cybertruck after a minor problem resulted in it being towed on a flatbed.

Please don't put in the newspaper that 28 children laughed at me

“Love our neighbors - Welcome the stranger - Care for the most vulnerable among us - Speak the truth - Work for justice…”

144. The Supreme Court's Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.

Just before 1 a.m., #SCOTUS stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation with a (remarkable) ruling that suggests, among other things, that a majority of the justices is tiring of the Trump administration’s Calvinball.

For more, see the latest “One First”:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners

I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass.

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

Here is an up to date list of Big Law collaborators along with how much in free legal services they have pledged to Trump's causes.

Paul Weiss 40M
Cadwalader 100M
Milbank 100M
Skadden Arps 100M
Willkie Farr 100M
A&O Shearman 125M
Kirkland & Ellis 125M
Latham & Watkins 125M
Simpson Thacher 125M

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

A large crowd gathers at the international fountain (space needle visible) in Seattle center

Thousands gather for Hands Off protest at Seattle center

Seattle center today

9 year old woke up today and said "Wow, it's going to be a BIG day!! Are you ready mom?" ✌🏻🇺🇲❤️👟🌎🥁🇨🇦🗽

Never in my long life have I seen more toxic male posts talking about how women should behave, treating feminism like a dirty word. Feminism has never been about how men feel about us. It’s about how we feel about ourselves & our place in the world.

Inspired by @mark-carney.bsky.social and Canadians everywhere. We’re all fighting back on our home ice!

6 things borrowers should know about federal student loans right now NPR has spent the past few weeks catching up with student loan experts and asking the Trump administration for clarity on some of borrowers' biggest questions.

www.npr.org/2025/03/31/n...

It's simple. Everyone in the US enjoys the protections of the Constitution - even visitors. So if someone commits a crime here, you give them due process here. You charge them here, try them here, and sentence them here. You don't deport them to an offshore torture prison.

How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement AOC, solidarity, and people power.

This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

Up on Oyster dome - Blanchard Forest - Chuckanut Mountains - part of Cascade range 🩵🌲💚 from May 2024

Trail to Oyster dome, located in the Blanchard State Forest, the only place in Washington where the Cascade Mountains meet the Salish Sea

Cooper River flowing into Cooper lake on a warm sunny day in late summer in the Cascade mountains of Washington State

Cooper River Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, summer 2024

No democratic system, liberal or socialist, can operate if a powerful clique can systematically exempt itself from the law while using the machinery of the state to spread fear and intimidation. The example of the New Deal also underscores the necessity for the American left to build the type of mass base that can authorize significant shifts in the constitutional order. Even before Trump’s current assault, that order had failed as a mechanism for addressing the interlocked crises of our era: economic, ecological, racial. Any real prospect of positive change will require a durable majority – even if it falls short of the supermajorities we saw in the first half of the twentieth century. This is an essential prerequisite for norm-breaking from the left, but on behalf of democracy.

Aziz Rana on constitutional collapse. Read it immediately. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Take stuff away, get called out, sorta put it back, change focus, repeat: our fitful, mean-spirited, wavering executive branch

Jackie Robinson’s Army story restored after Defense Department DEI purge The website article’s disappearance appeared to be part of the Trump administration’s push against diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the government.

He's back! The deleted Jackie Robinson article had told the story of his refusal in 1944 to move to the back of a segregated Army bus. Military police took him into custody, and he was acquitted during a court-martial.