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YouTube video by Wine House Jackson Browne - Standing In The Breach (Lyrics)

“You don't know how it'll happen now

After all that's come undone

But you know the change the world needs now

Is there,
in everyone”

#mood #storytellers

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There are two parties in this country: the Democratic Party and the Authoritarian Party.

State Legislators from 27 States convene to say "The federal government has crossed a line" Cora Neumann, a State Senator from my state of Montana, stood up today with legislators from 27 U.S. states to say, “We stand together now or we fall separately later.” State Legislators came together...

Gov Maura Healey D-MA missing the moment.

@massgovernor.bsky.social
#MApoli

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Black and white print. A phonograph in the foreground and it looks like a murmuration is coming from it like music notes. Trees along the background and a crow sits as if observing.

Artist: Fiona Watson

@hlfhm YOU WERE ONLY BORN WITH 2 ARMS STOP TRYING TO HOLD IT ALL TOGETHER drop some shit, have a cry, use both hands to give people the finger

State Legislators from 27 States convene to say "The federal government has crossed a line" Cora Neumann, a State Senator from my state of Montana, stood up today with legislators from 27 U.S. states to say, “We stand together now or we fall separately later.” State Legislators came together...

WHY NO MASSACHUSETTS?!?! #mapoli @massgovernor.bsky.social
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Inside ICE’s Only Contract with a Blue State - Bolts As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.

“In some cases, GBH found, sheriffs proactively reach out to ICE to alert them to a coming release or court appearance.”

@massgovernor.bsky.social has the authority to stop this.

Gov Healey will you ever be FOR THE PEOPLE?

Voters remember at the polls.

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Happy #Lawyercat Anniversary for all who celebrate! It's been four years since the kitten appeared in my Zoom courtroom, and I released the 48 second video that made the whole world laugh. Here is the full video showing the big reveal at the end (in two parts because Blue sky). Enjoy!

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen Epstein survivors release MUST WATCH new Super Bowl ad nationwide

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Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Mercy after Nikki Giovanni She asks me to kill the spider. Instead, I get the most peaceful weapons I can find. I take a cup and a napkin. I catch the spider, put it outside and allow it to walk away. If I am ever caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, just being alive and not bothering anyone, I hope I am greeted with the same kind of mercy. - Rudy Francisco

Mercy

Love this! 🙋🏼‍♀️👏🩷

City wouldn't clear a Comm Ave. bike lane, so some bicyclists showed up today with shovels The Boston Cyclists Union organized a shovel brigade today to clear out part of the inbound Commonwealth Avenue bike lane, which had been impassible since the snowstorm almost two weeks ago, most rece...

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ALERT: The City of Boston has declared a cold emergency from Saturday through Monday as wind chills are expected to drop as low as -15°F.

Check on neighbors.

Warming centers are open.

Stay safe.

We're all trying to get by, in our own way.
And if your way involves books, strong tea, and secret meetings with the old gods in the mossy end of the forest, so much the better.

Mayor Michelle Wu just signed an executive order directing the city to protect residents from unconstitutional and violent federal operations, prioritize de-escalation, and hold anyone accountable for crimes in Boston, including federal agents.

NWS says we could see 2 to 3 inches of new snow this weekend, but that the real issue is "dangerously cold wind chills." So bundle up. And throw some egg-and-milked-up bread on the griddle.

Greetings from Kyiv, where candles are the last option during wartime blackouts Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

....And February... is sobbing.
And the candle drips on the table, burning and burning…

~Iya Kiva

Translated from the Russian by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk, 2014
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

“Fewer reporters, more Melania!”

Desi Lydic & The Daily Show Win Again.

A big F Off to Bezos.

When I think I can not handle another thing…I’m wrong -

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Thank you to everyone fighting through the grief and rage, staying defiant. It's because of you the fascists will lose.

He couldn’t be found because he was never lost. He was an unmade path. A song at the edge that you could hum but never put words to. He was a sigh at the end of a long day. A familiar book that gathers dust but always knows that it is loved. He was never a question.

#fromoneline 404

Add your favorite
I'm building a playlist in of #newmusic for the Global Tesla Takedown
@tesla-takedown.bsky.social
on February 14th
Marking a year of #TeslaTakedown events

Let's get this started with
Ticket to Mars
By @nussforus.bsky.social

Got 3 letters this week decreasing & then increasing our ebt finally by $1
As fulltime caregiver (over 60 under 65) I have to prove again that it's a 24/7 job. We are highly monitored by several state and community agencies
It will take hours to comply either way.
I am already exhausted
#MAPoli

Nantucket's "Quentin The Quahog" Predicts An Early Spring Nantucket Current is the island's leading online news source. We deliver the news, stories, and people of Nantucket, unbiased and unfiltered.

The bad news for Quentin?

After his prediction, he is immediately eaten.

#Nantucket #Winter

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They get mad over on twitter about following federal law, in this case 8 U.S.C. § 1158

Boston Harbor is completely frozen.

📸: @brianafancy

February