Jessica

My drawing with mostly various shades of blue colored pencils. A multi colored blue heart with the words Humanity! Peace! Hope! Joy! Love! Human Rights! Wins! Hope Awakens! And in red colored pencil, NYC & Beyond! And a tiny red drawing of a heart shaped apple.

🥹😭😍🤩 Can’t stop crying HAPPY tears tonight!!!!!!!!! 💙🩵🍎💙🩵🌊 Soooo many wins for humanity tonight!!!!!!!!

Zohran echoing Eugene Debs and Jesse Jackson in this speech.

Goddamn he’s so good.

🥹😭😍🤩 Can’t stop crying HAPPY tears tonight!!!!!!!!! 💙🩵🍎💙🩵🌊 Soooo many wins for humanity tonight!!!!!!!!

Democrat Zohran Mamdani wins NYC Mayor

Democrat, Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia Governor

Democrat, Mikie Sherrill wins New Jersey Governor

Democrat, Ghazala Hashmi wins VA Lieutenant Governor

Abso-fucking-lutely fantastic East Coast wins! 🗳 🥳

NYC - Mamdani
NJ Governor - Sherrill
VA Governor - Spanberger flips blue

Hashmi flips VA Lieutenant Governor, becoming first Muslim woman to win.

🥹😍❣️❣️🍎❣️❣️

Magical!!!!🥹🩵💚🐸

(below an image of Pedro Pascal) “I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” - Pedro Pascal

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If you’re feeling hopeless, look at how fascism is hurting people in your community right now, and brainstorm ways to mitigate that harm. Helping one person one time is better than helping no people ever

@transition-network.bsky.social @transitiontog.bsky.social Disabled people are being hard-hit by latest govt cuts. Could there perhaps be a global Transition Towns campaign, encouraging groups to make community allotment fruit/veg boxes to deliver to people in need? Food banks are often inaccessible

a cartoon says that having fun isn't hard when you 've got a library card ALT: a cartoon says that having fun isn't hard when you 've got a library card

It’s National Library Week & here are a few things libraries have available outside of books:

Wifi, computer, & printer access
Musical instruments
Museum passes
Movies
Clubs & classes
Craft & science kits
Gardening tools & free seeds
Games & toys

Just some reasons to support our libraries.

I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604 U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See, e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With more and more of our most significant rulings taking place in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are now less willing to face it.

An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

😍Yes!!!🌼🌸🌹✌️✊💗🔥

Photo is of a group of flowers in urban nature -Daisies. White flower petals with yellow centers and green foliage background.

My heart is with everyone out protesting today and I am there with you in spirit! I’m so grateful for you and I am so proud of you! I am with you from afar (taking gentle care of my body today.)
Be safe out there and sing and chant and make a little good trouble! May the flowers be with you!🌼💗

Miles over at Mind the Moss put together this nice piece about Pittsburgh's city steps and how I came to be "obsessed" with them. 😂 If you're on Substack and looking for ideas to inspire your walking habit, give him a follow!

Hey folks.
This needs to be said.
Loudly.

Crawford's win in Wisconsin is a big deal.

Democracy beat bribery.

A Democrat won a heated electoral contest.

Public opinion was against Musk/DJT.

We are in the midst of a struggle, and it sure as hell isn't over.

Yep. Our voices do matter!

Photo of smiling Cory Booker

"The power of the people is greater than the people in power." Wael Ghonim

Thank you, @booker.senate.gov

For your 25 hr 5 min record-breaking speech.

For your mental fortitude.
For your openness.
For being human.

For speaking 25 hrs of TRUTH to cut through the thick fog of gaslighting & LIES. ✊🏼

Wisconsin and Florida voters please vote for Democracy today! 🩵💙🩵 Our lives, our human rights, free speech, essential services and so much more are on the line! Please vote for all of us! Please vote for humanity!

😭💗💗💗💗 So grateful to Senator Cory Booker and the Senators who are joining him in finally getting loud and standing for all of us!!! 16+ hours so far! We need more of this energy please and thank you!!! 🔥

Important! Get money OUT of our elections!!!!

This!!! Yes!!!!

This video is excellent! Please watch! If only everyone had listened a decade ago (and more) when Bernie was talking about oligarchy! We could be living a better and different reality now! Thank you Bernie and AOC for continuing to support and stand for and with all of us!❣️🕊️✌️✊🔥

Photo of droplets of water on a canvas type material with what look like bubbles of light-in various shades of blue. Photo from September 2021

🫧🫧🫧🫧💓💓💓💓🫧🫧🫧🫧Heart intentions-may there be bubbles of safety around everyone! Especially in storms and all chaos everywhere. You are precious and so very loved!

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Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now