Sara S. Palmer

#1MillionRising #Pillar: Military / Police / ICE
Technique: Human chain

And this isn't just any Dodgers game. It's a Dodgers/Padres game. Yet ICE says there's no particular reason they wanted access. Sure, Jan. GTFO.

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts.

Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

The image is a heatmap titled "Measles," showing measles cases across U.S. states from 1928 to 2003. States listed on the y-axis include Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The x-axis spans years from 1928 to 2003. A vertical line marks the introduction of the measles vaccine around 1963. The color scale at the bottom ranges from blue (0 cases) to red (4,000+ cases), with shades of green, yellow, and orange indicating intermediate values (1,000, 2,000, 3,000 cases). Before 1963, many states show frequent high case numbers (yellow to red), while after 1963, cases drop significantly, with mostly blue indicating near-zero cases.

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

Y’all ready to say screw it and do this strike thing yet?

@aflcio.org
@wgaeast.bsky.social
@seiu.org
@aftunion.bsky.social
@indivisible.org
etc.

This spring day ends soon!/
Have to make my social rounds:/
Greet the budding flowers.

I promised myself/
I'd touch earth every day,/
remember my roots.
#haiku #spring

Now's the time to act./
Call forth the rich folks' conscience,/,
rehumanize hearts.

If they won't listen?/
Then we'll show them the power/
Of our feet, hands, voice.

#haiku #ifnotnowthenwhen

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

For what it’s worth, when I spent years in Afghanistan and Iraq, the most powerful thing I ever saw was USAID digging wells & repairing schools. The most effective power we will ever have.

Expanse of dropped leaves
Glows jewel-toned in early sun:
Stained glass for squirrels.

#haiku #norrissquarepark #autumn

.@steam, @tiktok_us, and @youtube must stop harassment against Black women gamers!

Like a shivering cat,
Night has settled on my heart,
Heavy and present.

#Haiku #NaPoWriMo #NationalPoetryWritingMonth

Don't be too cast down
As cherry petals depart--
Hawthorn's just begun.

#haiku #NationalPoetryWritingMonth #NaPoWriMo

Here's a PSA
shared while nursing my elbow:
Watch your step on stairs.

#haiku #NaPoWriMo #NationalPoetryWritingMonth

Tiny baby goat lying with his knees tucked under him

Goatloaf

Makeup Haiku for Wednesday

My hand palms the mouse.
Leaving the bright-dust screen,
Eyes drift to window.

#haiku #NationalPoetryWritingMonth #NaPoWriMo

Makeup Cinquain for Thursday:

Lonely
Galatea
Shrouded in rough marble
Longs for a chisel to shape her
Artist

#Cinquain #NaPoWriMo #NationalPoetryWritingMonth

Gray-brown
Gossipmongers,
those split-second pausers,
Flutter, squabble, browse the feeder:
Wingfolk.

#Cinquain #NaPoWriMo #NationalPoetryWritingMonth

After much resting,
My sore throat is nearly healed:
But singing must wait.

#haiku #NaPoWriMo #NationalPoetryWritingMonth

I watch the gray cat
As she watches the brown birds
on the hawthorn limbs.

#haiku #NaPoWriMo #NationalPoetryWritingMonth

Temps are inching up.
Shovel stands in vestibule.
Time to put away?

#haiku #MaybeSpring

At times like this one
My shadow clings close to me,
Hiding from the sun.

#haiku #MaybeSpring

Pool table sidewalk--
Sweetgum balls sit motionless,
Waiting for the cue.

#haiku #waitingforspring

Image description: On a gray patch of sidewalk sit scattered sweetgum balls, casting long dark oval shadows in the morning sun.

Let me know if you find it and we can go there together!

Friends, I'm making the switch. BlueSky retains a lot of golden-age Twitter features, its flexibility and its responsiveness. I hope you'll join me there! Invitations are no longer needed.

⏰ The clock is ticking, Congress. Join us by calling your representative and urging them to #FundACP before $$ runs out this April. Act now: via @LibraryPolicy

I just signed a @theactionnet petition: Petition: Drop Charges Against Joanna Smith and Tim Martin. Sign here:

American Friends Service Committee has lost all contact with staff and partners in Gaza. Please copy/paste on your page…
Open satellite internet for #Gaza
#Starlinkforgaza

Hello friends! In the face of continually rising censorship, I just told my members of Congress to stand for the freedom to read and fight book bans. Join me by clicking here: via @LibraryPolicy