Julie Ziemelis

Sometimes you need to get away from the world and find a way to deal. Reeds Island Falls house in Hilo was our retreat the past few days. Where’s your place of refuge?

Just got back from the #Protest and it was good to see so many ppl there! Not so fun getting flipped off and hearing men yelling “Fuck You” at me and my fellow “activists”, but we stood up!

Great job!!

It’s true!!!!

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘It is really awful!’: Rep. Crockett explains terrifying reality if Musk has federal funds access

This!! A Republican congresswoman calling it all out.
Hoping more of her colleagues step up.

I was going to post this on FB and just knew I have too many conservative friends to not then spend time defending myself! Thank god for BlueSky.

31% voted for Trump and 40% said “I ain’t votin’ for nobody”.
I’m still just wondering how 70% of America is going to love being ruled by a dictator.

Seeing more and more friends saying they are leaving Facebook.
I’m getting a little tired of the “shut up and sit down and deal with 4 more years-quit whining” comments from my white male “friends”. It’s disheartening.

Does this ring a bell?
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

There are unlikely heroes in all of this!
#BadAssBishop

Let’s remember our rights- everyone’s rights.

And the downward spiral continues into the “Golden Age”…

"There is always light if we are brave enough to see it, if only we are brave enough to be it." Amanda Gorman, Poet Laureate
(Remember THIS highlight of a more uplifting inauguration?)

Wrapping Aloha around the US

So true. Watching the Trump Show and I’m already appalled -and he’s only a few minutes in.

Where the world largest “camp fire” happens safely in a caldera where everyone can go and view it and it’s not dangerous or taking homes! #VolcanoesNationalPark #Hawaii

Without Mel Brooks hiring Lynch to make THE ELEPHANT MAN — on the strength of ERASERHEAD alone — he is very likely just a guy who made a weird film at AFI. That whole filmography you love doesn’t happen.

We all need sponsors and mentors and patrons. We need people who believe in us.

Yes!!

Yay!!

Play spiritual spin the bottle and pick a few families from list of black families displaced by the fire to donate to.

lol! Yes!

Thank you! Donated to a Grandpa who lost his home!

Hollywood stars and geeks unite to billionaire-proof social media The likes of Mark Ruffalo and Jimmy Wales are backing the Free Our Feeds project, to ensure Bluesky's tech will thrive even if the company goes bad.

exciting! the bluesky team often calls the AT Protocol "billionaire-proof," but this term is only accurate when there are viable alternatives that users can benefit from. (@atproto.com is the underlying standard that bluesky is built upon.)

this new project is helping to make that a reality!

For they do not know what hell they have unleashed…

Why I love female driven stories and movies..

You know those days you knew it was coming and you’re helpless to stop it?

When money can’t buy everything. Wonder what his views were when we were talking about the tipping point of climate change.

That’s insane - hoping ppl can get out of there.