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Photo of blooming Asiatic Orange Ink Lillies in morning sunlight.

Photo of blooming pink and white Columbine flower in morning sunlight.

Photo of blooming bright red roses in morning sunlight.

Photo of blooming orange Zinnia flowers in morning sunlight.

TIMELINE CLEANSE:

My garden in full bloom, basking in the morning sunlight.

This is how to have difficult conversations with vaccine sceptics

It’s costing taxpayers $450/M annually & Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp is already flooding. Imagine a hurricane. People are going to die.

There’s always enough money to hurt folks, but when it comes to public transit, low-income housing, schools, or public healthcare, “Sorry, we’re broke.”

Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.

KOH: He doesn't know what's in the bill or he's lying to people. He tweeted out yesterday no taxes on social security. That's just a lie.

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

“Christian Zionists are better Jews than Jews who do not support the state of Israel” is absolutely where American political discourse is headed.

16-year-old girl shot in head, 17-year-old injured in Greenwich Village shooting near Stonewall Inn Police say shots were fired at 3 Sheridan Square just after 10 p.m.

My heart breaks for the two teenage girls shot outside Stonewall Inn last night after NYC Pride. One remains in critical condition.

While we await further details, I pray for their recoveries.

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

MEDIA: Are you a communist?

MAMDANI: I am not ... I call myself a democratic socialist in many ways inspired by the words of Dr. King from decades ago, who said: 'Call it democracy or call it democratic socialism, there has to be a better distribution of wealth for all of God's children'

Them: Have you heard about _____?
Me: No, sorry, I am 200% sure that if I hear one more Bad Thing today I will simply crumble into dust and return to vast nothingness on a gentle breeze.

🚨 BREAKING: Delaware just became a firewall state for gender-affirming care.

🏳️‍⚧️ On June 20, Gov. Meyer signed Executive Order 11, a sweeping move that protects providers, patients, and anyone traveling to Delaware for gender-affirming care from hostile out-of-state attacks and investigations.

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I thought I saw an Iranian sleeper cell in masks, camo and assault rifles kidnap people from a job site and thrown them into a van, then I realized it was ICE.

If people really find this to be such an easy conclusion, then Congressional authority should be easy to get.

So why don’t they insist on a vote?

They know this isn’t “progressive” resistance. They want to marginalize it as such because on top of this war being ILLEGAL, it’s also deeply unpopular.

Tile, made in Iran in the 17th century. #Art #FlowerReport #Flowers

at least toby keith is dead this time

Bluesky you deserve some fireflies in a cornfield. Not pictured-the young hawk chased away by robins, the enormous kale after the rain, the smell of the tomato plant leaves.

We love going out to the Orono bog walk, the pitcher plants are my favorite!!

Mahmoud Khalil emerges from airport security with his wife Noor and newborn, legal team and Rep. AOC.

Tweet from Congressman Randy Fine: "Zohran Mamdani would do to New York City what Khomeini and Khamenei did to Tehran. We cannot let radical Muslims turn America into a Shiite caliphate."

This is a Jewish Congressman engaging in rank, horrific Islamophobia.

Jewish organizations that rightfully criticize politicians for antisemitism, should also denounce this in no uncertain terms.

If you’re under 30, you weren’t even born the last time Andrew Cuomo lived here.

This is your city. Vote like it.

Despite Supreme Court upholding Tennessee ban, Maine still allows gender-affirming care for minors The Supreme Court's decision has no effect on Maine, which currently has no bans restricting access to gender-affirming care for minors.

The Supreme Court's decision has no effect on Maine, which currently has no bans restricting access to gender-affirming care for minors:

This is an incredible day to give money to the Trans Income Project, who will give that money directly to trans people

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

www.transincomeproject.org/donate

The Minnesota Shooting Suspect's Background Suggests Deep Ties to Christian Nationalism Experts say that the suspect in the shootings of Democratic Minnesota lawmakers this weekend showed clear ties to forms of so-called charismatic Christianity that views abortion as a sacrifice to demo...

Experts say that the suspect in the Minnesota shootings showed clear ties to forms of so-called charismatic Christianity that views abortion as a sacrifice to demons and seeks the end of secular democracy.

My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king