Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
The judge wrote of ICE actions: “Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency.”
With apologies to my four year old son.
We’ve done this. We know. It’s maddening.
remember how Wile E. Coyote used to hold up a little sign saying ‘help’ or ‘oh no’ or some such just before the huge boulder crushed him
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
Not my most eloquent letter, but utterly sincere....
Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
This is a genocidal war crime endorsed by the president of the United States
Stevie Wonder during his set in #FireAid: “DEI forever.”
“Anatomy of a Failure: Why This Latest Vaccine-Autism Paper is Dead Wrong”
Brilliant and much-needed takedown of the latest anti-vax misinformation and propaganda from the pseudo-scientists, ahead of the RFK hearings.
Los Angeles, I see you. I see your tears, your generosity, your creativity, your beautiful mutual aid. You were never an old or stable city; you were a city of invention and imagination and change. You are maybe right now you are your best as well as most devastated self. 1906 account.
It’s been an unimaginably sad week in Los Angeles. The proceeds from anything I sell in my Etsy shop thru Wednesday night will be donated to underfunded go fund mes for Eaton/Palisades Fire relief and World Central Kitchen - Wildskyquilts.Etsy.com
Untold Stories of L.A. Fires: Incarcerated Firefighters, Black Altadena & Octavia Butler's Warning
#Altadena has a Black community that began during the Great Migration of people escaping the Jim Crow South. Now those neighborhoods are 2nd-4th gen Black families. Over 60% of Black residents are over 65 yrs old. LA’s #EatonFire burned it to the ground
Here’s a compiled doc of their GoFundMes
Also this spread sheet of mutual aid organizations and what they do: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
smoky skies at sunrise over Atwater Village this morning - stay safe out there, LA 💔
The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
I’m listening to it right now! It’s so good!
With Donald Trump set to return to the White House, watch our interview with filmmaker Errol Morris and journalist Jacob Soboroff on how he tore immigrant families apart during his first term in office. Hundreds of children remain orphaned to this day.
After every US election, we get lectures suggesting that if we were nicer to Nazis they wouldn't be Nazis. I mean, they're threatening the very survival of a lot of us, and it's supposed to be uncouth of us to mention that in mixed company. Wrote about that in 2020: lithub.com/rebecca-soln...
