Colleen Blackwood

Quite the world we live in now.

Note to media:
“Trump says” is not a story. He says A LOT. He lies a lot. Do some sifting, discerning, contextualizing. Otherwise it’s just stenography. And you’re embarrassing yourselves.

Welp, the convicted felon has gone and illegally committed an act of war against Iran. This should be the start of our revolution for the sake of our country. Republicans need not apply, you can't be trusted.

This.
We are all compromised, I wish more people cared.

250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...

“Over 250 million acres of public lands are eligible for sale in the bill, including local recreation areas, wilderness study areas and inventoried roadless areas.” www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

Put this on a billboard.

This essay says it all...read it and share!

Billionaire Walmart heiress Christy Walton is paying for a full page ad in the New York Times entitled ‘No Kings’ and MAGA are now calling to boycott Walmart. This is funny AF. 🤣

This. Distract the attention with fake military action and send agents to schools! Who in their right mind thinks this is appropriate?

Is this what we want from our government?

Suggestion: We secretly replace the tanks in Trump's military parade with taco trucks.

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil.

I swear constantly and these assholes have run me out of words. Grrrr

The photo is important to the post....

30+ years ago, the center block was made. A friend added the applique and I added more blocks to complete the top. It was called Trail Ride. It waited until this year to be finished in time for the 50th Anniversary of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show! Second Sat. In July !

"Ice has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished"

It's become fashionable for even progressive politicians to diss the 'Abolish ICE' movement. I make the political and moral case for abolition in my latest for @GuardianUS, with receipts:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Show of hands: who voted for Musk?

This explains a situation the Northwest lives with and fails to comprehend. Action is needed....yesterday.

The comment "They drank the kool-aid" is not accurate or adequate.
Maga followers are living un Jonestown, waiting to slurp up the poison.

Thank you Senator Wyden. Keep up the hard work and good trouble!

The rule of law must stand to ensure our future. This is not the way an Attorney General speaks. This is how a puppet repeats a phrase in order to win approval from the puppet master with tiny hands.

Baby elephants make the morning bright!

Maternal Mortality in the United States After Abortion Bans - Gender Equity Policy Institute (GEPI) Mothers Living in Abortion Ban States at Significantly Higher Risk of Death During Pregnancy and Childbirth

Women living in states that banned abortion are 2x more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth or soon after.

Black women in banned states were 3.3x as likely to die as white mothers in those states.

New report from Gender Equity Policy Institute:

Why I will always shop Costco.

#nokings
Small town in the red side of Oregon. Pendleton showed up and made some noise! It felt good to be feisty!

Terrorist watch list? WTF?
All white, male, Christian nationalists should be on that list.

State Terror A brief guide for Americans

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror