Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Knitter turned gardener. Used to own a yarn store. Kinda dyes yarn. Definitely political.
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Worst. President. EVER.
25.10.2025 19:23 β π 16566 π 4073 π¬ 828 π 200Is this perhaps the cost of the new ballroom? Is this how heβs paying for it βfrom his own pocketβ?
22.10.2025 23:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."
29.09.2025 20:28 β π 33596 π 10996 π¬ 547 π 506Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023.
The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion.
Thatβs some return on investment β so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?
Yeah. I was always glad they wore through them before they out grew them. But I admit no one in my family appreciates cool shoe wear either π
27.07.2025 00:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Washington state is so progressive Maria Cantwellβs seat would never go to a Republican. She knows it. A decent democrat needs to challenge her.
11.07.2025 01:47 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0At least she has the grace to look embarrassed. Patty has been doing most of the heavy lifting for quite some time.
11.07.2025 01:45 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Whoβs calling the shots???
08.07.2025 17:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Came to say this
30.06.2025 16:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Content warning:
For example, on March 16, a woman identifying herself as a detainee at the Stewart Detention Center in Georgia, called 911. Communication was strained: The dispatcher spoke no Spanish.
"I need help,β the woman said. "I need β¦ ayuda."
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This was my thought. He was embarrassed how it was going. He wasnβt treated how he thought he should be, so he went home on VERY IMPORTANT business.
17.06.2025 14:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Reports are 2,000 people in rural walla walla, wa
14.06.2025 23:55 β π 39 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0#nokings in Walla Walla, Wa
14.06.2025 20:33 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.
14.06.2025 14:02 β π 16347 π 4068 π¬ 175 π 170Trump is scrambling to spin this.
Netanyahu wasnβt trying to help diplomacy; he was trying to destroy diplomacy. How do we know? They reportedly targeted and killed Iranβs chief negotiator with Trump.
Haha. I donβt know whatβs cuter the sweater or the dog
13.06.2025 12:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Democratic elected officials should be out leading protests against Trump's authoritarianism. They need to start acting like our freedom, lives, and way of life is on the line. They are.
09.06.2025 22:56 β π 1293 π 257 π¬ 31 π 10One of the reasons I think βdefund the policeβ is a great slogan is that you get to repeatedly tell people that studies show that police donβt actually solve murders, and in fact one-third of stranger-murders are committed by police.
08.06.2025 16:53 β π 5758 π 1467 π¬ 70 π 56As a constituent of baumgartner, living in Eastern Washingtonβ we have conveyed this (how much his constituents rely on Medicaid) to him over and over. His responseβ they arenβt cutting Medicaid to anyone except illegal immigrants π *almost makes you miss Cathy.
08.06.2025 21:13 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Broadcast news screengrab showing protesters surrounding a white bus and also impromptu shopping cart barricade with fire in the street
Trying and failing to come up with the right words to describe what we are witnessing unfold in LA right now. Your resistance is here, support them
07.06.2025 20:09 β π 8162 π 2132 π¬ 124 π 76live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.
07.06.2025 01:54 β π 9712 π 3040 π¬ 233 π 280Itβs so amazing. Iβve been screenshotting everything for my working friends all day
05.06.2025 22:57 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh I can do two things at once!
05.06.2025 18:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My dad doesnβt care it turns out.
30.05.2025 21:43 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0I often send your newsletters to my MAGA family members and never receive a response. Sent this one along as well. Because maybe the juxtaposition of this vs our presidentβs lunatic rant will make them aware on some level ofβ¦ something.
26.05.2025 14:17 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0WATCH: South Africaβs (white) ag minister tells Trump the βwhite genocideβ stuff is a lie peddled by radical extremists who want power, who he joined the presidentβs government to keep out.
Then the (white) richest man in SA said the same thing.
We live in a small town in eastern Washington. Not much diversity. Weβve always had problems with the n word in middle and high school but for the first time itβs being used in elementary school. I had to explain to my 8 yo that itβs a word he never ever gets to use. Something is going on for sure.
20.05.2025 17:18 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0