Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

My kids and I decided to do a drawing prompt together. We all had to draw animals, but as aliens. I loved seeing the difference in interpretation. Here were mine.

I want to help my kids become whoever they want to be, pay off our house, build our food forest/wildlife habitat, give food, art, and inspiration to others, watch nerdy movies, play games with friends, take nature walks and have crazy sex with my husband. Is that too much to ask? #goals #newyear

Decided to stop taking my Adderall, was having health issues. Have gotten my health together and need to start actually getting shit done. Unfortunately, they wont let me get back on it till I see my doctor. Guess who cant see me for over a month. #adhd #americanhealthcare #mentalhealthmatterd

Applied to school today. Why not

Do not fear the opossum tooth fairy. It just wants to eat your teeth. #workinprogress #digitalart #cuteness

Opossum Toothfairy sketch

The winter fox does not like the cold so he has learned to keep perfect time. #domestication #illustration #workinprogress

I don't know what else it needs.

Ive started drawing animals, but badly disguising themselves as different objects. I need some combination ideas. I've got 2 already... but need more. If you come up with an idea that I end up using, I'll send you a free print. #shoebillstork #butitsalamp #stinkbug #butitsaspider #dailydoodles

this has potential.. #shoebill #sketch #digitalart

he turned out pretty cute. #bugs #digitalart #sketch #illustration

i hate stink bugs more than spiders. i see a spider in my house...that's a hard working pal (as long as they aren't venomous) whereas i will end the life of every stink bug on this planet if give the chance. i hate them. no one can convince me they are a good insect. #hidewhileyoucanbug #convictions

so many hands. so many styles #dailydoodle #gottohandittoyou

drawing weird poses are fun. really need to figure out hands and feet #sketch #digitalart

trying to learn to draw anatomy and decided to imagine one of the weirdest poses and draw it #dailydoodle

playing with layers #digitalart #sketch #stardust

Episode 2 draw along of @criticalrole.bsky.social Pub Draw with @babsdraws.bsky.social @marisha-ray.bsky.social and @voiceofobrien.bsky.social . I need to practice bodies, but we have #caleb #frumpkin #pubdraw

Woke up with a messed up shoulder. Not sure if disslocated or subluxation. At least it has taken my mind of the best of my body? #chronicillness #hypermobile

First drawing on my first ever drawing tablet! Followed along with @babsdraws.bsky.social and @marisha-ray.bsky.social on @criticalrole.bsky.social Pub Draw! I'm using Krita, but if anyone has any suggestions for a new digital drawer..... #digitalart #sketch #keyleth

Culling some of our board games to donate to our sons elementary school. With the weather changing in the Midwest, games are a great for kids stuck inside. Consider donating to your local schools. #boardgames #bgg

I've started dreaming in anime. So, there's that. #anime #Manga #dreams

If you're a member of a creator's Patreon or a creator yourself, let's email Patreon and ask them if they'll explore processor options beyond PayPal and Stripe. We want to restore our creative freedom.

Art can only be effective at illuminating and healing if it is unconstrained by authority.

3/3 💚💚 This work is slow, exhausting — and still meaningful. Some of us are still here, doing what it takes to get good science out the door. And we haven’t forgotten the colleagues who were forced out along the way. 💚💚 @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @altusaid.altgov.info #CDCSavesLives

I have a hard time trusting anyone who cant admit they are flawed.

I still wonder how these men in suits and Ivory Towers can sit there and *know* they could end wars, hunger, deaths, and so on, and still not do anything about it for no other reason than more power over people.

U.S. Rep. Greg Casar's job is threatened by Republicans' new redistricting plan. He says the map was drawn by Trump's administration and threatens "millions of Texans voting rights."

NEWS: Library of Congress restores Constitution after outrage, Ken Paxton launches investigation into Beto, Texas Democrats face bomb threat, and JD Vance is hosting a cabal-like meeting to discuss Epstein. All the news you missed: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com If nuclear-weapons advocates understood what happened in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, “they would see how unrealistic it is to think that these weapons keep you safe,” Terumi Tanaka writes. “Nuclear deterrence is nothing more than the power to intimidate.”

Autistic & intellectually disabled adults in the UK are being detained without their or their family’s consent. They are dying in detention, from either entirely preventable reasons or directly due to neglect or abuse. Government is cutting funds for disability care, is cutting SEND resources.

As Hiroshima marks the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, many aging survivors express frustration about the growing support of global leaders for nuclear weapons as a deterrence. wapo.st/4owgrUn

I have a special interest in communication and therapy so I just like helping others and being available if they ever need a ear to listen, a person to understand and some kind words of encouragement.

Today was beautiful day.

Literally questions I've had about medicaid answered here 👀👀 YES if you have private insurance or insurance through your employer, all of this will ripple effect to you, too! Please take the time to read and share this thread with people who are on bluesky and more importantly, those who arent.

Wow. I ask for help by complaining. I should fix that.

I have got to figure out a more mobile way to create art. I seriously cant spend an hour prepping a work spot and cleaning up. I spend more time getting ready to draw than drawing and its bullshit.

This is your occasional reminder that Rose O'Neill, creator of the Kewpies, first published female cartoonist in the United States, and among the first cartoonists to build a merchandising empire on their work, turned out some absolutely baller, romantic-feeling size-difference monster art.

holy shit it’s not even an exaggeration

I think I'm allregic to my own tears, is that a thing? #correlationnotcausationunlessitis

Kids in the U.S. get most of their calories from ultra-processed foods, which are tied to health problems. Now, scientists are finding that kids don't all react to these foods in the same way.

Having fun, but constantly being reminded of the very real reality we live in where the complete disregard of basic humanities gets felt the hardest by those who are struggling the most, makes it hard. Bright side, only 4.5 crashouts AND made it 3/4 of the drive home before having to pull over. #win

No, you cried at noon on a Saturday listening to Colors of the Wind. "Still I cannont see, if the savage one is me, how can there be so much that you dont know?"

I just saw youths playing on railroad tracks, using them as balance beams. The world is healing. #90skid #playingontrains

I may have gotten excited at #gencon for something other than games. #stonepigeon #iwanttotakethemhome

@criticalrole.bsky.social my guess for the announcement tomorrow for #gencon live: Critical Role Land! Right here in Indiana?

There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.