Respect for your service, and solidarity in the ongoing work to build a more just and inclusive nation.

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Rest in peace 🕊️

Findings like these are produced regularly but readers will never see them in the nyt.🧵

When buying a pound of ground beef costs more than money earned working an hour paid the federal minimum wage, it's an affordability issue.

Shootin' stars, scars like stripes, red, white and blue police lights Big house, picket fence, just don't be late on that rent Land of the free, home of the brave Home of the natives, home of the slaves Trust me when you hear me say God gon' bless the U.S.A

having just watched this doc on wilmington 1898, this is genuinely unsettling. these people are sick and this is the kind of act they’re signaling to other confederates. youtube.com/watch?v=AORz...

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Kdot once said

Inside the Tomb of Ramesses VI there's a painted relief of the goddess Nut, believed by many scholars to be an ancient celestial depiction of the Milky Way. via James Lucas

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

thinking about how RFK Jr wants to get rid of antidepressants and I have to take antidepressants or I will not get along well with every man that I know

America didn’t turn ugly because he became President. No. He became President because America was already this ugly. That’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to admit.

U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia after touring the Dilley ICE jail: "There is nothing humane about Dilley. Children are being held in jail while women with no criminal history are denied basic dignity, medical care, and hygiene products. "A jail is no place for children. This baby jail must be shut down."

I think about this all the time.

#FrescoFriday: this spectacular fresco of a winged female figure (either a divinity or allegorical representation) is from Pompeii. I find the depth, form, solidity & colour of this figure reminds me of the Renaissance painter, Masaccio. 🕰️ C1stAD 📍House of Marcus Fabius Rufus 📷me

Kidnapping by masked ICE goons on Erwin and Simpson in San Fernando Valley.

Left- Israel and the U.S. have killed at least 786 Palestinians in Gaza since the "ceasefire" began. Right- Israel's GENOCIDE in Gaza: At least Palestinians 72,562 killed At least Palestinians 172,320 injured

surprise brandi carlisle!

Our feelings about the last ten years captured in a single frame.

His oncologist recommended the treatment, his insurance carrier said no. This country is spending billions on a no-reason-for-it war, yet Americans are dying, going hungry and homeless. This cannot stand. Call your representatives in Congress, no matter their party. moneywise.com/insurance/he...

The Epstein files really show us that we've been underestimating how much men hate women and children.

Last week, a worker one of Amazon's Portland area facilities died on the warehouse floor. Employees were told to look away and keep working. A new story by @ryanjhaas.bsky.social for @thewesternedge.bsky.social - reporting this news first. www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-i...

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

Los Angeles at the ICE Detention Center

Drill, baby, drill! (Holes to attach solar panels on your roof). www.theguardian.com/business/202...

i really have no feelings about easter. i’m not religious and despite its pagan roots, easter feels *more* religious than christmas, and id really rather we celebrate the beginning to spring and winter instead of jesus’ comings and goings

Holding Hands Persepolis ( #Iran), c. 500 BC #art

IT'S TIIIIIIMMMMMMEEEEEEEE!! Drastic times call for drastic measures. If you can stay home, AWESOME. If you can't, please consider NOT BUYING anything that day. The POINT is the pressure of OUR POWER. #MAYDay #May1st #GeneralStrike #NOBusinessAsUSUAL www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...

your grandparents voting for reagan

The great Pacific Northwest nailed the assignment (1/2) Seattle

Vigeland: We talk about how, oh no, they just hate us for our freedom. No, they hate us because we bomb girls schools.

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"I am writing this because children are being harmed on purpose, right now, with federal authorization, and I am so angry I can barely see straight." dissentinbloom.substack.com/p/is-stephen...

Hello, I stand for absolutely nothing. My name is Gavin Newsom.

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

as well as any other form of media

Close every single concentration camp! Laws are needed to prohibit all "camps," prisons, holding facilities, from being private, for-profit, businesses. Stockholders of these anti-human facilities should be considered complicit in crimes against humanity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“Children's entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention” “Wearing her signature pink headband, Rachel Accurso spoke with two children being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. She described the conversations as devastating.”

Excited for the new Dune.

Afghanistan’s most popular phone-in TV show is hosted by an unveiled woman who airs viewers’ complaints about the Taliban, up to 6000 calls per show. I spent time with the courageous refugees, many Canadian, who create this show from exile with little support www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

We shouldn’t have to dust off history books to find Democrats leading with courage & ambition. Universal child care would reshape our economy, give families breathing room & opportunity, and prove that government can work for working people. 
@warren.senate.gov and I are fighting to make it happen.

"King Felipe of Spain appears to have helped thaw frosty relations with Mexico by acknowledging abuses carried out by his country during its conquest. But in doing so he has reopened a fierce debate over the colonisation..." hell yeah we are Reconsidering World History www.bbc.com/news/article...