Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

Potomac River melt #photography

They’re just out there setting records at everything.

Blue Sky of the Day: #AlexandriaVA #photography

Blue Sky of the Day: Protesting at ICE headquarters #washingtondc #photography

BREAKING: @carolleonnig.bsky.social reports a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. declined to indict Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin on charges of seditious conspiracy Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the proceedings.

Barbaric!

#rainbowcolors #coloraday #photography VIOLET

#rainbowcolirs #coloraday #photography INDIGO

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

Was the child in the #BadBunny show Liam Ramos? Some reports are saying that. Anyone know for sure?

Immigration lawyers said Kilmar Abrego Garcia's landmark case highlights the pitfalls with the speed and scale of the Trump administration's goal of mass deportations.

#rainbowcolors #coloraday #photography BLUE

BREAKING: on this Super Bowl Sunday, Epstein Survivors have just released this PSA: “Stand with us.  Tell Attorney General Pam Bondi IT’S TIME FOR THE TRUTH” Please share everywhere!

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

#rainbowcolors #coloraday #photography GREEN

#rainbowcolors #coloraday #photography GREEN

The man who told reporters it’s time to move on from the Epstein files won’t shut up about the 2020 election.

#rainbowcolor #coloriftheday #photography YELLOW

#rainbowcolors #coloraday #photography ORANGE

Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.

Blue Sky of the Day: #photography #arlingtonva

#photography #rainbowcolors #coloraday New Orleans streetcar RED

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The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand. Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Remembering Rosa Parks. She continues to inspire a new generation of courageous heros!

WTF?

“Imagine if we had to follow the law”

Like the Apartheid police saying arrested activists jumped out windows. Bullsh#t

Crockett: "Now my colleagues want to be the protectors of girls & women. I didn't hear them screaming this when Renee Good was killed in the middle of the street by the same people the vast majority of you just voted to give more money to. It was a lot of crickets, including about the Esptein files"

Is Anna St. John another Trump administration loyalist who's biased against women? @gretchencarlson.bsky.social & Christine Zinner examine how she spent nearly two decades shielding powerful corporations and wrongdoers from accountability. #UnfitandUnqualified afjactioncampaign.org/blog/anna-st...

Last night a federal judge extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350,000 Haitian immigrants. Why was this decision important? I discussed the issue with Black Alliance for Just Immigration on @blackagendareport.bsky.social radio last week. www.blackagendareport.com/trump-target...

Blue Sky of the Day: #neworleans #photography #mardigrasseason

Blue Sky of the Day: #neworleans #photography Very early sign of spring

Arresting journalists. Good God.

They are stepping up the fascism

Blue Sky of the Day: #neworleans #photography

Happy 90th Birthday to 🇺🇸American actor, author, screenwriter and director #AlanAlda born #OnThisDay in Manhattan, New York City

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen comes through with an anthem for these times—for Minneapolis! #music

I say again, this does not even approach a scintilla of the accountability that is required. These are PR moves.

"Anyone who is passingly historically literate has seen pictures of the faces and read the stories of victims of the Holocaust. But this is a different order of experience." @cfhervey.bsky.social on not forgetting the Holocaust:

Kash Patel today: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want." Really?

All flags in San Diego County have been ordered to fly half-staff through Wednesday in solidarity with Minnesota, and in honor of those murdered by ICE. www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/s...

Today’s hopeful-ness

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. — W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939