It's time to speak up.

Good Wednesday morning all! “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." - Maya Angelou

First book read in 2026

A group of Epstein survivors just formally demanded that the DOJ Inspector General open an investigation into how the heavily redacted Epstein files were released. They’re demanding action now to release the files and we stand with them.

US District Judge Paul Engelmayer has ordered Pam Bondi to respond by Friday to the failure of the DoJ to meet legal deadlines to for releasing the Epstein files and to include her arguments for whether Congress has a right to challenge her. www.courthousenews.com/judge-demand...

Most Americans don't want Greenland. They want the Epstein files.

Jeremy Miranda (American Artist, born 1980) "Night Snow 2", 2019 Private Collection

"Rule #1: Believe the autocrat. He means what he says. Whenever you find yourself thinking, or hear others claiming, that he is exaggerating, that is our innate tendency to rationalize. Humans seem to have evolved to practice denial when confronted publicly with the unacceptable." — M. Gessen 🌱📷

Have you read this article? web.archive.org/web/20260113...

Call your reps and senators daily.

In Minneapolis

32 people died in ICE custody last year — the agency’s deadliest year in over two decades. Meanwhile, private prison corporations that are building and overseeing ICE detention centers are raking it in. Cashing in on cruelty.

It's gone very quiet on the Epstein files. Congress voted for their release and it hasn't yet happened. Pam Bondi could be impeached. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles @sydesjokes.bsky.social

Today's America. Call your reps and senators daily, call Hilton Corporate HQ daily.

Each and every body makes more and more money with each detention for CoreCivic and GEO Group regardless of citizenship status on our tax dollar.

Thanks, I needed this. Morale is low today.

The Epstein files should have been released a long time ago.

Book recommendation

Year of Space Facts: Week 1/52 🔭🧪🛰️ The Sun is big! Not just in volume but in mass as well. It would take 1.3 million Earths, 987 Jupiters, or 7 nonillion cricket balls to fill the Sun; it would take 12.4 nonillion cricket balls, 332,950 Earths, or 1054 Jupiters to balance the Sun on a scale.

Someone must have said "Epstein" abd he's scared

This sign (not my design) says it all:

It seemed a fitting start to January to draw a blue jay with feathers puffed out against the cold. I tend to think of jays as active and loud, but this one was quiet, conserving energy, perhaps, on a very cold morning in Toronto. Coloured pencil on cotton paper. #birds #SciArt

Moïse Kisling (Polish-born French, 1891–1953) Bouquet of Mimosas, circa 1930 #Art

You combat hopelessness by doing something. In an era of unrepentant book bans and library attacks, you show up. You learn. You show up again. Activism and advocacy are a practice. Here are over 60 tasks for helping preserve the right to read, wherever you are. bookriot.com/how-to-defen...

Day 10 the #birbfest2026 Prompt: MOUNTAIN BLUE BIRD . . . #sketchbookart #illustration #IPADart

This woman's courage. Her poignant story. Read below >

There is no good reason to go to war with Venezuela, and our War Powers Resolution puts decisions about going to war back where they belong: with the United States Congress.

Ronald Reagan’s budget director.

"The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches." E.E. Cummings Good morning and a wonderful Sunday! #dailyflowers #flowerreport #bloomscrolling #gardening #nature #winter #FlowersOnSunday

Alice Paul--suffragist, women’s rights activist, and author of the original Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)--was born #OTD in 1885. She devoted her entire life to advocating for women’s #suffrage and equal rights for women. alicepaul.org

“The murdering will continue until you stop calling us murderers.”

If you want hope, watch the weekly "what's the plan" @indivisible.org livestreams! They have a YouTube. You'd be surprised how many things have added up over time through grassroots efforts. There's still a lot of work to be done, but there are more people working against this than you realize.

Cartoon by Joe Heller | Hellertoon.com

blue his house with a blue little window and a blue Corvette Day 11 of #Birbfest2026 - Mountain Bluebird #SciArt #birds 🪶

The Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) Day 11 #birbfest2026 Looks like a missed painting part of his tail 🤭 he'll just have to live like this now. Oil paint over acrylic A5 sketchbook #birbfest #oilpaint #birdart

A mountain bluebird for day 11 of #birbfest #birbfest2026 I love how he is coloured almost completely in blue apart from the white and grey feathers at the belly. As if someone poured blue paint over his head and that's how far it went #birds #SciArt

“Do not get lost in a sea of despair.” - John Lewis #RIP

Gestapo: Did you do this? (Gestapo points to 'Guernica') Picasso: No, you did.

Evening prayer

Seeking information on legitimate + best organizations in Minneapolis for charitable donations--food pantries, shelters, etc. Thank you

Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help: Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org. Please donate what you can. www.2harvest.org

Tough week. Take action, write postcards to voters, special elections in January. Here > @tovoters.bsky.social

If you're taking to the streets to protest, know your rights.

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead.” — Thomas Paine 🌱📷