Today's moment of hope/beauty/inspiration, ahead of tomorrow's native pollinator seed swap in White Plains, NY. People doing their small yet essential part to make this a better world for bees (and everything!)

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Vanity, thy name is Trump. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Today's moment of hope/beauty/inspiration: www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...

Why should Dems vote for any spending bill when this authoritarian president has completely disregarded Congressional appropriations from last year's spending bill? Why don't more news outlets focus on that? When the Constitution is trampled, there can be no good faith. slate.com/news-and-pol...

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the NAACP and the NAACP New York State Conference, my law firm has filed to intervene as defendants in a DOJ lawsuit seeking access to New York state's voter registration data. www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-yo...

Revenge and extortion are main ingredients of his playbook. Trump to Withhold $18 Billion for New York-Area Transit Projects www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/n...

May all who observe have an easy fast. And this need for collective repair is more essential now than ever.

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A true sign of how sick an administration this truly is.

One of the people we most admired is gone. R.I.P. Jane Goodall. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Swear her in.

I'm attending Healthcare Not Authoritarianism's event, “MASS CALL- Healthcare Not Authoritarianism: Shutdown Showdown” - sign u www.mobilize.us/healthcareno...

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

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We need to hold Republicans accountable for the government shutdown and encourage Democrats to keep protecting our healthcare: indivisible.org/campaign/sto... Use our social toolkit to make sure your friends and relatives know who’s responsible for the Trump Shutdown: app.sosha.ai/toolkit/trum...

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

An intriguing, and potentially hopeful takeway from today: thewestpointhistoryprofessor.substack.com/p/trump-fear...

A silent, inter-faith march near the ICE detention center in Portland, Oregon. The marchers held flowers. 💐

Today’s moment of hope/beauty/inspiration, and because satire and humor are also essential during dark times. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/letter-from-...

They are so afraid of this they won’t seat a newly elected Congresswoman from AZ to keep it from happening.

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BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

Today’s moment of hope/beauty/inspiration: Arizona Democrat’s Win Clinches Bid to Force Epstein Files Vote www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...

Boycotts work

Today's moment of hope/beauty/inspiration: Mark Ruffalo speaking about the need to be brave. www.youtube.com/live/HJewRRf...

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Today's moment of hope/beauty/inspiration:

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

More of our Democratic leaders must emulate Governor Pritzker by showing courage in speaking out agains the attempts to silence dissent.

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Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

“It’s going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions,” Mr. Obama said at the event. “And it’s going to require Democrats to just toughen up.” After Kirk’s Killing, Obama Says the Nation Is in a ‘Political Crisis’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” -Benjamin Franklin

Funny how MAGA is all about cancellation culture so long as they dictate the terms and who gets cancelled. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today's Disappeared rally in Yonkers, NY:

Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.

We are deeply disheartened and disturbed by this effort to punish increasingly younger children in D.C. whose brains are not fully developed and who themselves have often been the objects of violence. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Today's moment of hope/beauty/inspiration: Thank you, Illinois State Senator Karina Villa.

This is terrific! www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide...

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

Brought to you by the GOP and Mike Lawler here in Westchester County: www.lohud.com/story/news/p... New York plans to undo an expansion of its Essential Plan health coverage to save the program for 1.3 million enrollees in the face of federal cuts.

It is absolutely insane to me that we're having a debate over whether or not the rightwing deploys violent rhetoric within days of a Fox News personality calling for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. There is no excuse for this obliviousness. It's unacceptable.

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Today's moment of hope/beauty/inspiration:

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.