It was a gorgeous morning! I love living here. I also like listening to the geese calling out as they fly. #canadiangeese #MtAdams #peacefulday

Scaramouche, Galileo, Figaro and Magnifico.😹😹 www.threads.com/@dinoma62/po...

This is actually a very interesting podcast with a group of guys talking about the state of the union address from different perspectives. They also listen to each other, and say things like “yeah I’ll give you that, I can see that“ about an opposing point of view. open.spotify.com/episode/2L21...

It was a gorgeous morning! I love living here. I also like listening to the geese calling out as they fly. #canadiangeese #MtAdams #peacefulday

$1.5T military budget $170B on ICE & Border Patrol $100B on tax cuts for the 1% $20B from Treasury for Argentina $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $500M sending National Guard into cities $250M on Kristi Noem's jets $100M+ on Trump's golf outings $75k for Kash Patel's Olympic trip Priorities.

This is inspiring, and tearful… hopeful. Standing in support of all survivors of SA! After 10 minutes of the state of the union, I went to find something meaningful BREAKING: Dems And Epstein Survivors Hold Briefing After DOJ Accused Of ... youtu.be/M_LrjDlndRU?... via @YouTube

Most remarkable and soul, wrenching use of words, beautiful and painful open.substack.com/pub/nicolekw...

A nine-year-old girl with a tourist visa is thrown into detention center with her mother and left there for four months. Click the link to read the whole story open.substack.com/pub/starlisa...

The Supreme Court's decision striking down many of President Trump's tariffs curbs his power to use energy to pressure trading partners.

The official Walk for Peace, song and video, it’s really really beautiful www.facebook.com/share/v/1ApU...

I wrote an essay tonight on how we affect people even across the world as well as how we ourselves learn from our past. It’s on Substack, and I hope that you do click on the link and read it and give me feedback! Teaser, mom and dad are mentioned.  open.substack.com/pub/starlisa...

I just love this interview with Venerable Bhikkhu Paññākāra youtube.com/watch?v=hQGz...

The Venerable monks and their Peace Dog Aloka are currently journeying by charter bus back to Fort Worth, Texas at the end of their #WalkForPeace They have been such an inspiration and guiding light for millions around the world. open.substack.com/pub/starlisa...

These stories really need to be shared, especially with people who believe all immigrants are murderers and rapist and ice is only picking up illegal immigrants. All of these people were citizens. All have clean records. They were clearly targeted for being Hispanic. youtube.com/watch?v=sJGc...

Reading through this article, especially the part at the end about how Rudy Giuliani couldn’t even be quiet during a proceeding so the judge had to mute his mic, made me think he and Trump were really quite the pair, well suited to each other. www.courthousenews.com/judge-advanc...

Rep. Ro Khanna is a fiery torch in this bleak moral darkness.

We’re all we got ♥️🤍💙

This is beautiful… finding home inside… Learning to understand self and pain and breathing in acceptance of self. open.spotify.com/episode/3Yts...

Some of my reflections on the beautiful Walk For Peace currently happening, and how this is a beautiful counterpoint, or Resilience Signal, counterbalancing the chaos and suffering causing harm to our Democratic Republic currently. open.substack.com/pub/starlisa...

Jenny Carter painstakingly transcribed the video of Aliya Rahman’s testimony in front of Congress. The video is extremely powerful. I was shaking listening to her. open.substack.com/pub/starlisa...

I decided a beautiful photo was in order after reading way too much chaotic political stuff today May you be well, happy, and peaceful.

From 1982-2018, the Republican National Committee was barred from "ballot security measures" because of their record of using state actors to intimidate minority voters. (H/t @rickhasen.bsky.social) www.npr.org/2018/01/09/5...

The Illinois Department of Public Health sidestepped the federal government this week by independently joining the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN). It is the second state to do so, after California joined the network last month. trib.al/0ecIsxF

Kwazy Hoomins! No u can’t has my hidey hole!

“3 legal observers were taken in just the last hour. Federal forces are targeting those who are getting the word out about what they are doing in the city, and it is very clearly a conscious effort in the same way that Israel was shooting reporters for trying to report about the genocide in Gaza”

This is beautiful… finding home inside… Learning to understand self and pain and breathing in acceptance of self. open.spotify.com/episode/3Yts...

I just noticed something. The White House using the phrase “ Lawful immigration enforcement“ [LIE] when talking about ICE Operations. So when they are talking about ICE, they are talking LIE… hey, we can work with this! ICE IS LITERALLY A LIE

Kwazy Hoomins! No u can’t has my hidey hole!

Behaviores Report: 90% goode, 5% harass of Fizgig, 5% menase of Momb. We hav all made up naow, are frends agin.

Aloka is such a wonderful dog! On Facebook, he has his own page, Aloka the Peace Dog. He was a stray in India, that started following a big line of monks and bonded with Venerable Bhikku Pannakara and others. I think he nearly died in an accident , but after healing, he came and found the monks.

Long before Nazi Germany, systems like slave patrols, forced removals of Native peoples, reservation camps, and racial pass systems existed in the U.S. Historians have shown that these models were studied abroad and helped normalize forms of state control later used by authoritarian regimes.

Just days after a group of Trump-aligned billionaires officially took over TikTok in the U.S., users reported their videos criticizing ICE and the shooting of Alex Pretti were suppressed or delayed. The oligarchy is tightening its grip over even more of our media. Beware.

Are you on the streets of MN? Would you like to share your thoughts about what you've experienced? I'm working on a special episode of The Union Bug feat. voices from folks OTG, stitched together as a quilt of oral history. Wanna share a voice or text note? DM or Signal @ mel_buer.99 before Feb 1

Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials. Then he had to get out alive. This is his story. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

The guy genuinely gave a shit. And the empathy vampires murdered him for it.

Nurses plan nationwide week of action against ICE terror.

I just noticed something ironic! The White House is using the phrase “ Lawful Immigration Enforcement“ [LIE] when talking about ICE Operations. So when they are talking about ICE, they are talking about a LIE… hey, we can work with this! substack.com/@sofiakinzin...

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

A heartfelt tribute to ICE victim Alex Pretti, by his coworkers at the VA hospital in Minneapolis. Just recently, Alex was standing strong at one end of a similar gurney, with one of his patients who had passed away under that flag. substack.com/@reallyameri...

Alex Pretti. Renee Good. And so many others who are still alive, but have been through horror. This article focuses on Pretti, a martyr, and Abernathy, still alive. It also brings up the witness to escape to tell her story and her video of Alex’s last moments. open.substack.com/pub/starlisa...

I learned something new today from Black American history. The slave patrols were a strong inspiration for the Gestapo. This has been around longer than brown shirts. Also the treatment of Native Americans with the camps and so on were yet another inspiration for Hitler’s Germany.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

No words left

Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines. This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.

Observe: #cats #catsly #catsofbluesky