🚨 THE SHEER NERVE 🚨 They honestly think they can just illegally dismantle the US Forest Service while we aren't looking. Show them exactly how loud we can get. Tell Congress to stop this scheme. Takes 30 seconds to send your letter and RT: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

ICE DETENTION FOR PROFIT 🚨Respect and thanks to Representatives Yassamin Ansari, Greg Stanton, and Adelita Grijalva for their unannounced visit to an ICE detention center with disgusting conditions, that tried to pull a fast one. People need to be prosecuted for this. 1/2

Maddow: "Amid all of this insanity it may be a good time to remember that this kind of desperation from the White House and from the president is palpably driven by fear."

"I'm just contemplating the fact that one moron, one psychotic moron, one capricious idiot, has completely bollocksed up the global economy not only to the detriment of his own people, but the detriment of the planet. ... It's like how much more of this can the planet take?"

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

The DC #NoKings march will be passing Ft. McNair, where Stephen Miller has been living in military housing. Rig Madden, who says he served in the US Army for 22 years, has a message for Miller.

Like a stubborn bloom Living in cracks of concrete You cannot kill hope. #poetry #Haiku Photo by Stockcake

More and more blue waves Seeing into the center To infinity.

They think she's out of her mind, I don't. She carries the pain of what has happened to all of us. On the tip of her tongue, In the ache in her belly. She survived, All the shit she's seen, All the people she's lost, All the hope she's had to forego. They think she's out of her mind, I don't.

"We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” ~James Baldwin~

"Love is at the root of everything. Love or the lack of it." ~Fred Rogers~

Sometimes I Just Want To Scream! Acrylic on Paper. Why should we feel like prey in a society that abuses people’s life force and natural resources? Why are the keys to our future in the hands of greed and power? Why can't we find love for all people,for our world? Why?

Wanna see something cool? At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is. The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥

Life in Need of Love and Care. Acrylic on Paper. "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."  ~The Dalai Lama~ #visualpoetry #modernpainting #poetry #art

A Spark Waiting To Burst Forth. Acrylic on Paper. What if our world is just a spark buried deep in the womb of all existence. Yes, we are in dark times. But, we are waiting to burst forth. A world of Love. A world of Caring. A world of Hope. What world will we birth? #visualart #visualpoetry

Bathe in the warmth. Nuclear fusion That expands into Its own energy source... love, lovE, loVE, lOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE. #visualart  #abstractexpressionism #expressionism #neoexpressionism #abstract #abstractart  #acrylicpainting #painting  #drawing #color #colorfulart #poetry #visualpoetry

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

Release Your Inner Voice. Acrylic on Paper. 14"x10" 🖤♟️♟️🖤 "I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside." ~Rumi~

Gaze at the sky. Acrylic on Paper 14"x10" 🖤♟️♟️🖤 Standing by the window in silence. A fragile and ignorant being, Stuck here in the present with no chance to move forward or back. I don't understand why this is happening, for what purpose.

A light in the rain. Acrylic on Paper. 14"x10" 🖤♟️♟️🖤 "In darkness, be your own light.” ~Debasish Mridha~

As I'm walking down the street in this body, Sometimes I have to close my eyes, Take a deep breath and just keep going. Acrylic on Paper. 14"x10" 🖤♟️♟️🖤

@bsky.app A Part Of Me Still Has Hope. Even In Darkness, We Must Find Hope. Acrylic on Paper. 14"x10" 🖤♟️♟️🖤 "Hope is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency." ~Rebecca Solnit~