“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.” César Chávez — “Times like this, I firmly believe that history is here to help.” Rachel Maddow The story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history… ⊹

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December 7, 1941 — ‘We hear a lot these days about how American democracy is doomed and the radical right will win. Maybe. But the beauty of our system is that it gives us people like Doris Miller. Even better, it makes us people like Doris Miller.’ @hcrichardson.bsky.social #PearlHarbor ♡

It begins. — #Climate

“…be exactly who you are: a true human person doing their best to show up for this fleeting life with a measure of grace, kindness and a sense of humor, with curiosity and a willingness to not have all the answers, with reverence for life. Walk the path of the ordinary mystic. ~Mirabai Starr ⋆⭒˚.⋆

…so top brass in the U.S. Military is now lying for this administration. Swell. Très sombre. ⊹

La Lune ～ ‘This moon is both about celebration, acknowledgment, and moving to a higher vibration. It comes with highs and lows, and possible tension. Embrace both as an alignment with truth. We can change what is in our power, and accept with neutrality what is not in our control.’ [Power Path]

December is a time when light ˎˊ˗ becomes our teacher. ‘…darkness is not something to fear or fix; it’s the soil from which our next becoming will emerge. Remember, closure is a kind of g r a c e, and that even as one cycle completes, another begins, luminous and full of promise.’ . ˚ ⋆.˚⋆

“That’s absolutely false,” one USDA source says of reporting that DOGE has disbanded. “They are in fact burrowed into the agencies like ticks.” ‘DOGE affiliates appear to be digging in for the long haul—and Silicon Valley–shaped fingerprints remain all over the way agencies continue to be run.’ —

‘It charts a path from authoritarian descent to democratic regeneration by: •disrupting •delegitimizing •generating defections •developing a world to come Our movements also need a framework that speaks to the inner life of resistance, one that demands spiritual clarity.’ #MoralVocabulary

“Exposes unforgiving truths.” -Joaquin Phoenix ᯓ ‘The film argues religious/ institutional interests have suppressed teachings rejecting animal sacrifice and meat eating. Jesus and early followers may have been opposed to animal killing, closer to what we would now call vegetarian or vegan ethics.’

Watching ‘The American Revolution,’ learning of the diseases that caused many deaths among those fighting, e.g., smallpox, typhus, typhoid, dysentery, flu—killers in both the Continental & British armies. •6,800 Americans were killed in action •17,000 died from disease #vaccinations save lives.

#LeakEpsteinFiles #Impeach Treason: ‘The main immediate consequence is removal from office through impeachment, and then exposure to criminal prosecution.’ — Article II, Section 4: ‘Treason, Bribery, High Crimes & Misdemeanors.’ — 25th: ‘Unable to perform the duties of the office.’

‘I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.’ -Thomas Jefferson ࿐ Radical Gratitude: ‘Everything is received as a gift, especially amid difficulty, not a feeling but a daily, deliberate practice that reshapes perception—living from trust rather than fear.’ -Fr R. Rohr

Slava Ukraini! ˚ ⋆.˚⋆ ˚ ⋆ 🖤.˚⋆ #Ukraine #PresidentVolodymyrZelenskyy

I M P E A C H. — #25th

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She took down a prince, maybe now, finally, a wannabe king. “…while I increasingly appeared unaffected on the outside, on the inside, every retelling of my stories of abuse hit me hard.” ♡ #Epstein #VirginiaRobertsGiuffre #Survivors

‘…the consequences of not grasping that the #Epstein “scandal”—a word that fails to grasp the scale of the horror—is eating away at the moral core of our nation and the idea of civilized society […] we may never recover from the abuse what we have permitted. In short: Trump must go.’ — #25th

America is still only an idea. — Jill LePore: ‘The 250th anniversary of the American Revolution is, inevitably, an occasion to ask what the Revolution meant, whether the people really do rule, and whether the law is still king … what we want it to be going forward.” 7.4.2026 #A250 🤎ˎˊ˗

‘I do this for victims everywhere. I am no longer the young and vulnerable girl who could be bullied. I am now a survivor, and nobody can ever take that away from me.’ – Virginia Giuffre, ‘Nobody’s Girl’ and founder of SOAR [1983 - 2025] ˚ ⋆ 🤍.˚⋆

‘Nehru recognised that the struggle to build democracy was international,’ as it is to tear it down. #CommonGood www.radicalteatowel.com ♡ ˎˊ˗

‘What’s so undeniably significant is that the women in these sacred texts, Mary Magdalene and Thecla, were silenced <because they were female.> And both scriptures that contain their stories were labeled “apocryphal” by the 4th century, or “of doubtful authenticity…’ #Epstein #EpsteinSurvivors

‘In a 2015 email, Epstein gave tips on stories about Trump and girls to then NYT’s financial reporter Landon Thomas Jr. […] But a story revealing this information did not appear in the New York Times before the 2016 presidential election or afterward.’ #Epstein #NYTimes @hcrichardson.bsky.social

“The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.“ — United States Constitution, Article II Section 4 #Epstein #Justice #25th

‘The only clue to what man can do is what man has done.’ — Go see ‘Nuremberg’ and bring a #MAGA friend.

11.11.25

@aoc.bsky.social How can we donate to you w/o going through ActBlue? Is it possible? I just left the Democratic Party. Finie. #SDP ღ

Au revoir. I just left the Democratic Party. The United States needs, and is ready for, a 3rd Party. n o w Ro Khanna posted earlier: ‘Medicare for All. No PAC $. Childcare $10 a day. Double housing. 1,000 trade schools. I call it new economic patriotism.’ I call it a start. 🤍 @governor.ca.gov

‘Just as hundreds of progressive writers and academics had journeyed to fight fascism in Spain during the 1930s, they answered the call again when Hitler invaded the rest of Europe in 1939.’ -Pete, radicalteatowel.com #TrumpAdministration #Fascism #ICE

‘Tragedy is our education. We’re on a road no different than our past.’ -Dr. Pierre Grimes, 1924-2024 ღ

NYT: “Leaders from around the world are gathering for COP 30, the annual UN Climate Conference. But notably, for the first time in the event's history, the United States is not participating. Many feel like the world might be better off if the Trump administration stays away.” #COP30 #Climate #USA

‘…as he watched the world burn its own future in the fiery pit of politics, he understood time, which has no right side and no wrong side, is only ever won or lost on the smallest and most personal scale: absolute presence, “what I wish for now is no longer happiness but simply awareness.”’ 🩶 ˚ ⋆.˚

“What Mamdani correctly identified about NYC and about America is that the system in its current form actually isn't working for people.” “Whatever this version of capitalism is, it isn't working. And now the question has been posed to leaders around America, what are you going to do about it?” 💯

“I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity. The people are awakening. In due course of time they will come into their own.” — From Eugene Debs’s court statement after being convicted for his anti-war activism in 1918. #MayorMamdani quoted him at the beginning of his acceptance speech. ღ

They’re here. — #ICE @maddow.msnbc.com @nicollewallace.bsky.social #NationalStrikeNOW #vote Coronado News article: coronadotimes.com/news/2025/11... (Coronado is an island across from the San Diego Bay accessible by ferry or peninsula.)

🤍 #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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Jeanne d'Arc ⍭ — Joan of Arc’s official feast is May 30th, yet her life and example are often woven into #AllSaintsDay celebrations, especially in France, as an embodiment to holiness, and strength to work for justice and peace. Born 1412 Died 1431 Cause of death: burning. She was 19. #France

‘Hitler said towards the end of the war, “The only way they could have stopped us would be if they had come at us early, swift and hard. Ha! We didn’t even come after them at all. There’s an entirely different conversation to be had now. We need an army of spiritual warriors for this one.’ ♡

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#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles — ‘Prince Andrew has been formally stripped of all his remaining royal titles, including the style of “Prince,” and has been ordered by King Charles to vacate his home at the Royal Lodge in Windsor following renewed scrutiny and ongoing allegations by Virginia Giuffre.’ [NPR]

Back-to-back posts. #TheUnitedStatesOfAmerica —

‘Sooner or later the world must burn, and all things in it—consumed by fire, nobody left, for by that time the last man in the universe will have discovered the bomb and be unable to resist the temptation to throw it and get it over with. And here I sit writing a diary.’ [1948] ˚｡⋆ ⋆ ♥️.˚⋆ ｡⋆｡

“The gravest moral problems are found at the political level.” -Thomas Merton, 1959 Vérité. 🖤 [Article, ‘Pasternak and the People with Watch Chains,’ published in Jubilee magazine.] #USA

Steve and Donnie want us to get used to the idea. We won’t. Ever. #22nd #25th #WeThePeople ღ

“We were girls who no one cared about, and Epstein pretended to care. I was groomed to be complicit in my own devastation” -Virginia ღ ‘…abuse by her father and others; victims of sexual trafficking are not born, they are made, shaped by a succession of atrocities from a young age.’ [NPR] #Epstein

So much for the love of the game. #NBA #SportsBetting #UnitedStatesOfAmerica$$$

"Trying to find something real in all the noise." - Bruce — The film opens with the River Tour in ‘81, when I saw Bruce live as an undergrad, portraying some of the most painful and vulnerable periods of his life, composing ‘Nebraska.’ When Jeremy Allen White speaks as Bruce #Springsteen #Nebraska

To endure e v i l like this in our life for so long. Why? What is he here to teach? #RexMundi — ‘Implement mechanisms for restorative justice, public apologies, reparations, war crimes trials, providing accountability and help satisfy calls for fairness and healing.’ Someday. ღ #EastWing #25th