As @maddow.msnbc.com tells it, "Grandparents worried about their grandchildren's health are "doing something about it - something simple and direct and therefore also kind of radical." TY 💙 @theprogressivemag.bsky.social Sign up to join @donnagaffney.bsky.social and me at grandparentsforvaccines.com

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Way to go Grandparents for Vaccines! open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

Journalist Gideon Levy says settlements in the occupied West Bank, as well as the accompanying Israeli violence against Palestinians, have increased dramatically since October 2023. "The settlers see the war in Gaza as a huge historical opportunity."

Marigold with Love-in-a-mist #art #photography #flowers

Thanks to everyone who read and shared the piece I wrote that was published in the G & M. I had no gift links but if you want to read it and cannot access it, now you can. web.archive.org/web/20251228...

I've spent most of my 6+ decades living somewhat close to saltwater and even worked in Alaska on fishing boats in my late teens. Point being, I've seen eight zillion Seagulls in my life but up until June of this year I never saw a baby and I saw lots of them! #PismoBeach #Birds #Nature #Photography

Somalia’s representative at the United Nations had a history lesson to share with Israel’s envoy today. “To come to this place, and lecture us [on] humanity & genocide & human rights & independence & democracy. And we know what you’re doing on a daily basis. It’s just an insult.”

So happy my first dahlia flower opened today here in Seaford Melbourne. I’m love these flowers and they just keep giving. #dahlia #tubers #lovemygardem ##hygge #home

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

Time for some phone calls NH peeps -- "Live Free or Die" is becoming more than just a slogan in your state (and elsewhere) "ICE is planning to build and manage large warehouses to hold over 80,000 detainees, according to the Washington Post. One of those facilities 👇

is being planned in my district, in Merrimack, New Hampshire. MAGA is proudly calling these warehouses “like Amazon Prime, but for people.” PEOPLE SHOULD NEVER BE IN WAREHOUSE PRISONS. Our voices have power. If you live in NH call your MOC and your state electeds and RAISE HELL over this.

Epstein files: Apollo & Cerberus (Stephen Feinberg's private investment company) are in a whistleblower e-mail complaint to the SDNY (below). Both companies buy, plunder, bankrupt companies together globally. They drove Steward Healthcare into the ground. @markey.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov

Manafort and Epstein are linked in the Epstein files. Epstein is said to have had an Austrian passport and was associated w Manafort's Hapsburg Group. The Chancellor of Austria was part of that group being paid by Manafort to promote Yanukovych, Putin's puppet in Ukraine.

What Paul Manafort did for Ukraine's Yanukovych and Putin 2004-2014, Paul Manafort is doing for Trump and Putin 2016-2026. Look at Ukraine today. That is where we are headed. time.com/5003623/paul... Manafort is in Epstein files regarding Epstein's involvement w Manafort's Hapsburg Group.

Feinberg also bought 3% of Deutschebank when Trump & Kushner's accounts were flagged for suspicion of moneylaundering tied to Russia. In major conflict of interest, Feinberg's company Cerberus got an advisory contract w Deutschebank at the same time. investigation of Trump/Kushner was dropped.

Cyrus Vance was lenient on Epstein in the past. When Epstein was in Manhatten federal prison, Vance brought state charges against Manafort and then transferred him to the *federal* prison where Epstein was. Was Manafort there to help Epstein, or threaten him? www.foxnews.com/us/epstein-p...

#2 at Pentagon, Stephen Feinberg, billionaire Trump donor and fixer for Trump and Kushner, refuses to say that Russia invaded Ukraine. He is in charge of the $1 trillion dollar Pentagon budget, which every taxpayer funds. #TaxationWithoutRepresentation

Manafort and Epstein are mentioned together in an e-mail in the Epstein files. It says Epstein was involved with Manafort's Hapsburg Group, which was a group of European leaders paid to refurbish the pro-Putin Yanukovych's image, after Yanukovych jailed his political opponent. (Search "Manafort")

Churkin, the diplomat it seems Epstein was communicating w about Trump, died suddenly among a spate of 5 similar Russian diplomat deaths. Another died the day after Trump's 2016 election. They knew too much about Trump or something? Manafort is mafia tied, Trump is too, as is Putin. Khashoggi's...

Epstein files say Epstein was associated wirh Manafort's Hapsburg Group. Manafort has been bringing down democracy in Europe and US for Putin in exchange for $$$$$, likely for decades.

Manafort is doing in the US 2016-2026 for Putin what he did for Putin in Ukraine 2004-2014: divide, sabotage elections & democracy, make way for Putin. Thread on Manafort, one of the most dangerous among the many giant rats circling to destroy our country:

In the Epstein library at the DOJ website, if you search for Manafort, there are some e-mails that say Epstein was associated w Manafort's Hapsburg group, which included the Chancellor of Austria. Seems Manafort, Epstein sabotaging Ukraine democracy for Putin. Manafort now doing same to the US. 🧵

Epstein files: Apollo & Cerberus (Stephen Feinberg's private investment company) are in a whistleblower e-mail complaint to the SDNY (below). Both companies buy, plunder, bankrupt companies together globally. They drove Steward Healthcare into the ground. @markey.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov

US wants total immunity for any international crimes in the past, present, and future. Erik Prince, Stephen Feinberg and all the other war profiteers from Afghanistan are still here (Feinberg, who owned Dyncorp & Freedom Group guns that oversupplied the military is now #2 at Pentagon.)

"‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock Intl Criminal Court judge out of daily life. Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards or access everyday services (Uber, Alexa, Ticketmaster...) in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary." www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

FACTS OVER FASCISM: We the People have a responsibility to continue building the case for Donald Trump’s impeachment and removal from office. If you haven't already, call on your Member of Congress to act NOW. Sign our petition at ImpeachTrumpAgain.org/#action. @johnbonifaz.bsky.social

From press release on Trump Media & TAE Technologies $6B merger: Combined company expects to site and commence construction of the first utility-scale fusion power plant in 2026 Fusion power to blaze path toward America’s A.I. dominance and energy security www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

Trump Media plans to merge with TAE Technologies formerly called Tri Alpha Energy (one co-founder was actor Harry Hamlin) In 2012 Russia was an investor, Russia's State Nanotechnology Corporation (Rusnano) head Anatoly Chubais was on Board until at least 2019 web.archive.org/web/20191220...

🚨 Gaza’s Health Ministry warns of a “slow-motion mass death” driven by Israel’s medical siege. Since the ceasefire, more than 400 people have been killed, but far more are dying from blocked medicine and collapsed care, the Director General says. Only 10% of needed medical supplies have...

🔴 “There’s a killing mechanism that has been created… [by] the U.S. and Israel together. They have made conditions in Gaza so deplorable, so incompatible with human life.. These conditions are completely manufactured. And now, you don’t need a single bomb to... — Dr. Mimi Syed (X: @Memers1st)

Googling Cerberus Capital & Apollo shows they've done billions $$$ of business together globally, extracting wealth & dumping them. Steward Healthcare is one hospital chain they drove into the ground. Both are mentioned by a whistleblower in Epstein files. @markey.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov

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Epstein files tie Epstein to Paul Manafort & his Hapsburg Group. This group was European officials who Manafort paid to improve the Putin-tied Ukrainian President Yanukovych's image with European & US politicians. Yanukovych later fled to Russia in 2014 & Putin annexed Crimea during the confusion.

Another "nonprofit," NYC Police Foundation, which funds a nypd intelligence program, lists Ivanka Trump as a trustee. She resigned in 2014: projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

Stephen Feinberg donated millions to CIA-associatrd "nonprofit" In-Q-tel. Billionaires are funding "nonprofits" that are tentacles of our govt. The head of In-Q-Tel then came to work for his company Cerberus (as did VP Quayle, Treasury Sec John Snow, 1st General of Space Force, other US Generals.)

Epstein files: Apollo/Kushner/Epstein connection. E-mails from a whistleblower to SDNY about money laundering tied to Epstein, Kushner. Stephen Feinberg, #2 at Pentagon under Hegseth, and in charge of $1 trillion Pentagon budget, is also mentioned in these e-mails in Epstein files library at DOJ.

Stephen Feinberg is mentioned in the Epstein files along with Kushner and Security Exchange Commission and money laundering by Christopher J. Dilorio, who identifies himself as a whistleblower. Does anyone understand this? Feinberg is #2 at Pentagon w free rein over the trillion dollar budget.

Every word from @repsummerlee.bsky.social. What is US doing in global community that fuels refugee & migrant crisis? How can immigration reform lead to humane policies? Criminal justice reform is the other part of this issue--why are Black, brown, disabled, poor people disproportionately affected?

We need a just, humane immigration reform, not a system that is built off of the same cruelty, inequity, and exploitation that we see in our criminal legal system.

The wonderful @monaeltahawy.bsky.social can be found on Substack now.

I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this. Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?

Screenshotted because I don't want to dump on this person, but a prime example of blaming "polarization" instead of political whim, corporate power, and their dreadful combination in today's authoritarianism.

It’s just mind boggling to me that higher ed administrators are saying let’s push for this stuff w/o first thinking through the implications of this approach for any form of quantitative evidence exercise.

What Paul Manafort did for Ukraine's Yanukovych and Putin 2004-2014, Paul Manafort is doing for Trump and Putin 2016-2026. Look at Ukraine today. That is where we are headed. time.com/5003623/paul... Manafort is in Epstein files regarding Epstein's involvement w Manafort's Hapsburg Group.