Full Illinois press conference from today 9/29/25 youtu.be/3JvxC7zG-d8?...

it’s Sunday on bluesky so I am urging everyone to take care of themselves. Take a walk, have a second cup of coffee or tea, read a book, spend some time looking at small poems

A GoFundMe for Silverio's family.

Good Friday morning! Your assignment this weekend! Put some care in the world! Give someone you love a book you love. Tell an author why they're important to you. Send a thank you note to a librarian. Add a banned book to a little free library w a note about why it matters. Add care.

Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?

Six former CDC vaccine chairs are sounding the alarm—and we better listen. The U.S. is on the brink of losing access to life-saving immunizations. When science is attacked and trust is eroded, lives will be lost. This is not a drill. This is a national emergency.

It's Juneteenth. Here's @levarburton.bsky.social reading Lift Every Voice and Sing. #BlackLivesMatter youtu.be/GNEPwwv56DY

In case anyone is wondering

people need to get a lot clearer—and very quickly!—that the absence of due process is the same thing as lowering the bar of guilt to simply accusation.

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

a friend sent me this one

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.

99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research. Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts. It will directly impact YOU. #ScienceNOTSilence

This is a mission everyone should be able to get behind. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families. No effort must be spared to bring them home:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/

I can't get over the fact that "voters who are educated & attuned to current events vote for Dems" has become one of the central *critiques* of the Dem Party.

As @timothysnyder.bsky.social said in his latest blog post: “If you are a citizen and you are casting doubt on the importance of due process, remember this: you need due process in order to prove that you are a citizen.”

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

The Trump admin has quietly terminated a State Department contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of alleged Russian abductions of Ukrainian children—a potential war crime—to law enforcement officials in Europe, two people familiar with the situation tell @newrepublic.com

This is wilder to me. Vladimir Putin insisted that he will not negotiate with Mr. Zelenskyy, branding him an “illegitimate leader” because he has continued beyond his presidential term of 4 years. Meanwhile, Putin has been forcing himself on Russia for 21 years! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

cutting pediatric cancer research… www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/h...

Some federal workers are going back to work. The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back. Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired. The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired.

Highly recommend the newest book from best-selling author of The Chronology of Water (and many other wonderful books!), Lidia Yuknavitch. 📖💕 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726930

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

Ending the night with this. *Get your hankies* A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

Not pro-life

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

Jesuit Priest 👇🏽

Reading this book 📕 for the third time, might be a blueprint for how Marc Cuban can help build a news 📰 network with journalists like Jim Acosta, who can tell the TRUTH to POWER 💪💪💪 and lead the RESISTANCE 🙏🙏🙏