This year’s first episode of our podcast Assembly Required is out now. I hope you’ll take a listen wherever you get your podcasts.

On the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy that day is nowhere to be found. Republicans are refusing to install it, even though Congress passed a law requiring it. 1/2

ℹ️ gathering from a real leader Assembly required with Stacey Abrams

This week, Congress has a chance to pass a bill that reverses the massive increase in health care costs and restores the ACA’s enhanced premium tax credit. Republicans have a choice: They can continue to make life unaffordable, or they can join House Democrats to lower health care premiums.

My friend @governorwalz.mn.gov has been a dedicated public servant from his time in the National Guard to Governor of Minnesota. Everywhere he goes he carries with him his Midwestern values of kindness and standing up for working families. Thankful for his service and sacrifice.

I’m glad all nine students hurt in the Brown University shooting have been released from the hospital. Thank you to the dedicated doctors, nurses, and other professionals at RI Hospital who cared for the students and got them on the road to recovery.

The Administration has wasted at least $59 million in tax payers dollars to persecute, terrorize, and brutalize our communities. All while the American people can’t afford their groceries or health care.

Five years after the Capitol Insurrection, the attacks on our democracy are only intensifying. CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social is testifying on Capitol Hill on the aftermath of Jan 6 and ongoing harms to American democracy. TUNE IN @ 10 AM ET: www.youtube.com/live/EUEmzBY...

#Streetart from #Reykjavik, #Iceland, photographed in 2021. #einstein #tupac #art

"Let us not be afraid to help each other—let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country." - FDR, 1938

Five years ago, violent rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol, attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Today, we’re honoring the brave men and women who defended our democratic institutions that day, including the 140 injured police officers and those who have died.

Ruby Bridges is all inspiring, brilliant, beautiful, wise, and can teach us so much.

Great American Hero 🇺🇲 Thank you Ruby Bridges 💙🙏🫶

Five years after January 6th, Leader Hakeem Jeffries and former January 6th Select Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson will hold a hearing with testimony from Americans who witnessed the attack. 🎙️It's streaming live TODAY at 10:00 AM E.T. Check out the link here to watch: https://bit.ly/3YYAz5P

Federal law requires that at least 1 commemorative quarter for the US 250th anniversary must celebrate women. But the Trump Administration scrapped plans to honor woman suffrage & Ruby Bridges desegregating her school. A pilgrim wife is the only woman on the new quarters. #WeTheMen shorturl.at/MpUu4

The Trump administration has erased the history of slavery, the women’s suffrage movement, and the civil rights movement from new commemorative coins. They rejected bipartisan recommendations to feature Frederick Douglass and Ruby Bridges and instead will feature white men, including Trump.

Josephine Washington, gifted writer & Frederick Douglass’ clerk, was born 1861 to Augustus Turpin & Maria Crump. “Augustus was the son of an enslaved African woman named Mary & Edwin Durock Turpin, who owned & later married her. He was a grandson of Mary Jefferson Turpin - aunt to Thomas Jefferson.”

Trump has scrapped plans for commemorative coins honoring women’s suffrage and Frederick Douglass. Instead, we’ll get George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, and a Pilgrim couple — all of whom have already appeared on U.S. currency www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

I’m not saying that it’s the *worst* part of all of this, but good lord they are just the dullest, most grindingly boring people

The U.S. Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee settled on five options for coins marking America’s 250th anniversary, including Frederick Douglass and Ruby Bridges. But the Treasury Department instead will include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. https://wapo.st/49c6WCU

Know who the “radical, left scum” of the 1860’s were? The abolitionists We’re in good company. 👊 Frederick Douglass

The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge has been an iconic part of the DC skyline since 2021. And on January 1, 2026, it will host the New Year’s Day Fresh Start 5K. No better place to bring in the new year as a community.

"the Frederick Douglass, Ruby Bridges and suffragette quarters had been scrapped, replaced by coins featuring pilgrims, the Revolutionary War and the Gettysburg Address" Republicans are literally trying to erase non-cis white men from history

“Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.” ~Frederick Douglass. Image: Library of Congress.

the rejected designs www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

In 2024, the committee that recommends U.S. coin designs proposed paying tribute to the civil rights, abolitionist and suffrage movements on the quarters marking the 250th anniversary of the country’s founding. But in December, Trump’s Treasury secretary overruled the coins. https://bit.ly/3LwORrd

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has rejected designs for quarters commemorating the 250th anniversary of national independence that would have featured Frederick Douglass, the Suffragette Movement, and the Civil Rights Movement. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

New coins marking the United States' 250th anniversary begin circulating this week. The Trump administration tweaked the design of some coins and is considering a dollar coin featuring the president. n.pr/3LbycJN

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. The eagle is the great sacred bird of the Cherokee, as of nearly all our Native tribes, and figures

2025 turned out to be my most prolific #birding year to date where I saw 340 different species. On the photography front, I hit some really nice highs including this bald eagle on 1/1/25 last yere here in DC. Some more shots in this thread. #birds #birdphotography

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

I stand with Mark Kelly ✊🏽 Who’s with me? Pete Hegseth, a former cable news personality and the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in history, coming for a decorated combat veteran and astronaut over military conduct is deeply unserious.

Sunrise at Stonehenge today (4th January) was at 8.10am, sunset is at 4.13pm

#StreetArt By Eva Casais

guard your heart #kamloops #train #Graffiti #Art #guardyourheart

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Bessie Coleman born fascinated by aviation, she applied to flight schools in the U.S. but was rejected because she was both Black and a woman. Determined, she learned French and traveled to France, earning her pilot’s license in 1921—becoming the first Black woman and first Native American to do so.

My first audiobook of the new year. It’s a history of the last native Americans in the U.S. the author focuses on a handful of native nations (tribes) to tell the larger story of native peoples, how they influenced US history & are still here in the present. Thanks NY Public Library. #booksky

If you feel down I want you to think about what some Born of the Soil Americans have suffered. youtube.com/shorts/6RCRp...

The National Trust for Historic Preservation awarded Althemese Barnes the Louise du Pont Crowninshield Award for her decades of work in establishing preservation efforts that have become a model for museums across the country. www.wctv.tv/2025/12/29/r...

By @rkobell.bsky.social: As Trump targets Black history, one Maryland ranger guards Harriet Tubman’s place in it. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

"In When Trees Testify, plant biologist Beronda L. Montgomery explores the ways seven trees—as well as the cotton shrub—are intertwined with Black history and culture. She reveals how knowledge surrounding these trees has shaped America since the very beginning." us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Sir Elton John featured at the back of Watford (England) library wall. #streetphotography#sirEltonjohn#watford#art#mural

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#StreetArt by Jimmy Buscombe

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. According to Cherokee belief, trees & plants were alive & could talk in the old days & had their place in

Gets stronger by the day . . . 🌲 🦎 🌿 #greenwitchtea #greenwitch #animism #nature #trees #witch #peace

recap 2025 NATURE (Re)Discoveries #7 TREES That dead AND living trees are home & partner to bacteria, fungi, mosses, lichen, spiders, ants, snails and quite a few bugs, to say nothing about nesting birds, finally sank in and amazed me repeatedly this year. 🧵 #photography #nature #trees #nature2025

Moonlight 🌙 #photography #landscape #forest #ocean #moon #art #norway

I always wonder where they’re going #Scape #ForestFriday #BWFri #ColorADay #B&W #ClassicMono