“The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, essential command.” - George Orwell. 1984.

Crowds of protesters across the U.S. mobilized against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown on Saturday, three days after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. trib.al/RXQlxWj

BREAKING: Massive Crowds of Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota as we speak. The tide is turning. America is Fed Up. Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.

I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.

she was a poet among other things where do the poems go when the poet has been killed? I picture the snow in Minnesota falling on a lake and want to write her name— Renee— on its cold white page

Say her name. Renee Nicole Good.

NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning. “SAY HER NAME!” “RENEE GOOD!”

Thousands of people in New York in response to the ICE murder of Renee Good: “We must topple the regime”

All republicans voted down a subpoena of all records and footage related to the murder of Renee Good by ICE agent

Thank you to everyone who came out and helped spread the word. Thousands of Minnesotans gathered tonight for a vigil honoring Renee Good, who was murdered by ICE agents. Let’s get ICE out of MN!

ICE destroying a memorial for Renee Good set up by protesters after ICE murdered her in cold blood.

it probably shouldn't make it worse that Renee Nicole Good was a pretty fine poet but it does

I Loves You Porgy / Porgy, I's Your Woman Now (Bess, You Is My Woman Now) 🧎‍♀️ #BarbraStreisand

People 🗣️ #BarbraStreisand

Remembering the talented and versatile Sidney Poitier. Trailblazer. Actor. Director. Author. Humanitarian. To Sir, With Love 🤩

"If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty..." Sidney Poitier February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022

"Don't let the bastards grind you down." -- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale #BookSky

“Oh, it is excellent to have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.” — Shakespeare

Five years ago today, Donald Trump urged his supporters to attack Congress and the Capitol over a proven lie. More than 140 police officers were injured. Trump then pardoned the attackers. He betrayed his oath and his country, and we won't ever forget it.

FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history. Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

Pelosi: "January 6 was really sad in itself. But the sorrow of it also springs from the fact that this president is trying to rewrite history."

Jan 6th rioter: “You can't gaslight me. I was there — I saw the officers being pepper sprayed. I watched one of them fall down & hit his head & his back — So don't be telling me it wasn't violent. Don't come to me with that ever again”

As violence against police escalated on the west front of the Capitol, some of the rioters appeared to take pleasure and even laugh.

Just after 2:00 p.m., on the west front, the police - bloodied, battered, and overwhelmed - blasted this message, ordering people to leave. The Capitol was breached minutes later.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com President Trump's "incoherent revisionist mythology of Jan. 6 has become an organizing policy commitment of his administration,” writes Jamie Raskin, the lead prosecutor in Trump’s second impeachment trial. nyti.ms/4q5Mxqb

A quote worth repeating: “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” — Aldous Huxley

Moving myself slowly back home, I'm reminded of the butterfly effect, a core concept in chaos theory, illustrating how tiny, seemingly insignificant changes in the initial conditions of a complex system can lead to massive, unpredictable differences in the system's later state.

I see it all I feel it all My eyes fill with tears. ~Virginia Woolf, The Waves 🎨 Paul Evans

Listen, learn the language of silence, discern the gentle presence 🎨 Ellen Siebers, North Star, 2021

#SatArtDay #BlueskyArtShow #Murals #Paintings #ArtYear "The Flame Keepers" by Mandi Caskey of Senaca Falls, New York. It's a tribute to enduring the fight for Women's Rights across generations. A living flame is passed into hands of modern woman representing the struggle for justice & equality.

"I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day." -- Lucretia Mott, born #OTD 1793

Watch Lucy Dacus perform the women's suffrage and workers' rights anthem "Bread And Roses" at @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's NYC mayoral inauguration

1/2 What Barbra Streisand says are superb, very important words for the beginning of the new year and not only... @barbrastreisand.bsky.social 🫡 #BarbraStreisand

2/2 Barbra Streisand - outstanding Artist: actress,composer, designer, director,producer,screenwriter,singer, songwriter & the author of a splendid book My Name Is Barbra. In addition – style icon,social activist & philanthropist. It's impossible to list everything...Chapeau bas❣️ #BarbraStreisand 💎

Barbra is the light amongst endless shadows. 💙 @barbrastreisand.bsky.social 💙 #BarbraStreisand

1/2 What Barbra Streisand says are superb, very important words for the beginning of the new year and not only... @barbrastreisand.bsky.social 🫡 #BarbraStreisand

"I rebel; therefore I exist." -- Albert Camus, who died #OTD 1960

Martin Luther King

In Opinion President Trump “is pushing our country toward an international crisis without valid reasons,” the editorial board writes after the U.S. attack on Venezuela was announced on Saturday. “If Mr. Trump wants to argue otherwise, the Constitution spells out what he must do: Go to Congress.”

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

Even if Trump’s attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of Maduro somehow led to a positive impact on Venezuela’s future, it would not make these actions by the United States legal, moral or wise. Normalising and legitimising this behaviour endangers all countries - democracies and dictatorships alike.