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Posts by Leslye Colvin
Imagine what’s possible if billionaires and corporations paid what they owe. Our families would have what we need: stable housing, quality health care, good schools, and the support to thrive.
Tell Congress: Tax the ultra-wealthy.
@4taxfairness.bsky.social @aflcio.org @patrioticmillionaires.org
NEW: Raskin, w/ 50 House Dem co-sponsors, formally introduces a bill which would create a commission to assess Trump's fitness for office under the 25th Amendment.
Bill text here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Story TK
"It can be daunting to think of the tasks before us. Where do we begin? Where can I begin? The answer to these questions arrived today. I offer it as a challenge."
#LeslyesLabyrinth
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Eight years ago, I attended my first Board of Directors meeting for NETWORK Advocates. This week I return knowing I am in my ninth & final year of service to this amazing organization. Serving the Common Good with NETWORK has been one of the greatest privileges of my journey…for a time such as this…
A friend who is a native of Sierra Leone shared this with me. My heart is racing. My eyes filled with tears. I am speechless. #Iyana #Africandiaspora
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No surprise for the woke…
“You see, it doesn’t matter whether the war in Iran was legal, but it will matter whether it was successful, and whether the White House can concoct a plausible argument that America won.” www.al.com/news/2026/04...
Run into ground by incompetents and looters who now need to close the Center for “repairs” as cover. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
Fascinating and enlightening conversation between Anand Giridharadas and Molly Crabapple. open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...
ROME (AP) — In some of his strongest comments yet against the war, the American pope urged Americans and other people of good will to contact their political leaders and congressional representatives to demand they reject war and work for peace.
NEW: The Secretariat of the Apostolic Nunciature (the papal nuncio's office) has also confirmed that the Pentagon meeting occurred to @rns.org, but declined to offer more details or answer directly whether the Avignon Papacy was mentioned during the meeting.
"Yolanda Pierce reminds us that the resurrection & its promise of new life doesn’t erase the pain of what has been lost: You cannot read the stories of the resurrected Jesus as accounts of life triumphing over death w/o contending with layers of grief, mourning, & pain." cac.org/daily-medita...
"Belief in the resurrection is an act of rebellion against the evil, corruption and oppression that can so easily swamp us. Believing in the resurrection can be a refusal to accept the world as it is, that it can never change…. " cac.org/daily-medita...
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More than 50 congressional Democrats have called for trump’s removal from office following his latest threat against Iran….
Trump and Hegseth instigated a war with Iran that now has Iran attempting cyberattacks against U.S. infrastructure.
And now we learn that the most powerful cybersecurity defense tool in the world is made by the one company Trump and Hegseth stupidly cut off from the U.S. being able to use. Unreal.
🚨 🚨 ABC News confirms that Iran used advanced, passive infrared detection to shoot down the American F-15E fighter jet.
Passive infrared detection does not emit radar signals. As a result, it cannot be detected or jammed by American electronic warfare systems. That leaves our aircraft vulnerable.
Today’s writing…
#GoodFriday
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CNN: Sources are telling us that recent U.S. Intelligence assessments found roughly half of Iran's missile launchers are still intact and that thousands of one way attack drones are still in Iran's arsenal tonight. That's despite daily U.S. And Israeli airstrikes.
"...through this act [of washing of the feet], Jesus purifies
not only our image of God — from the idolatry and blasphemy that have distorted it — but also our image of humanity..."
- Pope Leo XIV, Holy Thursday 2026
#HolyThursday
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the highest-ranking Army officer in the country in the middle of the U.S. war on Iran.
Gen. Randy George, the Army’s chief of staff, joins more than a dozen high-ranking military officers who have been fired since Hegseth took over at the Pentagon.
Pathetic and trifling. Another example of JD Vance sustaining white body supremacy. How much of the voice of people in Black bodies has been stolen, whitewashed or diluted? #bellhooks #jdvance
Who can explain why this message was received by someone who is not an AT&T DIRECTV customer?
“Building on our existing Legacy Sites, the new site is dedicated to the Montgomery Decade That Changed the World. From 1955 to 1965, Black residents with extraordinary courage…” #EJI
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