"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed

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Love the Planet, Use the Library Lower your carbon footprint one check out at a time

Library books are used and returned for the next reader, making them a sustainable resource for environmentally conscious bibliophiles.

For all my friends who are writers and poets and artists and philosophers; for all of those who I follow and do not know, the time for us all to express and create is now. The world defined by those in power is not the world we live in. We can create another

Will it be you?

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Floral snapshot, July, in case your brain is noisy and overloaded:

I commit with you

I'm off to a great start. Shown here is one of several works SOLD during today's Santa Fe Studio Tour. The Tour continues tomorrow and next weekend, Sat-Sun, 22, 28, 29, 11-5pm. Stop by my studio #40 on the Tour and visit my website to see more of my work: www.southwestabstractions.net

The SAVE Act would silence the voices of tens of millions of eligible voters 21.3 million people don’t have easy access to documents that prove citizenship like a U.S. birth certificate. The SAVE Act will make it harder for citizens to register to vote including millions of ma...

The SAVE Act would make registering to vote difficult for millions of eligible voters including 69 million women whose birth certificate doesn’t match their married names. QUICK SIGNATURE: action.momsrising.org/sign/TheSave... via @momsrising.org #StoptheSaveAct action.momsrising.org/survey/SAVEA...

Wispy branches of pink cherry blossoms poke up in front of buckets of white, purple, orange and red tulips

Pike Place Spring for the #bloomscrolling

Trump Already Hit With Lawsuit Over Tariffs—From Unexpected Group It appears that literally no one is happy with Donald Trump’s tariffs.

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'Usurped Congress!' Right-wing legal group sues — to stop Trump A right-wing legal advocacy group, usually known for its war on the regulatory state, is filing a lawsuit to stop President Donald Trump's major new pet policy.The New Civil Liberties Alliance is few ...

'Usurped Congress!' Right-wing legal group sues — to stop Trump

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Portland OR Hands Off Rally

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING
#handsoff

America will never have a king. Thank you East Portland Indivisible for letting me close out the speeches this morning, and to the hundreds of East Portland neighbors who showed up to demonstrate what Portland is really about.

I think there were more people here than I've ever seen at any point in my life combined

#HandsOff

Driving through, somewhere around 100 people in Driggs, ID.

Driggs has well under 3000 people.

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

Trump opponents ready to take to streets with nationwide protests Some 1,200 demonstrations are planned across the U.S. on Saturday in what organizers expect to be the largest single day of protest against President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk since the administration launched its rapid-fire effort to put a conservative stamp on government.

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Northwest communities participate in national ‘Hands Off’ day of action against policy changes under Trump and Musk In Oregon alone, dozens of “Hands Off” events are planned, from Gold Beach to Astoria, to Hood River, Enterprise, Redmond and Klamath Falls.

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Hands off protests in Pacific Northwest

Hundreds flood downtown San Antonio for 'Hands Off!' anti-Trump demonstration At least 1,000 San Antonians participated Saturday in a peaceful downtown march as part of national day of protest against President Donald Trump and his billionaire advisor Elon Musk.

Hundreds flood downtown San Antonio for 'Hands Off!' anti-Trump demonstration www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/h...

Hands Off protest in downtown Chicago draws thousands criticizing Trump's policies Also held in the suburbs and across the country, the demonstrations are taking aim at the administration's recent actions, including layoffs of federal workers, cuts in funding for social services and...

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Hands off Rally in Santa Fe

#handsoff Wilmington, NC

I was buying poster board at the drugstore and the woman behind me was smiling like, “I know what you’re doing this weekend, and I approve.” 👍