Women’s suffrage murals that started in Chicago are growing across U.S. The three murals in the Loop pop up regularly as backdrops on social media.

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Support these data centers: SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...

If you cannot tell, you should consult your physician.

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

To those still complaining about Artemis 2:

We spend 100× more on killing people for oil profits, but yeah, NASA’s the problem. 🤦🏽‍♀️

NASA: $25B
Defense: $901B
That’s 36 NASAs.

Space programs have driven major advancements in science, medicine, and technology, real benefits for humanity.

Happy Easter Sunday 4/5 our COTD is the 9 of cups. Many readers call this the wish card.

Sometimes the 9 of cups means we sit back and appreciate our surroundings, with great gratitude. When we are grateful for what we have, the universe gives us more to be grateful for.

Nationwide General Strike Planned for May 1: No Kings Organizer | Common Dreams Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin announces nationwide general strike on May 1 in next No Kings mass action.

IT'S TIIIIIIMMMMMMEEEEEEEE!!

Drastic times call for drastic measures.

If you can stay home, AWESOME.
If you can't, please consider NOT BUYING anything that day.

The POINT is the pressure of OUR POWER.

#MAYDay #May1st #GeneralStrike #NOBusinessAsUSUAL

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ICYMI - Samuel L. Jackson (!!) narrated this powerful video for Saturday's No Kings rally about the strength of Minnesotans protesting ICE:

"When your neighbors are being attacked and your communities are being targeted, you don't give up. You don't look away. You don't back down. You showed up."

Photo of the worst government in the history of the united states Definition of Kakistocracy

𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮📖
'Kakistocracy'

New data shows how MASSIVE the US Resistance truly is. YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture

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I think two things can be true at once. You can acknowledge that neurodivergence and mental illness deserves grace, while also acknowledging that you are not obligated to accept hurtful treatment. As a neurodivergent and mentally ill person, I understand that I don’t get a free pass to hurt people.

📢 Resist & Rising Together: Weekly Good News & Progress Resist & Rising Together Weekly shares uplifting stories of resistance, resilience, and real progress—highlighting weekly victories for democracy, justice, freedom, and equality.

📢 Resist & Rising Together: Weekly Good News & Progress
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February 17, 2026

Today begins the Chinese New Year - year of the Horse. It’s also the first day of Ramadan on the Islamic Calendar. It’s also Mardi Gras for partying Christians (mostly Catholics), signalling the first day of Lent.

All derived from Lunar cycles.

New Moon Today — 7:00am ET

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

Groundhog Day hits different this year. #GroundhogDay #PunxsutawneyPhil

Heute in den USA (links). Vor 100 Jahren in Deutschland (rechts).

Spoiler alert: The giant loses Cartoon by Shields

I love this. Fight the fire: Spoiler alert: The giant loses open.substack.com/pub/fightthe...

Risk of maternal death during pregnancy greatly underestimated, study finds A new study comparing deaths of pregnant people and of those who have an abortion show that risk of death due to pregnancy is three times higher than previously estimated.

"Our new analysis shows that it is far more dangerous to be pregnant than to have an abortion, and this gap in mortality risk is even larger than previously recognized.” - lead study author Maria Steenland.
In fact, the mortality risk of pregnancy is 44 to 70 times higher than from abortion.

Debbie Green (@debsgreen08) on Threads For all the wonderful Minnesotians, the amazing Marsh family from here in Kent have adapted a song for you, Renee and Alex.

www.threads.com/@debsgreen08...

Northern Lights over Greenland.

In his back.

Explainer: The latest science on ocean acidification In 2025, scientists warned the ‘planetary boundary’ for ocean acidification had been crossed. This is what that means and why it matters

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“If Minnesota falls, everything falls. We’re done as a nation.”

Fury. Grief. Anguish. Locals on the frontlines of Trump’s attack on Minneapolis are speaking out following the killing of another one of their neighbors. We’re on the ground with @samveep.bsky.social tracking the aftermath.

Definiere: #Faschismus.

Definiere: Was tun wir eigentlich gegen #Faschismus in Deutschland?

(via Marty Two Bulls auf FooKBooK ---->

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Clergy are raising holy hell about ICE Standing outside of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s office, one clergy member said, “the blood of Renée Good is on his hands.”

Over 2,000 clergy members from around the country signed onto a letter to Congress, demanding an investigation into the killing of Renée Nicole Good in Minneapolis.

Standing outside of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s office, one clergy member said, “the blood of Renée Good is on his hands.”

Is there a way to stop Trump from taking over Greenland? Yes. But it relies on Congress to act.

@davidcorn.bsky.social spoke with @@gomez.house.gov to talk about his new bill, which if passed, would stop the flow of federal funds to do anything like coerce, purchase, or invade the country.

"We Shall Always March Ahead" #StreetArt #mural in #Atlanta

(L to R) Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Martin Luther King, Coretta King, John Lewis

#Artist: Muhammad Yungai

#CivilRights #CivilRightsMural #art #CivilRightsArt #murals

Black protest marchers proceed down Fifth Avenue in 1917, dressed in white, led by drummers.

A flag reading “Love” flies next to a golden statue of General Sherman

People chanted “Shame” when we got to the Trump abomination on Fifth Ave.

Colorful signs abounded, like this one that says, “We wanted Huddled Masses, not Hooded Assses"

Today’s march took the same Fifth Ave route as the 1917 anti-lynching Silent Parade, one of the first American civil rights protests. Both started at 59th, by General Sherman’s statue, and headed downtown. For more on the Silent Parade: hyperallergic.com/naacp-silent...