'Bodegón' 🎨 1996
María Moreno 👩🏻‍🎨

It’s okay to not want a robot in your house A defense of discernment in a world obsessed with optimization.

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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Man, people really don't transcribe field notes by lamplight like they used to!

It's a small act, but I just cancelled my Hulu subscription. I hope many others do the same!

Susan Collins shamed at ribbon cutting ceremony for not having held a town hall in 20 years.

I hope your community is never occupied like LA or DC. But if it is, you’ll quickly find that people don’t take kindly to having their city under federal control. And folks are just getting started.

📌 Protesters gathered near a checkpoint in the U Street corridor in Northwest Washington.

Rather than criminalizing homelessness, the much better policy would be to criminalize having three or four homes.

Now the Second (and Worse) Stage of Trump’s Police State It’s part of the Big Ugly Bill just signed into law, and it will be evident very soon.

1. Protect the vulnerable 2. Know your rights 3. Don't let them silence us

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Why do seagulls fly over the ocean? Because if they flew over the bay, they'd be bay gulls.
Geddit?
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Can’t make this up.

This is an overt cash bribe to a sitting president, and we’ve apparently sunk so far that nobody involved feels any shame or questions whether they’ll get away with it.

"It means tearing down the carceral state, not just for immigrants, but for everyone: Black and brown people, queer people, poor people. It means building a world where no one is disposable, no one is caged and no one is deported."

ICE came for Gratien Milandou-Wamba. That tells us everything. | Opinion The Cumberland County corrections officer was not protected by the system he served.

A very well written op ed in the Portland Press Herald. Worth a read.

"Our ultimate goal is collective liberation, which means our safety cannot come at others’ expense. It means rejecting the divide-and-conquer logic of the border and racism."

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Olivia Dean - Time YouTube video by OliviaDeanVEVO

This is a great music vid

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By the way, in case it wasn’t clear by now:

We aren’t “on the path to a fascist takover”.

This isn’t “a slow slide into authoritarianism”.

The regime isn’t “testing the bounds of legality”.

The fascism is here, and the regime is trampling all over the Constitution.

It’s up to all of us stop it.

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.

While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.

This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal."

That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

The Last Days of Gaza - Read by Eunice Wong The genocide is almost complete. When it is concluded it will not only have decimated the Palestinians, but will have exposed the moral bankruptcy of Western civilization.

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🗣️🗣️ LOUDER FOR THE BACK 🗣️🗣️

"How does it feel to get arrested at 87 years old?

He said "I'm just beginning!"

Campaigners mount coordinated protests across Europe against ‘touristification’ Thousands expected to march in a dozen cities against an industry they say is wrecking communities Campaigners in at least a dozen tourist hotspots across southern Europe have taken to the streets to protest against “touristification”. It is the most widespread joint action to date against what they see as the steady reshaping of their cities to meet the needs of tourists rather than those who live and work there. Continue reading...

Campaigners mount coordinated protests across Europe against ‘touristification’

I CANNOT WITH THE SONG.

Dystopian, indeed. The whole damned thing.

Ellsworth, Maine #No Kings

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PORTLANDERS!

Monument Square (11am) protestors will be marching at noon to join Indivisible Greater Portland, Indivisible Cumberland County, & Indivisible Southern Maine for their 12-1:30 feature-filled No Kings protest at Lincoln Park by the Courthouse.

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Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows reut.rs/3ZvxVoY

The Department of Homeland Security is lying. @padilla.senate.gov identified himself.

Urging everyone to go out and righteously and peacefully exercise your freedom of speech and assembly. That’s how we take back our country.