/5 To expand on Point Four: the enemies of democracy and freedom are not just hacks like Wurman and Barnett, it’s also the people who demand that we treat Wurman and Barnett as good-faith commentators because they talk in law review articles or NYT editorials. Call evil evil.
"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution
This is, quite literally, our collective duty.
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Green forest
Green is good 🌱
Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement.
Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime.
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Me wearing a t-shirt that says “God loves you. No exceptions.” above a rainbow Episcopal shield.
‘Nuf said. NO exceptions.⚓️
OK, I’m told the feds released Mayor Barka rather than holding him over the weekend on the pretext they couldn’t get him before a judge. I am pleasantly surprised, through I suspect the decision was made on a lower level and that the people who made it may suffer.
Intimidation.
That’s what it’s about.
Stage some shocking arrests of people with power.
Then let them go.
You’ve made your point:
The same thing could happen to anyone.
A few well-staged acts of violence are all it takes to intimidate people into compliance or silence.
This line is going to stick with me for a very long time.
“One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
The message on the white rose leaflets may as well have been written today for what is happening in the United States
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They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics.
Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
"The media can often reinforce the perception that the right speaks for all Christians when in reality, there are far more Christians who reject the right’s narrow and often toxic definition of the faith."
Picture of “The Green Book” written Victor H Green. Published to help black people travel safely from the 1930s through the 1960s.
🧵 Victor H. Green was a postal employee who, after moving to Harlem, New York, in the 1930’s, started compiling information on New York City establishments that safely served black travelers. In the introduction of the first 1936 edition, Green wrote, “There will be a day sometime…..
Storms are blowing in tonight and the birds are watchful while finches are singing. The Red- bellied Woodpecker is not as focused as the maple tree branch frame, but wait for their exit. 🪶🌿
#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 31
Bumblebees have to learn how to get nectar from flowers. They will usually visit the same flowers every day as long as they keep finding nectar and pollen.
This is called flower or #pollinator constancy.
#bees
#bumblebees
#nature
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Jef Bourgeau, American (1950- ), Blue Birch Woods at Murphy's Pond, 2024, print on coldpress watercolor paper, image: 18 x 18 in, sheet: 24 x 24 in
30,000,045 to be exact!
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A poster reading "Build a wall of resistance—don't talk to ICE" with a drawing showing a line of houses slamming their doors at the approach of a man who can be identified as a heartless and despicable mercenary by the letters "I.C.E." emblazoned on his jacket.
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death;
I am not on his payroll.
I will not tell him the whereabouts of my friends
nor of my enemies either.
I will not map him the route to any man’s door.
Am I a spy in the land of the living,
that I should deliver men to Death?
-St. Vincent Millay
Not to get all political on you but actually I do think you should be talking to people you know about this
Just got off the phone with a medical provider who accepts Medicaid. Because they are shut out from the Medicaid portal, they might not be able to make payroll. They exclusively serve low-income Floridians.
