UPDATE: Despite ICE’s best efforts to keep her locked up, Nashville Noticias reporter Estefany Rodriquez is finally free on bond.
@pabloreports.bsky.social : “She leaves behind a legal fight that is far from over.”
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As long as you don’t need gas, groceries, affordable healthcare, retirement savings or constitutional rights, things aren’t so bad.
Why?
Um, no thanks.
“House Speaker Cameron Sexton said the legislation was written after months of close collaboration with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, a key architect of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.”
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Epstein
Venezuela
Greenland
Department of War
Gaza
ICE
Renee Good
[$]TRUMP
The East Wing
Gulf of America
January 6
E. Jean Carroll
34 convictions
Alien Enemies Act
Stephen Miller
US-Iran War
DOGE
The Trump Shutdown
Noem
Hegseth
+ 100s more
When does everyone decide it is enough
Maduro was a brutal ruler, it’s true. So is Putin—who Trump supports. So was Bolsonaro, who Trump supports. So was the drug-trafficking former head of Honduras, who Trump just pardoned. So is Nayib Bukele in El Salvador. MBS. Bibi.
Stop pretending Trump cares about illegitimacy or brutality.
It’s Election Day in TN 7th District. Already, 84,356 people have cast their ballots early. If you haven’t voted yet, please make a plan to do so today!
The best boy
Here's the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
It’s Erika Kirk and it’s gross.
Used to live close to here in Carrabelle. Love the area and its subtle beauty.
I wrote this protest song.
Beautiful! Where is this? It looks like St. George Island or some where near Apalachicola, Florida ❤️
“It is up to each of us to try. Those who say that an individual cannot do much are just making excuses.”
Sculpture of stylised vividly coloured plant with spotty blossoms sited in a gallery space
Yayoi Kusama, Flowers That Bloom at Midnight, 2009 #WomensArt
Prague
The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation
Vasily Kandinsky, Soft Pressure, 1931
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135931
Great album!
Goon squad
Český Krumlov, Czechia.
This is Finny. He doesn’t go chasing waterfalls. He carefully studies their timing and arrives in advance. 14/10 very impressive (TT: jordancain70)
Illustration of a fox facing right looking forward in a woodland with tall dark trees
Paula Mela, Finnish illustrator known for her fairytale-like works #WomensArt
Taos, New Mexico
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
I tell my students ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.
Toni Morrison
In 1900, nearly 1 in 5 children in America died before age five. Vaccines changed that.
But Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lies are fueling a public health catastrophe.
People will get sick. People will die. Science saves lives—misinformation kills.
This painting spoke to me.
William Copley, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
