Island sunset 🌊🌊

TODAY: Folks in Texas are protesting the Dilley ICE detention center, demanding the Trump administration shut it down.

Signs read: NO KIDS IN CAGES.

Giant snapping turtle rescued on Lake Michigan beach A giant snapping turtle is going viral across West Michigan after he was brought to a local sanctuary last week.

I would like to sincerely apologize for rolling this 33 pounder around in my waves.
Cheers big guy 🌊🌊
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There may not be a show of force by ICE in the streets but they are still upending and ruining lives.

If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here

he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor

and still, they threw him out

and you know what? they did it by voting

don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring

It is morning, and again
I am the lucky person to be in it

Mary Oliver

🎨 Kaoru Yamada

ICE just released new detention statistics. First update in about 2 months.

As of April 4, 2026, ICE was detaining 60,311 people across the United States.

www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

Wisconsin law concerning student IDs used to vote are bad.

They can be worse. See NH and IN.

We can do better.

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for Defiance (aka Never F**king Surrender) I have been hesitating to hit send on this one, because across the world we are all under the shadow of Trump's threat to commit war crimes that will "eradicate a whole civilization" in Iran while Ira...

Claims we have no power to impact what happens are nevertheless an intervention in what will happen, by discouraging participation, by encouraging passivity, surrender, acquiescence. If you insist that a given outcome is inevitable, you are lobbying against resistance.

We didn't deserve this day.

#NoKings from the arctic in Utqiaġvik, Alaska the northernmost city in the entire USA!

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly

(@ wildheartrescue on TT)

“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”

- U.S. Constitution
8th Amendment

Love the photos and this story.

what if reality wasn't shared in the slightest

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Father Knows Best Daniel Berrigan’s spiritual radicalism – Charlotte Shane

So happy to have read this essay by @charoshane.bsky.social about Daniel Berrigan. This is how you write about a complex person.

www.bookforum.com/print/3203/f...

“The only message I have to the world is: We are not allowed to kill innocent people. We are not allowed to be complicit in murder. We are not allowed to be silent while preparations for mass murder proceed in our name, with our money, secretly.”

"nobody is doing anything" remains a lie meant to soothe the person saying the words. It's not true. YOU may not be doing anything but a lot of people are.

Yes — “The older I get, the more I realize, I don’t want a busy life. I want a deep life. Slow mornings. Focused work. Calm people. Meaningful progress. Good books. A quiet mind at night. Nothing flashy. Nothing trendy. Just a life that feels good to live. Depth over noise. That'll do.“ Karun Pal

Without election committee, Wisconsin Senate drags its feet on election bills The Assembly has moved most election bills this session, while the Senate — which now lacks a dedicated elections committee — has let most of them stall.

At a recent WisPolitics event, Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said the absence of a Senate elections committee this session hasn't slowed down voting legislation.

But a Votebeat analysis shows the Senate lags far behind the Assembly on voting bills

www.votebeat.org/wisconsin/20...

How Black Studies departments are being dismantled at American colleges. A new report in the Chronicle of Higher Education shows how Black Studies departments around the country have been kneecapped by a multi-pronged conservative strategy to halt the study of race at A…

“A new report in the Chronicle of Higher Education shows how Black Studies departments around the country have been kneecapped by a multi-pronged conservative strategy to halt the study of race at American schools.”

This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame.

13,000 third country deportees so far. Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier, but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.

Playing "not real" (Christians / Jews / whoever) when you see people of your own community behaving in ways that are horrific and shameful

is a way of preserving the story of your own innocence and how you're the good guy

and not complicit

or responsible

or culpable to show up and do something

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Wrongfully Deported More Than 100 Asylum Seekers BALTIMORE—In surprise testimony in federal court Thursday, an immigration officer revealed that...

BALTIMORE—In surprise testimony in federal court Thursday, an immigration officer revealed that more than 100 asylum seekers were wrongfully deported in violation of a court-ordered settlement agreement in a long-running case that has gotten national attention.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

So many women have these stories. So many of the women who raised us and loved us into being, so many of the women we have loved or admired or wished to learn from. So many women we never knew to love or admire or learn from because they were pulled under and abandoned. So many women.

Journalist Estefany Rodríguez free from ICE custody on bond - Nashville Banner Nashville journalist Estefany Rodríguez, in ICE custody for more than two weeks, is released on bond. Her legal battle for freedom continues.

Nashville reporter Estefany Rodríguez is free

Students were arrested at the Krome ICE concentration camp after protesting ICE. History shows that when young people organize themselves, power structures begin to shift. This moment follows that pattern and we will likely only see more young people step up in the future!