Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:
- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on the Iran War.
"Spain's position at this juncture is clear and forceful. It is the same position we have maintained in Ukraine and also in Gaza.
No to the breaking of international law that protects us all, especially the most defenceless - the civilian population."
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
I'm attending No Kings's event, “Eyes on ICE: Document and Record” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
This is what police have been doing to black Americans since forever. Enough of the "this isn't who we are." You're now noticing because it's white people.
As the Trump administration dramatically reshapes the U.S. public education system, ProPublica’s reporters are investigating how these changes affect people across the country.
Help us track developments at schools and colleges in your area 👇
Feliz año 2026
The fact that my body hasn't figured out how to convert perseverating over things I cannot control into burned calories and muscle gained is a major lost opportunity.
Yesterday i went with my family to our town's Menorah lighting. Being in community with our neighbors in this way reminded me that even in the midst of such incredible darkness, there is still light. Here's to being light for one another.
I’m praying for all of the victims, their families, and the entire Brown University community as it grieves this horrific act of gun violence.
How many more tragedies, more lives lost, more grieving families, before we act?
We can and we must end our gun violence epidemic.
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
White Labrador retriever laying on a red dog bag in front of brick fireplace decorated with Christmas stockings.
Holiday doggo
Contando los días que faltan para estar con familia y amigos en Galicia
Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
What a game/series!
The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
Because we could all use more cute baby animal videos right now
The sun came out just in time for Miracle League baseball! Play ball!
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.
Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”
There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
Don't stop speaking out!
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
Blue sky with wispy clouds, snowy sledding hill lines by trees on either side.
Camp Wilmot (NH) youth winter Weekend. Sledding, games, art, vespers and fellowship, all in this beautiful setting.
I feel so much better about my upcoming travels (dripping with sarcasm)
Good on them, and Christ, that they have to say it…
