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Retired elementary educator, birder, nature photography 💜NYC🐦‍⬛ 🌳
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Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.

AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together

The president who gave a blanket pardon to those convicted of violent crimes related to the Jan 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol labeled those protesting at Tesla dealerships “domestic terrorists” and promised that his government would make sure they “go through hell.” What an anticonstitutional jerk!

The Grifter-In-Chief is using the White House as a backdrop for a Tesla commercial to help boost Elon’s failing company. This is corruption in broad daylight.

He was always a used car salesman at heart.

My heart is broken 💔 www.instagram.com/p/DGd4TlfP6-...

Democratic leaders: I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working. Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.

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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

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Ketchup On Walls Alert: HIGH

One Georgia educator pushes back against book bans with little free libraries and diverse literature

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

I spent four years investigating these sorts of claims. Children aren’t being taught they’re inherently victims or oppressors. Teachers aren’t leading kids to change genders. Instead these claims are used as a pretext to sanitize history curricula and impose conservative Christian ideas in schools

When Will Democrats Wake Up and Finally Fight Back Against MAGA? Instead of moving to the center, courting Liz Cheney, and welcoming bipartisanship, Democrats need to learn from grassroots movements in France and Brazil and fight back with a winning message. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

These attacks on trans people are fucked up. Pure malevolence. Won't stop with trans people either. I worry too many Dems will be quiet or muted. Fearing they don't have 'right' words to engage, they'll be quiet. There's no magic messaging here though. At minimum, be firm and sincere.

On day one Trump's EO said we were harmful to kids. On day two, it said we were dishonorable and disloyal. On day three, it said we were unAmerican. Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries. We are not going anywhere. Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.

That time arrived a long while ago. The question now is whether Democratic leaders fully understand and will act accordingly.

We’re going to hear a lot more of THIS over the next four years. #Trumpflation

MAGA doesn't understand that our allies won't take kindly to being held hostage by Trump's tyranny. They will seek other economic and security partners. Unfortunately, that will most likely mean China and Russia. All of this is going to be a disaster.

Something I’ve learned over the years: Just because you don’t see it happen on social media doesn’t mean it’s not happening. In fact, some of the best community building I’ve seen *has* to happen offline so strategies can get fine-tuned and aligned. We’ll need to grant more grace in the now.

Leave trans people alone.

Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI Amazon Boeing Brown-Forman Caterpillar Ford Harley-Davidson John Deere Lowe’s Molson Coors McDonald’s Meta Nissan Stanley Black & Decker Target Tractor Supply Toyota Walmart Support who supports you ✨✊

“An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in recorded history in the United States”

Such a sweet little face 📸🪶

Please, please I beg you: In your coverage of immigration raids at schools especially: ensure your reporting does not put these same vulnerable communities at risk through your photographs and videos. They’re going to use those same images to identify people.

Getting an email from our superintendent today that they will protect our district's 182k students from ICE raids is equal parts disgusting and heartbreaking.

Exhausted yet? It’s been three full days since Donald Trump returned to the Presidency and he’s already drowning us in outrages. Susan B. Glasser breaks down the Week One distractions, late-night devilry, executive overreach, and the Administration’s infighting.

So, does the “make America great again” part come after all of the embarrassing as fuck, screw the planet, public health is for pussies, billionaire taint licking, government selling, yay racism, yay sexism, yay beat the police, dystopian hellscape stuff? Just checking.

We should be clear that the language in the anti “DEI” executive order and the subsequent letter sent to federal employees to turn in colleagues who try to “disguise” DEI under other names means hires and promotions of Black and other POC will be deemed suspicious. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

~1,660 Afghans cleared by US Govt to resettle in USA are now banned because Trump suspended the refugee program. This ban includes family members of active duty US military & is just one of his hundreds of horrific Executive Orders. I detail the worst ones here: www.qasimrashid.com/p/trump-sign...

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Don't EVER tell me you "back the blue" again, you seditious felon. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Egg prices are projected to rise by as much as 20% during Trump’s first year in office, despite him claiming that he will “bring prices down.”

Just a reminder that neither 45 and M attended Biden’s inauguration. Good for Michelle. I wish more would follow

Outrageous!

House GOP have developed a bill that gives child predators and pedophiles the ability to ask little girls about their bodies and ask for physical inspections. All of this to try and ban trans people from sports! It’s disgusting. Parents don’t want this.

Here’s a version that I found printed in Germany around a decade ago, ahead of its time. . .

They also have poor reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

The fact that no news channel is discussing the kidnapping of the venezuela oppositions son, but Trump and Greenland is all over, just means it will be four years of the same BS trap

Why are we ignoring the Fourteenth Amendment-Section 3? #NeverForgetJanuary6th

RIP 🙁

a special shoutout to everyone who "works with computers" and therefore is required to fix the electronics of their entire extended family over the holidays

People who've never been dependent on a paycheck should not get to decide how long you can go without yours.

"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened." —Nikki Giovanni 💔 #poem #poems #poetry

Three cheers for New Jersey! apnews.com/article/new-...