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Black Lives Matter. Lived in London, Munich, & Fieberbrunn (Austria), now in North Carolina. Retired UNC Press. Episcopalian. Gardening, music, reading. she/her
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June is the month dedicated to celebrating Pride. We defend the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors every day of the year. Love is love is love is love. #AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen

European Jews on Ellis Island protest against their deportation to Germany, 1936

ICE dragged a mother off the street while she screamed “my kids are in school.”
 Trump has ordered 3,000 arrests every single day.
 This is what that looks like. Don’t look away.

He gets to load up on drugs, and Vets can’t even try weed without fear of losing benefits.

Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead

One of the most celebrated sitcom actresses of TV’s golden age. A committed animal-rights activist. A very kind woman. #RIP

Where are all the One World Government prophecy freaks and why aren’t they freaking out about Palantir compiling a master list of our data?

National Archives alert! 🧵 DOGE is planning to fire the Cartographic Section at the Archives in College Park. That staff is uniquely trained to manage and assist with visual media. Firing them will make it nearly impossible to gain access to critical maps and photographs. Examples include . . .

Well, that's a first. One of the endless ads that pop up on youtube was "Oprah" doing one of those "Pink Salt" spiels. But there's no way this is actually Oprah. Pretty sure this whole ad is AI. Hope Oprah's socials team is on this..

Bored? Anxious? Obsessed with the Weather Channel? Same here Watch 200+ meteorologists & climate scientists geek out for 100 hours straight. Weather drama, real facts, and budget cuts threatening their jobs. It’s like a science party you didn’t know you needed. 📺 www.youtube.com/live/xdtIKFt...

North Carolina’s Lawrence Academy has never reported Black enrollment higher than 3% in a county whose population hovers around 60% Black. It received $518,240 in vouchers in the 2023-2024 school year to fund 86 of its over 200 students. (Published Nov. 2024)

Same.

People may lose their jobs over this, but this live stream is important and will run all the way to the start of hurricane season. Support our scientists, drop in on the live stream, hit the subscribe button and maybe stick around a bit. Lots of ninteresting stuff! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcWR...

Treating a new Covid strain like a crime and not a public health issue is deranged.

At 1pm Eastern today, 200 scientists will be doing a 100 hour livestream about all of the ways that the administration, through DOGE, is endangering us, through the dismantling of the weather and climate science apparatuses. Let people know and tune in. You don't have to watch all 100 hours.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con... Remind Republicans in Congress that they eventually have to return to the communities theyve screwed over.

COVID-19 and Long COVID can affect people of all ages and cause long-term symptoms and organ damage, even if you are young and previously had no health conditions. Take steps to prevent Long COVID by preventing COVID-19. Learn more about Long COVID: www.cdc.gov/covid/long-t...

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Sadly I did not know this for the first 55 years of my life. They do not teach you this. This is absolutely true. And we should honor all of them this Memorial Day and always 

Veteran employees at #Lowes created this amazing tribute for #MemorialDay youtube.com/shorts/b7o0g...

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

Targeting a private educational institute because it won’t conform its governance and curriculum to what the state wants is…communist.

In Texas

@harvard.edu is offering an array of free classes, including many that discuss government structure, power checks, & constitutional foundation. An educated populace is a super weapon against fascism & tyranny. Grab some friends & sign up today. #AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen

Oh my! The writing here is exquisite. To capture moments and places and emotions so well takes rare talent. I've read Sarah's other superb works about politics and events, but this slice of real life simply breathes on a different scale.

A piece written by one of our coalition members. Our liberation, and our resistance, is tied up in each other. We will succeed if we remember this, as well as if we learn from those who came before us. Read a bit of American strike history: