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Doing what I can, with what I have, where I am at. Transforming vacant commercial space into artist studios, galleries and artisan markets. Focused on building a world I want to live in. PhantomGalleriesLA.com, SpaceintheGap.com
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Really not good www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

Close to 90% of the vitamin C in North America comes from China. That’s just ONE vitamin. These tariffs will harm and kill disabled people, many of whom can’t just stop using a specific medication, supplement or medical supply. We can’t ration or “be more frugal” about life sustaining treatment

CNN will host a town hall with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Wednesday, April 9 at 9p ET: cnn.it/43Jw0jC

you know what the interior of affordable housing looks like in switzerland? it looks better than market rate housing in the US. espazium.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/files/styles...

The precedent set here is the end of Congress, which I don't think Congress will even notice

this is the most thorough article you'll read tonight on Wisconsin.

The Trump administration announced plans to expand drilling in the Arctic, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Interior Department stated it would begin steps to open the entire 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of the refuge to oil and gas exploration.

Generations of dedicated public servants have, unseen by the general public, done all kinds of extraordinary things that benefit all of us—like preserving the genetic diversity of crop species that sustain humanity. Musk is blindly slashing it all. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

NEW: AOC in Vegas. Major challenge to Dem leadership🔥 “If you’re willing to fight for someone you don’t know, you’re welcome here. But I will say this: Those leaders on either side of aisle willing to put their fellow Americans down so they can get ahead; they may best find a home somewhere else.”

New: A NOAA lab in Hawaii that is connected to the longest-running observation of global greenhouse gas concentrations is slated for closure in August, according to a list of lease terminations Democratic members of Congress shared with @washingtonpost.com.

Starlink at the White House complex — and the messy way its installation began — is obviously fascinating. But I think it's also worth scrutinizing why federal workers at GSA are being offered the X app as one of their only approved "news" options.

📢 SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, April 5. Together with progressive partners, we’re planning a massive mobilization in the streets to translate the anger with Trump’s power grab into a nationwide show of defiance. Find a Hands Off! event near you or plan one: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...

CNN: A new poll gives us a sense of who Democrats and Democratic leaning voters think best aligns with the party's core values. And that's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Walz: There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA.

BREAKING: The Continuing Resolution cloture motion has passed 62-38, advancing the CR to a final vote. These are the Democrats who voted to invoke cloture:

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.

If we enter a shutdown, Congressional Republicans would weaponize their majorities to cherry-pick which parts of government to reopen.

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

This 👇

2024 was the hottest year on record 📈 TV news coverage of climate change decreased by 25% 📉 #EndClimateSilence

Let the kids drink sewage water and breathe polluted air to make the 1% richer. This is the GOP way. E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...

This affidavit, filed by a former Social Security employee in one of the DOGE cases, reveals a shocking exposure of personal info to DOGE operatives & possible compromise of parts of the system. Everyone should read this. Start at para 9. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What California needs now is a little bit of hope and a whole lot of grit. That's why I'm running for Governor. katieporter.com