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A few hundred people rallied at the state Capitol to call for Minnesota to ban assault-style weapons after the Annunciation Church shooting. “How many children have to die in the state of Minnesota before our leaders act,” said Aaliyah Murray, a 20-year-old activist.
How wonderful! Isn’t 3 sets in one year quite a lot? Those raisins must be a little aphrodisiac maybe!
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Does Bert have a girlfriend bird? Just wondering.
Thank you.
Some Cornish medicine to soothe your scrolling. Rest well, my friends. 😊 #Cornwall #sunset #sky #sea #ocean #beach #nature #summer #calm #photography
I was amused and surprised at the reactions towards the blue wren pic I posted yesterday. Many hadn’t seen this little bird before. Posting a vid to show how quickly they move, making it challenging to capture them. They’re quite entertaining! 💙 #birds #nature #austbirds
Just beautiful, thank you!
Enjoy the relaxing sounds of Lake Ontario from our mid-hike break at Chimney Bluffs State Park during our Rainbow Hike earlier this month. #RainbowHikeCrewRoc
Trump is weaponizing federal power—and Democrats can stop it. With another funding deadline coming up, they’ve got to reject any Republican budget that fuels his chaos. indivisible.org/camp...
Stay out of Chicago! It ain’t your kind of town, you tyrant.
A message from a veteran who is participating in the sit-in at Union Station in Washington, D.C.
Two Finches at lunch today. Birdcam #birds
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states
The DC community is uniting to resist Trump’s militarization of their city.
When you’re foul, you’ve got bad taste.
Yes, unfortunately it's in our human genes to let others decide. I'll buy it from a different place than Amazon. I'm boycotting them...
Sending troops into US cities against their will. Strong-arming corporations and extracting gifts in exchange for tariff exemptions. Calling on state governments to gerrymander in his favor. Trump is the "big government" nightmare conservatives have always warned us about.
I replied, but seeing what is happening today, I would be wary of using an IRS platform. Somehow nothing permitted me to say that in the survey.
As Trump continues his authoritarian power grab by militarizing cities, your voice is critical. Contact your local leaders to demand protection of local autonomy and democratic rights. indivisible.org/camp...
🚨BREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislature’s gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6bLcqEP/ Everything started with Black people. That is all.
Something like that. Erdogan's place? Maybe even Gulagville. The problem is deeply ingrained and we didn't see how big it was getting till it was too late. We have to start developing underground railways with neighbouring democracies, like Canada and Mexico and start getting bulletproof vests.
I'm really worried about the longevity of this "takeover". Because after tRump is Vance and after him are all the mega billionaires who have bought out our democracy. My only hope is in the Buddhist precept : nothing is permanent. But I'm afraid we're gonna have to build up a lot of resistance.
BREAKING: MAGA Killer Mark Carney Announces $2B Aid Package For Kyiv, As He Kicks Off Canada/Europe-First Alliance Trip open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
F*ck‼️ Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.
8/23/25 #alaska #epa #oil #politics #conservation #publiclands #protectpubliclands #ProtectNature #nature #wildlife #dystopian #fdt #natureisindanger
He’s wanted to declare martial law from day one. Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant. Many have speculated how he’d do it. Now his gambit is clear. DC was a test. He’s using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities. This is not a drill. Democracy is at defcon 1.
Walked 15 miles from Kinloch Hourn to Inverie, and have a greater understanding of why the Romans never managed to conquer Scotland 😰
Hey military, National Guard, Federal law enforcement officers, & community police! First they came for your oath. Then they came for your honor. Is this what you were born for? Is this going to be your legacy?
No frickin way #allythepiper #piperally #freebird
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social] Mountains of smoking waste sprawl across the Dandora dump in Nairobi, Kenya. Among the refuse are remnants of fast-fashion - fabrics with synthetic fibers which fragment into microplastics laced with toxins which seep into soil, water and air.
We’re looking forward to gathering again on Labor Day. While billionaires convert the government into their private slush fund, we’re coming together to demand a country that puts workers first. Thousands of communities are taking a stand — find an event near you. #WorkersOverBillionaires
Got to see these little guys making their way into the ocean this morning! 🐢 #seaturtles #conservation #beach #nature #miamibeach
Stop him. Stop him. Stop him.
They have to do more than just talk about the abuse. They have to at least try to DO something about it. If they ever manage to get through the rigged election process again. Sorry about the pessimism, I fight it but sometimes it just gets out.
Let's hope!
Don't forget, but tRmp doesn't care about history...
Everything is weird and stupid and dangerous and like WTF. Why are there so many people going along with all of this? Truly crazy how many Americans have been manipulated to hold such un-American values.
Trump stripped 37 current and former national security officials of their security clearances, a group that included many who had focused on Russian activities and foreign interference in U.S. elections, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
#AmericaToday
They only want to seek and destroy ... democracy!
Again: this is not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
TRUMP IS NOT A HERO AND NEVER WILL BE. BEYOND DISRESPECTFUL TO THIS WHO FOUGHT & DIED TO DEFEND OUR COUNTRY
How will we ever get out of this mud-hole?
I live abroad and as a concerned American citizen I cannot make any donations to any political candidates. But somehow I can give to you, I do when I can. So I just hope you will help to regain democracy in my troubled homeland!
Bert has been ‘Anting’ Sitting in an ant colony & allowing them to crawl on him. A form of feather maintenance as the ants secret formic acid acting as a fungicide to control parasites & maintain plumage health The open mouth is because birds don’t sweat, they pant like dogs
In case you wondered, Trump's appointed BLS Commissioner is a Heritage Foundation trickle-down devotee. They really want you to think forty years of tax breaks for the rich has worked for you, and that the round of tax breaks they just passed is fixing things. Don't buy it.
Never, ever forget that they slashed billionaire taxes down to practically nothing and then let them make all their money in completely tax-free ways. And then they told you it would be "unfair" to raise taxes on the rich so we can pay for things like healthcare. Insane.
An owl with some attitude.
This new legislation would establish a clear line: In the US, we do not exile people for exercising their constitutional rights. We thank @ross.house.gov and @balint.house.gov for introducing this bill and standing firm in safeguarding our right to free speech, dissent, and political expression.
Hopefully!
This is A+ trolling
A temporary win! A federal judge in California has sided with a group of states, issuing an order that temporarily stops the Department of Health and Human Services from providing Medicaid recipient data to the Department of Homeland Security for immigration enforcement purposes.
Smart! A Raven doing Raven things.
What Trump is doing in DC isn't about “law and order.” If he cared about that, he wouldn’t have gutted DC’s ability to fund its own police force. This is about Trump playing king at the expense of DC's 700K residents. The American people must stand against this abuse of power.
CW: Sexual assault In multiple states, men have impersonated ICE agents to kidnap and assault women. This is one of many reasons we shouldn't have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Our elected officials can and must act now: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...
The FBI came to my house to intimidate me because I’m critical of Trump. And they wouldn’t let my girlfriend take a picture of their badges. They had printouts of my posts.
Let me repeat it! 👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏼👇🏽
Ethnic Cham fishers in Cambodia say they face repeated evictions from their floating homes, often timed with major events and justified as environmental protection. Experts warn that current policies risk erasing Cham culture and call for more equitable, historically informed solutions.
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal — and we as a nation are directly implicated in the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. In response, the United States must stop all military assistance to Israel. There's no moral clarity in wreaking vengeance on innocent people.
94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet. The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year. Something has gone terribly wrong.
They don’t even say he’s president! Why can’t we just elect someone else and get on with important actions for the planet ?
Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper.
A bacterial probiotic helped slow the spread of a deadly disease on great star coral, one of the largest and most resistant corals still surviving in the Florida Reef Tract, a 560-kilometer (350-mile) barrier reef off the coast of Florida, U.S., a recent study found.
As cowards at CBS and Columbia capitulate to Trump, this is the critical moment to build the opposition we need to fight back. It’s vital that we recruit, train and mobilize a critical mass of people now before Trump’s authoritarian regime fully consolidates power: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Merry #ThickTrunkDay y'all. 🌲🎶☕🌞 #SaveOurMother 🌎 #WestCoastKin 🌊🐳🌊 #NorthCoast 🌿🌲🐿️🌲🌿 #Nature 🐝🙏🦋
Sadly it’s the US that is becoming numbed and asleep.
Melania? Instead of JFK? Just pathetic!
The world breaks my heart every day in multiple ways, but also a bluebird alerted me to a barred owl this evening
That’s why he’s so busy trying to send everyone else there. Wish we could have a serious recount.
UnitedHealthcare is raising premiums for policyholders in New York and Washington after spending $9B on stock buybacks last year. Healthcare companies are robbing you blind to enrich their executives and shareholders. This is why we need Medicare for All.
This is another post breaking down our last post. The Justice Department’s decision to fire a judge-appointed U.S. Attorney and reinstate Trump’s preferred pick, without Senate confirmation, isn’t just unusual. It’s a direct attack on the separation of powers that defines American democracy.
Such treatment abases all of humanity, all of us, but that is certainly what ICE was created for.
Yes, it is important in difficult times to remain oneself. Keep the cap, feed your soul. Look at clouds, see the birds, watch tree branches against the sky. If you are lucky enough to live in a place where you can see the stars at night gaze deep past the ones you can almost see.
Throughout history, tyrants have understood that their major enemy is an educated public. Trump is no different. That’s why he’s trying to control not just what we do – but what we think. Watch: https://youtu.be/rEH7sF6pA4s?si=zC1tb0MqvpyTQNKC
Wow, I’d love to.
That’s why they had to cut health benefits. With the increasing risks of cancer (because the billionaires need the extra money) and climate complicating good health it would have cost way too much. After all we’re all gonna die right? Sooner or later? So why waste money on Medicaid?
ICE just got a 265% detention funding boost. Palantir software is being used to create the federal government’s first national citizenship data bank. The Trump regime is attacking naturalized citizens and birthright citizenship. Be warned — Trump’s police state is here.
Wise words
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🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🚨🚨🚨
While children are starving, the Trump Admin is literally setting food on fire — destroying 500 tons of US taxpayer-funded food that could feed 1.5 million starving children for a week. Destroying the food alone will cost $130K. This is heartless cruelty, not efficiency.
ICE is now the largest law enforcement agency in the country. Democratic governors, mayors, and lawmakers have the power to stop secret police tactics like abductions by masked ICE agents: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...
We don't see a ton of bipartisanship these days, but we saw it last week when my amendment demanding transparency into the Jeffrey Epstein investigations was approved UNANIMOUSLY by the Appropriations Committee. The verdict is in: Attorney General Pam Bondi must release the Epstein records NOW.
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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Americans rely on public radio for severe weather alerts and more. Senate Republicans want to gut public broadcasting to make room for their billionaire tax cuts, and the consequences could be deadly — especially in rural America. We must stop this bill.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the withdrawal of 2,000 National Guard members deployed to Los Angeles.
A win! The Senate has agreed to restore roughly $400 million in funding for PEPFAR, the landmark HIV/AIDS program launched under President Bush that’s credited with saving millions of lives around the world. Keep speaking up, it makes a difference.
While others are writing memoirs and playing it safe, Justice Jackson is writing history—one fearless dissent at a time.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com
"Questioning is the way of learning," Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.