Great Blue Heron contemplating the dawn at Rodeo Lagoon #Marin #California #GGNRA 🪶
retired teacher/middle school counselor. I live by a river! Enjoying is my favorite word. I enjoy Yoga for Stiff People, picking the grandsons up at school every afternoon, volunteering at a public school, coffee in bed served by my husband, 50 yrs!
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Great Blue Heron contemplating the dawn at Rodeo Lagoon #Marin #California #GGNRA 🪶
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Laura Knight, British (1877-1970), Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring, 1943, oil on canvas, 86 x 100 cm, The Imperial War Museum Collection, London, UK
Why is someone in a tennis shirt always near him?
Yes!
Ty @sarahgies.bsky.social The world will cheer, then get back to work taking out the trash. @dcombes.bsky.social @mila8768.bsky.social @freddierose.bsky.social @williammcgrath.bsky.social @mariaurea.bsky.social @kitkatkitty.bsky.social @victinibcn.bsky.social @prescott-from-nek.bsky.social
None of you who suddenly feel emboldened to blast your bigotry in everyone’s faces, have presidential immunity. The internet is not anonymous nor inconspicuous. People will find you. If millionaire CEOs face consequences for adultry and stealing hats from kids at baseball games, then so can you.
JUST IN: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, reports that all of the migrant children have been returned to ORR custody.
True Statement! Anyone else? #Pinks #ProudBlue
Me, as a kid.
"Trump is Unfit and Unwell: It's Time For the 25th Amendment" @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and I believe questions of Trump's Presidential fitness, succession, and Democracy can no longer be ignored. We bring the receipts to make our case. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Pretty amazing point in history: we have an administration in place that we distrust so thoroughly that we assume we might not be told if the head of state were to die.
R E S I S T A N C E
Happy Labor Day to all. Throwback of Kamala Harris uplifting union member speech in Detroit last year to celebrate. 💙 ✊ 💙
Labor Day in San Francisco: fantastic day for a massive protest! The streets are packed and the general mood is awesome! 😎
Bluesky is now among and often *the* highest referer to @motherjones.com. That’s traffic that has been additive. Only Twitter has dipped btw, the rest as fairly steady state (and instagram impressions and video views on all platforms up enormously.)
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Because Republicans. Let's take out the trash.
🚨Let’s hear it for Columbus, Ohio! 🚨
This is, of course, false. The United States exported $83 billion in goods and services to India last year alone.
WE DID IT!!! 82 hours. 201,701 steps. Countless stories and supporters along the way. I’m proud, I’m sore, and I’m more certain than ever: Pennsylvanians won’t stop until we #FundTransit.
#USDemocracy NEW: Veterans have been BLASTING a speech from General Milley for over TEN HOURS to the National Guard: “We don’t take an oath to a king, queen, tyrant, or wannabe dictator. We take an oath to the Constitution – America – and we’re willing to die to protect it.” 🇺🇸💪
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Happy Labor Day! #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory
BREAKING Congressman Jerry Nadler will not be seeking re-election. This opens up a very prominent seat — Nadler represents a big chunk of Manhattan. Full Story: bit.ly/3JAv88W
Good never mattered.
The sun has set, and the long weekend is over. Back to work and back to school tomorrow ...
That's a rat mindset.
ICE has been going into communities where they’re not wanted and removing people who are wanted. That’s not how freedom or democracy works.
REPUBLICAN @repthomasmassie & DEMOCRAT @rokhanna.bsky.social are holding a bipartisan news conference on Wednesday with 10 victims of Epstein demanding the House vote on the files Speaker Johnson has been avoiding. www.foxnews.com/politics/kha...
📢 TEXAS WORKER WIN: Food service workers at Meta in Austin just voted to unionize with UNITE HERE Local 23! (@unitehere.org) These workers are coming together for respect, job security, and guaranteed raises and benefits. Welcome to the labor movement, y’all!
Don't tell me, there's a special rule for him. right?
“NO BOSSES. NO SCRIPTS. JUST TRUTH — RACHEL MADDOW’S ROGUE NEWSROOM HAS ARRIVED 🎤⚡” It came quietly… then hit like a bomb. Maddow, Colbert, and Reid have launched a news experiment unlike anything we’ve seen — and it’s already shaking the foundations of cable media. Their promise? Honest reporting
CHICAGO IS IN THE STREETS! #LaborDay #DefendHigherEd #WorkersOverBillionaires
📌NOTE: Apparently, our legacy national media suddenly have other things to do than report on the failing health of the greatest threat to America since the Civil War — which is odd when all we heard about for two years leading up to the 2024 election was Joe Biden’s age and fitness for office ...
18K US Doctors Signed Quickly! Remove RFK Jr because he endangers lives. More are signing every minute!
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
“Frayed collar workers in gold plated times.” 30 years ago I issued a stark warning about the health of America’s working class. Watch and tell me what you think. https://youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw?feature=shared
They loaded up those planes with children - some as young as 10. I don’t believe they had a safe place to go in Guatemala. And the government did not care. This admin is the least compassionate of any in my lifetime.
It's official. The books that I wrote arrived. I am an author y'all. I AM AN AUTHOR. A childhood dream I never thought could happen is happening!!!!!! 🥹 In 15 days, #TheDoubleTax is coming to a doorstep, bookstore, and library near you. Please pre-order by 9/16: annagifty.com! #booksky #blacksky
A Garden in September Mary Hiester Reid c. 1894
🚨🚨🚨🚨 Chicago PD will not cooperate with ICE and federal agents. They will act to protect citizens of Chicago. They will not wear masks and will arrest people (ICE, etc) who assault and attempt to kidnap citizens. Mayor is signing executive orders as I type this!
On way home passed this depressed statue that stands for nothing under Trump.
Happy Labor Day! California is proud to be ranked the #1 state for workers. We’re leading the nation with strong wage standards, worker protections, and labor rights that make our communities, businesses, and families stronger.
We share this graph as often as we can. #UnionStrong
> @governor.ca.gov
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
We are already suing Ohio.
It’s not the immigrants. It’s the billionaires ruining our country. Stop buying into the divisionary tactics of the oligarchy. It’s time to take back our country and power of the people #LaborDay
Unions built this city and keep it running. They’ve fought against power and greed to make the impossible possible. Now, they need an ally in City Hall. On Labor Day, the presidents of the Hotel Trades Council, 32BJ and SEIU 1199 make the case at @cityandstateny.bsky.social.
Kräken's post inspired me to make a meme. Save & share because it should be seen broadly & made into bumper stickers, bridge signs & flyers. ICE is a fascist Gestapo-like secret police force with poorly trained goons that violate our rights & use maximum force to unconstitutionally abduct people.
Not today, Satan‼️ Got this garbage in the mail a few days ago. Republicans trying to trick California voters into voting NO on Prop 50. Suddenly they care about “democracy”? Please. Vote YES on Prop 50. Don’t let the cheaters write the rules.
Policing Has Always Been a Tool to Repress the Working Class flip.it/yU--tF
When I was an Amazon driver, holidays weren’t really holidays. Nobody gets paid holidays. If the holiday falls on a day that you’re regularly scheduled, you have to make up that day to get your regular weekly hours. Would it kill the company to give everyone real paid holidays? Happy Labor Day.
Your daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH. #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles
![DEFENDANT TRUMP TIED ME TO A BED, EXPOSED HIMSELF TO ME, AND THEN PROCEEDED TO FORCIBLY RAPE ME [AT AGE 13].... TRUMP THREATENED ME THAT, WERE I EVER TO REVEAL ANY OF THE DETAILS... MY FAMILY AND I WOULD BE PHYSICALLY HARMED IF NOT KILLED. KATIE JOHNSON](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3sdbof6be3apln2u62iu6ljn/bafkreigazw5wigt3dryrrmqtttfftdcao6xx6wmq4ey5tamlv4vntakn7m@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Joanna Connor🎸🎶'Walking Blues' #bluesmusic
🚨We🚨Must🚨Not🚨Allow🚨Brutalization🚨Of🚨Protesters🚨To🚨Be🚨Normalized!!!
agreed I'm only afraid that not enough elected Dems are willing to do what is necessary to protect our democracy, Two of the top Democrats Chuck Schumer & Hakeem Jeffries rather send letters to that fascist grifter ohh yehh Stern letters pathetic, Dems need to follow Newsom
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
Yellen: “The Fed has been structured by Congress in order to allow it to make independent decisions that are not influenced by politics….President Trump has made clear he wants the Fed to behave differently… His goals are not price stability and full employment.” www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
Fuckwits.
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
Fox News curiously unconcerned about the current sitting President’s health and mental state, as long as he is a Republican.
Today’s media certainly are not doing their jobs.
Finally
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No one needs to wonder any longer how nations morph into police states under the thumb of dictators determined to wreak vengeance and destroy the lives and livelihoods of millions. It happens gradually and then suddenly.
This 👇👇👇
Interesting that there’s so much chatter of a serious health decline just a few days before a press conference is scheduled on the Capitol steps with Epstein’s victims. Things that make you go hmmmm…..and he’s guilty af
While Legacy Media has moved on? We have not We are still waiting for DOJ to #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles Thanks to Democrats, there will finally be a chance for survivor's voices to be heard Be sure to follow Independent Media on Sept. 3 when they hold a News Conference #StoptheEpsteinTrumpCoverUp
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
"But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and porphyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that." ~ Edna Ferber #MagentaMonday #BloomScrolling #FlowerReport #Gardening #Zone10a
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
On #LaborDay, we recognize the workers who make so much of our everyday lives possible. And every day, we should have American workers' back by supporting their organized efforts to secure higher wages, good benefits, and safe & dignified workplaces.
This man is running for Senate. He supports Hamas. Don’t. Let. Him!
Victoria Wright, diagnosed with cherubism at age 4, overcame social stigma to become a leading activist for facial inclusion and rare disease awareness. Her story is a testament to resilience and unapologetic identity.
Early night for Sleepy Don. Not even any insults either.
⚡️ Russian-led CSTO starts drills in Belarus with nuclear planning practice. More than 2,000 troops from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan are taking part, with 450 units of equipment, nine aircraft, and over 70 drones involved.
Where is the mainsteam media? Anyone out there? Can you hear me???
Here "class members" is referring to 76 children who were loaded onto planes last night and were to be deported to Guatemala, unaccompanied and against their wishes.
In the last eight months not a single member of Congress has worked as hard as this judge has been working for the last 24 hours or so.
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
This is a huge success! To connect & break through the separations the system puts in place for its own benefit--that is a powerful positive outcome. Thank you @jolly_good_ginger & all the fierce proud patriots out there defending our country from this new threat. www.instagram.com/reel/DOCJFoe...
🇨🇦 Tom🍁📎 
