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ThunderstormsandHoney
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asian-hapa🍍, disabled♿️👻, gardener🐝, professor📚, learner🤯, wife & mom🤱, Queer🌈, lover of liminality. Trying to #DoGood 💜

Mainly focused on Disability Rights
& Civil/Human Rights.

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ThunderstormsandHoney @stormsnhoney.bsky.social · Jul 28
@pelosi.house.gov I think you've forgotten how that bill and other #disability laws passed. We crawled up the Capitol to get your attention, we slept on floors occupying your offices for 25 days, we risked everything for a more inclusive future. And you let that bill pass with barely a whisper. #ADA
Black and White Image showing Disabled Protesters and their Allies occupying the HEW building in San Francisco during the 504 Sit-In Protest. Many of the Protesters are seen sitting in wheelchairs. They are all gathered in a circle around a central speaker/ASL signer who is communicating with the group. Over 500 ppl attended the first day of the protest, with approximately 150 Protesters occupying the building for 25 days. The protest ended when the Secretary for HEW, under President Johnson, signed the 504 regulations. A black and white image showing three people in wheelchairs- a man holding a "we shall overcome" sign, a woman with big hair and sunglasses and an "access is a civil right sign," and a young girl in a peace t shirt- and a tall, black man with a guide dog walk purposely on a street. Behind them, you can see a crowd of people following on foot, carrying signs, and using a variety of mobility devices. Over 600 Disabled and Allied Protestors assembled and convoyed toward the U.S. Capitol to demand the passage of the ADA by Congress and President George Bush, Sr. in 1990. Black and White Image of Disabled Protesters climbing the stairs of the Capitol during the Capitol Crawl Protest in 1990. Scores of the over 600 marchers got out of their wheelchairs and dropped their mobility devices in order to climb the marble steps. They climbed backwards or on their hands and knees, step-by-painstaking step. In the photo, taken low to the ground at the base of the staircase, a man close to the camera is crawling on his hands and knees. In one hand, he holds his crutches. All around the man, to the very top of the frame, you can see other climbers slowly making their way up. The camera's vertical perspective helps to illustrate how daunting the climb is when you have to crawl. Participants delivered copies of the Declaration of Independence to Congress as a reminder that ALL persons deserved life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The ADA was signed into law by George Bush, Sr., 6 months after the Capitol Crawl.
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newyorker.com
Mark Peterson’s black-and-white images of ICE agents evoke film noir and the urban-crime photography of the 1930s and ’40s. “If someone is doing everything right, and then they still get detained, it’s a crime scene,” he said.
ICE’s Spectacle of Intimidation
Immigrants showing up for court dates in Manhattan must now navigate past rows of masked federal agents.
www.newyorker.com
August 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
stormsnhoney.bsky.social
"Depart from me, you who are cursed... For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me." - Jesus
Image is a collage with two images. On the left, there is an image of the barracks at Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp where an estimated 1.1 million people were murdered. Each of the wooden bunk beds has 3 beds, but the space was often overcrowded. Incarcerated people also had limited or no access to water, toilets, and bathing sites; were underfed with poor-quality or spoiled food; and were exposed to many of the harsh environmental elements. Rats, lice, and contagious diseases were a constant problem. Prisoners were often abused by the guards. The image is labeled, "Then," with black text on a white backdrop. On the right, there is an image of the barracks at an ICE Detention Center in Florida, aka Aligator Alcatraz, which currently houses over 900 people in tent structures on an airstrip in the Everglades. Each of the bunk beds has 2 beds, but the space is described by lawmakers as overcrowded with over 30 people crammed into a single cage. Incarcerated people there report they have limited or no access to water, toilets, and bathing sites; are underfed with poor-quality, infested, or spoiled food; and are exposed to many of the harsh environmental elements such as rain, extreme heat, mosquitoes, vermin, and lice. Contagious disease spread is a problem and many people are getting sick. They also report being abused and beaten by guards. The image is labeled, "Now," with black text on a white backdrop. Image of the Auschwitz barracks is set next to text on a white backdrop. Behind both, is an image of Auschwitz prisoners in the barracks. Text states: "This is an image of the barracks at Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp where an estimated 1.1 million people were murdered. Each of the wooden bunk beds has 3 beds, but the space was often overcrowded. Incarcerated people also had limited or no access to water, toilets, and bathing sites; were underfed with poor-quality or spoiled food; and were exposed to many of the harsh environmental elements. Rats, lice, and contagious diseases were a constant problem. Prisoners were often abused by the guards." Image of the ICE Detention Center, Aligator Alcatraz barracks is set next to text on a white backdrop. Behind both, is another image of the barracks. Text States: "This is an image of the barracks at ICE's Aligator Alcatraz, which currently houses over 900 immigrants in temporary structures. Each of the bunk beds has 2 beds, and over 30 people are crammed into a single cage. Detainees say they have limited or no access to water, toilets, and bathing sites; are underfed with poor-quality, infested, or spoiled food; and are exposed to many of the harsh environmental elements such as rain, extreme heat, mosquitoes, vermin, and lice. Contagious disease spread is a problem and many people are getting sick. They also report being abused and beaten by guards."
August 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
stormsnhoney.bsky.social
Here are scripts for opposing the #Trump EO that seeks to forcibly institutionalize mentally ill and neurodiverse ppl, as well as imprison homeless ppl. Putting ppl in cages will NOT solve homelessness, make us safer, or help ppl get help. It's esp telling that the EO defunds data-backed solutions.
July 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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e-as-in-elk.bsky.social
Lots of heartbreaking stuff the past 6 yrs as covid denialism has fast tracked a resurgence of eugenics & a new era of fascism, but some of the worst of this has been watching ppl who've shaped my own political education & whom I look up to, refusing to engage w denialism or Disability Justice
July 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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stormsnhoney.bsky.social
My Fellow Disabled Folks. This is our legacy. We: Broke sidewalks to install curbs so we could leave their homes. Fought the Ugly Laws. Slept in dirty offices to get equal access. Crawled up marble to demand the ADA. We are powerful together, & we must fight the attacks on our right to exist freely.
Ed Roberts on the Berkeley Campus and at a protest. Roberts demanded to be able to attend Berkeley, opening up higher-ed to disabled people. He fought for disabled rights all his life, and even led a group of disabled vigilantes who smashed sidewalks and installed concrete ramps so people in wheelchairs, aka disabled students, could safely exit a sidewalk onto the street and get to places they needed to go without someone to lift them. Black and White image of Judy Heumann with Ed Roberts in the background. Judy is wearing a white shirt, dark sweater, and glasses. Her dark, straight hair is tucked behind her ears, and there are papers and a microphone on a table in front of her. Judy Heumann lost the ability to walk due to childhood polio. She spent her life breaking down barriers and fighting for disabled people. She, like Ed Roberts, was a pioneer for disabled students in higher ed. She was the first teacher in NY to use a wheelchair at work. She also organized the impressive 504 Sit-In protest. "She lobbied for legislation that eventually led to the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the Rehabilitation Act. She served as the assistant secretary of the U.S. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services, beginning in 1993 in the Clinton administration, until 2001. Heumann also was involved in passage of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was ratified in May 2008. She helped found the Berkley Center for Independent Living, the Independent Living Movement and the World Institute on Disability and served on the boards of several related organizations including the American Association of People with Disabilities, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Humanity and Inclusion and the United States International Council on Disability." (KVNU Memorial of her life)
July 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
stormsnhoney.bsky.social
I'm so grateful for my safe home, loving spouse, full fridge, & healthy kids. But it feels like I'm on a tightrope with no net. Below, the crying others who are just like me but had no tightrope or fell with a gust of unpredictable wind. I didn't earn my blessings; they don't deserve their suffering
July 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
stormsnhoney.bsky.social
@pelosi.house.gov I think you've forgotten how that bill and other #disability laws passed. We crawled up the Capitol to get your attention, we slept on floors occupying your offices for 25 days, we risked everything for a more inclusive future. And you let that bill pass with barely a whisper. #ADA
Black and White Image showing Disabled Protesters and their Allies occupying the HEW building in San Francisco during the 504 Sit-In Protest. Many of the Protesters are seen sitting in wheelchairs. They are all gathered in a circle around a central speaker/ASL signer who is communicating with the group. Over 500 ppl attended the first day of the protest, with approximately 150 Protesters occupying the building for 25 days. The protest ended when the Secretary for HEW, under President Johnson, signed the 504 regulations. A black and white image showing three people in wheelchairs- a man holding a "we shall overcome" sign, a woman with big hair and sunglasses and an "access is a civil right sign," and a young girl in a peace t shirt- and a tall, black man with a guide dog walk purposely on a street. Behind them, you can see a crowd of people following on foot, carrying signs, and using a variety of mobility devices. Over 600 Disabled and Allied Protestors assembled and convoyed toward the U.S. Capitol to demand the passage of the ADA by Congress and President George Bush, Sr. in 1990. Black and White Image of Disabled Protesters climbing the stairs of the Capitol during the Capitol Crawl Protest in 1990. Scores of the over 600 marchers got out of their wheelchairs and dropped their mobility devices in order to climb the marble steps. They climbed backwards or on their hands and knees, step-by-painstaking step. In the photo, taken low to the ground at the base of the staircase, a man close to the camera is crawling on his hands and knees. In one hand, he holds his crutches. All around the man, to the very top of the frame, you can see other climbers slowly making their way up. The camera's vertical perspective helps to illustrate how daunting the climb is when you have to crawl. Participants delivered copies of the Declaration of Independence to Congress as a reminder that ALL persons deserved life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The ADA was signed into law by George Bush, Sr., 6 months after the Capitol Crawl.
July 28, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
lol
Rasmus Jarlov on Twitter writes: "There is nothing to celebrate. Moving from average tariffs of less than 2% on trade between the USA and Europe to 15% under today’s deal will inevitably lead to inflation. Almost everything will become more expensive in both Europe and the USA, and we will all be worse off. The economic illiteracy in the White House is doing serious damage to the West." Stylish Skunk replies: "I have a feeling you have 0 idea what you're talking about. In fact I know you do." Rasmus Jarlov responds: "Of course. I am former minister of trade in Denmark and you are an anonymous Twitter profile. You probably know a lot more than me. For sure."
July 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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motherjones.com
One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The landlord gutting America’s hospitals
Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.
www.motherjones.com
July 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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cwebbonline.com
After Trump’s reality-free spectacle in Scotland:

“Wow. I’m not going to say any more words until my executive producer puts on the banner next to me, ‘that was bat poop crazy.’” — @velshi.com

Then he calmly fact-checks the lies.
July 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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achronicvoice.com
“If I earned enough at my various #jobs to pay rent and buy groceries, I made too much money to be eligible for #Medicaid. If I wasn’t #homeless and hungry, I was too rich for assistance.”: buff.ly/spMoDZg

by @2heartcore4u.bsky.social
#disability #NEisVoid
The Realities of Trying to Maintain Employment with a Disability - a Personal Perspective
Writer, poet, 2-time heart transplant recipient. Scars are tougher than skin. Trauma survivor. Sharing poetry along with stories of hope and healing. Currently writing a memoir, "Three-Hearted Girl."
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July 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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callingupjustice.bsky.social
Join the 60 hour Medicaid Vigil! callingupjustice.com/protect-medi...
Protect Medicaid Vigil - Calling Up Justice!
Calling Up Justice Presents: An Accessible Vigil Space for the Protect Medicaid VigilJuly 23–26, 2025 | Digital Encampment on GatherTown In solidarity with the 60-Hour Vigil for Medicaid, Calling Up J...
callingupjustice.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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cwebbonline.com
This is what you voted for⁉️

Detainees treated like violent criminals. Moved from cage to cage at 3 a.m. and sleep-deprived. Only 3 minutes to eat. Bathrooms three times a week. No towel to dry off after a shower and growing fungus on their bodies.

Listen to this once. Then listen to it again.
July 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
stormsnhoney.bsky.social
You know they won't stop with us. They use us to carve the path so anyone can be stripped of rights, liberty, & even life. Being gay was once a disability. So was being a female w/feelings (hysteria). They are trialing "Trump Derangement Syndrome" rn. Fight while you can. #DisabilityRights #disabled
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Jul 25
First it was your “patriotic duty” to be healthy

Then it was gutting food assistance and Medicaid

Then they said that the Medicaid recipients would replace immigrant workers on farms

Now an executive order criminalizing homelessness and mental disabilities so they can be jailed/institutionalized
July 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
stormsnhoney.bsky.social
There's a reason Mental Institutions are the setting of so many horror films. Patients were/are stripped of rights, experimented on, & murdered. #Trump brings that horror back w/his EO that seeks to criminalize homeless ppl & end protections stopping wrongfull commitments #DisabilityRights #disabled
National Disability Groups Condemn Executive Order Taking Away Civil Liberties - NDRN
What unhoused people with disabilities need is not more policing or confinement, but permanent affordable housing, access to mental health services, and the support to live with dignity in their commu...
www.ndrn.org
July 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
stormsnhoney.bsky.social
#Immigrants and #Migrant Workers are the backbone of our food supply chain. Already, #farm crops are dying in the field bc of a Trump-caused labor shortage. #Groceries will go up and, if this continues, we may have a full-blown food shortage. #Trump seems to have no plan to address the crisis.
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Graph showing percentage of immigrant workers in agriculture. Text states: "Immigrants make up 27% of agricultural workers nationwide. In some states, it's even higher: in California, foreign-born workers are nearly two-thirds of the agricultural workforce." 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞: July 2025 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛 article, "How Trump’s anti-immigrant policies could collapse the US food industry – visualized." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/17/how-many-immigrants-food-industry-workers Graph showing percentage of immigrant workers in agriculture and meat processing. Text states: And in Florida, they make up more than half of crop production workers. Immigrants comprise 33% of meat processing workers. 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞: July 2025 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛 article, "How Trump’s anti-immigrant policies could collapse the US food industry – visualized." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/17/how-many-immigrants-food-industry-workers Graph showing percentage of immigrant workers in agriculture. Text states: In Nebraska, they make up 58% of those workers - one in every four steaks consumed in the country come from the state. More than one-fifth of all truck transportation workers are immigrants. 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞: July 2025 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛 article, "How Trump’s anti-immigrant policies could collapse the US food industry – visualized." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/17/how-many-immigrants-food-industry-workers Graph showing percentage of immigrant workers in agriculture. Text states: "And there are 462,000 migrants working in grocery stores - or 15% of the workforce. Migrants also make up more than one-third of the workforce in commercial bakeries." 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞: July 2025 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛 article, "How Trump’s anti-immigrant policies could collapse the US food industry – visualized." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/17/how-many-immigrants-food-industry-workers
July 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
stormsnhoney.bsky.social
It's been a while but I'm back. Personal life stuff; plus I wanted to reflect on how to be productive with advocacy. I don't have answers but we must do more than post info. Today- I'm demanding Congress conduct oversight in Florida. Please help.
#AligatorAlcatraz #ConcentrationCamp #Florida
Image is a white background with black text from a CBS Article reporting on subhuman conditions in a remote, Florida detention center. The text states: "I'm on the edge of losing my mind. I've gone three days without taking my medicine," he said. "It's impossible to sleep with this white light that's on all day." "They took the Bible I had and they said here there is no right to religion. And my Bible is the one thing that keeps my faith, and now I'm losing my faith," he said. Unknown Detainee Quote, CBS Article, July 2025 https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/alligator-alcatraz-detainees-allege-inhumane-conditions-at-immigration-detention-center/ Image is a white background with black text from a CBS Article reporting on subhuman conditions in a remote, Florida detention center. The text states: "I am Leamsy La Figura. We've been here at Alcatraz since Friday. There's over 400 people here. There's no water to take a bath, it's been four days since I've taken a bath," he said. He claimed the food at the immigration facility is scarce and unsanitary. "They only brought a meal once a day and it had maggots. They never take off the lights for 24 hours. The mosquitoes are as big as elephants," La Figura said. Detainee La Figura Quote, CBS Article, July 2025 https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/alligator-alcatraz-detainees-allege-inhumane-conditions-at-immigration-detention-center/ Image is a white background with black text from a CBS Article reporting on subhuman conditions in a remote, Florida detention center. The text states: "They're not respecting our human rights," one man said during the same call. "We're human beings; we're not dogs. We're like rats in an experiment." "I don't know their motive for doing this, if it's a form of torture. A lot of us have our residency documents and we don't understand why we're here," he added. Unknown Detainee Quote, CBS Article, July 2025 https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/alligator-alcatraz-detainees-allege-inhumane-conditions-at-immigration-detention-center/
July 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
stormsnhoney.bsky.social
Send this to everyone. The whole world needs to know what is happening at the Florida detention camp. Ask them how these reports are different from journal entries from Alcatraz?
#AligatorAlcatraz #ConcentrationCamp
Image is a white background with black text from a CBS Article reporting on subhuman conditions in a remote, Florida detention center. The text states: "I'm on the edge of losing my mind. I've gone three days without taking my medicine," he said. "It's impossible to sleep with this white light that's on all day." "They took the Bible I had and they said here there is no right to religion. And my Bible is the one thing that keeps my faith, and now I'm losing my faith," he said. Unknown Detainee Quote, CBS Article, July 2025 https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/alligator-alcatraz-detainees-allege-inhumane-conditions-at-immigration-detention-center/ Image is a white background with black text from a CBS Article reporting on subhuman conditions in a remote, Florida detention center. The text states: "I am Leamsy La Figura. We've been here at Alcatraz since Friday. There's over 400 people here. There's no water to take a bath, it's been four days since I've taken a bath," he said. He claimed the food at the immigration facility is scarce and unsanitary. "They only brought a meal once a day and it had maggots. They never take off the lights for 24 hours. The mosquitoes are as big as elephants," La Figura said. Unknown Detainee Quote, CBS Article, July 2025 https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/alligator-alcatraz-detainees-allege-inhumane-conditions-at-immigration-detention-center/ Image is a white background with black text from a CBS Article reporting on subhuman conditions in a remote, Florida detention center. The text states: "They're not respecting our human rights," one man said during the same call. "We're human beings; we're not dogs. We're like rats in an experiment." "I don't know their motive for doing this, if it's a form of torture. A lot of us have our residency documents and we don't understand why we're here," he added. https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/alligator-alcatraz-detainees-allege-inhumane-conditions-at-immigration-detention-center/
July 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
stormsnhoney.bsky.social
Important info on research on Long Covid which still, FYI, is disabling ppl.
drseanmullen.bsky.social Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · Apr 21
179 experts. 28 countries. 1 message:

Long COVID is real, multi-systemic, and devastating. It affects over 400 million people. And we're not prepared.

New global consensus just dropped.

link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

🧵
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…
April 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
stormsnhoney.bsky.social
#MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy we are not a sacrifice for your national budget cuts
brianamillslmft.bsky.social Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · Apr 21
Disabled people have the right to exist even if we can’t work. To believe we don’t have that right is eugenics and ableism.
April 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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50501-mke.bsky.social
We will March.
May Day.
April 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
stormsnhoney.bsky.social
Quick Basic #History: The Alien and Sedition Acts, pushed through by John Adams, were very controversial then, leading to an arrested congressman. All of them lwere repealed except the #AlienEnemiesAct, last used to jail my family & other #Japanese ppl. We said it was wrong but we're doing it again.
Aerial view of the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas, November 17, 1942. My family was incarcerated here from Hawaii.
April 21, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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fleur-de-livres.bsky.social
Check your kids’ devices to make sure they’re not in a Signal chat with Pete Hegseth. Talk to them about the dangers of sharing national security secrets online.
April 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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nywolforg.bsky.social
A WH official confirmed today that President Trump plans to overhaul the Endangered Species Act to make it easier to build in the U.S. where endangered species live.

A proposed rule would eliminate habitat protections by changing the definition of "harm" to listed species.
Trump plans to make it easier to build in areas protected by Endangered Species Act, White House official says
President Trump plans to overhaul the Endangered Species Act, a White House official confirmed.
www.cbsnews.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
stormsnhoney.bsky.social
Fight for us now or suffer with us later. #Disabled ppl are fighting for your future. We are making sure your kid gets to have an #education. We are fighting so you have access to #healthcare, #jobs, #housing, and public spaces. Your quality of life is our battle. Stop getting in your own way.
bernadettehalt.bsky.social Burnt2Death @bernadettehalt.bsky.social · Apr 20
And keep this in mind: I'm not disabled... You're temporarily abled. Something will eventually take you down, and you will become #OneOfUs
April 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM