I’m mindful today of those for whom this is their first Thanksgiving without a loved one. I’m praying for a measure of peace and the comfort of beautiful memories.

Remember that you don’t have to post your first reaction and Bluesky is forever even if you delete

BREAKING: Workers at Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks just won their union elections.

They are the first national parks to unionize in several years.

Beloved calendula
Before processing 🏵️
I will dry it then make salves and oil.
What do you like to make with calendula?
#Calendula
#Strawflower #salves

Idaho is radical militia territory

This is domestic terrorism

Idaho firefighters shot at while responding to blaze, governor says reut.rs/4luxIL7

I’m going to make the understatement of the last several years here but: we really need to do more public literacy on what propaganda looks like and how it works

As Audre Lorde told us, “Your silence will not protect you.” The Center for Journalism & Democracy is hosting an evening of powerful dialogue about our eroding democratic and press freedoms with a powerhouse slate of speakers. Information is the currency of freedom. Join us.

Arizona court permanently blocks 15-week abortion ban

The ruling marks a victory for abortion rights months after a ballot measure added protections to the state constitution www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

People who say the U.S. has never had gulags or programs are, once again, erasing Black people from American history.

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

Honoring the brave Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde
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🔥 Sending solidarity to all the seniors & disabled folks trying to survive #LAFires #LAFirestorm2025

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Thinking a lot about Jimmy Carter, born a white, rural man in 1924 in a strictly apartheid Georgia and how he became a champion for racial justice and human rights, demonstrating once again that racism, xenophobia, crass and selfish individualism, are always a choice.

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.

Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

First post. I’ll keep it simple… Here’s Lulu. One of the best kitten cats in the world.
All heart, means business.
#proofofcat #blueskycats #cat #catlover #pet