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i am: a Poet, a married Lesbian & a grown up kid who: laughs loudly, talks too much & stops to assist strangers; enjoys tacos, pie & coffee. i strive: to listen well & love authentically. i promise: to fight for your right to live...to live fully in peace.
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Every decision we each make to act or not, to stand up or not, to protect or not, to advocate or not --- ripples thru history...
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Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper.
July 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper.
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The Trump administration has a pattern of erasing women from public service. Ask yourself why.
July 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The Trump administration has a pattern of erasing women from public service. Ask yourself why.
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The people who lost children and other loved ones in the Texas floods are owed honest answers from officials. They should be told why flash flood warnings issued hours earlier were not conveyed to people in the path of the water. They don’t need more prayers from politicians. They need answers.
July 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The people who lost children and other loved ones in the Texas floods are owed honest answers from officials. They should be told why flash flood warnings issued hours earlier were not conveyed to people in the path of the water. They don’t need more prayers from politicians. They need answers.
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Under Trump, ICE and border patrol are targeting and detaining Indigenous peoples. This piece doesn’t just tell a story. It challenges how we talk about borders, citizenship, and belonging.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com/trump-noem-m...
thinkbigpicture.substack.com/trump-noem-m...
No One Is Illegal On Stolen Land—ICE Versus the Indigenous in MAGA's America
Where would they send us?
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Under Trump, ICE and border patrol are targeting and detaining Indigenous peoples. This piece doesn’t just tell a story. It challenges how we talk about borders, citizenship, and belonging.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com/trump-noem-m...
thinkbigpicture.substack.com/trump-noem-m...
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Today proves that Republicans were serious about one promise: to cut taxes for the wealthy. All the rest was bullshit.
July 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Today proves that Republicans were serious about one promise: to cut taxes for the wealthy. All the rest was bullshit.
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Republicans in the House just cheered as they voted to kick 17 million people off their health care.
July 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Republicans in the House just cheered as they voted to kick 17 million people off their health care.
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Lunacy. They just funded Trump’s private army.
July 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Lunacy. They just funded Trump’s private army.
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The House passed President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration bill in a 218-214 vote Thursday.
Here's how every lawmaker voted, including previously skeptical Republicans.
Here's how every lawmaker voted, including previously skeptical Republicans.
How every House member voted on Trump’s big tax bill
See how every lawmaker voted.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The House passed President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration bill in a 218-214 vote Thursday.
Here's how every lawmaker voted, including previously skeptical Republicans.
Here's how every lawmaker voted, including previously skeptical Republicans.
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"This case highlights the significant threat posed to U.S. citizens by frequent ICE errors, which are exacerbated when local law enforcement agencies participate in immigration enforcement...”
www.bet.com/article/6rdn...
www.bet.com/article/6rdn...
He Was Born in Philly and They Tried to Deport Him to Jamaica
A Florida sheriff ignored proof of Peter Sean Brown’s U.S. citizenship and held him for ICE anyway. A federal court just ruled it was a blatant violation of his Fourth Amendment rights.
www.bet.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"This case highlights the significant threat posed to U.S. citizens by frequent ICE errors, which are exacerbated when local law enforcement agencies participate in immigration enforcement...”
www.bet.com/article/6rdn...
www.bet.com/article/6rdn...
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June 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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“The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else."
Beautiful statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman.
Beautiful statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman.
June 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else."
Beautiful statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman.
Beautiful statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman.
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EXCLU: Sen. Bernie Sanders wants an investigation of Health Secretary RFK Jr.’s recent decision to fire all 17 members of the nation’s top vaccine advisory committee.
via @margaretmanto.bsky.social
www.notus.org/health-scien...
via @margaretmanto.bsky.social
www.notus.org/health-scien...
Sen. Bernie Sanders Wants an Investigation of RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Firings
Sanders, the ranking member of the Senate Health Committee, made the request of Sen. Bill Cassidy, the committee chair, in a letter obtained by NOTUS.
www.notus.org
June 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
EXCLU: Sen. Bernie Sanders wants an investigation of Health Secretary RFK Jr.’s recent decision to fire all 17 members of the nation’s top vaccine advisory committee.
via @margaretmanto.bsky.social
www.notus.org/health-scien...
via @margaretmanto.bsky.social
www.notus.org/health-scien...
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If only Christian charity were as easy as accessorizing.
May 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
If only Christian charity were as easy as accessorizing.
May 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Nooooooo!!!!! She's the best!!!!
May 9, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Nooooooo!!!!! She's the best!!!!
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Brilliant!
Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media.
Great job Harvard!👏👏👏
Great job Harvard!👏👏👏
May 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Brilliant!
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On Wednesday I'll be in Boston interviewing Rachel Maddow at the Orpheum Theater. This is the first stop on the book tour for the paperback edition of Prequel, her excellent book on the history of US fascism in the 1930s and 40s. If you're in the area, come join us. www.msnbc.com/prequel
PREQUEL: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow
Inspired by her research for Ultra, in "PREQUEL: An American Fight Against Fascism," Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American Democracy back to WWII.
www.msnbc.com
May 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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My wife and I just talked yesterday of the work so many people- like Del & Phyllis in the picture below- did over the decades that lets us live now not in secret from our neighbors, but embraced. It’s a debt that can only be paid forward.
“Seventy years ago, the first lesbian rights organization in the U.S. was founded. It was called the Daughters of Bilitis, and it endured into the 1970s. The group may not have lasted long, but its influence has.” Fascinating, informative and inspirational read! www.advocate.com/news/all-abo...
All about the Daughters of Bilitis, the first U.S. lesbian rights group
The organization was founded 70 years ago, and its influence is felt to this day.
www.advocate.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My wife and I just talked yesterday of the work so many people- like Del & Phyllis in the picture below- did over the decades that lets us live now not in secret from our neighbors, but embraced. It’s a debt that can only be paid forward.
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Travel gets branded as an achievement: see interesting places, have interesting experiences, become interesting people. Is that what it really is?
The Case Against Travel
It turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best.
www.newyorker.com
May 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Travel gets branded as an achievement: see interesting places, have interesting experiences, become interesting people. Is that what it really is?
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BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda.
Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.
I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.
Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.
I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.
April 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda.
Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.
I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.
Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.
I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.
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Kenya’s Sharon Lokedi won a thrilling battle over compatriot and two-time defending champion Hellen Obiri at the Boston Marathon, smashing the course record in the process. cnn.it/4jI8isE
April 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Kenya’s Sharon Lokedi won a thrilling battle over compatriot and two-time defending champion Hellen Obiri at the Boston Marathon, smashing the course record in the process. cnn.it/4jI8isE
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Co-sign.
Good time to subscribe to Wired. I used to think of it as a guilty pleasure at the newsstand, a holdover from nerdy youth. But they are doing an excellent job covering key elements of our political reality.
ICYMI, DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
April 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Co-sign.
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DHL: "Effective Monday, April 21st, 2025, and until further notice, we will temporarily suspend the collection and shipping of business-to-consumer (B2C) shipments to private individuals in the United States where the declared customs value exceeds USD 800."
April 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
DHL: "Effective Monday, April 21st, 2025, and until further notice, we will temporarily suspend the collection and shipping of business-to-consumer (B2C) shipments to private individuals in the United States where the declared customs value exceeds USD 800."
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These five iconic sapphic shows officially prove lesbian TV peaked in the early '00s
#LesbianVisibilityWeek #LVW25
#LesbianVisibilityWeek #LVW25
5 sapphic shows that prove lesbian TV peaked in the early '00s
This Lesbian Visibility Week, we've decided it's high time that we give some much needed visibility to these iconic early '00s TV shows
www.thepinknews.com
April 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
These five iconic sapphic shows officially prove lesbian TV peaked in the early '00s
#LesbianVisibilityWeek #LVW25
#LesbianVisibilityWeek #LVW25