Tonight: Join National Interfaith Leaders to Pray for America
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Blue dot in Red State. Nature lover, reader, wisdom seeker. Lover of all things related to love, empathy, compassion and "woo". AF brat who also went to school on an Army and Coast Guard base. My ancestors fought for our freedom before 1776.
Tonight: Join National Interfaith Leaders to Pray for America
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Some might say, hacking billboards is noble work. π
The wholesale murder of people in international waters, without due process, is a crime.
If left unchecked, it will lead to more such crimes.
This is how things work.
Letting them get away with it is the same as giving them permission to keep doing it.
Footage shows severe flooding in Indonesiaβs Aceh province as the death toll continues to rise.
So true, I have been in a long standing chronic depression, I went to a creativity retreat in late September & have been creating almost every day since. It silences the voices in my head. It helps me to bring down my physical pain a notch when I am involved with painting, sketching, writing, etc.
If someone is unwilling or unable to really understand what we're doing w/ our trauma recovery, our job might be coming to terms w/ the fact that we're just not going to be especially close to them as we carve out our new life.
Not everyone can understand or handle Recovery Us.
The big daily task for many trauma survivors that goes unacknowledged by others in their sphere is how to realistically manage thoughts & feelings, while coping w/ physical fatigue, pain, & other limitations not even their own health care providers adequately understand or treat.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/w...
#poetry #poems #poet #poetrycommunity
So true - some books have had their Appendix removed and their index fingered.
Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Fair is fair.
Just gives you the warm and cozies, doesn't it?
I am embarrassed and ashamed of my country. Why would you need to tie up a small child?
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Greta Thunberg in Greece:
I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.
Sena Polat
Global Sumud Flotilla activist Sena Polat refused to sign a document stating βI entered Israel without permission, I accept to be deported,β and therefore has not been released.
Sena Polat has started a hunger strike in the prison where she is being held unlawfully.
Cease fire?? Really? Don't trust the press.
#BREAKING | The Dutch Global Sumud Flotilla Members are finally home.
#CeasefireNow
Thank you!!!!
Dozens of activists detained aboard the Gaza aid flotilla have arrived home in Spain, Portugal, and Tunisia to cheering crowds.
They described mistreatment in Israeli prisons and accused authorities of blocking access to consular assistance, allegations that Israel denies.
#BREAKING | Hind Khoudary reports that there are still artillery bombardments, air strikes and quadcopter attacks across Gaza.
π¬π· Israel has deported 171 activists from the Gaza aid flotilla, including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, to Greece and Slovakia. Supporters are gathering at Athens airport ahead of their arrival. The group includes 27 Greek activists. #Gaza #Athens #SumoudFlotilla
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