If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
“Hands off our democracy!” Portland, Oregon came together challenging tyranny!
#NoKings #Oregon #HandsOff
@educate.motivate.evolve
The scale of the rally in Portland is MASSIVE.
Simultaneously crossing the Morrison and Hawthorne Bridges in one long parade of democracy.
Tens of thousands of people. #NoKings
Portland, Oregon
#NoKings
No King in Portland, OR!!!! Thousands here! @indivisible.org #NoKings #PDX
The Girl With The Cat Earring
Bridget Hangs Out With The Hunters In The Snow
Bridget Meets The Beatles On Abbey Road
Bridget Does Edward Hopper
THREAD. When my parents' cat Bridget went missing, my dad, to try to ease his worry, painted her on a variety of historical ventures. Soon, these numbered in the dozens.
After much nagging, my dad has had some postcards printed of this brilliant series: michaelcoxmoredaysthansausages.bigcartel.com
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
#RightsForAll
Openly cried on the plane watching Butterfly in the Sky and then Sing Sing. 💖🌟⭐️💫⭐️🌟
I needed these reminders of the good in the world.
Americans are going hungry under Trump. Food banks across the country — already strained by deep cuts to locally grown food programs — the U.S. Department of Agriculture is canceling $500 million in expected food deliveries, further disrupting aid as demand continues to grow.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.
Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK
By "Led By Donkeys"
“Everyone is welcome sign” must come down from classroom because not everyone agrees with that sentiment, Idaho teacher says she was told after being ordered to take down the sign.
Unfortunately it was writing this about Trump and it went so viral that he saw it and, I'm told, was actually upset about it.
This is huge!!!
If you are a Southern California person upset about @schumer.senate.gov ‘s craven betrayal of our country, the theatre his book tour will be at on 3/23 is the Moss Theatre.
Their phone number is 310-828-5582
ICE illegally arrested and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent resident, for his political advocacy.
Take action to free Mahmoud NOW.
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this
New from me: A school district in Pennsylvania voted against adding a Black author's book about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre to the curriculum. Then, the community decided to do something about it.
The rage you are feeling comes from the same place inside your heart as the love. This is why you refuse to accept a world where cruelty reigns and the fire consumes all. You have known hope and joy and kindness like you have known water. And justice is a river that demands you do not give up on it. - Nikita Gill
A few people have shared this here today, so I thought I’d post it.
Understand what's happening. MAGAs are gutting: •Medicaid—which 60M Americans rely on to survive •SNAP—which 40M Americans rely on to eat •School Lunch—which 30M kids rely on daily •Housing Assistance—which 5 million families rely on to live ALL to cut $4.5T in taxes for 800 billionaires BARBARIC
Inequality has been slowly creeping into America for 45 years, but 2025 will show an explosion of intentional and wide-out-in-the-open greed.
Unless enough Americans wake up and band together to stop it.
The back-and-forth came in the middle of the president’s remarks welcoming the nation’s governors to the White House. As he was speaking about an executive order he signed earlier this month on transgender athletes, he sought out Mills in the room after singling her out a day earlier in remarks to the Republican Governors Association. “Is Maine here, the governor of Maine?” he asked. “I’m here,” she replied. “Are you not going to comply with it?” he asked. “I’m complying with state and federal laws,” Mills replied. Trump responded, “We are the federal law.” He again threatened the state’s federal funding and said Maine may be a Democratic state but its residents largely agree with him on this issue. “We’re going to follow the law,” she said. “You’d better comply,” Trump warned. “Otherwise, you’re not getting any federal funding.” “We’ll see you in court,” the governor replied. “Good, I’ll see you in court. I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one,” Trump said. “And enjoy your life after governor because I don’t think you’ll be in elected politics.”
Maine Governor Janet Mills stands up to Trump in a room full of reporters.
Officials must keep showing people Trump is a weak tyrant. We need to show defiance collectively, because like all bullies, with pushback he will snap & break.
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Wise man in a sweater in his home library 📚 contemplating: I don't know what word in the English language --I can't find one-- applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly stuffed pockets. The word 'evil' doesn't even begin to approach it. ~Noam Chomsky
Wise man…
How do you mean?
I hang out with a lot of queer people in Portland. I am queer. So maybe it’s not common in straight or non-ally demographics here, but it is not uncommon. I have heard it plenty. But thank you for saying you’re not hanging out in the same circles. That clarifies it.
Chestfeeding is a term not uncommonly used in Portland, OR. We are very non-binary here.
Here is my Federal Employment Termination story:
Stephen. Remind people that they’re not helpless
Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand.
#resist
