pemica 🌲🌎🇫🇮🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪📎

This morning dazzled us with its sunbeams; if only for a few minutes. The golden sun rising over the distant horizon broke through the grey and white clouds. The city buildings of Marseille have yet to come out of the darkness.

“The sun is not only a painter but a sculptor.”
- Florence Nightingale.

#photography

So Many Amendments Should Have Already Been Made To Our Constitution….

Here is a list of reported conditions at the Florida Everglades immigration “camp”. These reports come directly from detainees and their loved ones.

If there’s nothing to hide, why hide everything?

Five Democratic state legislators were denied entry to Florida’s new immigration “detention center” deep in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”

No breaking news here - The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting New outbreaks of gun violence in Philadelphia are usually met with a flurry of local news reports delivering preliminary information provided by police sources. Our research indicates that this report...

We are following this morning's news, we care deeply about those affected and we work hard to prevent violence but we do not report on individual incidents. Here's why:

A photo of Watterson at his drawing table.

A panel of Calvin and Hobbes riding their radio flyer red wagon.

Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958.

Welcome to the USA of 2025, where condemning genocide is deemed antisemitism and can get you deported, but building concentration camps and calling bankers ‘Shylocks’ doesn’t get condemned by the news media at all.

Ringo Starr June 24 1967

the #Beatles

STEP ONE: Reform the Democratic party with new leadership and make way for a new generation of leaders free from billionaire control.

STEP TWO: Take America back from the fascists.

The United States tried presidents who were smart, decent, and capable of empathy, but decided it wasn’t for them. It just didn’t reflect them.

Telephone

“No, sweetie, there’s no plan to fix anything because the plan is to destroy everything.”

People seen standing at carrs hill, residence of uva president

Jim Ryan is seen outside carrs hill

The protest has moved to carrs hill, the residence of uva president Jim Ryan, who just stepped outside.

Statement by Jim Ryan

"I cannot make a unilateral decision to fight the federal government in order to save my own job" - UVA President Jim Ryan bluevirginia.us/2025/06/uva-...

Kudos to Jim Ryan for a terrific tenure as the President of UVA. Again, this is not normal. We should all be alarmed.

thinking about our colleagues today at UVA.

solidarity from chapel hill and carrboro.

Told a reporter we will need collective action in the days ahead at UVA and that the reality is, it will likely require the famous alums stepping up. They don't care about a lil Black girl from the 757. But people like Katie will matter more.

There’s profound meaning when a top southern public university like UVA is open & willing to understand the past in all its complexity, good & bad, race (& “DEI”) included

I got my M.A. & Ph.D at UVA, & admired the range & breadth of its embrace of complex history

Unlike the current administration

“I am inclined to fight for what I believe in, and I believe deeply in this University. But I cannot make a unilateral decision to fight the federal government in order to save my own job.”

A statement from University of Virginia President Jim Ryan, on his decision to resign: