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All of this!
"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
I love a meme targeted for my demographic
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
Apparently this is the company that destroyed the East Wing…
Robert Smith does not mess around 🧡
For Trump, the cruelty is the point.
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
Painted artwork of a stylised female figure, a white woman as a queen with a crown and golden robes holding a red rose and surrounded by heart motifs, organic lines and a dashed border
Queen of Hearts, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of the Scottish Arts and Crafts Movement #womensart
If you celebrate the “under god” part of the Pledge - which was added over a half-century after its inception as a response to the “Red Scare,” - but ignore “liberty and justice for all,” I have to wonder, which god are you referring to?
Embroidery of sixteen different coloured and shaped toadstools on a reddisn background
Kimika Hara, contemporary Japanese embroidery artist #WomensArt
#September
Xenobia Bailey, US fine artist, designer and fibre artist known for her large scale crochet pieces and hats #WomensArt
Art is everything, our culture, our society, our very essence, it tells our stories.
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
Whether it’s freaking out about the new Cracker Barrel logo or some other bogeyman, remember this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.
“Ruefle, who is based in VT, has been making erasures, which she illustrates with collages, almost daily since 1998. Usually working on two pages a day, she has completed more than one hundred and twenty-five erasures to date, a selection of which are now on view through September 6 at Poets House”
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
This is more than concerning…how much more will it take for folks to wake up to what is happening? How are there still folks who are seemingly oblivious to all of this?
Umm, if a democrat were to do something like this all hell would break loose. Does this poor excuse for a human ever even work? It seems that he’s always on a vacation on the taxpayers dime. I’m tired of my taxes going for this mess and all the rest of their crap.
New Yorker posts unique multi-media story about an affirming single mom who fled US to support her 16 y/o trans child. Interestingly, she left Maine, one of the more supportive states so far. [no paywall]
Under pressure from the White House, the Smithsonian censored an exhibit that mentioned Trump’s impeachments, now inaccurately suggesting to visitors that he was never impeached at all (let alone twice). www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
A lot is happening with federal student debt at the moment. Here is some of our thoughts — and what we think you need to know.
Now that President Trump has signed Republicans' massive overhaul of the federal student loan program, we explain what's set to change.
Donald Trump's bill makes your life more expensive this year, next year, the year after that, and the year after that.
Lacemaking detail: pattern behind, with multicolored pins securing a weave of radiating threads from a central, multicolored floral pattern
"Today, the textile’s history is largely absent from [curricula] + ignored by labor + economic historians, tho [lace] 'embodies everything: gender, wealth, capitalism, colonialism... If you know how to read it, it can talk to us'"
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The first group of immigrants has arrived at a new “camp” deep in the Florida Everglades, where officials are openly describing it as “concentrating” certain people in one area. Have you seen the photos of the flooding? This entire site is a human rights violation.
Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July
They have neglected to mention financial aid forgiveness will no longer exist, along with only 2 ways to repay student loans. This may explain why the ability to recertify has been closed.
