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when it’s raining #poem #poetry #peace #laydownyourarms

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I finally deactivated Insta after leaving FB a couple years ago and I’m trying to move Whatsappers to Signal

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

This goes for #VotersAbroad too! You may still have time! If you've gotten your ballot, send it back, and if you haven't contact www.votefromabroad.org to see if you still can! #VOTE

#Ohio

They should be charged by governments, because heaven knows they’re not paying enough taxes

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/o...

VICTORY: After trying to avoid answering Qs under oath about why they banned books from school libraries — while demanding children impacted in our suit be deposed — Escambia county school board members must sit for depositions. Read more in @courthousenews.bsky.social: https://protdem.org/4slX9Do

#voteTalarico #TalaricoForTexas

turns out i can’t tell people i’m a granny as of friday without nearly crying cuz baby lives 7 hours away. but i can tell you lot 💔❤️‍🩹♥️

If Trump succeeds in handing Ukraine to Putin on a plate, he will hand Europe to Putin on a plate. Do European leaders realise how serious this is? It's existential.

Well done, France.

this is terrible news :(

I have a flight radar habit since Feb 28th when missiles were aimed at my kid-dult and his wife in the ME. I live in Greater London. Seeing this kind of #helicopter here is not a good sign.

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/o...

ink yourself #poem #poetry

this horrific man is a threat to the entire planet he should never have been allowed to run a second time he has brought shame on a nation that once strove for democracy he has rendered that nation an autocracy and should be removed from office

I hate what my home country has become, & I'm beyond thankful to be able to live legally elsewhere, in a country that has ended the barbaric practice of the #DeathPenalty. Any parent, & a gov't is essentially a sort of parent, knows you should lead by example. #Shame #EndTheDeathPenalty #StopKilling

The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o... this article addresses concerns I have too, as the law continues to be considered in the UK

upright #poem #poetry #writtenbyahuman #aging #ageing

Every student deserves to feel safe at school. I’ll fight like hell to protect them in the U.S. Senate.

The Chilean Puya are flowering in the Sheffield botanical Gardens. You almost have to know they are there to spot them as the bright blue flowers are hidden by a mass of serrated leaves. #bloomscrolling

#paris

#Paris

Talk is cheap. The patent office doesn’t lie. Walmart's CEO swears they won't use surveillance pricing on its shoppers. But its own patent applications tell a different story: Walmart is building an arsenal of new technologies designed to squeeze consumers.

ballot box #poetry #poem #vote #votesforwomen #ballotbox #votehimout #madebyhuman

People Say They Want to Die at Home. I Think About It Differently. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/s... long ago we taught our cat to scratch at the kitchen window to be let in through the bathroom window (2nd floor apartment in #vermont). once it was a raccoon waiting. 😮

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We demand Wilber’s immediate release so he can receive emergency medical care and recover safely with his family. ICE must be held accountable for this violence.

aeon.co/essays/when-... love the #neuroscience of #poetry in this

There is something very sinister going on in Sweden after the very tight elections, where anonymous social media accounts systematically spread stories about widespread cheating. www.dn.se/sverige/efte...

orwell knew it would happen

pollyanna #poem #poetry

big glasses #poem #poetry

It’s Time to Cry Wolf Over A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...

Join THE LIBRARIANS and Penguin Random House this Wed, Sept 23 6pm at the MLK Jr Memorial Library in D.C. for a FREE screening & conversation. A post-screening panel will follow. Join us for this impactful event in our nation's capital - register today: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-librar...

The Kennedy Centre was a gift from the world 3700 tons of white marble from Italy tapestries by Matisse woven by the ancient des Gobelins factory in France silk stage curtains woven by Japan Orrefors glass lighting and chandeliers from Sweden Not paid for by the US, gifted by us to honour JFK

The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.

#RejoinEU #Sign

for good measure #poetry #poem #madebyhuman

When our military has needed more recruits, immigrants have always answered the call to serve. Deporting their family members is a slap in the face to these servicemembers who are willing to defend our country in uniform.