Madie

What to do this weekend, including the Great Baltimore Lantern Parade and horror films

Sometimes an Onion headline is all I need to make my day.

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

“If your concern for women disappears the moment accountability becomes socially inconvenient, then protection was never the principle to begin with. Performance was.”

I feel you, Daniel L

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)

A tribute thousands of miles from New York that gave me CHILLS. New Zealand firefighters performed a haka honoring the 343 FDNY firefighters lost on 9/11. ♥️ #SheShed

I hope everyone has been following Count Binface, who just won 26% of the vote in Clacton vs Nigel Farage's 63%.

Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac...

A Baltimore mom created a fully outdoor preschool for kids who love nature as much as hers do

This Baltimore club created its own universal basic income

There's so much destruction right now. Of course you can't fix everything yourself. But you can focus on one thing, find some like-minded people, and make a real difference.

Climate change/planet burning in one photo last night in NJ. (The party is asking us not to believe our eyes, noses, or lungs.)

Precisely the kind of reflection Elon is incapable of.

These are wonderful one minute stories of Americans, each narrated by a different person. I watch them on youtube, where I follow Heather Cox Richardson, the creator.

It's so easy to support people! If this isn't your kind of art, subscribe and don't turn on notifications. Chronic illness is so hard.

This is important. “More than 100 retired NASA astronauts have banded together to form a new nonpartisan organization…its members “believe deeply in the principles that have propelled our nation for 250 years,” such as the rule of law, checks and balances and the peaceful transition of power.”

NEW: Raskin, w/ 50 House Dem co-sponsors, formally introduces a bill which would create a commission to assess Trump's fitness for office under the 25th Amendment. Bill text here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Story TK

Wow, that’s gorgeous.

I like this No kings rally sign

Michael de Adder, Globe and Mail (Toronto)

From now on this is the only other way I will travel

TMZ, folks.

Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes.

🇮🇷 Iran masterfully trolls Trump… 😈

Good morning, BlueSky

We’re proud to support WHO Europe on this vital project tackling myths and misinformation about Long Covid #LongCovid #LongCovidAwareness #HealthInformation www.who.int/europe/event/myth-busters--debunking-long-covid-myths-and-misconceptions

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Minnesota today:

What we are seeing in Minnesota is what authoritarianism looks like in real time. Racism, dehumanization, and state-sanctioned violence are tearing at the foundation of this country.

The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:

Best thing I've seen today!

I love and admire Ben for many reasons, and one of them is how perfectly he is able to distill the pathetic-ness of the right and instill hope and solidarity in everyone else around him. Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...

been awhile since I felt a literal chill down my spine but this honestly scared the shit out of me

MacKenzie Scott gives $50M to Bowie State, marking her 3rd major gift to Maryland HBCUs