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Lover of nature, ardent believer in equality for all people, healer, liberal leftie
#knitting #natural_dye #gardening #weaving
currently trapped inside due to the 907th severe weather alert of the year, so I decided to draw a comic about it
Rohingya youth long for a future beyond the barbed wire

As they mark six years of exodus in Bangladesh, young refugees demand a chance to take charge of their own futures.

Al Jazeera
Late Night Music Club: Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks

The hauntingly beautiful voice of Stevie Nicks joined with the southern twang of Tom Petty

Crooks and Liars

Several schools in Arkansas are defiantly teaching AP African American history. The state has warned them that the students will earn no credits.

Republicans continue to describe Black history as "indoctrination" and "teaching children to hate America" -- showing that they might benefit from the course themselves.

I have often wondered why Putin's attack on #Ukraine angers me so deeply.

Walking on the beaches of Lillebælt, I realized it is because of this:

To this day, we Danes still see the concrete fortifications left by the Nazis on our shores, because 1 fascist leader got the insane idea, he had the right to topple our democracy.

He had no right. All he had was the delusion he was somehow supreme to everyone else.

We stopped the fascist in 1945.

We will stop the fascist now.

This week Biden forgave federal student debt for 804,000 borrowers. A judge upheld the decision—proving yet again that Biden has authority to cancel student debt.

Furthermore—if we can bail out Wall Street with $10T & cancel $2.1T in billionaire taxes & cancel $800B in PPP loans—then we can cancel $1.7T in predatory student loans.

We've bailed out corporations and billionaires long enough. Let's elevate working people.

@QasimRashid

absolutely.

https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/110905789158988626

High time to unravel #Reagonomics and the assault on the American Dream through less and less access to college education.

"He had a name, if anyone had cared to ask

Norlan Bayardo Herrera is a 20-year-old Honduran who drowned in the Rio Grande as Greg #Abbott's torture barrier sends desperate refugees to unsafe areas

The humanity of those dying to come to America" #Texas

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...🧵

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/norlan-bayardo-honduran-drowned-rio-grande-20230817.html

The young Honduran drowned in Greg Abbott’s Texas had a name: Norlan Bayardo Herrera

We need to name the refugees needlessly killed by Texas' cruel border demagoguery.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
Notice that not one of Trump’s defenders in the GOP actually says he is innocent. They just say he is the victim of a politicized system. They are essentially saying that a guilty person shouldn’t be prosecuted when he’s a powerful politician. Who here thinks that’s crap?