Stephanie

@elphabablue
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Lover of animals, nature, good times with good friends, stories, and beautiful spaces.
@joyousjoyness Gorgeous work!

What we want to see in the ocean: healthy marine life 🐠🦈🪸
What we keep seeing in the ocean: plastic trash āŒ

We need to end plastic production NOW.

ā€œAcross the country, people are gathering in living rooms, churches, city parks and street corners to learn songs together — protest songs, spirituals, civil rights anthems and new compositions written in direct response to ICE raids and the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.ā€

#community is the only way forward.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/singing-as-resistance-protest-growing-movement_n_6a300a80e4b07679090e26b3?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

This Overlooked Form Of Resistance Is Growing Across America — And History Suggests It Works

The effects of the powerful strategy are not just emotional. They're also practical.

HuffPost

46% of adults struggled to afford healthcare in 2025... That was *before* insurance premiums skyrocketed in 2026.

We shouldn't be spending money on ballrooms, arches, UFC fights, wars that may or may not be wars, swimming pools, or putting names on things where they don't belong. We should be taking care of our healthcare problem.

https://stateline.org/2026/06/11/nearly-half-of-adults-struggled-to-afford-healthcare-last-year-survey-finds/

#USPol #HealthCare

Nearly half of adults struggled to afford healthcare last year, survey finds • Stateline

Forty-six percent of U.S. adults — regardless of insurance type — reported struggling to afford healthcare last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research think tank. The report analyzed findings from a December 2025 survey of 10,000 working-age adults across the nation.

Stateline

ā€œgIvE kIdS tHeIr cHiLdHoOd BaCkā€

so… you mean fund recreation centres and out of school activities? NO

sports clubs and increasingly walkable cities? HAHA NO

playgrounds, green spaces, skate parks, libraries, any non-commercial spaces where kids don’t have to pay to exist? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

oh… enforce realistic safety standards for urban SUVs and light trucks? WHAT HAS THAT EVEN GOT TO DO WITH THE PRICE OF EGGS?

so how exactly does one give kids their childhood back? BAN SNAPCHAT TIKTOK AND INSTAGRAM

oh… what about 4chan or stormfront or kiwifarms? DON’T BE OBTUSE WE CAN’T BAN THOSE HOW WOULD THAT EVEN WORK??!?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thewildnews/116751888990256105

The party that is all about the government staying out of an individual’s business surely does seem to be okay bossing the individual around when it lines their pocketbooks and pays back the oligarchs that put them in power.

RE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian_us_news/116751966066053319

Love this for them! Was lucky enough to be there in person when this happened 20 years ago. That winning energy is going to be wild in #raleighnc tonight and when the team returns home! #gocanes

With Kennedy Center setback, Trump is losing his war on "woke" national placards

The Trump administration must also reinstall park and monument signs it had censored on civil rights, slavery, and climate change.

Mother Jones
"Shutting down scientific inquiry because it discovers things you don’t like is a bit like turning off all the instruments on your plane because they warn you there’s a mountain ahead." www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2026/06/13/o... NSF NASA NOAA #wc #climate science #tech policy

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yw6wbtma6fynxiafh5v7j5sf/post/3mnqf2hyqhs2f


The White House’s top science ...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/116742893280142116

Posting this as I listen to the birds outside my window and wonder how they - and the rest of us - will fare when humans manage to ruin the night sky more than we already have.