The Zen Lady

@thezenlady@toot.community
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Twitter refugee & loving the Fediverse

Semi-retired in Tulsa, OK. I’ve been a mathematician, a geologist, a computer geek, a teacher, a caregiver, an artist and I still manage a little website business at www.zenlady.com. Currently enjoy volunteering at Tulsa Zoo and taking photos of nature and critters of all sorts.

Profile picture shows me with tiger Ava (we are separated by a thick pane of glass).

#nature #animals #photography #ClimateChange #geology #equality #liberal #HumanRights

A Texas attorney gave some free legal advice to an undocumented family. Then two law enforcement officers showed up at his door (cutting off his wi-fi prior to knocking on his door so no record on his front door camera!)

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courage-to-be-decent

The courage to be decent

The Trump administration wants to make us too afraid to look out for one another. Don't let them.

The Watch

The frustrating thing about history is: When you study it, you see it all happening again. When one day the grandchildren of the young adults in the U.S. today will ask "Why didn't you say something when they deported innocent people to camps in El Salvador?" I can already tell their answer today "I didn't know."

5/5

Trump's proposal to give money to women for having babies smacks of the Lebensborn program initiated by Heinrich Himmler of the Nazi SS during WW2.

Reporters would do well to look into this and see if the program is geared toward white women only or allies to the president. (No, I'm not joking)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn

Lebensborn - Wikipedia

Schools should adopt overty racist policies like this fuck is asking, then point directly at him when it goes south.

https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/walters-ok-schools-have-until-april-24-to-ban-dei-or-lose-federal-funding

Walters: OK schools have until April 24 to ban DEI or lose federal funding

According to Walters' office, as of April 18, 446 schools signed the letter and 96 have yet to respond to the request. Schools have until April 24 to sign.

2 News Oklahoma KJRH Tulsa

US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public

https://popular.info/p/us-citizen-wrongly-detained-by-border?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

U.S. citizen wrongly detained by Border Patrol says government account is false

Jose Hermosillo was held in a detention facility for undocumented immigrants for 10 days.

Popular Information

Last time I checked, it was a woman's choice to have a baby or not. Or between them and their partner.

Not a fucking psychopath president.

Whales in the sky! πŸ‹βœ¨ From the beach to the clouds at the 38th International Kite Festival in Berck-sur-Mer, France. Absolutely surreal!

I didn't know

When I learned about the holocaust as teenager in Germany, many people from the Nazi era were still alive and lived all around me. Being the curious person I always was, I asked them about what happened and their role in it.

"I didn't know" was the boilerplate answer. And as they were relatives and friends, I believed them at first.

Then in 1981 we got a new teacher for history and he exposed the lie. Or more precise: he got us exposing those lies.

1/5

Hello all. I'm Devin. I'm 26 years old. I'm blind. I'm autistic. RFK Junior has been spreading outright lies about autism in the eye of the public recently.
Now I understand my form of autism may be what some call "High functioning" which is in and of itself another whole debate to have, but primarily I'm focusing on the misinformation spread by a man of power, a man who has the ear of the president and is in the position of head of health and human services.
This man claims that it is environmental exposure that causes autism... as if suddenly at age two those with autism have a sudden sharp regression do to "Environmental factors." he's a well known antivax advocate... so you can draw your own conclusions as to what he means by, "environmental exposures."
This man claims, incorrectly, "These are kids who will never pay taxes, never hold a job, never play baseball, never write a poem, never go out on a date, and many of us will apparently never use a toilet unassisted."
I'm Devin. I'm 26 years old, Blind! and autistic. I have:
payed taxes, with sighted assistance.
I (currently!* hold a contract job at the texas school for the blind as a music and technology instructor*.
I have played baseball with the help of assistive devices with other blind individuals, (look up beep baseball.)
I write music for a living as I am a professional musician, and many will agree music is a poem set to a rhythm and notes.
I currently have a long term relationship... and I live alone, with the occasional help of an attendant, and I just got up off the toilet a few minutes ago after completing my business in a non-abnormal fassion.
This isn't about who you voted for. this isn't about politics. this is a hateful attack on those of us who just happen to think differently.
Please! Boost this for me and help stop the spread of hateful mis and dis information today.
I'm risking the Ire of the president just by writing this post, and he has already said he has no qualms about potentially deporting actually american born citizens to nightmare camps in El Salvador. I don't care. this isn't about politics at all. this is about me fighting for my right to exist as a disabled person!
#PleaseBoost

I need help identifying some bird feathers I found while hiking in the Sacramento mountains of southern New Mexico.

Are these turkey feathers? The color/sheen changes depending on the angle that the sun hits them.

#NewMexico #Bird #Mountains