Sometimes when you go check on the flowers you will find three monarch butterflies playing tag and then if you are patient one of them will let you take their picture.
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Choir, politics, equality, faith 🏳️🌈 You are beloved Elmhurst Grad ‘19 Harper Grad ‘16 (he/him/his)
I need to raise 80 dollars for my dogs ear antibiotics. It’s pretty urgent. My bank fees came out yesterday. If you can help my email is jamarmurphy1@gmail.com ⚓️ #MutualAid
The countdown is on. 80 days to flip the House and Senate, make America affordable, protect healthcare, and send a message. No more excuses. No more sitting this out. Organize. Vote. Win. #BlueWaveIn80Days
I also want to add that every single time ICE has physically hurt me, they have grabbed me by my chest. Most of my femme friends have said the same. I will not be surprised if / when we find out about twisted sexual assaults conducted by ICE agents with these gloves.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last wk.Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
The USAID thing will eventually be talked about like a genocide
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
We just need to pass the Yes In God's Backyard (YIGBY) housing bill in Illinois: "Senior apartment building’s 4-story height next to homes not ‘going to fly,’ Arlington Heights mayor says"
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I hope my #Minnesota friends vote for Peggy Flanagan today! If elected, she would be the first Indigenous Woman elected to the United States Senate!!!
@crusiusdaniel.bsky.social · 2w agoI hope my #Minnesota friends vote for Peggy Flanagan next week! If elected, she would be the first Indigenous Woman elected to the United States Senate!!!
I hope my #Minnesota friends vote for Peggy Flanagan next week! If elected, she would be the first Indigenous Woman elected to the United States Senate!!!
There is a player on the LA Queens, Brittany Apgar, who has a limb difference and traveled back to Illinois from receiving her first ever batting prosthetic *today* and is 3-for-3 in her first game playing with one. Incredibly cool.
Last night's primary in Michigan's #HD02 saw Joanna Whaley get closer to becoming Michigan's first ever openly transgender state legislator as she easily won her primary in this downriver district. She won by 22% over Frank Liberati, who tried to sue her off the ballot for not using her deadname.
1,200-1,500 women a year in the US die from domestic violence. Stop normalizing jokes about domestic violence.
This is awesome! Maybelle Blair pitched in the original Women’s Baseball League in the 1940’s . Here she is throwing out the ceremonial first pitch of the WPBL.
Wishing a peaceful Tisha B’Av to Jewish New Yorkers across the five boroughs. From sundown tonight until tomorrow, mourners will pause and reflect on the history and resiliency of the Jewish people. May all observing have a safe and meaningful fast.
Black Lives Matter and shouldn’t have to fear police violence
Sami Schalk@drsamischalk.bsky.social · last mo.Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
Does anyone realize that green energy and renewables would end any stranglehold on the world because of oil?
Winter mildness also in AUSTRALIA with records broken and rebroken Even a cold mountain like the Mt. Baw Baw in Victoria,which is usually snow capped,rose to +11.3C,a new record forJuly
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
Thank you, Erin Reed and S. Baum for covering Illinois!!!
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2mo agoIncredible news. Illinois Governor Pritzker has signed a law removing testosterone HRT from the PDMP program, a program other states can use to access people's prescription records across state lines. It will protect trans people in IL from places like TX. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Bison Return to Illinois Prairie to the Sounds of Drumming After 200 Years of Absence www.goodnewsnetwork.org/bison-return...
Bison Return to Illinois Prairie to the Sounds of Drumming After 200 Years of Absence
The 6 animals were released from a large trailer into a cattle enclosure to allow them to get used to the idea of the frozen prairie again.
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For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.
Can everyone just step back and realize how insane it is that the US Supreme Court had to rule on the constitutionality of the US CONSTITUTION and the vote to uphold the Constitution wasn't unanimous!!!
BREAKING: Governor DeSantis announced that "Alligator Alcatraz" has officially shut down. Through community pushback and litigation pressure, we the people successfully closed the chapter on this facility's dark record. But as people are moved to other facilities, accountability is still needed.
Happy Juneteenth, DC. Fannie Lou Hamer said it plainly, “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” Today is Juneteenth, a celebration marking the day the news of freedom finally reached enslaved people in Texas.
Happy Juneteenth! Back in 2018, Boston City Councilwoman Ayanna Pressley made history when she became the first Black woman ever elected to Congress in Massachusetts. She got the Democratic nod by unseating 20-year incumbent Mike Capuano by 17 points in the primary for #MA07.
