Former mag editor, NYC; BJ from Mizzou; few awards for short sci-fi/horror. Thoroughly liberal mum of one, spars w/ the hub, and plays with broken glass.
Stephen Colbert was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power. A fitting honor for a champion of our democracy.
RETWEET to congratulate Colbert on this honor!
Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend
Happy 50th Tram-iversary to the Roosevelt Island Tram!
For 50 years, the tram has been traversing the East River between Roosevelt Island and the Upper East Side, departing and arriving from Tramway Plaza right in our own backyard!
It’s Day 3 of facts in Music. It’s time to look at the Maxwells.
Once again, big thanks to Never Stop Asking for the continued great work on this.
🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/8Sbs3h7j9S
Even in our polarized country, more and more people from left, right, and center are coalescing to demand change.
It's happening because a freedom-loving nation does not allow masked, militarized government agents to violate our civil liberties.
BREAKING: A witness who was just 5 feet from Alex Pretti filed an affidavit depicting what she saw.
She says he didn’t touch any of the officers and didn’t appear to be resisting. He was merely helping a woman who had been pepper-sprayed.
She’s is terrified that ICE is looking for her, saying they are lying and she doesn’t know what they will do to her if they find her.
The Ramos family have followed legal procedures to come into the United States. They have an active asylum case and entered the United States at an official port of entry, yet ICE has taken them anyway to detention.
NEWS: California just became the “United States of America (Adults Only)” edition.
They hired the fired CDC scientists, kept the full vaccine schedule, and now they’re pledging to stay aligned with the WHO even after Trump drags the country out.
When Washington goes full anti-science, California is building a firewall.