Mary Ellen Williams

Love Isn't Silent. Family, community, spirituality, health, environment, arts, local food.

[Restoring their Dignity @RestoringDign]

This is one of the hardest photos we’ve restored and colored, and perhaps one of the most necessary.

These two men are showing their liberators what their work was like as part of the Sonderkommando at Dachau camp. But what was the Sonderkommando?

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[just thinking @isawthesethings]

@debbieksl Reminder that corporations steal billions from their workers every year & the media hardly covers it.

👉🏼 Total thefts/yr: $13 billion
👉🏼 Wage theft by companies/yr: $15 billion.

[Everytown @Everytown]

An Indiana gun store that was tied to hundreds of crime guns recovered in Chicago has announced that it will be closing shop, following an Everytown Law lawsuit on behalf of the City of Chicago.
https://t.co/50fqe8PSqp

[Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep]

Kirby spent decades in the military, which comes through in the tone and substance of this answer.

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Gavin hailing from Morrison , IL who recently signed up for our 50-yard challenge received his starter pack in the mail which included his Raising Men shirt, safety glasses, and ear protection. He is now fully equipped and ready to take on the challenge ! Do you have any words of advice for this determined young man ? And, who knows, perhaps your child will be the next to sign up and join in on the excitement!

[Russ Baker - Editor in Chief, @WhoWhatWhy @RealRussBaker]

Did you notice the latest tactic by the Gun Lobby? Keep on coming up with solutions to the violence like "goodwill among men" and "perfect mental health" when the real solution is right in front of us. It has to do with... um, guns.

[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

Rep. Maxwell Frost laid into the GOP on Thursday: 'In my home state of Florida, they’re banning books, banning drag queens to ‘protect kids.’ And my question is this: In a country where the leading cause of death for a child is to be shot to death, why are you doing nothing?'

[just thinking @isawthesethings]

@tedlieu Dr. Roy Guerrero, Pediatrician, #Uvalde
“…what I did find was something no prayer will ever relieve.
👉🏼Two children, whose bodies had been so pulverized by the bullets fired at them, decapitated.
👉🏼Those mother’s cries I will never get out of my head.”

https://t.co/GpfJhLIQbL

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

On the one hand, scaring elementary schools kids with an AR-15 is frickin’ insane. On the other hand, scaring elementary schools kids with an AR-15 is frickin’ insane. Those are the both sides.

[Kat Tenbarge is on Bluesky @kattenbarge]

The backlash to Me Too has tried to rewrite history and claim that survivors got the upper hand in justice. But that’s not true. Me Too put a spotlight on how many survivors there are but it didn’t create systemic change in the court system OR public opinion toward survivors.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Rt to cleanse ur timeline

[Jordan Monaghan @jordandmonaghan]

Catch @NC_Governor on NPR’s @1a at 10:20 AM today discussing gun violence and what we’re doing in North Carolina to fight it through community-based solutions 💪🏼 #ncpol

[Kristin Song @kristinsong3]

2 Dead in Louisville Chickasaw Park Shooting - The New York Times https://t.co/F9LkWeMifo

[Brian Lyman @lyman_brian]

Four people were killed at a birthday party in downtown Dadeville on Saturday night. A number of other people were injured. Alabama has one of the highest rates of deaths from firearms in the nation. https://t.co/f81RRO7rfw

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

On @11thHour tonight, @mehdirhasan asked me a great question comparing the U.S. invasion of Iraq & the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I didnt have a great answer, but will write one soon. In the meantime, check out this:
https://t.co/HKQ0lZ4ck5

[Anthony Liuzzo @harpmaster1]

The start of women’s history month I pay tribute to my mother Viola Liuzzo. Gunned down by the Klan and the FBI on 3/25/65 after the Selma to Montgomery March. Viola lived as she believed that is why she left her family to help when Dr King called out. “It’s everybody’s fight”

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

Compassion and love are not a luxury; they are essential to our existence. Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community. We must learn to work not just for our own self, family, or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

I am disgusted by the grotesquely inhumane treatment of #TyreNichols.

I want elected officials, civic leaders, corporations & faith leaders to invest the same [even more] energy in preventing police brutality as they did in preparing for responses to a video of police brutality.

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

By all means contribute to the go fund me but honestly policing reform is essential in this country, and that was one of the most appalling things I’ve ever seen

[Lady Chuan @LadyChuan]

I’m really a person of great understanding and very generous with my time, but I will not be dealing with dumb stuff in 2023. I just can’t do it.