Peg “Cassandra” Phillips 🏳️‍🌈🌊📚❄️🦋

She/her - they/them ((#FBR when not ratio'd)) UU Brain Christian Heart The crazy aunt your mother warns you about (( I block RWNJs ))

[Peg “Cassandra” Phillips 🏳️‍🌈🌊📚❄️🦋 @PegPhillipsCPA]

I am an American, and I stand with Zelenskyy

[Allyson Otten @AllysonOtten]

I’m an American and I stand with Zelensky!!

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a co-sponsor of Graham’s Russia sanctions bill, calls on Congress to pass the bill:

“There can be no more fitting memorial to Lindsey, his legacy, or the causes he fought for than to pass this legislation and realize his long-held dream of an independent and secure Ukraine.”

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

"It’s unlikely Democrats can stop Blanche from being confirmed. They’d need the help of some Senate Republicans to do that…But Democrats can delegitimize him in the court of public opinion."

My latest, only @BulwarkOnline: https://t.co/i9btEZFUZz

[Peg “Cassandra” Phillips 🏳️‍🌈🌊📚❄️🦋 @PegPhillipsCPA]

@Amy_Siskind There is nothing that cannot be staged by motivated propagandists

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Notice the sequence, because it matters. Vance didn't repeat a rumor he mistakenly believed. He was told directly by Springfield's city manager that the pet eating claim was baseless, and he amplified it to eleven million views anyway. That's not an error. That's a choice, made by a man who has spoken openly about his faith shaping his politics.

The part that should bother anyone paying attention isn't just the hoax. It's what happened when the hoax got debunked within eight days. The women whose Facebook posts started it apologized, having realized their claims were rumor. Vance never did. He offered instead an admission that he "creates stories," a euphemism for lying, dressed up as media strategy.

Now the TPS protections that hoax helped justify politically are actually ending, with real people losing the legal right to work as of today. Whatever problems existed in Springfield, and there were some, real strain on clinics and services, were already being covered honestly before Vance decided the truth needed embellishing. He chose the lie anyway, and the lie became policy.

[Susan Glasser @sbg1]

Noting that this group is preparing to host Trump for a chummy dinner—at which one of the subpoenaed reporters, @tylerpager is to receive an award… from the president who thinks it’s a crime for him to report.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“Trump hanging tarps over the North Portico of the White House with images of columns and trees in place of the real ones he is ‘renovating’, is a perfect metaphor for the state of our democracy under his despotic rule.

A one dimensional illusion of what existed before yet will never be the same again, as he refashions the very architecture and bureaucratic infrastructure of our government in his own image; like some sort of meatloaf Mussolini seeking to claim his place among the emperors.

The ‘People’s House’ belongs to Grandpa Adderall now - and he wants to make sure everyone knows it.

Donald Trump should be walking around some cookie cutter cul-de-sac in Paramus bragging to his neighbors about his new paving stones and that he’s springing for the ‘good mulch’ for his flower beds; instead he is sitting in a gold embossed Oval Office, destroying the global economy and starting geopolitical fires he will never be able to extinguish.

The wars POTUS is starting will not be solved in his lifetime.

He must be stopped.

I still believe we can but we better do it soon. This is not the time to wait around: it’s time to take to the streets in steely resolve and righteous urgency.

A nation whose brave soldiers stormed beaches in a bloody summer almost a century ago to protect the free world from fascism now (mostly) sits idly by while a tyrant attempts to snatch our beloved republic right before our very eyes.

We do not have to accept this larceny and criminality, but we must also realize no one is coming to save us - we must save ourselves.” https://t.co/iubaMEYAGy

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

Epstein survivor Lara Blume McGee urges Senators to vote against Todd Blanche's nomination.

"He is unfit to be Attorney General."

She confirmed his office has refused to meet with survivors.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“Over 1000 FBI analysts were told to review and redact the Epstein Files.

Sources confided there were training videos instructing them on how to find, log, and redact Trump’s name.

The FBI just sent me their response confirming the videos exist.”

https://t.co/iN21fOi3KK

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

Important point. It’s a global op.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

You’re not the target audience for this, Jesse. You’re not a cynical liberal living in flyover country.

And I know I’m not your target audience either. I’m not an incel living in my parents’ basement.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Nigel Farage.

[Delagrammatikas @drollpatrol]

@muheediva01 @General_Oluchi

[Peg “Cassandra” Phillips 🏳️‍🌈🌊📚❄️🦋 @PegPhillipsCPA]

@SethAbramson Predators prey on multiple students, Seth. Do better.

[6ɪx✦ @ok6ixx]

My sister's hamster escaped and we thought it died until we found it SIX MONTHS LATER living in the walls absolutely thriving. We only discovered him because my dad was convinced we had a poltergeist since he kept hearing scratching and finding his hidden candy stash empty. Dad set up a camera to catch the "ghost" and instead caught Butterscotch, this hamster, squeezing through a hole, stealing a Snickers, and disappearing. We tore open the wall and found a full hamster paradise. He'd stolen socks for bedding, had a stash of probably 50 nuts and candies, and somehow found water from a leaky pipe. He'd GAINED weight. This hamster lived better in our walls than he did in his cage. We tried to put him back in the cage and he looked legitimately depressed, so now Butterscotch free-roams the house and my dad leaves out "tribute" snacks. The hamster runs this house now. We are his subjects.

[Leo @Leonajardinho]

If you try to save money by cooking at home, you walk into a grocery store where three massive conglomerates own every brand on the shelf and have colluded to raise baseline prices by 40% over three years.

If you try to cut costs by renting a modest apartment, you face corporate landlords using automated algorithmic software to artificially inflate rental rates across the entire city simultaneously.

If you try to opt out of car debt by using public transit, you realize municipal budgets were slashed to protect the auto industry, leaving you with zero reliable infrastructure to get to work.

You aren't making "poor financial decisions."

Every single alternative route to survival has been intentionally bought out, consolidated, and monetized to extract maximum profit from your baseline existence.

They don't want you to build wealth; they want you permanently trapped on a treadmill where every necessary life pivot just leads back to the exact same corporate ledger.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

the one conspiracy i believe is that this place is full of bots programmed to say insane, incendiary things and they're funded by foreign organizations who want to divide americans and destabilize US society

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

"It's just a basic fact,” JD Vance declared. “You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC — the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”

But he wasn’t done…

“And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it?"

JD makes an EXCELLENT point!

How DOES it make any sense that our country has been turned over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it⁉️

People like…

✅ Almost 80-year-old Donald Trump, who’s never cared about anyone except himself

✅ 92-year-old Chuck Grassley, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, who’s older than canned beer and chocolate chip cookies

✅ 84-year-old Mitch McConnell, head of the Senate “Rules” Committee, who’s frequently broken said rules and even given his Republican colleagues concern

And the list goes on…

Kamala, Pete, and AOC aren’t the problem but rather the SOLUTION.

Instead of old, they’re young.
Instead of selfish, they’re selfless.
And instead of just spewing hate like Vance, they fight for hope 💙

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

America is having its 1938 Nazi Germany moment.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

When Dorothy Height showed up at Barnard College in 1929 with her admission letter in hand, a dean looked at her and told her they had already reached their quota of "two Negro students per year." Height had just graduated with honors from an integrated high school in Rankin, Pennsylvania, a small steel town outside Pittsburgh. She had won a national oratorical contest and a $1,000 scholarship. None of it mattered. "It was such a shock to me," she later recalled. "I never thought there would be a racial quota. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep for days."

Unwilling to give up on her dreams, she walked into New York University with her Barnard acceptance letter in hand -- and they admitted her on the spot. She earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees in four years. Years later, Height said the rejection at Barnard taught her the most important lesson of her life: "That there is no advantage in bitterness, that I needed to go into action, which is something I have tried to follow since."

Born in 1912, Dorothy Height would become what President Barack Obama called "the godmother of the Civil Rights Movement," observing that she was "the only woman at the highest level of the Civil Rights Movement -- witnessing every march and milestone along the way." Yet for decades, sexism ensured that her name was rarely mentioned alongside the men she worked beside as an equal.

In 1933, Height graduated from NYU with a master's degree in educational psychology and began working as a caseworker with the New York City Welfare Department. But it was a chance encounter four years later, in 1937, that set her on the path of her life's work.

The 25-year-old Height was assigned to escort First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt into a meeting of the National Council of Negro Women. The organization's founder, the legendary Mary McLeod Bethune -- the daughter of former slaves who had built a college for Black women and become one of the most powerful figures of the New Deal era -- noticed the young woman's poise and ability.

"What is your name?" Bethune asked.

"Dorothy Height," she whispered.

"We need you," Bethune said.

By the time Height returned from walking Roosevelt to her car, Bethune had already appointed her to a committee. "On that fall day," Height later wrote in her memoir, "the redoubtable Mary McLeod Bethune put her hand on me. She drew me into her dazzling orbit of people in power and people in poverty." Height joined Bethune's crusade to end poll taxes, lynching, and unfair employment practices. "I don't think that outside of my mother and my church," she reflected, "there's been anything of greater influence than Mary McLeod Bethune."

In 1957, two years after Bethune's death, Height was named president of the National Council of Negro Women -- a position she would hold for the next forty years. She advised presidents from Eisenhower to Obama, pushing Eisenhower on desegregating schools and Johnson on appointing Black women to government positions. And she became the only woman working directly alongside the leaders who would come to be known as the "Big Six" of the Civil Rights Movement: Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, James Farmer, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young.

On August 28, 1963, Height sat an arm's length from King as he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington. But she was not allowed to speak.

Height had helped organize the march. She mobilized thousands of women volunteers and arranged transportation. When it came time to set the program, the male leaders refused to include a single woman as a speaker. Height pushed back.

© A Mighty Girl

#drthehistories

[Mr. Spock 🖖 (Commentary) @SpockResists]

Take a breath. Drop your shoulders away from your ears.

For over a decade, we have carried the weight of the world together. We have watched, we have resisted, and we have cared deeply. But carrying that macro-world 24/7 is not sustainable.