Canadian, queerly living out loud 🇨🇦 🌈

I'm an uninvited guest on the ancestral unceded Coast Salish Territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), & Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh)

[Canadian, queerly living out loud 🇨🇦 🌈 @TheStranger2014]

#BarackObamaAppreciationDay #PresidentObama

[ToutdeSuiteLaSinner Is Salty AF @ToutSuiteSinner]

I felt this down in my soul.

[Heather Thomas @HeatherThomasAF]

Pete Hegseth is a weak-ass bitch

[Adam Schiff @AdamSchiff]

Senator. Scott. Colom.

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[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

What a fucking nightmare

[Heather Thomas @HeatherThomasAF]

This just hurts my heart.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

While Kushner and Witkoff head to Moscow

[Ryan Voutilainen 🇨🇦🇫🇮 @RyanVoutilainen]

9pm in mid-November and it’s 19°C at Abbotsford and 15°C at Vancouver (normal is 9°C)!
No wonder people are lined up for ice cream, they think it’s June! 😝

#ShareYourWeather #BCStorm #BCStormWatch #BCHeat #BCwx

[Acyn @Acyn]

Raskin: Well, AOC and I have a $50 gift ban bill, which has been on the back burner for years under the Republicans.

In Congress, we are all governed by a $50 gift ban. And we can’t accept anything much more than a baseball cap. And most people are scared to do that. We just don’t take gifts.

Meantime, at the Supreme Court, they’re collecting hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in so-called gifts from people who have a tremendous interest in the work of the Supreme Court. They take trips around the world. They take luxury vacations. They get, in Justice Thomas’s case, a $400,000 recreational vehicle, a motor coach.

I think Justice Thomas also picked up private school tuition for a great-nephew. I mean, just outrageous things. Members of Congress would go to jail for any of those things, and they’re just doing it.

So the $50 gift ban applies to Congress. It theoretically applies also to people in the executive branch, and it must apply to people in the judiciary, in the Supreme Court

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

Actually, I had back surgery yesterday and checked myself out of the hospital this morning to make sure I voted to IMPEACH Hegseth.

He’s the most incompetent & immoral SecDef in history and he needs to go!

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

I jumped out of airplanes for a living. I served in Iraq and Afghanistan. I won’t be intimidated by a corrupt White House and its bootlicking lawyers.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Grace Wisher, an enslaved black girl at just 13 years old, helped create the American flag which inspired the national anthem. She is often overlooked in the storytelling of the nation’s most prominent visual emblem.

Two hundred years ago, a Black American girl made history—literally. She was an indentured servant named Grace Wisher in the household of Mary Pickersgill. Helen Yuen and Ms. Asantewa Boakyewa of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum share her story.

The likeness of Grace Wisher is unknown. However, the Star Spangled Banner Flag House is home to a portrait with her figure traced in, to recognize her contribution. Detail of "Placing the Stars on the Flag that Inspired Francis Scott Key to Write Our National Anthem" by Robert McGill Mackall, ca. 1962.

Mary Pickersgill is often credited with sewing the Star-Spangled Banner which flew over Fort McHenry in Maryland and inspired Francis Scott Key to write our national anthem. Less known is that Grace Wisher, a Black American girl at just 13 years old, also helped make the flag. It's another testament to the deeply rooted, yet oft unmentioned, contributions of African Americans to the very core of this country.

Indenture was a waning practice in early 19th century Baltimore, although Maryland law did allow for courts to take away children of Black Americans who were considered "lazy, indolent, and worthless free negroes" to bind the youngsters into apprenticeship. Orphans usually met a similar fate.
The size of the Star-Spangled Banner and its six-week timeline for completion would have necessitated many people working on the flag, including Mary Pickersgill's three nieces and Grace Wisher. The household also had an enslaved person, whose name we do not know.

The home where Pickersgill and Wisher lived is now a museum called the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House. It holds a 1962 painting by famed Baltimore artist Robert McGill Mackall. The portrait features the Pickersgill household and the three men who commissioned the garrison and storm flags for Fort McHenry: Commodore Joshua Barney, General John Stricker, and Colonel George Armistead. As a tribute to Wisher, the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House drew in a ghost figure into the painting that represents the young girl. Due to our uncertainty of what she looked like, the placeholder is a traced line, but the recognition is tangible.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 BREAKING: Former Republican Speaker John Boehner called new Minority Leader Jim Jordan a political “terrorist”:

“I never saw a guy who spent more time tearing things apart, never building anything, never putting anything together.”

[Mavelle @_Mavellee_]

Everyone knew about Diddy.
Everyone knew about R. Kelly.
Everyone knew about Bill Cosby.
Everyone knew about Russell Brand.
Everyone knew about Donald Trump.
Everyone knew about Jeffrey Epstein.
Everyone knew about Harvey Weinstein.

STOP. PROTECTING. SEXUAL. PREDATORS.

[Jamie Brown @liberal_jamie]

The same people telling us not to make waves over Schumer and Jeffries are the same people who told us not to make waves over Garland -- and look what keeping silent got us.
MAKE WAVES.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

The fact that a felonious madman who incited an attack on our Capitol could turn around a few years later and desecrate the White House like this, will forever be one of the most shameful stains this nation has ever known.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

True American hero.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨WHAT A SPEECH BY SCOTT COLOM!!

COLOM: “For months and months, I've been telling everybody, everywhere I go that we're going to win this election…

But every time I said it, I pointed out that people were going to give me too much credit for it because it's not something that I did, y'all. It's something that we did. All I did was have the courage to imagine a night like this. I had the courage to believe in Mississippi. I had the courage to understand that we could show the country that Mississippi matters.”

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Retired Major General Paul Eaton on Pete Hegseth: "I am saddened for our military that they have had to endure such clueless, self-aggrandizing civilian leadership. These are not serious people.”

RETWEET if you stand with Major General Eaton against Hegseth!

[Who Was That Masked Man?🇺🇸🦅 @WasMasked]

@JamieBonkiewicz @_reallymelissa

[Jessica Huseman @JessicaHuseman]

I’ve just checked, and Hannity also claimed to be leaving the Catholic Church in 2017, 2019 and this April.