sharon wood

Owned by Maine Coons. Retired Illustration & Computer Animation Professor. To remain silent in the face of evil is to be complicit.

[Levant News @LevantWire]

🚨 JUST IN: 🇮🇷

Reporter: “Are you rebuilding nuclear weapons?”

Abbas Araghchi: “No.”

Reporter: “Will you accept President Trump's request for inspections?”

Araghchi: “Of course—if we can send our team to Israel to see whether they have nuclear weapons. If Israel has them, then Iran should have them too.”

[GBC @GBC_Press]

JUST IN: 🇺🇳🇮🇱 ​The United Nations announced that it evaluates what is happening in Gaza under the scope of genocide, highlighting that Israel is deliberately targeting children and infants.

​It took exactly three years to make this determination.

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

WOW! James Talarico just packed the Plano Event Center in Collin County—blew the roof off Ken Paxton's own backyard—with 4,000+ people, standing room only, and lines wrapped around the building.

This is the county that launched Paxton's career, the same county where his securities fraud mugshot was taken 15 minutes up the road, and the same county Republicans called "unflippable."

And a Democrat just brought the house down in it.

Talarico looked at that crowd and said what we're all thinking: "They're afraid of this movement. They're afraid of this crowd in Plano, Texas."

Damn right they are.

Paxton's out here calling him "Talafreakco" like a middle school bully while Talarico's selling "I'm a Talafreako" shirts and outraising every Senate campaign in Texas history.

First quarter: $28 million, more than double Beto and Colin Allred combined.

Real men don't lie and cheat their way through life. They don't scam their own friends for a quick buck. They don't serve themselves—they serve others. Ken Paxton has escaped accountability for 4,000+ days. But accountability is coming November 3.

Democrats, pay attention. This is what it looks like when you run on corruption, not away from it. This is what it looks like when you fight in their backyard and win the crowd.

The suburbs are shifting. Collin County is shifting. Texas is shifting.

Retrumplican crook politicians don't own you. You own them.

LFG TEXAS!!!

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

I’ve heard from Minnesotans and local newspapers about how a new Trump mail delivery plan from the U.S. Postal Service will negatively impact them — making it slower and less reliable.

That's your paycheck, Social Security benefits, medications and news.

I'm urging the USPS to reverse this plan.

[Gary Skye @skye_gary]

The Reflecting Pool has now been drained as guess what? There is no 250 or 350 foot cut in the liner as has been claimed by Trump and others.

[Jeff Putnam |✍ @TheJeffPutnam]

Since Flock loves to track our locations, it only seems fair that we know theirs.

Flock Safety's new GA plant is located at 1885 Mitchell Rd, Smyrna, GA 30082

Flock went to great lengths to keep that address hidden.

That probably means it should be public info.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Jack Smith on Trump’s behavior on January 6, 2021: “He was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on—and he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s evidence for criminal intent in our case.” @Acyn (2025)

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🚨🚨🚨 In Kansas City, ICE is stopping people who are walking down the street and demanding proof of legal status. There is no legal requirement to carry proof of legal status with you at all times. Is this the America we want?

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE detain boy with Down syndrome—family has no idea where he is.

He is non verbal & hearing impaired—cannot advocate for himself.

Requires specific medication for epileptic seizures.

"Please help find him. His family is desperate—they don’t know where he is or if he's safe."

His mother says she needs to be with him or he cannot survive on his own.

"Please tell me where my son is. And if they are going to deport him, then deport me with him. He cannot take care of himself or be alone."

Yeison Saúl Menjívar Portillo was detained in the Bridge City suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Alejandra doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: In a stunning admission, the FBI just confirmed to me the existence of training videos instructing FBI analysts on what to redact in the Epstein Files. I’ll show you the letter and discuss the massive implications in one hour. Link below: https://t.co/XLYGLMvglU

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

🚨 Rep. Sarah Jacobs just left Pete Hegseth STUNNED in this hearing.
With 2,500 Marines from her district off the coast of Iran and military families calling her office in panic, she asked the question no one else would:
“Do you believe the president is mentally stable enough to be Commander-in-Chief?”
Hegseth deflected hard.
She didn’t flinch.
Then she dropped this:“If you think this is what winning looks like… maybe we should be questioning your mental stability.”
Pure accountability. No notes.
It takes a woman to say what needs to be said when lives and billions of dollars are on the line. This clip is everything.

[Hear About Dems @HearAboutDems]

🚨 Evanston, IL ordered Flock Safety to remove all cameras after a state audit revealed that the company was illegally sharing Illinois data with federal agencies.

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

Todd Blanche fired the DOJ pardon attorney for refusing to restore gun rights to convicted domestic abuser Mel Gibson…as a favor for a friend of Trump

Then he sent US Marshals to her home to intimidate her into silence

This man cannot be AG👇 -TN https://t.co/Lfd54haC5Y

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Never forget how the guy who says elections are rigged, claims that Lindsey Graham was "scheduled to win by a lot. He was scheduled."

"Scheduled?"

What a strange thing to say.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Nine more officers have been arrested and discharged from duty for using Flock cameras to stalk and harass American citizens. This brings the number of officers charged with violating 4th Amendment rights to 21 total thus far.

[ꪝe @_wej01]

My UBER driver in Baltimore told me he just got out of an ICE facility, that he spent 8 days in Washington and 51 days in a facility in Arizona. His wife reported him missing, cops had no idea ICE had taken him. He said, “She thought I was dead.” He’s an American citizen. Took them that long to realize it. This is just one guy. There’s thousands...

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

Insurance denied my friend’s MRI last month.

Doctor ordered it. Said it was medically necessary.

Insurance said they needed more documentation.
Doctor sent more documentation.
Insurance said they needed a peer to peer review.

Peer to peer happened.

Insurance denied it again.
My friend paid $2,400 out of pocket.
The person who denied it was not a doctor.

Was not reviewed by a doctor.
Was an algorithm trained to find reasons to say no.

This is legal.
This is standard practice.

This happens 50,000 times a day in America.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Top journalist Ana Kasparian confirms the Trump administration spent $1.5B to buy private prisons in California solely to evade state oversight.

The White House is intentionally shielding these secretive detention centers to hide horrific human rights abuses!

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Notice what this administration didn't do. It didn't argue the food insecurity numbers were wrong. It didn't publish a competing methodology. It just canceled the survey and, in its own words, called three decades of USDA data collection "fear mongering."

That's the tell running through every example in this piece. Not correction. Deletion. A pregnancy risk tracker the CDC used to fight infant mortality, made inaccessible through staffing cuts rather than any stated policy change. The CIA World Factbook, gone. Weather balloon launches quietly reduced in the western United States until meteorologists themselves started saying their confidence in the models had eroded.

Jerome Powell called it "driving in the fog" last year, when a government shutdown delayed jobs data the Fed needed to set interest rates for the entire country. That fog isn't an accident of budget cuts anymore. It's becoming the operating condition. When the public can't see the data, the public can't check the claims, and an administration that doesn't want its claims checked has just found the cheapest way to arrange that.