Carole

..the weeping and wailing...

[Dave Hale - Concerned Republican @CountryFirstRep]

Christians do not celebrate when ANYONE undergoes the immense suffering cancer brings.

God's love, mercy, and strength be wtih you, President Biden.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said this week the K-shaped economy — the widening economic gap between the rich and the poor — is "dead."

Hogwash.

Not only is the K-shaped economy very much alive, even CEOs are admitting it's a problem. Watch.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Corporate think tank Third Way says it will spend $15M to wage "war" against the progressive movement in the Democratic Party.

I've watched this centrist playbook fail repeatedly over the years.

Democrats should fight for the people, not the donor class.

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

This is my uncle Dude he gave the last full measure for this country in 1942 and his B-17 was shot down by Nazis

He didn’t die so a bunch of terrified soulless Congress people could sell our democracy to a bunch of pedophiles

[King Roy @RoyIsThaTruth]

Mississippi has a history America still struggles to confront.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Congress passed a law this year specifically banning what Trump just did to the Forest Service.

He did it anyway. Nobody's stopping him.

https://t.co/V9HjOIeFGQ

[Lance Cooper @lmauricecpr]

Black people don’t hang themselves from trees so high up that a ladder is required to reach them behind a random vacant house in a state with the highest number of lynchings in the country. Tasia Fortune was lynched.

[Gina Hinojosa @GinaHinojosaTX]

When I’m governor, I will defend our sovereignty, our land, and our inheritance.

Governor Abbott is either too weak to defend Texas and stop this, or he just doesn’t care.

Either way, we have lost too much under Greg Abbott; it’s time for change.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

This is smallpox

You've never had it or even seen it

Because of vaccines

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

More destruction today in Big Bend. Bulldozers and excavators are being trucked into the wildest corner of Texas, preparing to inflict an irreversible scar on the national park. This absurd project is despised by everyone in West Texas. When will Texas leadership step in?

[Misty Meow @MistyMeowHq]

Dog: Mr cat be my eyes 👀

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Words cannot express how much I hate this administration.

This is a National Park in TEXAS.
Formerly protected lands.
Nothing is sacred to these monsters. Nothing. 💔

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

This was tilmed yesterday atternoon at
Compassion Animal Shelter in Richmond, Virginia. The woman is Margaret. 82 years old. The dog is Bella.
Eleven-year-old Cocker Spaniel.
Margaret and Bella have been together for eleven years. Margaret’s husband passed away three years ago.
She managed on her own until last month when she had a serious health emergency.Spent two weeks in the hospital. Came home to find she can’t manage stairs anymore. Can’t walk Bella. Can’t care for herself properly. Her daughter found her an assisted living facility that doesn’t allow pets. Margaret stood in our hallway yesterday with the surrender papers on Margaret stood in our hallway yesterday with the surrender papers on a clipboard. Hands shaking so badly she could barely hold the pen. Tears dripping onto the forms. Our intake coordinator was trying to help her through it gently.
But Bella knew something was wrong.
She pressed herself against Margaret’s legs. Trembling. Started pawing at Margaret’s skirt. Over and over. Like she was trying to get Margaret’s attention.
Trying to ask what was happening.
Margaret tried to keep signing. Made it through the first page. Then Bella pawed at her again.Harder. More desperate. Margaret dropped the pen.
She collapsed to the floor... and then she gave it all up and went back home with Bella…..

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers.

These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR.

We need a data center moratorium — now.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

As contractors descend on Big Bend, more than 140 river outfitters, local businesses and recreation organizations are urging Texas leaders to stop CBP's plans to cut off access to the Rio Grande and blast new roads through Big Bend National Park.

Signatories include virtually every local river outfitter, Texas Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, American Whitewater, Big Bend Tourism Alliance, Patagonia, Outdoor Alliance and more than 130 others.

CBP's current plans show them cutting off river access with steel "vehicle barriers" at almost every put-in and takeout along the Rio Grande in the region.

The letter warns that CBP's current plans "would end commercial and recreational river use in Big Bend National Park and along the Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River, crippling local businesses and the regional tourism economy for no demonstrable security benefit."

Nobody wants this destruction to unfold. Texas leadership must step up to save their state's rural economies, natural heritage and most beloved national park.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: Bulldozers are arriving in Big Bend National Park near Santa Elena Canyon to plow through border barriers & roads.

The irreversible destruction of Texas' crown jewel national park is unfolding and virtually no national media is paying attention. 📷 Natialie Newman

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On February 12, 1946, Isaac Woodard Jr. was traveling home after serving in the United States Army during World War II when an encounter with police changed his life forever. Woodard, a decorated Black veteran who had been honorably discharged only hours earlier, was still wearing his uniform when he was removed from a bus in Batesburg, South Carolina, arrested and brutally beaten by local police. The attack was so severe that Woodard permanently lost his sight. He was 26 years old.

Woodard had served his country in the Pacific, earning a battle star and rising to the rank of sergeant, yet returning home offered no protection from the racial violence Black Americans continued to face. The incident reportedly began after Woodard asked the bus driver if he could use a restroom during the journey. Although the disagreement initially appeared to be resolved, the driver later contacted police. Batesburg police chief Lynwood Shull arrested Woodard and struck him repeatedly with a blackjack. By the following morning, Woodard could not see. Doctors later determined that the damage was permanent.

The case became national news after the NAACP took up Woodard's cause, and figures including Orson Welles publicly drew attention to what had happened. President Harry Truman was reportedly deeply disturbed by the case. After meeting with NAACP leaders in September 1946, Truman established the President's Committee on Civil Rights later that year. In 1948, he issued Executive Order 9981, directing equality of treatment and opportunity in the United States armed forces and accelerating the process of military desegregation.

There was still the question of justice for Woodard himself. Because South Carolina authorities did not prosecute Shull, the federal government brought a civil rights case against him. An all-white jury acquitted the police chief in November 1946. The acquittal demonstrated just how difficult it was for Black Americans to obtain justice through the courts when racial violence was committed by white officials.

Yet the case had another consequence. Federal judge J. Waties Waring, who presided over Shull's trial, was disturbed by what he witnessed and increasingly challenged segregation in subsequent years. Waring later issued important civil rights rulings and, in Briggs v. Elliott, argued that segregated public schools were inherently unequal. That case became one of the cases incorporated into the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

Isaac Woodard lived for decades after the attack, carrying injuries inflicted on him shortly after he returned from defending a country that still denied millions of Black citizens equal protection under its laws. His story is an important reminder that the struggle for civil rights was shaped not only by the famous marches and speeches of the 1950s and 1960s, but also by individual cases of injustice that forced Americans to confront the contradiction between the nation's democratic ideals and the reality experienced by Black people.

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[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

The sitting president of the United States is out of his fucking mind.

[Covie @covie_93]

Hundreds of bank accounts tied to the President of the United States were closed due to concerns over money laundering and it barely made the news.