Elena Nickerson 🦉 🌻

Retired Elementary teacher, birder, nature photography 💜NYC 🇨🇺🇺🇸 bird/nature photos -follow me on

[SKI @skiistiredasf]

A Baltimore librarian quit her full-time job after kids on her stoop told her they didn’t have a single book at home. Now Storybook Maze runs a green-and-gold trolley that gives free books to 50 to 130 readers a day. Her goal is 500,000 books in five years.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

As the NBA season begins this week, remember:

26 out of 30 NBA owners are billionaires — getting richer every day.

Meanwhile, the average ticket price to see the Knicks play the Sixers last night cost $1,894.

No. You should not have to be rich to take your kids to a ball game.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

“Your son leaves as Jimmy and comes back home in three days as Janet, and they don’t even ask you.” — Donald Trump

If you believe this is happening in schools, you’re a fucking idiot.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Nidal Hasan, the convicted Fort Hood mass shooter, is a paraplegic who uses a wheelchair. Whatever you think of his crimes, imagine the spectacle: wheeling him out at Fort Hood for U.S. soldiers to shoot him dead while the world watches via livestream. Is that who we are?

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

If you have to constantly explain what the president meant when he says something stupid, you should probably try a president who doesn’t constantly say stupid things.

[Debbie Mucarsel-Powell @DebbieforFL]

Disagree with her policies. Challenge her ideas. Fight her at the ballot box. That’s democracy.

But for the sitting Vice President of the United States to tell Angie Nixon, a FL state representative, U.S. Senate nominee, business owner, mother, and Floridian that she doesn’t belong in America is profoundly un-American and racist.

No politician gets to decide who belongs in this country. NO MAS!

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

They say they hate “wokeness,” but what they really hate is empathy. Because once you start caring about other people’s experiences, inequalities become harder to ignore, and privilege becomes harder to defend.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

for years now we've been deluged with opinion pieces & full-length books about how young men are so sad/isolated/afraid to approach girls & women/oppressed by feminists & #MeToo/victims of a cruel anti-male culture ad nauseam; yet, as we see here, these entitled young men at Cornell had not the slightest hesitation or the mildest anxiety about committing a group rape of an intoxicated young woman, a classmate of theirs.
please spare us any more of those pathetic opinion & books pieces about sad young men pining away in loneliness & fear of girls & women.
& especially, please spare us blaming girls & women for their being so sad & oppressed.

[Covie @covie_93]

They out here worried about 6 trans athletes in college sports making girls feel unsafe when the bigger problem was 7 Cornell frat boys.

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

After a grand jury’s decision today to not pursue criminal charges, our hearts go out to Christine Wells-Wonsley and Elmore Wonsley Sr.(the parents of #NolanWells), Nolan’s siblings, his family, and community.

As they mourn Nolan, they also grapple with not knowing the full, transparent story of what happened to their beloved.

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

The Trump administration announces new state-run media called “TRUMP TV,” similar to Russia and North Korea.

I don’t care what side of the political fence you identify with, this should scare the hell out of everyone.

[Tommy Santos @tommysantos14]

- State-run television.
- Banning unfavorable journalism.
- Acquiring stakes in private companies.
- Prosecuting political enemies.
- Claiming only elections you lose are rigged.

Hey MAGA! Looks you all are the communists!

[Arbor Day Foundation @arborday]

Planting a tree is a hopeful act, it means you believe in the future. 🌳

[DA VINKI @VorosTwins]

Woah We’ve lost a lot of followers since we said free Palestine but we’ll say it again FREE PALESTINE

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

My fellow Americans: Please direct your attention to this matter for just a moment. Allow this to sink in. The President of the United States of America just said he wants to ban the free press. He said he doesn’t want them in his office, which by the way is the Oval Office in the People’s House. This is unheard of, and we the people cannot let this be!

For the record, we have a free press in this country. For the record we should all be worried not just about this latest outburst, but by all of it going forward without permission — putting our service members in harms way, raising tariffs willy nilly, threatening buildings and institutions unless his name gets put on them. This is not the behavior of a centered leader who is focused on the good of the people. This is not the behavior of a compassionate leader focused on the millions of Americans who cannot afford healthcare, childcare, gas, or food. This is not the behavior of a man who can emotionally regulate himself.

We should all be concerned — those who voted for him and those who didn’t. The midterms are around the corner. Vote like your life and the lives of others are at stake, because they are. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Sixty-three years ago today, Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley were murdered in the bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church.

They were children. Their lives were stolen by racial hatred and terrorism.

Remember their names. Honor their lives. And continue the work of confronting the hatred and dehumanization that made their murders possible.

#16thStreetBaptistChurch #AddieMaeCollins #DeniseMcNair #CaroleRobertson #CynthiaWesley

[Covie @covie_93]

Old enough to remember how Biden glancing at his watch during a solemn ceremony was a scandal for weeks but trump falling alseep during a memorial service to honor victims of 9/11 won't even make the news.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

There is no way you can tell me that this guy is fit to be President.

During the reading of the 9/11 victims:

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers.

As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other. Let us remember the extraordinary compassion, resilience and bravery that carried our city through its darkest
day.

Today, New York remembers. We will Never Forget.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

I’ll save you some time on Trump’s keynote speech tonight:

•We have greatest economy in history
•Democrats want criminals roaming your neighborhood
•Grocery prices are down
•He ended 8 wars
•Something racist about Mamdani
•We won the war in Iran
•Democrats are communists
•Gas will be $2 any day now
•Some gibberish
•Tariffs are making us rich
•Joe Biden
•Something about the border
•A story that never actually happened
•Democrats want sex-change operations in schools
•More Joe Biden
•The fake-news media
•Grown men crying while thanking him
•Barack Hussein Obama
•Bragging about a poll that doesn’t exist
•The radical-left lunatics
•His big beautiful Ballroom
•A word he cannot pronounce
•The 2020 election was rigged
•Did you know Dumb is spelled with a “b”

Am I missing anything?