LifeDrifter 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

US/Canada/Quebec. Not sure where next @lifedrifter.bsky.social

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

The artist behind this painting, Criselda Vasquez, painted this portrait of her parents in 2017. The man in this painting, her father, was recently taken by ICE. He has lived in the United States for forty years. This loss has made it hard for the family to support themselves. If you want to support them, you can go to their GoFundMe here:

https://t.co/Mgp7W8m5xJ

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

I first met Clark Reynolds when he was just three years old at our Black History Month reception at the White House.

Over the last ten years, it's been wonderful getting updates about his life through his letters. Check out how he’s doing now:

[Julia Macfarlane @juliamacfarlane]

If FAA staffing shortages turn out to be a key aspect of this horrible tragedy, remember that @elonmusk
and his “Doge” department fired hundreds of FAA staffers last year - including safety workers, and even tried to fire air traffic controllers https://t.co/dGzybjRqZK

[Federal Reserve @federalreserve]

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: https://t.co/5dfrkByGyX

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Between Oct 7, 2023 and Oct 7, 2025

Israel killed
67,173 Palestinians
20,179 children (30%)
10,427 women (16%)
4,813 elderly people (7%)
31,754 men (47%)
169,780 injured
565 aid workers-376 UN staff
254+ journalists
Thousands remain under the rubble

Call it what it is: GENOCIDE

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

This essay on how colonialism stole culture from white people and how white nationalism is in essence a reaction to that theft, is one of the best things I've read in a long time. Link in next post

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

This is bad news. This is very bad news.

The US government has stopped the funding of PubMed, the most comprehensive database of biomedical literature.

Why would you do this? This database it literally a matter of life and death.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Good to know, @StephenM.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like. https://t.co/uts7JpJZzN

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $436.3 billion

Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $244.2 billion

Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $257.8 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25

It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Tonight they GASSED the refugees in the Death Camp Jabalia in Gaza. I'm just going to leave that with you

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

These are the names and faces of the 238 Silenced Journalists from Gaza

[Kaivan Shroff @KaivanShroff]

Just 40 days ago, Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed by an unhinged Trump supporter and the story has basically already vanished from the national consciousness.

DO NOT LET IT.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

After witnessing unimaginable horrors, British doctors Tanya Haj-Hassan & Graeme Groom plead to stop the israeli mass extermination

[JustMePam @PamelaApostolo1]

Makes sense to me...

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

Nearly 70% of the people detained in @realDonaldTrump's mass deportation rampage in Southern California have NO criminal convictions whatsoever.

This isn't about keeping communities safe.

It's about terrorizing families and brutalizing people based solely on appearance.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

One element of the political policing intimidation attempt is over.

We played a historic set at Glastonbury. Whole area closed an hour before due to crowds. A celebration of love and solidarity. A sea of good people at the world's most famous festival.

Shortly afterwards we learn of an active police investigation. An investigation that followed after the Prime Minister himself said it "was not appropriate" we played Glastonbury.

Walk off stage to the rapturous sounds of good people and into the creaking scheming sounds of the establishment.

This "investigation" was reported across the world's media often with wildly misleading headlines.

Every single person who saw our set knew no law was broken, not even close....yet the police saw fit to publicly announce they were opening an investigation.

Why open and publicise an investigation into fuck all?

This is political.

This is targetted.

This is state intimidation.

After the media damage is inflicted and seen by millions of eyes - you receive a private email to say there's no evidence and no action - that is seen by two people only.

There is no public apology, they don't send this to media or post it on police accounts.

We will continue to fight.

We will continue to win.