Kim Schlittler

Love dogs. Spay/neuter is key to solving pet overpopulation. Climate change is real. Save our democracy.

[Earth @earthcurated]

Costa Rica has successfully doubled its rainforest cover in just a few decades, becoming the first tropical country to completely reverse deforestation.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🐶 Hero Border Collie Tsunami saves nearly 100 lives after Venezuela earthquake

The 9-year-old rescue dog discovered dozens of survivors trapped under the rubble.

This will be his final mission — after this, Tsunami is retiring.

Once saved from starvation himself, he became one of the best search-and-rescue dogs, working at disaster sites in Venezuela, Turkey, and Syria.

Absolute legend. ❤️

[Tayoncé Defense Attorney @lesbeyonsay]

the fact that she's given so much and has not run out of money really puts into perspective how the arguments against a wealth tax on billionaires are just bs

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I DO NOT understand what billionaires think the final outcome of all this would be. If nobody has a living wage, they CANNOT buy your products, pay for your services or rent the properties being owned and hoarded. At that point, does the whole thing not just collapse ??

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

This is a battery caged chicken the day she was let out of her cage - and the same chicken 3 months later.

A chicken isn't supposed to live on a patch of wire smaller than a sheet of printer paper, but that is basically the reality for millions of egg-laying hens.

A hen is an animal built to scratch, dust bathe, perch, stretch her wings, forage, explore, choose a nest, and spend her day doing chicken things.

A cage takes all of that away.

That's why rescued caged hens can look so rough when they first get out. But given bedding, food, safety, room to move, dirt to scratch, and time, they often start looking like chickens again.

If you buy eggs, learn the labels. "Cage-free" is better than a battery cage, but it doesn't mean pasture. "Free-range" can vary a lot. "Pasture-raised" with a real third-party welfare certification is usually the stronger choice.

Or buy from someone local whose hens you can actually see.

[����𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Do you remember when radio stations used to give away concert tickets and backstage passes? I just heard a midday radio giveaway, and now the prizes are groceries, a year of gas, or rent paid. It’s a strange reminder that survival has become the prize. That’s pretty sad.

[Cyndi Munson @CyndiMunsonOK]

I visited the Billings Fairchild Center in rural Oklahoma. The care happening there for people with developmental disabilities is essential and they deserve leaders who will protect their facility and the services they provide. For decades, the Republican supermajority in the legislature refused to expand Medicaid here. It took Oklahomans going to the ballot in 2020 and demanding better. But the instability didn’t stop there. The constant threat of cuts from the Federal and state government puts real stress on patients, facilities, and communities. And that must end.

I will NOT be playing politics with your healthcare. As governor, I’ll veto any bill that tries to undo or cut Medicaid, and partner with legislators and tribal nations to strengthen healthcare access across Oklahoma — especially in rural communities that have been overlooked for too long.

[🔥⚜️ 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 ⚜️🔥 @Andrew_Maj42]

❤️ Real heroes don’t always wear capes. Sometimes they’re simply people who stop to help when they don’t have to. Small acts of kindness can make a life-changing difference. 🙏✨

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Trump just killed a bipartisan affordable housing bill that passed the Senate 85–5 /the House 358–32 while people are drowning in rent, mortgages, inflation, & high gas and energy bills.
But sure, tell us all how this billionaire “populist” dickhead is fighting for working people.
MAGA got conned.

[Les Summers🟧#🟦 @LesSummers5]

🤔 If you're a candidate for Superintendent of PUBLIC Instruction and your supporting NON PUBLIC alternatives to PUBLIC education, why are you running for this position?
Oklahoma kids DESERVE PROPONENTS of PUBLIC ED to lead our state department of ed, not a saboteur. 🤦‍♀️

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

The sentences handed down today are a huge threat to the possibility of a democratic society. The prosecution is rife with constitutional violations, but 30 years in prison (more than anyone for January 6) for moving some magazines? 50 years in prison even for those not involved in planning the protest? The evidence of an illegal conspiracy is non-existent, but this is how the authoritarian dragnet targets those fighting against repression. Everyone should be learning about this case. https://t.co/XLki7OBuID

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A Justice Department lawyer just signed a memo saying disabled Americans have no right to live in their own homes. In the same document, she admits no court in the country agrees with her.

Read that again. A government official wrote down, in black and white, that her own argument is wrong by every legal standard of the last thirty years, and she made it anyway.

Here is what it means in plain terms.

Right now, 8.4 million people get help that lets them stay in their own homes. Aides who help them dress. Care that lets them work, see friends, raise their kids, sleep in their own beds at night.

This memo tells states they can cut all of it.

And if they cut it, where do those people go? Into nursing homes. Into institutions. Into facilities where someone else decides when you wake up, what you eat, who your roommate is, whether you go outside today.

A lawyer who has visited people locked in these places said their whole world shrinks to one hallway. That is the future this memo is opening the door to.

Keeping people in their own homes is cheaper. In one case, home care cost under $7,500 a year. The nursing home would have cost close to $50,000. The cruel option is also the expensive one. They want to spend more money to make people's lives worse.

So why?

Because last summer Trump signed an order to deal with homelessness by force, by sweeping people off the streets and committing them. He said it out loud during the campaign: the mentally ill belong back in institutions.

The only thing standing in the way was the law that says people deserve to live in their own communities.

This memo is how they get around it. And it landed the same week Republicans slashed Medicaid, giving every cash-strapped state the perfect excuse to start cutting.

A think tank drew up the plan. A lawyer wrote the memo. A president signed the order. Three signatures, and millions of people could lose the right to their own front door.

We are about to spend the summer celebrating 250 years of American freedom.
Some Americans are about to find out it doesn't include them.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here:

Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track. 

Spread the word. Stand up for science.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. https://t.co/DgkM9RegJ7

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

Holland, the Netherlands, and Dutch, explained!

This one always confuses me!

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built.

Think about that.

At a time when electricity demand is rising, the Trump administration is spending billions to reduce the amount of power that could reach the grid.

Trump has spent years attacking wind turbines as ugly and inefficient. He is entitled to his opinions about how they look. He is not entitled to make taxpayers finance those opinions.

Seven states have already sued over earlier agreements. Federal courts have repeatedly found legal defects in this administration’s efforts to halt offshore wind development. The administration has cited national security concerns while providing little public evidence to support them, and judges have said they were not convinced.

Strip away the politics and what remains is hard to defend.

Billions in taxpayer money paid to private companies to cancel planned energy projects during a period of rising demand.

Governments usually spend money to build things.

This administration is spending billions to make sure some things never get built.
https://t.co/rB2naxc27j

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Eddie Vedder could have walked onto that stage tonight, played the catalog, taken his bow, and gotten on a plane. Nobody would have complained. The crowd would have gone home happy. That would have been enough.

Instead he spent real time with teenage kids from Chicago's South Side, helping them write something that didn't exist before they walked into a room together, rehearsing it until it was ready, and then stepping back while they sang it in front of three former presidents of the United States.

That's not a cameo. That's not a tax-deductible appearance. That's somebody deciding that the most important thing he could do with his access was hand it to someone who didn't already have any. The kids on that stage tonight will carry what happened there for the rest of their lives. That's the part that doesn't show up in the lineup announcement.

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

If "not f*cking around" was a dog

[Sen. Michael Garrett @MichaelKGarrett]

I cried today. I'm not going to pretend I didn't.

Four presidents shared a stage in Chicago, a thing that used to be ordinary and now feels almost holy, and I felt the tears come before I understood them. At first I thought I knew what they were. I thought they were grief. I thought I was crying for how far we've drifted from that morning in 2008 when so many of us let ourselves believe, all the way down, that America could be better than her history. That we could be better. The distance between that morning and this one felt like the whole sad arc of the story, and for a moment I let myself sit inside the ache of it.

But the longer President Obama spoke, the more I understood I had it backwards.

He told a story I can't stop thinking about. The line we all know, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice, didn't start with Dr. King. King was borrowing it from a Boston minister named Theodore Parker, who preached it more than 170 years ago. And here is the part that broke me open: Parker preached it at one of the darkest moments this country had ever seen. The Compromise of 1850 had just made it a federal crime to shelter a man fleeing slavery. In Boston, a young fugitive had been seized, tried, and marched to the harbor by hundreds of armed officers, put on a ship, and sent back south into chains. While the whole city watched.

That is when Parker said it. Not in triumph. In the dark.

He admitted he couldn't see how it would end. “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe,�� he preached. “The arc is a long one. My eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve... I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see, I am sure it bends toward justice.”

He couldn't see it. He believed it anyway. And then he kept fighting.

As Obama put it today, Parker's words were “a declaration of faith, a defiant call, not to abandon hope or give way to fear, but to stay true to our better selves, and true to one another, and to keep fighting... even in the face of cruelty and bitter disappointment, even in the face of impossible odds.”

And that's when my tears changed. Right there. They stopped being grief and became something else, something that scared me a little with how much it felt like hope. Because I realized I wasn't witnessing a eulogy for a country we'd lost. I was watching a man reach down and hand us back the very thing we had set down in our exhaustion. The arc doesn't bend on its own. It never did. It bends because people put their hands on it and pull, people who can't see the end and reach for it anyway. People in the dark, refusing to believe the dark gets the last word.

He would not let the day be about him. He said it plainly: America's story “isn't frozen in the past. It has chapters yet to be written, not by one person or a few people, not by Barack and Michelle... but by all of us.” Michelle said the same thing in her own way, that the center was never about them, never for them. Look up at that building and you'll see three words cut into the stone: You are America.Not him. Not them. You. Us. The ordinary, the unfamous, the tired, us.

And then Bruce Springsteen walked out with a guitar and sang “Land of Hope and Dreams.” If you don't know it, it's a song about a train, a train with room for everybody on it. Saints and sinners. The lost. The broken. The ones who've been left standing at every other station their whole lives. This train carries everybody. He sang it soft and aching, like a prayer he wasn't sure would be answered but was going to say anyway, and when the last note left him he turned to the Obamas and said the only thing left to say. “I love you.”

[Una cierta donna @LaHijadeMagog]

Y, por si algunx está osando un mal rato, vean esto que es hermoso.