@jeanne-mayell I saw that too and remembered you saying that... and thinking ... yes... Little fires everywhere... as pockets of resistance arise like smoke only to disappear and reappear everywhere across this land.
Waiting for that protest folk anthem for these times?
Well, it has arrived!
Jesse Wells (fet) Joan Baez! He ha been composing some awesome music including an ICE song featured recently on The Late Show.
Here is No Kings!
( Yes, Joan Baez is singing!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YUtjnAdgMA
I learned this week that Ronald Lauder, the owner of the Estee Lauder Company, has been pushing for Trump to invade Greenland. Please see recent Guardian article here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/ronald-lauder-billionaire-donor-donald-trump-ukraine-greenland
I also learned that the makeup brand Bobbi Brown, which I've used for over 20 years, is part of the Estee Lauder Company. I emailed BB today to let them know I am no longer a customer and will never again use BB products or any other products made by Estee Lauder subsidiaries.
The Estee Lauder Company owns the following make-up, haircare, and fragrance brands:
MAC, Clinique, La Mer, Origins, Smashbox, Prescriptives, Aveda, Bumble and Bumble, Jo Malone, Frederic Malle, Aramis, Bobbi Brown
This is not a complete list.
If you feel so inclined, please consider finding a brand whose owner isn't actively undermining NATO and democracy.
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, the following is an excerpt from his final essay, A Testament of Hope:
People are often surprised to learn that I am an optimist. They know how often I have been jailed, how frequently the days and nights have been filled with frustration and sorrow, how bitter and dangerous are my adversaries. They expect these experiences to harden me into a grim and desperate man.
They fail, however, to perceive the sense of affirmation generated by the challenge of embracing struggle and surmounting obstacles. They have no comprehension of the strength that comes from faith in God and man.
It is possible for me to falter, but I am profoundly secure in my knowledge that God loves us; he has not worked out a design for our failure. Man has the capacity to do right as well as wrong, and his history is a path upward, not downward.
The past is strewn with the ruins of the empires of tyranny, and each is a monument not merely to man’s blunders but to his capacity to overcome them. While it is a bitter fact that in America in 1968, I am denied equality solely because I am black, yet I am not a chattel slave. Millions of people have fought thousands of battles to enlarge my freedom; restricted as it still is, progress has been made.
This is why I remain an optimist, though I am also a realist, about the barriers before us. Why is the issue of equality still so far from solution in America, a nation that professes itself to be democratic, inventive, hospitable to new ideas, rich, productive and awesomely powerful?
The problem is so tenacious because, despite its virtues and attributes, America is deeply racist and its democracy is flawed both economically and socially. All too many Americans believe justice will unfold painlessly or that its absence for black people will be tolerated tranquilly. Justice for black people will not flow into society merely from court decisions nor from fountains of political oratory. Nor will a few token changes quell all the tempestuous yearnings of millions of disadvantaged black people.
White America must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society. The comfortable, the entrenched, the privileged cannot continue to tremble at the prospect of change in the status quo.
I also learned that the makeup brand Bobbi Brown, which I've used for over 20 years, is part of the Estee Lauder Company
The founder of Bobbi Brown created a new make-up brand a few years back which is hers called Jones Road Beauty. Maybe give them a try @gbs.
I had no idea so many companies were under the Estée Lauder umbrella! Thanks for the information.
a short and sweet video of a priest kicking ICE out of church. I needed this today!
I found this gentleman on Youtube and really like what he has to say. I feel calm and empowered when I listen to him. He's done three videos so far. This is his second one:
What We Can Do—Starting Now | A Daily Civic Action Plan