@anya I wasn't trying to imply that you posted an AI pic on purpose, it's just that when I tried to looked at it, the AI warning banner totally obscured the murderer's face. 😎*
*spoiler alert! It was an average looking white guy
@tesseract Heather Cox Richardson has been a life raft for my brain and sanity. Im am currently in NZ for the month and for the first time in my life I am more afraid to come back across my own borders in the US than any other border. I don't want to go home. When I would travel and the custom border control would smile and say "welcome home" it always felt so nice. Now, I am terrified of it and don't want to come back. This year he will do all he can to stay in power, or Vance and Stephen Miller will. He said before that Zelensky is only stil president as it is war time and maybe he needs a wartime to stay. He said if he loses midterms he will be impeachment. He knows he is doing impeachable things. Now he is also copying up to Elon again, maybe to help chea5? I have to say the perspective being out of the country this month is infinitely worse. I'll in a peaceful democracy and thier main news headline was a fruit fly issue. Then international news on rhe US and we look completely insane. More so on outside looking in. They are mostly sad for us here. Like watching your best friend lose their minds and being helpless to stop it. Or seeing them in an abusive relationship but staying with him because "you love him" no matter how much he abuses you. It is really sad for them to watch us. At least down in south pacific. And to be honest, I feel safest here. I work remote. Id rather stay here unless or until a major resistance becomes unified. Where is No Kings by the way??? We need more of that! Heather Cox Richardson said today that we are already in a fascist state, and she doesnt say that kind of thing lightly. Im rambling. Sorry. It is just so incredibly worse looking in at America from overseas. And I'm scared to cross my own border now. And I'm a white anglo saxon citizen. Still scared.
I just don't know. There aren't words. How did we get here? How can we ever come back from this? I can't envision how we can recover.
I can envision how we can recover, and, knowing what a heart warrior you are, I bet you will too at some point. These outrages will not be forgotten. I can only imagine how many people have been awakened by this terrible tragedy. It's the Boston Massacre in Minneapolis. The Boston Massacre was a pivotal event in turning the colonists against King George. I pray that the outrage so many area feeling will fuel their heart strength.
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@lynn When you reach the depths of despair, when you can’t foresee any recovery from oppression, when you feel helpless watching innocent people suffer, this is the time to go within. Close your eyes, go deep into your soul and sit in silence. Imagine a tiny spark in your inner vision and breathe it into a flame. Within that flame, imagine the future you want for these immigrants and imagine the U.S. as the country that welcomes them and appreciates them. There is power in visioning. We can not create a new America without imagining it first and fanning the flames of change. That is the beginning of power, the beginning of transformation. We all have that positive energy within us.
I know you have worked with immigrants for years and poured your heart into your work supporting these beautiful people. There are better days ahead. Hold on to that, because we need you and people like you to make a different outcome.
Thank you for everything you do, my friend. Sending you love and inner peace.
@bluebelle @jeanne-mayell Thank you. You both, and everyone in this beautiful community, are blessings.
@higgimic1020gmail-com How do you know? Is there a link about it, or a way to tell?
@lynn @bluebelle @journeywithme2 I was comparing Friday the Minneapolis murder to the Boston Massacre pivotal moment, and then, boom, yesterday, Boston held a Boston ICE Tea Party demonstration: "Ice belongs in the Harbor not on our streets"
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DSWPlPHDUHh/
@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