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Retired & living my best life by the North Atlantic in blustery NL. Recovering legal beagle and former public servant, who’s still interested in public and civic life, and all things complex and political.
Thank you to the Miccosukee Tribe, along with environmental groups, for shutting down Alligator Alcatraz. The Everglades “protects life…is not meant to detain it.”
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The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...
Yah, like IncelBoy would know!! He really should go back to carrying luggage- preferably his own.
Profound words from Amanda Gorman. In dark times, the poets still hold the words for us all, so we remember..
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
DAY 27 AUGUST 2025
THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES
Today INNOCENT CHILDREN DIED & are injured
Keep them in your thoughts & heart 🙏😥
Tonight I share the great Amanda Gorman
"We carry tragedy, terrifying & true " "Even our children cannot be children"
"HYMN FOR THE HURTING"
You know that old idiom: there’s lies, damn lies, and statistics! 🥴
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder?
“Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
Father Michael Louis Pfleger a priest at the Sabina Catholic Church, a Black parish in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood has a message for Trump!
Before you dare speak about any violence in Chicago, look into your mirror, and address the violence coming from the White House! 🔥
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
What a f’g IDiot! He couldn’t plan his way out of a paper bag- even if it was wet. And yet nothing but 🦗🦗🦗 in Congress about his dwindling faculties. His brain is 🧀
Some of us at Third Act @thirdactorg.bsky.social are old enough to remember that once upon a time federal troops helped integrate American schools. Now...
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
