"The pattern is unmistakable: escalation without strategy."
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Today marks four years since Russia began its illegal, unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The human costs of Putin’s war are staggering. The world must continue to stand with Ukraine and ensure that Russia is held accountable for its atrocities. #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
"Authoritarian regimes usually include a special riot police force whose task is to disperse citizens who seek to protest, and a secret state police force whose assignments include the murder of dissenters or others designated as enemies." @timothysnyder.bsky.social,
On Tyranny
“This attempt to change or remove tribal markers and monuments dims the light of the healing and progress we have all made.”
"There are over 73,000 people currently detained in ICE custody across the United States, with many of the detention centers — including the massive Camp East Montana ICE detention center in El Paso — being accused of inhumane conditions and grave human rights violations."
"We must speak and act as a source of optimism, a beacon of freedom, a benign power forging a consensus approach toward a world of peace and growth and freedom. And American power must be accompanied by American generosity." Lee Hamilton
"The United States must be — and must be seen as — an optimistic and benign power. " Lee Hamilton
Longtime Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton, leader of Sept. 11 panel, dies at 94 | The Independent share.google/2AGRgPRFH8Ff...
"What, then, is attention?... it is the manner in which our consciousness is disposed towards whatever else exists. The choice we make of how we dispose our consciousness is the ultimate creative act: it renders the world what it is. It is, therefore, a moral act: it has consequences."
Book cover: The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World * Volume I * by Iain McGilchrist
"Attention changes the world." Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World * Volume I *
More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
Last day for Barren's Kindle Countdown Deal - 99p/c to download in honour of World Childless Week - s.byddi.com/barren
1 in 5 people are childless, so please share this post so they can see they are not alone. We are out there and we are worthy!
#worldchildlessweek
10th Femme Filmmakers Festival Official Program Now Available For Download
We apologise for the very late arrival of the official program of the 10th Femme Filmmakers Festival, but there is more than enough here to keep your senses buzzing in the week leading up to the online event. And don't…
So glad to hear that my idea for a #DirectedbyWomen Worldwide Film Viewing Party has inspired people to prioritize films by women directors over the course of this past decade! There really are SO many amazing options to choose from and more continue to be made.
Ten authors by whom I have read 5 books:
Lloyd Alexander
Jane Austen
Deepak Chopra
Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
Diana Gabaldon
P.D. James
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ellis Peters
Rupert Sheldrake
Alberto Villoldo
These are the authors who came to mind. I could list many more...
"On this July 4th, 249 years after our founders were compelled to put in writing the necessity of achieving independence, let’s take strength from their commitment to overcoming the yoke of oppression. And let’s not doubt our capacity now to overcome the despotic demands of a deranged dictator."
Finally!
Year of the Fox directed by Megan Fox @thecinechick is getting a theatrical release!
www.monumentreleasing.com/year-of-the-...
“I am intent on making sure our members have the space to grow, the opportunities to educate and learn from one another, and the support of their fellow filmmakers to carve out the best career they can,”
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will present its 10th Great Americans Medal to ARRAY's founder, Ava DuVernay, May 8 for her extraordinary contributions to the nation as a director, writer, producer and film distributor.
www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...
Thanks for making this!
TRS signal boost from @geekwire.com ... #teslaregretsyndrome #troublemakers
Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.
Cat presses head against my leg as I pet her.
I know just how she feels.
"Public attitudes are changing, old political and economic certainties melting away. Doubts about the mechanistic approach to agriculture and medicine are growing; the vision of conquering nature is losing its glamour. The climate is changing, both literally and metaphorically."
Val Kilmer in Thunderheart (1992)
"Run to the stronghold."
#RIP #ValKilmer
Even if you are already familiar with @timothysnyder.bsky.social 's 20 Lessons On Tyranny, go ahead and listen to John Lithgow read them. They are powerful and we can all benefit from reflecting on how we are living them.
'The “Polity IV” index—which measures levels of democracy and authoritarianism in every country—decided to re-classify the United States as a non-democracy. The official notice read as follows: “The USA is no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of autocracy.”'
