It should be illuminating that prosecuting sex trafficking, the thing that prosecutors and police across the country have been using as a cash cow to fund surveillance and weaponry, is actually not something government prosecutors care about at all.
The system does not hold people accountable.
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
Well, it's well within my skill range, but I don't work in plastics, so it would take a while to source in all natural materials; then there's my hourly rate...
So it could be done, but I think the technical term for what the price would be is "Oprah dough".
And, in this, the age of infinite monkeys, it turns out I am far from the first to think the medium lends itself well to a mossy tapestry:
DIY Latch Hook Moss Rug Kit: Forest Green Yarn Craft - Etsy share.google/38DsAhaaR74d...
A 1970's latch hook rug, in expected shades of brown, orange and umber; depicting trees in silhouette.
This is the sort of thing I was remembering...
Are latch hook rugs still a thing? I bet they'd be a great medium for this composition.
Frey: "You know what I don't want [ICE] focusing on? Hunting down a dad that just dropped his kids off at daycare, is about to go work a 12 hour shift who happens to be from Ecuador. That guy makes our city a better place."
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
I've been listening a lot to Purple Rain, because it's So Very Stuck in my head since NYE.
Meandering around outside, warm cup of tea in hand, following the very furry puppy enjoying her first snow.
A snowy scene at late dawn; evergreen trees from near to far perfectly limned with snow. Above, there is about half light blue and lavender clear sky, and half peach with grey towering clouds.
Sure, I've worked hard for decades to get here; but I still feel blessed and humbled that this is my yard now.
Howdy stylish neighbor!
Indeed. It spins up, ...right out of thin hair.
Wow brain. It's going to be like that today, is it?
I do this with balls of yarn too.
Lilly pads and a trio of magenta flowers floating on the surface of a pond
Water lillies 🌱
#MagentaMonday #Bloomscrolling
A green cedar tree and bare branches of a big leaf maple frame this photo of what looks like a bay, but is really flooded pasture. Grey sheets of continuing rain overlay it all.
The Skykomish a bit west, so down river, from Sultan. This view in usually all pasture.
Grey and brown photo of the Skykomish river at Goldbar, in very full flood. There are two surprised alder trees in the midground, producing a bow wave in the river current.
The Skykomish river, just down the hill from us, is less than a foot from record flooding.
Cat paw print in a red brick wall.
I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
A view of the nighttime sky over foothills, in shades of blue grey; the tastefully lensflared moon is shining through conifer treetops and a few light clouds. To the left of the moon shines a snippet of white and rainbow! It's a moon dog!
I knew about parhelion, but paraselene!?
It's such an honor to learn a new phenomena, and a gorgeous one at that.
2020 Old Reliable from @white2tea.bsky.social pulling me gently into consciousness on this extremely cold morning.
Rock Tea in a mysterious bowl
Rivers and Lakes Iron Arhat is a traditional style rock tea, and also very enjoyable.
#RockTea #YanCha #RiversAndLakesTea #Tea #Cha #DailyTea @riversandlakes.bsky.social
A mug of tea, a clay pot, a green package of tea, a mobile device play8ng an audiobook and a small notebook pinned open with a pen lie on a table.
Day 5 is Hatters tea. Cinnamon forward black tea with cranberries and Anise. I could smell the strawberries when I opened the package but otherwise it smells like Christmas. Cream balanced it out to a tasty cup. The Strength of the Few continues being my soundtrack. #booksky #teasky ☕️🫖🍵 💙📚 🎧📚 🪐📚
Wow the Dutch go...extremely hard
A billion sprinklers just so summer can cosplay as spring.
@chucktingle.bsky.social is coming to Seattle! we are prancing with excitement!
