@loamandgrace.bsky.social
Dirt, moss & lichen lover. Midwest transplant, but still a New Yorker at heart. Artist, naturalist, neurodivergent. mom to a couple cool humans. I will like all your pet pictures.
Gah! These textiles are so beautiful!
Molas, textiles using a reverse appliqué technique by women of the Indigenous Guna people, Panama #WomensArt
December 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Gah! These textiles are so beautiful!
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The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami.
They are lying to us.
They are lying to us.
December 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami.
They are lying to us.
They are lying to us.
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Don't be evil?
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Don't be evil?
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Cruelty is the word that keeps surfacing
The cruelty is the point.
Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago spent nearly two months in ICE detention—despite having protection under DACA—until a federal judge ruled that the government had no reason to keep her in custody and ordered her release.
DHS is still vowing to "explore every available option to remove" her. My latest:
DHS is still vowing to "explore every available option to remove" her. My latest:
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Cruelty is the word that keeps surfacing
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So fun that I can’t believe anything I see on the internet is real anymore. What a great future. Good job rich guys.
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
So fun that I can’t believe anything I see on the internet is real anymore. What a great future. Good job rich guys.
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i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
Yarn-bombing is thought to have originated in Texas USA, instigated by clothes-shop owner Magda Sayeg and a group known as Knitta Please, who began the "knit graffiti" movement to brighten up public spaces as a form of street art #Womensart
November 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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November 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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If you're dealing with food insecurity with food stamps being cut off in November, you can find local food pantries at foodfinder.us
FindHelp also has food bank and pantry listings, as well as other mutual aid orgs and resources
findhelp.org
FindHelp also has food bank and pantry listings, as well as other mutual aid orgs and resources
findhelp.org
October 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
If you're dealing with food insecurity with food stamps being cut off in November, you can find local food pantries at foodfinder.us
FindHelp also has food bank and pantry listings, as well as other mutual aid orgs and resources
findhelp.org
FindHelp also has food bank and pantry listings, as well as other mutual aid orgs and resources
findhelp.org
I think this is actually a smart idea. Large scale or small scale.
@kentcountyindivisi.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @jasonfugate.dev
@kentcountyindivisi.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @jasonfugate.dev
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I think this is actually a smart idea. Large scale or small scale.
@kentcountyindivisi.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @jasonfugate.dev
@kentcountyindivisi.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @jasonfugate.dev
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Congress established an emergency fund to ensure that millions of Americans on SNAP continue to receive nutrition assistance when funding expires in November.
Mr. President: Don’t let kids go hungry. Use these emergency funds to feed low-income families.
Mr. President: Don’t let kids go hungry. Use these emergency funds to feed low-income families.
October 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Congress established an emergency fund to ensure that millions of Americans on SNAP continue to receive nutrition assistance when funding expires in November.
Mr. President: Don’t let kids go hungry. Use these emergency funds to feed low-income families.
Mr. President: Don’t let kids go hungry. Use these emergency funds to feed low-income families.
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#ICYMI: Among the citizens detained by immigration agents are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
#ICYMI: Among the citizens detained by immigration agents are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it
October 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it
Ah, and one of my favorite quilt pieces:
'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, she used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state.
Find out more in the first Womensart book, Unravelling Women's Art on textile artist rebels and pioneers!
Find out more in the first Womensart book, Unravelling Women's Art on textile artist rebels and pioneers!
October 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Ah, and one of my favorite quilt pieces:
Again, 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children.
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Again, 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children.
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Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.
October 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.
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Nasty business
October 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Nasty business
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"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...
Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby
Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.
www.nbcchicago.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...
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The RIFs that began Friday will reportedly cut 65% of CISA’s 2,540 employees, one of the dumbest and most dangerous moves imaginable. CISA defends the nation’s cyber and critical infrastructure. Destroying it now only makes sense if you’re afraid of election integrity.
October 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The RIFs that began Friday will reportedly cut 65% of CISA’s 2,540 employees, one of the dumbest and most dangerous moves imaginable. CISA defends the nation’s cyber and critical infrastructure. Destroying it now only makes sense if you’re afraid of election integrity.
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FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:49 AM
FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Oh, one of my favorite paintings.
“Artemisia Gentileschi assembles composition, light, anatomy, and material truth into a single moral engine that runs on courage”
“the tyrant’s defeat is earned stroke by stroke”
“a scene where justice is made visible and agency becomes action.”
“Artemisia Gentileschi assembles composition, light, anatomy, and material truth into a single moral engine that runs on courage”
“the tyrant’s defeat is earned stroke by stroke”
“a scene where justice is made visible and agency becomes action.”
October 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Oh, one of my favorite paintings.
“Artemisia Gentileschi assembles composition, light, anatomy, and material truth into a single moral engine that runs on courage”
“the tyrant’s defeat is earned stroke by stroke”
“a scene where justice is made visible and agency becomes action.”
“Artemisia Gentileschi assembles composition, light, anatomy, and material truth into a single moral engine that runs on courage”
“the tyrant’s defeat is earned stroke by stroke”
“a scene where justice is made visible and agency becomes action.”
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i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
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Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...
Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER
In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.
blockclubchicago.org
October 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social
This feels like an escalation in the the scale and extreme actions ICE is taking www.wbez.org/immigration/...
This feels like an escalation in the the scale and extreme actions ICE is taking www.wbez.org/immigration/...
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
www.wbez.org
October 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
This feels like an escalation in the the scale and extreme actions ICE is taking www.wbez.org/immigration/...
This feels like an escalation in the the scale and extreme actions ICE is taking www.wbez.org/immigration/...
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EMERGENCY MEDICAID REIMBURSES HOSPITALS FOR CARE TO UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS BECAUSE BY LAW HOSPITALS CANNOT TURN AWAY ANYONE IN AN EMERGENCY.
RONALD REGAN SIGNED THIS INTO LAW.
RONALD REGAN SIGNED THIS INTO LAW.
October 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
EMERGENCY MEDICAID REIMBURSES HOSPITALS FOR CARE TO UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS BECAUSE BY LAW HOSPITALS CANNOT TURN AWAY ANYONE IN AN EMERGENCY.
RONALD REGAN SIGNED THIS INTO LAW.
RONALD REGAN SIGNED THIS INTO LAW.