Citizens demanding transparency and lawfulness from their public servants.

📢This is the way.
#ChicagoStrong

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

NEW: Pope Leo’s newly appointed Bishop, Michael Pham, outside the court in San Diego:

“We need to speak up for the voiceless in our society - and we will.”

The video then shows masked ICE agents leaving without snatching anyone today.

More of this resistance nationwide! 👏

(🎥 PSL San Diego)

Bishop Michael Pham, Pope Leo XIV’s first appointment, and first Vietnamese American to lead an American diocese, is calling on people of faith to stand with immigrants.

He joined immigrants at the San Diego courthouse today in solidarity, and ICE left empty handed.

Via @pslsandiego

In the face of hate, anger, and division, find and expand the resistant strength of love, joy, and community. We need every bit of it—not only to withstand and defeat the onslaught, but to move forward together and build into the next chapter.

"50 years from now, you want to be able to look in the mirror and know that you did what you thought was right, in every part of your life. In the end, your integrity is all that you have. Guard it carefully." Jerome Powell

And there it is. Senator Cory Booker makes history-- the longest standing filibuster in US history at 24 hours 19 minutes and counting.

Good trouble.

WHAT A PROTEST by the US Army Chorus at the Governors' Ball in the presence of Trump. Music speaking truth to power. It warms my heart.
'Do you hear the people sing
Lost in the valley of the night?
It is the music of a people
Who are climbing to the light'
Do You Hear The People Sing?
Les Miserables

“In God’s kingdom, immigrants and refugees, transgender people, the poor and the marginalized are not at the edges fearful and alone. They are at the center of the Gospel story.” - Episcopal Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe. ⚓️ #episcopalchurch #jesus #christianity #lgbt

Covering harmful behavior with Christian language doesn’t make it Christlike.

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

On an AA flight that landed at JFK waiting for a gate. Two littles were crying because of their ear pain on landing. After a couple minutes the flight attendant started singing *Twinkle Twinkle little star’, the entire plane joined in, the kids stopped crying, and this is the world I wanna live in.

A good news story.

“The bumblebee population has made an impressive comeback in a developed area by increasing to 116 times what it was two years ago thanks to a nature restoration group.”

https://www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bumblebee-population-increases-116-times-over-in-remarkable-scotland-proje…

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.” –Anne Lamott

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
Martin Luther King Jr Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 1964.

I choose right ❤️