Emily<p>Gaza needs aid now. They have been cut off for over 2 months. Plastics are being burnt down to make petrol. The people of Gaza deserve peace and a chance to recover.</p><p>Assuming Trump's intentions are more narcissistic spite and a goal to do additional business in the Middle East there than any humanitarian purposes...</p><p>but his latest moves have given some tiny shard of hope that Israel is no longer going to be supported in their genocidal destruction of Gaza </p><p><a href="https://forward.com/fast-forward/719107/honey-hes-had-enough-of-you-trumps-middle-east-moves-increasingly-appear-to-sideline-israel/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forward.com/fast-forward/71910</span><span class="invisible">7/honey-hes-had-enough-of-you-trumps-middle-east-moves-increasingly-appear-to-sideline-israel/</span></a></p>
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"Many of us like to ask ourselves, “What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?"
The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now." -Aaron Bushnell
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Emily<p>Northern spicebush, lindera benzoin</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/bloomscrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bloomscrolling</span></a></p>
Emily<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@KrajciTom" class="u-url mention">@<span>KrajciTom</span></a></span> My pleasure Tom, and you've continued to introduce me to many fascinating things through your posts and boosts, so thank you!</p>
Emily<p>It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, a story written in 1935 imagining a strongman U.S. President coming into power with the help of mass media propaganda. </p><p>This book was written at his wife's urging and based on her observations as a reporter in fascist Germany/Italy.</p><p>Little has apparently changed since 1935, parts of the story feel as if he is telling the true story of 2016-2025 Donald Trump. </p><p><a href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL38502181M/Sinclair_Lewis" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">openlibrary.org/books/OL385021</span><span class="invisible">81M/Sinclair_Lewis</span></a><br /><a href="https://toad.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
Emily<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@wood5y" class="u-url mention">@<span>wood5y</span></a></span> 70 is the new 50, but we don't hear any "80 is the new 60", "90 is the new 70"; the average life expectancy doesn't exceed 80. 70 is the new 50 takes years out of retirement but doesn't add years on to life</p>
Emily<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid" class="u-url mention">@<span>EndIsraeliApartheid</span></a></span> Speaking out against genocide makes one a "lunatic" in America, ridiculous</p>
Emily<p>“If the current occupant of the White House wants to protect women and girls, he should start by protecting the women and teenage girls who are suffering miscarriages and dying because they can’t get basic, life-saving health care in states across this country.... he should talk about the little girls and boys and infants in Sudan and other countries who are dying right now because he has cut off their supply of food and life-saving medicines.”</p><p>thank you Gov. Mills!<br /><a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/24/janet-mills-fires-back-after-trumps-demand-for-full-throated-apology/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pressherald.com/2025/03/24/jan</span><span class="invisible">et-mills-fires-back-after-trumps-demand-for-full-throated-apology/</span></a></p>
Emily<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@persagen" class="u-url mention">@<span>persagen</span></a></span> Elon predicted DOGE would save two trillion dollars total and said he'd use that to send every citizen $5000 checks, If DOGE instead loses half a trillion dollars does this mean we will be on the hook to pay $1250 per citizen to the government? 😆</p>
Emily<p>The store selling the sticker: <a href="https://annabrones.bigcartel.com/product/trilliumaires-not-billionaires-stickers?emci=093055c3-daf2-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&emdi=5ee29235-8b05-f011-90cd-0022482a9fb7&ceid=15768572" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">annabrones.bigcartel.com/produ</span><span class="invisible">ct/trilliumaires-not-billionaires-stickers?emci=093055c3-daf2-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&emdi=5ee29235-8b05-f011-90cd-0022482a9fb7&ceid=15768572</span></a></p><p>They are related to the Wild Seed Project, a wonderful organization. <a href="https://wildseedproject.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wildseedproject.net</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Emily<p>Trilliumaires not Billionaires</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/nativeplants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nativeplants</span></a></p>
Emily<p>Hope anyone with travel plans to the USA has cancelled by now for their safety. Also anyone in the US may face issues if they travel internationally and try to come back into the country. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained</span></a></p>
Emily<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ErikJonker" class="u-url mention">@<span>ErikJonker</span></a></span> on his dealings w the justice department:</p><p>"Another close Trump adviser simply says that the president’s ultimate leverage against certain judges who try to stand in the way of his agenda is that the judiciary does not command an army, while the president of the United States does. “Are they going to come and arrest him?” the adviser asked, rhetorically."</p><p> <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/inside-team-trump-attack-judges-defiance-court-orders-1235298463/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rollingstone.com/politics/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics-features/inside-team-trump-attack-judges-defiance-court-orders-1235298463/</span></a></p>
Emily<p>Trump was made fun of by Obama in 2011; it hurt his feelings so much it is believed this is why he ran for president:</p><p><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/watch-inside-the-night-president-obama-took-on-donald-trump/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article</span><span class="invisible">/watch-inside-the-night-president-obama-took-on-donald-trump/</span></a></p><p>If Trump knows Putin is making fun of him could he be enraged into doing something against Russia? </p><p>Or was he mostly enraged in 2011 because he's a racist, and now as an obedient pet to Putin he will take whatever insults he throws his way with a smile?</p>
Emily<p>The latest from Maine, Trump has given the state 10 days to start discriminating more or be sent to the DoJ for punishment. Eager for this state to hold the line and stand up against fascism by not folding to his demands that go against state law.</p><p><a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/17/trump-administration-asks-maine-to-change-transgender-athletes-policy-after-finding-title-ix-violations/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pressherald.com/2025/03/17/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-administration-asks-maine-to-change-transgender-athletes-policy-after-finding-title-ix-violations/</span></a></p>
Emily<p>48 people have been disappeared following ICE raids in New Mexico, </p><p>'“Disappeared” is a word that has most often been used in reference to people secreted away by military or law enforcement in repressive regimes in Latin America and other regions.'<br /><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/lawyers-advocates-say-48-people-are-unaccounted-ice-raid-new-mexico-rcna196773" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/news/latino/lawyer</span><span class="invisible">s-advocates-say-48-people-are-unaccounted-ice-raid-new-mexico-rcna196773</span></a></p>
Emily<p>A nice Irish garden song <br /><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfdCjvKmEBE" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfdCjvKm</span><span class="invisible">EBE</span></a></p>
Emily<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@TheAlexPerspective" class="u-url mention">@<span>TheAlexPerspective</span></a></span> A Tesla in sport mode drove directly into my friend's house, destroyed the structural integrity of the house</p>
Emily<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toad.social/@KimPerales" class="u-url mention">@<span>KimPerales</span></a></span> if DOGE had found USAID paid to have a massive TV brought in for video games to any office we would never hear the end of it</p>
Emily<p>One big improvement switching to Kobo plus from Audible/Kindle: the content included in the subscription is way higher quality. </p><p>Audible/Kindle free content had degraded to mostly ai-generated + narrated content over the past couple of years. Haven't run across any of that garbage on Kobo.</p>
Emily<p>The Maine republican representative who unfairly drew attention to a transgender high school student in a social media post says "All of the accomplishments of women over the years are being erased by men masquerading as women, erasing us from the history books,” </p><p>This gaslighting is unbelievable, the republican party is taking away the basic health rights of women but somehow a trans girl pole vaulting is "erasing women from the history books"?</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/maine-trump-janet-mills-transgender-girls-sports-education-social-security" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/maine-t</span><span class="invisible">rump-janet-mills-transgender-girls-sports-education-social-security</span></a></p>
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