Ellen Barkin

“Without love there can be no justice.” “Without justice there can be no love.”...bell hooks

Three things that are somehow controversial that absolutely should not be: 1. You do not need to eat organic produce to be healthier, especially when plenty of people are struggling to eat even a single vegetable in a day. 2.Vaccines are preventive medicine, period. 3.RFK Jr. is an abomination to public health. Dead serious. His rhetoric is dangerous, and people are getting hurt.

The absolute cruelty of the US empire. Varoufakis compares the starvation embargo on Cuba to the genocide in Gaza. The US is intentionally denying children anesthetics to force regime change. An abomination of a crime.

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

- Fidel Castro

Anonymous I run a small bakery. Woman came in every Friday morning. Same order. Two blueberry muffins. One coffee. Always sat at the corner table. Read her book. Stayed an hour. Did this for three years. Then she stopped coming. After two months I got worried. Found her number in our loyalty program. Called. She answered. Voice weak. “Oh. Hi. I’ve been meaning to cancel that.” “Are you okay? You haven’t been in.” Long pause. “I have cancer. Stage four. I’m in hospice now. Those Friday mornings were my favorite part of the week. But I can’t make it anymore.” My heart broke. “What if I brought Friday to you?” Silence. Then crying. “You’d do that?” “Every Friday. Same time. Same order.” Showed up that Friday. She was in a hospital bed in her living room. So thin. But she smiled when she saw those muffins. We sat. She told me about her week. Her family. Her life. I listened. Just like at the bakery. Did this for six weeks. Every Friday. Last Friday she could barely stay awake. But she held that muffin. Took one bite. “Best thing I’ve tasted all week.” She passed on Monday. Her daughter called. “Mom’s last words were about you. She said ‘tell the baker thank you. Fridays kept me human until the end.’” Went to her funeral. Her daughter hugged me. “You gave her normal when everything else was hospitals and pain. You gave her Fridays.” Now I deliver to three hospice patients. Every Friday. Because sometimes a muffin isn’t just a muffin. It’s dignity. It’s routine. It’s proof that someone still sees you as you. Not as sick. Just as you.

At a press conference in Havana, Dr. Carlos Martinez reports that cancer is the leading cause of death for Cuban children five and under. Due to the U.S. blockade, Cuba is denied access to life-saving medicine and resources produced by the U.S., despite its proximity to the island. 🇨🇺 🇺🇸

Make it illegal for Instacart to use your kids sickness as a signal to charge more for orange juice

VOTE

Epstein's lawyer and accountant hired private investigators to stalk survivors. Forcing them off the road. Breaking into their homes. Kahn told Congress last week he "did nothing wrong." Virginia Giuffre says otherwise.

In six years of "maximum pressure" sanctions, Cuba's William Soler hospital went from performing 10,000 operations a year to just 2,000. In that same period, infant mortality in Cuba has more than doubled. Sanctions kill children, reports @bellybeastcuba. bellyofthebeastcuba.com/children-pay-t…

Let's send some love to @neal_katyal he did it AGAIN. Case pending but $166 billion in Trump's big beautiful tariff's, his favorite word have to be refunded. UNANIMOUS decision

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NEW: Bank of America reached a settlement with Jeffrey Epstein accusers who alleged it facilitated his sex-trafficking operation. JPMorgan Chase paid $290 million to settle a similar lawsuit, and Deutsche Bank $75 million. businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstei…

I want to know the truth We all want to know the truth

LIE. Ukraine did not start the war. He is helping his buddy Putin

Amen

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin

Svetlana Pozhidaeva spoke with me in 2023 for my piece on Jeffrey Epstein’s continued abuse of women after his 2008 conviction. She is one of several women Epstein sexually exploited under the guise of “assistant” roles. Back then, she explained without revealing her name how Epstein controlled her immigration, finances and housing, and pressured her into introducing him to other models. Now she is speaking on the record. “It’s been hard for me because for many years I’ve been so embarrassed that I wasn’t underage when I met him. I was in my early 20s,” she said in a recent interview. “I kept thinking that I was at fault for putting myself in this situation.” Worth noting, because it often gets lost: After his 2008 conviction, Epstein shifted his focus to adult women who looked like teenagers — many of them fashion models from Europe and Russia. He dangled fake jobs tied to his famous connections, promising work at places like Victoria's Secret. He rarely delivered. wsj.com/us-news/epstei…

For the first time in 70 years the UN broke from consensus for the global reaffirmation of women’s rights. 37 Nations in favor & 1 against. Of course that one against the reaffirmation of women’s rights was the United States because of language that included: -diversity, equity & inclusion -the effects of climate change on women - regulations for AI -the definition of gender - the reproductive health rights of women&girls Don’t ever try to tell me this administration cares about women & girls.