Quinnessence 🖤

“The evil was not in bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease.”

Sharing one person's Social Security data without consent is a felony. DOGE shared EVERYONE'S PRIVATE DATA. 340 million felonies.

Taxpayers are paying for ICE agents to go to the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics. And conservatives are worried about people on SNAP buying cookies.

Breaking NBC: Family members of two Trinidadian men who were killed in a U.S. boat strike in October have sued the U.S. government — accusing it of wrongful death and extrajudicial killings. The lawsuit is the first of its kind to be filed against the Trump admin.

Alex Pretti's memorial in Minneapolis

When You Protest In Western Democracy:

Walk for Peace. One of the most healing things happening in the world right now is not loud. It is not political. It is not asking for attention. 20 monks walking 2.300 miles across America to achieve peace. #WalkForPeace #AlokathePeaceDog🌿🪷#BuddhistMonks #PeaceJourney 🕊🌿

Dear @SenSchumer and @RepJeffries BREAK THE GLASS. PULL THE ALARM. DO SOMETHING NOW TO STOP THIS OR STEP DOWN.

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I'm getting very heated lectures from my combat vet husband now on the military Rules of Engagement. He's showing me little RoE cards they had for Kuwait, pacing back and forth, mad as hell. Makes me wonder how many other vets out there are doing the same thing right now...😬

ICE IS the worst of the worst.

At Roosevelt High School, agents said they were chasing a hit-and-run suspect. But video shows them harassing and tackling teachers and students during dismissal. They seek violence, then lie about it.

Wow, who knew there was this much waste, fraud, and abuse in Florida.

Sending Tom Homan to Minneapolis is like sending Jeffrey Epstein to the Mar-a-Lago spa.

🚨 🚨 🚨 WHAT THE FUCK??? All the MURDER and all the protests and all the chaos will stop immediately if Trump gets ICE the FUCK out of Minnesota. So what does he do? He is sending corrupt Tom Fucking Homan and more goons into the occupied blue city. The chaos is the point.

🔥MINNESOTA MAN to @Stone_SkyNews: “The mood is anger. We’re angry with our federal government for invading us for no good reason other than Trump wasn’t backed here— it’s a violent, brutal fascist administration. Trump’s a terrible bully. We’re defending this place against him.”

I have to assume that 1984 is not required reading in US schools at this point. Or Fahrenheit 451.

Our resident Great Blue Heron has been weathering the blizzard with aplomb. I spotted it knee-deep in snow in Central Park's Loch during the height of the storm. 💙🩶💙 #Herons #CentralPark #birdcpp