Art: Nikki Friede "One of the most dangerous things to believe about power, is that you have none." – Liz Scarfe,https://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm2ggprn7d2bThis may be what they think but the American people will stand together and fight back! We are not going back!17 May 2026 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2ggprn7d2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm2gcuhsm32bIn majority opinions gutting abortion rights and voting rights, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito made crucial errors. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/samuel-alito-facts-wrong17 May 2026 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2gcuhsm32bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm2g4ccybd2b17 May 2026 12:59 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2g4ccybd2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm2fjualwn2bThere’s an old saying we’ve all heard since childhood: you can dish it out, but you can’t take it. Nobody embodies that phrase better than Russian President Vladimir Putin. For four years, Putin has sold the world a fantasy wrapped in propaganda and soaked in blood.17 May 2026 12:49 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2fjualwn2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm2cn7xysf2bResolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer;17 May 2026 11:57 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2cn7xysf2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm2cd25v2l2bAsked how much Americans’ financial situations were motivating him to make a deal with Iran, President Donald Trump told reporters on May 12, 2026: “Not even a little bit. I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think17 May 2026 11:51 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2cd25v2l2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm2bwm5kkl2bWelcome to the weekly segment called This Week by the {Immigration} Numbers! I’ll highlight some of the main takeaways from the week’s news that you might have missed, and do it in a unique way. Rather than try to summarize everything,17 May 2026 11:44 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2bwm5kkl2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm2bpqinqt2b17 May 2026 11:40 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2bpqinqt2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm2boc67bl2b“Reducing her sentence sends the wrong message to those seeking to undermine trust in our elections, and it will do nothing to deter Donald Trump’s illegal attacks on Colorado,” said US Sen. John Hickenlooper. https://www.commondreams.org/news/tina-peters17 May 2026 11:40 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2boc67bl2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm2afckqeb2bIn 2004, a 21-year-old Italian woman named Elisabetta Tai Ferretto walked into Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse expecting a job audition and instead found America’s most well-connected pedophile naked on a massage table, holding a sex toy out to her like he was offering a breath mint.17 May 2026 11:17 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2afckqeb2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm2a6nm22b2bWe can all get more together than we can apart. And this is the way we gain power. Power is the ability to achieve purpose, power is the ability to effect change, and we need power. – Martin Luther King Jr Sunset around Tucson Arizona Photographer: Daniel Plumer Photography17 May 2026 11:13 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2a6nm22b2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm27u2xmgb2b17 May 2026 11:07 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm27u2xmgb2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm27opagpp2b— You Just Can’t Make This Up Alert: As Hantavirus Threat Grows, Trump Turns to a Penile Implant Expert to Reassure America.17 May 2026 11:04 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm27opagpp2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm27icnzeh2bIf the Democrats wake up, fire their profiteering consultants, and run on a specific “Compact for America,” they could landslide the Trumpitized GOP this November. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/stop-mega-gerrymandering17 May 2026 11:01 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm27icnzeh2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm27gdhjn72bPower concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them,17 May 2026 10:59 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm27gdhjn72bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm2757feih2bThe question of the day was “Which side of the bridge are you on?” It’s a question that all of the Republican politicians who rushed to dismantle voting rights over the last two weeks are going to have to answer for their children and their grandchildren.17 May 2026 10:54 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2757feih2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm26xd7feg2bThis is what Trump’s pardons represent. Not mercy. Not justice. Not reconciliation. They are a giant middle finger to every police officer who defended the Capitol, every member of Congress who feared for their lives, every American who17 May 2026 10:51 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm26xd7feg2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm26ticrmg2bWith a complete disregard for multilateral diplomatic agreements and international coalition building, the United States has once again entered into a violent conflict in the Middle East, providing no clear objective and contributing to the country’s instability. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-bully-iran-war17 May 2026 10:49 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm26ticrmg2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm26qntfbg2bJustice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. – Blaise Pascal Along the shore of Lake McDonald in Glacier Park. Photographer: Dennis Skinner Montana Call of the Wild Photography17 May 2026 10:47 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm26qntfbg2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm26kwkqd62bThe head of the U.S. Border Patrol resigned on Thursday. If you’re confused because you think that already happened a while ago, you can be forgiven. The recent cascade of firings and resignations at the Department of Homeland Security would make anyone’s head spin.17 May 2026 10:44 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm26kwkqd62bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm26filwmw2b“I get a chuckle out of the fact that a lot of folks in this political system who come from incredible amounts of privilege and wealth are the first ones to be like, ‘Are you really working class?” https://www.commondreams.org/news/graham-platner-family17 May 2026 10:41 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm26filwmw2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm264ldka62bWe are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail. -Jesse Jackson Sunset Salida Colorado Photographer: Lars Leber Photography17 May 2026 10:36 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm264ldka62bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm25s7skwg2bSo my question remains for anyone who still supports this wannabe authoritarian strongman: What exactly is the appeal? Is it the cruelty? The bullying? The grievance theater? The vengeance? The permission structure he provides to be your worst self without consequence?17 May 2026 10:30 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm25s7skwg2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm25nxkpcg2b17 May 2026 10:28 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm25nxkpcg2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm25lcbp6g2bThe lineage is the song. Socrates, Abraham, Moses, the woman at the tomb, Weil, the Hungarians at the ballot box. Every one of them is a verse. The song is not finished.17 May 2026 10:26 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm25lcbp6g2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm254qd3jo2b17 May 2026 10:18 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm254qd3jo2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm24zzdlb22bAmerica Was Always More Than a Country There has always been something unusual about the United States. Not pure, not innocent, not exempt from the brutalities and hypocrisies that mark the history of nations, but unusual all the same.17 May 2026 10:17 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm24zzdlb22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm24przie72bI was prouder yet when the state did the most Democratic thing possible last month and voted to redistrict Virginia in answer to Republicans’ fascist power grabs in myriad states across our country. This is the kind of fight that will be needed going forward if we are to survive.17 May 2026 10:11 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm24przie72bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm243tnh3p2bBut you and I are not powerless. We can achieve the next best outcome — limiting Trump’s power to do more damage — by getting out the vote on or before November 3 and throwing the cowardly Republican senators and17 May 2026 10:00 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm243tnh3p2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/conifergirl.bsky.social/post/3mm23tqky662bNearly eight years after the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the case is moving again. France has now opened a judicial investigation against Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The development follows years of investigative work,17 May 2026 09:55 +0000at://did:plc:cukyh664zwfwfsi2qo7otdkl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm23tqky662b