Blessings on blessings on BLESSINGS!!!! I can’t thank God enough for the opportunities granted to me over the last few years. I never thought that I’d be an author but here I am. Once again, thank you God! 🥹😇

Timelapse flying by Hurricane Milton about 2 hours ago. 1/6400 sec exposure, 14mm, ISO 500, 0.5 sec interval, 30fps

The International Space Station just orbited above Hurricane Milton as it is re-intensifying over the southern Gulf of Mexico. Spectacular view from space.

❄️ It's getting cold outside, and hypothermia season is just around the corner. 🥶 If you see someone outside in need of shelter, call the Shelter Hotline at (202) 399-7093 or dial 311. 📱 If there is an immediate risk to safety, call 911. 🚨

🗳️ Vote at the Library! The General Election on Nov. 5 is just around the corner! Learn more and make your voting plan with DC Public Library today. Every vote counts! bit.ly/4dH3WQ8

DC's Early Vote Centers are officially open. 🗳️ You can cast your vote at ANY Early Vote Center throughout DC today until November 3rd. If you're not yet registered, don't worry—same-day voter registration is available with proof of DC residence. 📍tinyurl.com/DCVoteCenterLo…

On this day in 1968, Shirley Chisholm became first black woman elected to the United States Congress.

America isn’t better than this lol. This is exactly what this country is.

The dirty secret is that there’s no one that better represents America than Donald Trump. Rapist, tacky billionaire, charlatan, racist moron.

people who say "well trump was president in 2016 you'll live 🤓" do not realize tens of thousands of people died because he downplayed a pandemic and women today are dying because of the 3 supreme court justices he appointed

4.5 million people voted to keep slavery legal in California.

It’s not. We are living the backlash of that win

We must not delude ourselves in this moment. Multiracial democracy in the United States is less than 60 years old. It has always been contested, often violently so. It has always been fragile. Since this nation's inception large swaths of white Americans -- including white women

WaPo's endorsement finally drops.

“The Second Lost Cause” (thank you Richard Slotkin). Now, like accounts of the Civil War where the cause of the war wasn’t the issue of slavery but the economy and states’ rights, the reason for Trump’s election isn’t his appeal to grievance, fear, and hatred, its inflation and

Ppl view white as the default. Even nonwhite ppl do. So a white politician targeting white voters isn't identity politics to them. It's just politics. It's only identity politics to them when nonwhite voters are the ones being appealed to.

We've looked at an eclipse from both sides now... While @NASAGlenn was looking up to see last night's Blood Moon, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander was looking back at the "diamond ring" of a solar eclipse. A reminder that what you see often depends on your point of view.

D.C. libraries face about $1M in cuts after Trump’s order to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services. He called the IMLS—which funds local archives, ASL interpretation, and literacy outreach for teens—“unnecessary.” buff.ly/IOKfSAt

PEAK BLOOM is here at the Tidal Basin in DC 🌸🌸🌸. And, at sunrise today, just hours before it was declared by National Mall NPS -- the blossoms were backlit by a gorgeous peach-colored sky. Check out these amazing photos from Kevin Ambrose María Yliquín and Kari Jaksa