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90 Fire: Composite panorama of burned grassland and cottonwoods on the bank of the San Pedro River in Cochise County, Arizona. 

The fire began on July 12, and was still smoldering

to the north

a week later  when this photo was taken. About 215 acres (87 ha) burned. The damage seen here is just north of the AZ Highway 90 bridge over the San Pedro. San Pedro House and trails to the south of the highway were not affected. 

Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.

Georgia Congressman John Lewis, from a Twitter post in June 2018 encouraging righteous agitation for righteous causes. He died today at age 80 of pancreatic cancer. 

In their obituary the New York Times calls him a “towering figure of civil rights.” When conferring the Presidential Medal of Freedom on him in 2011, President Obama said of him, “Generations from now, when parents teach their children what is meant by courage, the story of John Lewis will come to mind — an American who knew that change could not wait for some other person or some other time; whose life is a lesson in the fierce urgency of now.”

I see guys in camo, four or five of them pop out, open the door and it was just like, ‘Oh shit. I don’t know who you are or what you want with us.’

Conner O’Shea, a protester in Portland, Oregon, describing his arrest by unidentified federal law enforcement officers on July 15 as reported by Oregon Public Broadcasting. O’Shea was likely arrested by officers of the U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group or Customs and Border Protection’s BORTAC, operating in Portland at the direction of Donald Trump and acting Homeland Security secretary Chad Wolf. O’Shea was arrested away from federal property, and without probable cause. 

This is what fascism looks like.