💪🏾 Health equity in action.

🗣️Yesterday was the first time teaching a free bilingual Strength and Power Class for Older Adults at La Alianza Hispana in Boston.

❤️I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to give back to an organization that supported my family years ago and continues to uplift our community.

#Boston #Healthyaging #nonprofit #seniors #America #Latinos #fitness #longevity #Community #healthequity #hiit #groupfitness #hispanic #immigration #strongertogether

🩵💛 Blue & Gold. A stunning abandoned synagogue, built in the 1920s. Somewhere in the USA

The beautiful circular sanctuary held over 1,000 worshippers and supported the area's Jewish community as it grew to its peak in the 1930s and 1940s. It closed in the 1990s, as families moved away to more suburban areas as the town's industry declined and urban regeneration plans failed.

https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/religious/blue-and-gold-synagogue-usa/

#USA #America #Abandoned #Urbex #AbandonedPlaces #Synagogue #Worship #Closed

🩵💛 Blue & Gold. A stunning abandoned synagogue, built in the 1920s. Somewhere in the USA

The beautiful circular sanctuary held over 1,000 worshippers and supported the area's Jewish community as it grew to its peak in the 1930s and 1940s. It closed in the 1990s, as families moved away to more suburban areas as the town's industry declined and urban regeneration plans failed.

https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/religious/blue-and-gold-synagogue-usa/

#USA #America #Abandoned #Urbex #AbandonedPlaces #Synagogue #Worship #Closed

Comparing the Latitude of Europe and America

https://vividmaps.com/comparing-latitude-of-europe-and-america/

#HackerNews #ComparingLatitude #Europe #America #Geography #Maps

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➡️ By taking even small steps to learn about local tribes and their histories, support Native-owned businesses and artists and participate in cultural events, we show solidarity—not just in November, but all year long.

#NativeAmerican #indigenous #heritage #history #America #Alaska #facts #wisdom #nature #arts #business #supportnativeart #localtribes

🌅 November is Native American Indian and Alaskan Native Heritage Month

🪶This month we honor the original stewards of this land, from Alaska to the Mainland, recognizing their vibrant culture, rich heritage, and significant impact on the nation's history and contemporary life, as well as their ongoing fight for dignity and sovereignty.

#NativeAmerican #indigenous #heritage #history #America #Alaska #facts #wisdom #nature #arts #business

Letters from an American – November 10, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson

Letters from an American, November 10, 2025

By Heather Cox Richardson, Nov 10, 2025

Last night, the Senate advanced a measure to end the government shutdown, which at 41 days today is the longest in U.S. history.

November 10, 2025 by Heather Cox Richardson

Read on Substack

Seven Democrats and one Independent voted with all but one Republican to advance a measure that funds the government through January 30 of next year. It includes funding for military construction and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, and operations for the legislative branch, or Congress. Tucked within that last appropriation is a measure that allows the eight Republican senators whose phone logs were seized during former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, to sue the government for up to $500,000 apiece.

The measure stops the administration’s firings of public employees during the shutdown, reinstating them with full pay. States will be reimbursed for monies they spent covering for federal shortfalls during the shutdown. This means air traffic controllers, who have been working without pay for more than a month, will get paid again.

The measure also funds the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), although it does not restore the cuts Republicans made to it in their budget reconciliation bill of July—the one they call the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”

While the measure provides more funding for Indigenous health services, it does nothing to extend the premium tax credits for insurance purchased on the Affordable Care Act healthcare marketplace. Without those credits, millions will lose their healthcare insurance and millions more will face skyrocketing premiums. Republicans did not extend the premium tax credits in their July budget reconciliation bill, although they did extend tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.

Senate Democrats said they would not advance a measure to end the shutdown without a deal to extend the premium tax credits, but seven of them, along with one Independent, have now done so. Senate majority leader John Thune (R-SD) has promised to bring to the Senate floor a bill to extend the premium tax credits before the end of the second week of December. It will be written by the Democrats.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: November 10, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson

#2025 #america #democraticParty #democraticShutdownDeal #donaldTrump #education #heatherCoxRichardson #history #lettersFromAnAmerican #library #libraryOfCongress #opinion #politics #resistance #science #trump #trumpAdministration #uSFederalShutdown2025 #unitedStates

This is the first time I’ve known about #SAFE (Security Action For Europe) which appears to be an alternative to #NATO if #America 🇺🇸 exits the alliance.

I do wonder if money is the reason the #UK 🇬🇧 rejected the offer‽

👉🏾 UK rejects EU’s €6.75 billion fee for defense fund participation https://www.investing.com/news/world-news/uk-rejects-eus-675-billion-fee-for-defense-fund-participation-93CH-4348724

Happy Veterans Day. 🇺🇸 Gratitude ✨

To all veterans and service members: thank you for your profound sacrifices. You safeguard the freedoms we cherish, empower us to pursue our dreams, and allow us to gather with loved ones in peace.

I’m especially grateful to the veterans and service members among my friends and family—your strength and humility continue to inspire me.

We honor you today. We honor you always.

#Veterans #Military #America #Democracy #freedom #Gratitude #USA #heroes

@randahl It would have gone exactly the same way. #Stupid #America #MAGA

I believe Apple will eventually emerge victorious over the #EuropeanUnion 🇪🇺 due to the fact they have backing from #Trump.

Neither #Europe nor #America 🇺🇸 want a trade war, but Trump is like the joker 🃏 & willing to risk burning it all to the ground in order to get his way.

👉🏾 #Apple blasts #EU 🇪🇺 over digital competition laws, warning they make "fraud and scams" more likely https://www.cbsnews.com/news/apple-blasts-europe-digital-competition-laws-fraud-and-scams/

I did not realize Wise is relocating from the #UnitedKingdom 🇬🇧 to the #UnitedStates 🇺🇸.

They are my favorite banking entity after credit unions (I am not a fan of most banks 🏦 in #America 🇺🇸).

👉🏾 Wise Forges Ahead With Push Into US Despite Soaring Expenses https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-06/wise-forges-ahead-with-push-into-us-despite-soaring-expenses

We always knew, and here it's official:

🚩 #Microsoft Can't Keep #EU Data Safe From #US Authorities 🚩 https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/07/22/microsoft-cant-keep-eu-data-safe-from-us-authorities/

🚨 It's about time the world acts accordingly! 🚨

#Europe #sovereignty #GAFAM #cloud #USA #America #privacy #HumanRights

We always knew, and here it's official:

🚩 #Microsoft Can't Keep #EU Data Safe From #US Authorities 🚩 https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/07/22/microsoft-cant-keep-eu-data-safe-from-us-authorities/

🚨 It's about time the world acts accordingly! 🚨

#Europe #sovereignty #GAFAM #cloud #USA #America #privacy #HumanRights

🇭🇹🇺🇸Celebrating the Grand Opening of Action for Haitian Community Development (AHCD) in Malden today alongside fellow Chamber and community members! 🎉

👏🏽I'm proud to support this milestone as a Malden Chamber Board Member and deeply value this work as a first-generation adult child of immigrants. Congratulations, AHCD!✨

#Haiti #haitian #CommunityBuilding #immigrants #ESL #America #culture #maldenma #northshorema #careers

Well... This is real. How's it feel being so great, America?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace

#USA #MAGA #LaughingAtYou #NotWithYou #Trump #DementiaDon #Crime #GOP #Republicans #Politics #Shutdown #America #Whitehouse #Racism #YourTaxDollarsAtWork

There are enough tariff laws (with enough loopholes) that Trump can switch which tariff laws he is using in order to get his desired tariff rate.

If #Democrats do not take back both chambers of Congress (unlikely due to the #GOP gerrymandering), then #America 🇺🇸 will suffer three more years of this fiscal nonsense!

👉🏾 Supreme Court won't stop #Trump's tariffs. Deal with it, officials say https://www.reuters.com/world/china/supreme-court-wont-stop-trumps-tariffs-deal-with-it-officials-say-2025-11-03/

"When discussing #Lithuanian emigration today, Norway or the United Kingdom often come to mind. But 150 years ago, #Lithuanians – and particularly Lithuanian #Jews – were looking much farther afield, to #America, #Palestine and even #SouthAfrica.

#Historians say the great migration of the #19thcentury was driven not only by economic need and political pressure but also by the promise of a more liberal life and the growing influence of global transportation networks."

This was a big chunk of my family. Got here in the 1890s.

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2710065/railroads-steamers-and-jewish-migration-from-lithuania