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With the $45 million being spent on the president's parade here’s what that money could do for veterans instead: House 3k veterans for an entire year in transitional housing Provide full PTSD treatment for 3.75k veterans for a year Deliver job training to 9k veterans through 12-week programs

What country is this?

@holdenthorp.bsky.social on point. “The US will no longer have the same window into the technologies of the future that will allow it to shape & anticipate commercial & societal advances. This will eventually reduce the market successes & global leadership that the US has boasted since WW II.”

Hegseth wants to rename the USNS Harvey Milk because it doesn’t fit the “warrior ethos” he’s pushing. He served, was forced out for being gay, and still came back to fight for the country that tried to erase him. THAT is a warrior.

The people at @msnbc.com helped me make this video

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

The media loves to debate and discuss what can be said or done to bring about peace between Ukraine and Russia. But anyone with common sense knows Russia only wants war, territory, annexation. THE key argument for the media to make is: TRUMP'S ACTIONS SUPPORT AND MIRROR PUTIN TALKING POINTS. Period!

This administration will twist facts...dodge questions...and smear reputations....anything to avoid saying the one honest thing about Kilmar Abrego Garcia: “We were wrong.” The arrogance is staggering...and the damage they’re doing to justice is unforgivable.

VETERAN: “This is why they can’t wear masks. Because people like this exist… if you want to snatch people off the streets, do it in uniform, and show your damn face.” (@MarshaBlackburn’s Secret Police bill criminalizes transparency and threatens 5 years for naming an ICE agent)

Bernie, you rascal! You’re spot on here.

In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented. (Photo from a colleague in DC)

See the difference? 👀

Right now, Muslims in Gaza are supposed to be celebrating Eid al-Adha. Instead of feasting, they are starving. Instead of gathering with their loved ones, they are burying their children. Netanyahu and the IDF can end this misery ANY time by agreeing to a ceasefire and allowing aid into Gaza.

Pam Bondi is making a lot of claims about Garcia that he isn't being charged with. If he smuggled weapons and drugs, why isn't that charged? if he solicited explicit child videos - why isn't that charged either?

via Wild Bird Scoop

Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.

More Trump Bullshit

“We are eroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health & quality of life worldwide.” This makes for a grim read. ONE MILLION species at risk of near term extinction. That’s 999,999 species plus the species containing all the people you love.

By the way a military parade when we’re not celebrating a war victory is something a dude who never served would do.

Now everyone will go look up the book and it will make NY Times. #sighs #booksky #writingcommunity

Attention: Miami-Dade Residents

The part of the May jobs report that everyone is overlooking: “The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for March was revised down by 65,000, from +185,000 to +120,000, and the change for April was revised down by 30,000, from +177,000 to +147,000…

Excellent Question! Answer: It Was Always A Lie!

Really shocked that an admin filled with podcasters, social media influencers, reality TV participants, indicted felons, crypto bros, drunks, Fox hosts, drug addicts, weirdos, and unqualified ass kissing toadies can’t keep their shit together for 24 consecutive hours.

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

Share this on X just to stir shit. We need to use this fucking shit to our advantage while have the chance.

Well, not quite all of them. But it will be a start.

To our Government, Leave LGBTQ people the hell alone. Sincerely, The American Majority

“Half the tree of life disappearing in one human lifetime.” As this heartbreaking eulogy makes clear, the amount of beauty & wonder we’ve lost is truly overwhelming. All life is connected, & we’re currently on track to learn this truth in the most painful way possible.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Every $1 spent on NIH funding returns nearly $3 to the economy - an almost 200% return on investment💰. Also 99% of drugs developed 2010-2019 were funded by NIH ‼️🤯 Cutting NIH funding not only hurts the economy but will hurt families and patients 😔💔

Tucked inside the House GOP tax bill? A massive national voucher program. $5B/year in tax credits to subsidize private & religious schools—$20B over 4 years. Public money, zero oversight. A backdoor defund of public education masked as “choice.” Hands Off Public Schools

This is a huge story keep it going ..unfortunately there are so many brainwashed women that are willing to let women including themselves die..to own the libs

HUGE BREAKING NEWS: Pete Buttigieg is seriously considering running for Senate in Michigan after Gretchen Whitmer says she wouldn’t run for the open seat. Smash that RT if you agree Secretary Buttigieg would make a FANTASTIC Senator!! 💙💙

They’re stealing from us. Call it what it is: a damn robbery, not a budget.

Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

Flood the line.