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dragsh.bsky.social
Getting to the age where I don’t give a toss. Reader, gardener, mother, partner, still working. Wise enough.
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As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

submitted 7 days ago • 192 comments

Humans aren't illegal, but the disgusting dehumanization and demonization from this regime should be 👇 #ResistTrump

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

Visit Britain - It's like Spain but with electricity

submitted 53 days ago • 25 comments

It isn't that America lacks courage. It's that we’ve become so cut off from one another that many of us feel alone, which makes us feel afraid. But when we are surrounded by courageous people, all of us become more courageous.  Courage is contagious.

submitted 59 days ago • 309 comments

As we fight tyranny, we build solidarity. From solidarity, we draw courage. Surrounded by courageous people and institutions, we more easily find courage within ourselves to keep fighting. Remember: tyranny is only possible if people submit to it.

submitted 63 days ago • 171 comments

Thanks to @jamesclear.bsky.social for this thought for the day. Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson on personal responsibility: "Sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences." Source: Old Mortality (1884)​​

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

submitted 82 days ago • 199 comments

Trump has dropped or halted more than 1 in 5 investigations and enforcement actions against corporate lawbreakers.  At least 34 of those companies — including Tesla, Amazon, and Wells Fargo — gave over $34M to Trump's inaugural.  It's a new Golden Age for corporate criminals.

submitted 105 days ago • 159 comments

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau: "Today, the United States launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying murderous dictator. Make that makes sense."

submitted 107 days ago • 97 comments

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

submitted 111 days ago • 199 comments

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

submitted 111 days ago • 450 comments

This is truly shameful. Even China and Iran abstained. The US has put itself in the company of some of the worst states in the world - Russia, Belarus, North Korea. Hungary showing its true colours as Russia's Trojan horse in the EU as well.

submitted 115 days ago • 68 comments

submitted 120 days ago • 3 comments

Due to the layoffs I am afraid that we have had to take over the running of the US National Parks. We are updating the park regulations but for now the most important thing people can do before visiting a national park is to marinade themselves for 12 hours in olive oil, lime juice & garlic.

submitted 122 days ago • 31 comments

"Elon Musk is not the president, but it appears that he—a foreign-born, unelected billionaire who was not confirmed by Congress—is exercising profound influence over the federal government of the United States...It is nothing short of an administrative coup." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 135 days ago • 128 comments

submitted 137 days ago • 763 comments

Musk running the show. Beginning with federal HR. If you’re not party faithful, fear for your jobs.

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty much every institution/industry sees the need for an independent safeguarding regulator - usually funded by the industry itself Sport, to which millions of our youngest & most vulnerable have access, doesn’t It should www.nytimes.com/athletic/594...

submitted 210 days ago • 0 comments

As the snow came down this morning I was definitely snerdling.

submitted 212 days ago • 0 comments

Child poverty is the big issue of our time. Every politician should be focused on ending it for good. I’m joining forces with @bigissue.bsky.social in calling for a POVERTY ZERO LAW - a statutory duty for every gov’t to set POVERTY REDUCTION TARGETS. Support here👇🙏 act.newmode.net/action/big-i...

submitted 214 days ago • 26 comments

Delighted to be here. Had fun for a while in the other place but I don’t belong there any longer.

submitted 214 days ago • 0 comments