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Retired teacher, avid reader, dog lover, knitter. Old enough to have been thru this all in the 60's. Can't believe everything we fought for is gone.
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Trump cuts to aid leave food destined for desperate millions rotting in storage https://twp.ai/4inlcF

Be sure to stop & smell the flowers today 🌸

To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.

For those keeping score at home — Trump’s AG, FBI Director, and chief of staff have all been on Qatar’s payroll. #SwampForceOne ✈️

The 88 crowd are clutching their pearls at 86

New: a man 'disappeared' by ICE was not included on a government list of people deported to El Salvador's mega prison. But we found his name in a hacked flight manifest to the country. Raises questions about how much the government knows about who it is deporting www.404media.co/man-disappea...

“She’s black and not a Trump cultist so we fired her” bsky.app/profile/anne...

You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind. “They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.” www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

Foreign Emoluments Clause going real strong.

Hed could also be: “Trump plans to accept a bribe from a foreign state in violation of the explicit text of the Constitution” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

Fired a black person who was qualified, hired a white person with no qualifications whatsoever. The Trump administration in a nutshell bsky.app/profile/axio...

He almost put enough gold stuff in the White House to make it look like the Kremlin. Not quite, but he’ll get there.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Smart strategy: "The compact's funds would be distributed to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement, including legal counsel, expert testimony, legislative advocacy and countersuit actions..." www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

This crisis is like the COVID pandemic except it's caused by a guy who ran for president on a platform of "I have engineered a virus that will shut down the global economy, and if you elect me, I will release it"

The bond market shows capital flight from the United States, with people selling off US debt. It’s the opposite of what usually happens during economic turmoil, when people buy US debt because they think it’s the safest asset in the world. The US-led global economic system is dead. By suicide.

Shit’s too heavy, y’all. Every day ushers in another round of heartache and fear. It doesn’t have to be this way, but it’s only getting worse. Americans collectively have to step out of apathy and into justice. One way or another This darkness got to give -Grateful Dead #MomSky

What a day. What a country! 💪

NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

the last decade has really helped me understand in a more visceral sense what it meant when God hardened the pharoah’s heart

"It's important for people to know when it's time to go. I do think on the leadership question, it's always better to examine whether folks are in the right place, and we're certainly going to have that conversation," - Senator Michael Bennett at a town hall in Golden, CO #StepDownChuck

The Muslim community rejected Kamala Harris due to the war in Gaza. The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil is one of the consequences of their choice. He was targeted by an adminstration that despise Muslims, but y'all didn't listen. He won't be the only one. We fukn told you. *sip*☕️

This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.

#MorningVibe “We are never alone when we fight fire with feminism.” ♀ @amandagorman.bsky.social Do it for yourselves, your mothers, your daughters, your sisters, aunts & friends. Fight with feminism. #ReproductiveFreedom

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Trump's well on his way to making Congress irrelevant. If the Republican Party wants to survive Trump's hostile takeover of America, it's time for them to find their balls. Clock's ticking! #ProudBlue #ImpeachTrumpNOW #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpIsARussianAsset

The exchange between Felonius the First, the Duke of Sofas & President Zelensky put a knot in my stomach that is making me want to hurl. It’s beyond disgraceful. The only thing to say at this point is #SlavaUkraïni! #DemVoice1

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

Friends, please know, this political retribution is like taking the best homicide detectives in Washington, DC, and demoting them to writing parking tickets. This is not only despicable and actionable political retribution but it poses a danger to the safety of the people of Washington, DC.

We just watched Trump & Vance do Putin’s bidding in the Oval Office & it was horrific. Not even two months into this administration & it’s a disaster for the free world.

You can always count on ⁦‪ @aoc.bsky.social to bring it! "There's a fundamental math problem here. There is a constant reiteration of waste, fraud, and abuse." People are NOT disposable!

There will be no amazing rare earth minerals deal between the US and Ukraine unless the US agrees to NATO membership for Ukraine. In other words, There will be no amazing rare earth minerals deal between the US and Ukraine. Pin it!

Trump and #couchfucker ganging up on Zelensky like two schoolyard thugs. What a disgrace.

NEW: I am hearing from multiple sources that Lt General Telita Crosland, Director of the Defense Health Agency, has been pushed out in an on-going purge. Official internal agency news said "retired" but I'm told relieved of duty or at least forced into retirement. www.defense.gov/About/Biogra...

Watching Putin’s little stooges try to bully Zelenskyy in our goddamned White House is pretty repulsive.

#ProudBlue #BlueSkyResistance Trump’s VA Leaders are trying to say that nothing impacting veterans services will be cut. LIARS! The AP did research & confirmed that VA contracts targeted for cuts include cancer care, PTSD outreach, homeless veteran programs apnews.com/article/doge...

Happy Friday! This is the resistance. Cause some Good Trouble today!