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Agami Heron, rear view. At Agami Island #CostaRica #birds #nature

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The context matters. We know - for certain - there is a diplomatic path to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. The Obama agreement was working. And as late as a week ago, Iran was back at the table again. Which makes this attack - with all its enormous risks - so reckless.

submitted 1 day ago • 260 comments

Bluesky you deserve some fireflies in a cornfield. Not pictured-the young hawk chased away by robins, the enormous kale after the rain, the smell of the tomato plant leaves.

submitted 2 days ago • 330 comments

Damn right!!!

submitted 21 hours ago • 797 comments

After weeks of having visit requests denied, Avellaneda Delgado's children saw him in detention and were shocked to find him in a wheelchair, unable to speak. The next day, he died. He spent four decades raising a family & working on farms in the U.S. He was a human being. He was our neighbor.

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens

submitted 19 hours ago • 701 comments

So What Is It Gonna Take? - defector.com/so-what-is-i...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

no accidents

submitted 1 day ago • 451 comments

From September 2024, pre-election.... from Rebecca Solnit: The mainstream press is failing America – and people are understandably upset. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

What you meant to say is "A powerful tool in terrorizing people of color: The routine traffic stop" Get your shit in order @washingtonpost.com

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

submitted 2 days ago • 1297 comments

The fight between the boomer establishment vs the next-gen transformation happening in the NYC mayoral primary is a precursor to what so many Democratic primaries will be like in 2026 - and few Dem incumbents will have the kind of money that Cuomo has on his side.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

submitted 11 days ago • 61 comments

This is precisely what happened. The same effort, over and over again, with Democrats and Republicans. But America was finally weak enough to simply ignore and its president idiotic enough to go along with it.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Pretty insane they're starting a war for basically no reason and barely pretending

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

Everything about this is farce. Iran wasn’t near creating a weapon. The administration committed a crime and is trying to avoid consequences and war using pitifully transparent word games. Our media is clicking its heels and producing jingoistic war porn and trying to legitimize Netanyahu. Farce

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

submitted 2 days ago • 658 comments

What, exactly, is a genius? The question is hard to answer because our definition of the term is so inconsistent.

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

Democrats can’t wait until elections to start building consensus towards this. Trump just launched a war unilaterally. He must be stopped.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Our nation and planet cannot survive four years of this. It is not sustainable.

submitted 2 days ago • 539 comments

Take note.

submitted 2 days ago • 915 comments

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

submitted 2 days ago • 442 comments

Great service from @hcrichardson.bsky.social — yesterday’s words from Trump, verbatim. In all their surreal absurdity. No way to avoid the all caps, offensive religious reference, and overall idiocy. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

submitted 2 days ago • 484 comments

Iran’s foreign minister:

submitted 2 days ago • 120 comments

Impeach and ARREST

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Trump's actions, Starmer's support are a shameful indictment of the 'western democracies' driving our planet & its people into war, disease, poverty & climate catastrophe. If Bush & Blair's crimes had been punished, this wouldn't be happening. What is the point of the UN? We are the rogue states.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

A question every reporter should be asking Trump and Republicans: If Trump doesn't trust his own Director of National Intelligence, and by extension, US intelligence, then which country's intelligence is he relying upon?

submitted 2 days ago • 215 comments

Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now | Dale Vince www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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"ICE’s lawlessness has incentivized good samaritans to resist their enforcement efforts....you think to yourself: 'Will there be a legal process? Or am I the very last person who has a chance to intervene on this person’s behalf?'"

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

The war in Iran is illegal under the UN Charter, under War Powers Act, and didn't even comply with National Security Act.

submitted 2 days ago • 399 comments

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

submitted 2 days ago • 1111 comments

America needs at least one major political party that’s not in bed with the Israel lobby.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

The fallout from this spans beyond just the ppl kidnapped.💔😭

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Instead of CUTTING Social Security benefits, Congress should INCREASE payments by $200 per month and extend the solvency of the Social Security program by 75 YEARS. How? Make the wealthiest Americans pay a fairer share. I’ve got a bill to get it done.

submitted 2 days ago • 607 comments

Egyptian Blue is the oldest known artificial pigment #Blue The Blue color has been throughout the history of humanity, one of the most quoted, and identified with royalty and divinity due to the difficulty of its obtaining. www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-tech...

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Grandpa’s yelling about windmills again

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

I breezed through “The Contrarian” by @chafkin.bsky.social in 2023 or so but am now re-reading for notes and, holy crap! This Peter Thiel biography is both a page-turner — and frighteningly ahead of the curve. Buy it now! Read it quickly! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609711...

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Would love for national Dems to explain why Al Franken's conduct warranted throwing him out of a Senate seat mid-term but Cuomo's warrants endorsing as the best of a bunch of other Democrats

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments