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rtally.bsky.social
I live in Tennessee, USA. I am an engineer, patent attorney, weight lifter, hiker, music lover, and astronomer. Bearded. NoVid. Circumcised, but restoring. Active Nov. 2024. Don't follow me if you expect me to follow back. No DMs.
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NEWS: This evening, Judge Brian Murphy — with some fire — denied DOJ’s request that he reconsider his decision that the Trump administration violated his prior order by trying to send people to South Sudan in a plane that left the U.S. and got to Africa. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A new analysis estimates the Trump/GOP budget's rollback of clean energy tax credits will eliminate nearly 830,000 jobs by 2030 and raise energy prices by 50% by 2035.  Just another way the "big beautiful bill" will make the economy worse and your life more expensive.

It's important to know the warning signs.

Take a few minutes for this one—because you might need FEMA in the near future, and you need to know what’s currently going on. Or not going on. Thank you, @repjasmine.bsky.social for telling it straight, sounding the alarm, and sharing how we can help.

Today is the day we honor those who died overseas stopping the same thing many of you are ignoring here at home--fascism.

The most direct (and fwiw cheapest) way to fix the Democratic Party’s brand is to change who runs as Democrats - more & better messengers who can speak on the issues people care about in a way that breaks through. Candidate recruitment is not flashy but it is effective.

1/ [Take it from a 69 year old (me), all these old politicians are harming the US, indeed the world because of our outsized place.] @amandalitman.bsky.social co-founded Run for Something, an organization that recruits and trains progressives age 40 and under to seek elected office, the day Trump...

“We need messengers who can really break through and can show up in nonpolitical spaces & sound like normal people.” President of ‘Run for Something’ @amandalitman.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social how Democrats can build & restore trust w/ voters ahead of the 2028 presidential primaries.

For nearly 20 years, a doctor falsely diagnosed patients as having a chronic disease, administered unnecessary, toxic treatments and filed more than $118 million in fraudulent health insurance claims to fund his lavish lifestyle, which included a private jet, luxury cars and high-end properties.

"Over 900 attack drones against Ukraine in just 3 days, plus ballistic missiles, plus cruise missiles — there is no military sense in this."

Sadly I did not know this for the first 55 years of my life. They do not teach you this. This is absolutely true. And we should honor all of them this Memorial Day and always 

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Over the last four months, the legal world — and the country — has been plunged into chaos, and the Supreme Court bears a heavy dose of responsibility,” writes Kate Shaw in a guest essay.

Man @kateshaw.bsky.social is very smart and her writing on the Supreme Court is excellent www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/o...

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

Bribery and Corruption is NOT a business. Used to be a punishable crime not too long ago.

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

The Fugees’ 2nd and final studio album “The Score” hits #1 today in 1996 — just six years after Lauryn Hill met Pras Michel (and his cousin, Wyclef Jean) as high-school kids in Maplewood, New Jersey. Two Grammys (for Best Rap Album and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group) “Killing Me Softly”

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🇺🇦 13 regions were hit, 12 people died, among them - three children from one family, their parents were hospitalized - Head of the MIA, Ihor Klymenko "As of now, more than 70 people have been affected: 12 people have been killed and more than 60 injured. censor.net/en/news/3554...

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Women detained in Philadelphia say they banged on their cell doors for hours pleading for medical attention, but nobody responded. Last Tuesday, voters approved a ballot measure to bring more oversight over what's happening in the local jails: boltsmag.org/philade...

When you realize you are collateral damage to your own cruelty.

Donald Trump on Sunday expressed shock that the leader of Russia is "killing a lot of people" without reason.

In Texas

This fake-Christian twerp is such a shameless liar.

❗️Trump: "I'm not happy with what Putin is doing. He's killing a lot of people and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin. I've known him a long time ... we're in the middle of talking and he's shooting rockets into Kyiv and other cities. I don't like it at all. I'm surprised."

Crockett: They have nothing to show for it except for those top earners being able to have their next trophy wife or buy their next yacht, or get their next plane, that doesn't work for me. And that obviously does not work for my constituents.

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Even after all this, the @nytimes continues to normalize it

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

"I’ve always gotten along with him," U.S. President Donald Trump said of Putin to reporters at an airport in New Jersey on May 25. “But he’s sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don’t like it at all."

Trump & House MAGA bosses are trying to pull a con THEY ARE WORKING TO CUT SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICARE Trump is using DOGE to lay the ground work for upending, discrediting & cutting Social Security MAGA bosses have hidden a poison pill in their "Big Bill" that triggers MEDICARE cuts

Zelensky: The world may be taking a weekend off, but the war continues, regardless of weekends and weekdays. This cannot be ignored. America’s silence, the silence of others in the world, only encourages Putin.

Zelenskyy: “303 defenders are home” after final stage of 1000-for-1000 prisoner exchange euromaidanpress.com/2025/05/25/z...

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @DennisDraughon) #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

James Talarico is a "Rock Star" We need him in DC

Thousands across Poland marched against the Kremlin and in favour of European democracy. Polish voters mobilized in support of pro-democratic and pro-European candidate Rafał Trzaskowski ahead of the presidential election runoff.

JUST-RELEASED GEORGIA TEEN Ximena Arias-Cristobal: “Even having the right paperwork doesn’t mean anything anymore with the presidency we have now… just being Hispanic you’re a target.” More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ma...

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APOLLO: “It’s been nearly two weeks since the China/US trade deal, but container traffic from China to the US hasn’t shown a strong rebound. .. Are 30% tariffs on China still too high? Or are US companies simply waiting to see if tariffs will drop further before ramping up shipments?”

Bob Rae, Canada’s UN ambassador, slammed Trump’s claim that Ukraine provoked war with Russia. Without naming him, Rae likened it to blaming Poland for WWII, calling it “Putin propaganda” and warning: accepting it means “bowing before Lies and Tyranny.”

Today is Kyiv Day, that is usually celebrated on the last Sunday in May. Russians are “congratulating” Ukrainians with hundreds of Shahed drones, missiles shot from strategic bombers and ships, and ballistics.

He never stopped. He laughed at Trump and continued the killing, because Trump is an international joke and his foreign policy team is filled with bumbling, weak, appeasing incompetents.