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Artist, scientist, creative type. Environmentalist. Democracy advocate. History junkie. Baseball fan. 1/2 Dutch, 1/2 not. My wife pronounces “Bluesky” as a rhyme to “brewski.” And I will drink to that.
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Extortionists usually have more money than public servants, yes. bsky.app/profile/pale...

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Hey, if the media is interested in a cover-up of a senile president who's not really in control of his White House, there's one going on right now?

submitted 22 hours ago • 155 comments

Piece on eugenics delayed by necessity to keep working in advance of 1AM vote scheduled by House GOP on bill to kill disabled Americans by cutting Medicaid

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

the worst one is not on this list: A provision in the proposed spending bill would restrict the authority of federal courts to hold government officials in contempt when they violate court orders. Without the contempt power, judicial orders are meaningless www.justice.gov/archive/tax/...

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Anyone who thinks Joe Biden or his health is going to be an issue that moves even a single vote in 2026 or 2028 needs to step away from the Internet for a few minutes and try to access actual reality.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Oh great. I need the plane this summer

submitted 4 days ago • 115 comments

Pedro Pascal at Cannes speaks on America's political chaos: "Fear is the way that they win, so keep telling the stories and expressing yourself and fighting. F*ck the people that try to make you scared and fight back. Don't let them win."

submitted 5 days ago • 43 comments

Newark Airport under the Trump administration: Come for the near-death flight experiences and delays; stay for the diseases

submitted 5 days ago • 76 comments

People who are immigrants deserve to be treated with compassion and humanity.

submitted 5 days ago • 97 comments

A federal jury convicted former Tennessee House speaker Glen Casada and his chief of staff in a scheme to win taxpayer-funded mail business from state lawmakers even after scandals drove the two out of political power. wpln.org/post/jury-co...

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

This is why they are obsessed with destroying the civil service, the best path for black people to gain access to white collar employment

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Raise your hand if you agree with Lawrence O’Donnell. 🖐️ Donald Trump is on a “humiliation tour” of the Middle East, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell said Tuesday. But the president is “too stupid to know it,” the “Last Word” anchor suggested. tinyurl.com/yttntud7

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

The political media is obsessively relitigating the issue of Biden being too old and out of touch while the current president babbles incoherently at press conferences and regularly admits he's not the one making decisions on key policy matters.

submitted 7 days ago • 202 comments

There is literally no excuse for any publication, including @nytimes.com, to interview Eastman about literally anything. If they choose to go that route, though, there is no excuse for them not to say "disbarred insurrectionist John Eastman." Every. Single. Time. they mention him. 1/

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

At some point, Democrats in Congress will have to accept the Trump regime does not accept they’re a legitimate participant in government—and start acting accordingly.

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

Trump calls the Qatar Royal Family’s luxury jet a “free gift”—but experts warn American taxpayers will be forced to pay over $1 billion to convert Qatar’s “Palace in the Sky” into a secure Air Force One.   This isn’t a deal. It's a disaster. www.defensenews.com/air/2025/05/...

submitted 8 days ago • 58 comments

Raising the debt limit $4 Trillion to give rich people tax cuts as they slash Medicaid and research to help babies with heart defects. While he gets a flying palace. ✈️ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 8 days ago • 225 comments

Sing it from the rooftops: congestion pricing in NYC is an unambiguous triumph. It is succeeding beyond its backers wildest aspirations & none of the second-order effects people worried about have come to pass. It's a pure win. Celebrate it! Talk about it! For once, let's own the f'ing narrative.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to a consulate in Istanbul to get a document he needed to get married. Instead, he was murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now a close pal of Donald Trump.

submitted 9 days ago • 130 comments

Never forget, the amount of crime detected and the prosecution of it is not a natural substrate of how much crime is committed. It is fundamentally a political decision.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

The House Ag bill released tonight would take away or cut #SNAP food benefits for millions of low-income people struggling to afford groceries—families w/ children, seniors, ppl w/ disabilities, veterans & workers in low-wage jobs.

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Panzy the tort working on a watermelon rind on this 100° afternoon (tagging @blueheronfarm.bsky.social per usual because tortoise) #tortoise #reptiles #dog #pets

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.

submitted 10 days ago • 163 comments

✈️ #SwampForceOne Context:

submitted 10 days ago • 128 comments

Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0

submitted 10 days ago • 93 comments

When the executive starts talking about suspending habeas corpus and arresting elected opposition legislators, it is time to consider the warning period over and begin making serious plans for how one will respond to authoritarianism in the absence of rule of law.

submitted 12 days ago • 36 comments

I’m no longer content to call Andor the best Star Wars I’ve ever seen in any format. It is the finest television show ever made. Period.

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

“Spending six weeks“ sounds like a field trip. Is this like “an officer-involved shooting“?

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

In the comments someone pointed out if you included a resignation letter in one of his EO folders, he’s so out of it he’ll probably sign it and show it to the cameras.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Is there anybody out there? Is There Anybody Out There? - The Wall

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

NPR: “A record 575 anti-LGBTQ bills filed in states through April...” (TN among the most) It’s not Dems that keep making trans rights the focus of every legislative session. It’s Republicans. To distract from the real issues they won’t address.

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

I’m just going to discourage anyone from parsing this to see exactly what could even conceivably be a legislator body slamming an ICE officer. It gives the claim way too much credit. They are lying.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

This part

submitted 12 days ago • 855 comments

Baraja has made fighting Trump a central part of his campaign here so both sides are probably happy now

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

Thank you, Liev Schreiber, for embracing your trans daughter Kai. “This is actually a community of people who don’t have great resources, who don’t have access to help, who aren’t being protected and looked after by their families," Schreiber said. people.com/liev-schreib...

submitted 13 days ago • 22 comments

« When parents get information about their kids’ disabilities from the disability community, they will find people who think that their kids are awesome, and want their parents to feel the same way. »

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Wowwww it was this guy!!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump administration's lawyers' refusal to say whether they think the op-ed our client Rümeysa Öztürk co-authored is protected by the First Amendment is absurd. No matter what, we will continue fighting for Rümeysa's freedom.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

submitted 15 days ago • 2307 comments

Please everyone, we need to force Congress and the Senate to remove RFK immediately. He is ill and is not capable of understanding the importance of the people he is there to protect. www.nj.com/education/20...

submitted 16 days ago • 48 comments

It should be everywhere all the time that they’re violating an order from the Supreme Court. The details can come later, but “Trump continues to defy Supreme Court, rejects the Constitution” should be said so often that people think it’s tattooed on the inside of their eyelids

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

"History tells you about how people in the past stood up to things like this... So I think when we look at history, we can find a lot of inspiration to continue the work that we're doing.” The students are so much better than the institutions that are failing them.

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Feiner (in pic below) told me she was "encouraged and grateful by the outpouring of support ... I did nothing wrong … I responded to my Congressman's provocative, bullying, tactic of refusing to answer the questions … He was derisive to his constituents, treated us like children, and lied.” More:

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments