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Retired Trade Book Rep living on the tundra with my favorite former bookseller. The Grandmother I never met was born in Cork in 1876 & raised by foster parents in Rossalougha. Emigrated to PA with one of her Callaghan foster siblings
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Just like we shouldn’t be firing FAA employees when commercial airliners are flipping upside down.

submitted 18 hours ago • 311 comments

Democratic women are the ones who are stepping up and confronting Musk and Trump.

submitted 5 hours ago • 114 comments

You don't fire Judge Advocates General unless you plan on issuing unlawful orders. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

submitted 15 hours ago • 193 comments

"It's almost impossible to believe he exists. It's as if you took everything that was bad about America, scraped it off the floor, put it in an old hot dog skin & taught it to make noises with its mouth" #PRESIDEMENTIA

submitted 15 hours ago • 656 comments

If members of Congress—like Rep. Grothman —are this clueless about what the man who is dismantling our government is saying and promising, they don’t deserve to keep their jobs! This woman is in his face, begging him to wake TF up—and he just walks off. Pathetic.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1840 comments

Giving up and checking out is what they want. Do not give them what they want. 19thnews.org/2025/02/tran...

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submitted 14 hours ago • 195 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1773 comments

Federal Worker Spent Entire Week Golfing

submitted 9 hours ago • 81 comments

every time you see this shit ask yourself: what have you done - this week - to make stronger ties in your community? we're all going to need those ties

submitted 10 hours ago • 24 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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@hcrichardson.bsky.social did you see your brave governor?

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/the-russia...

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

"even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making" "Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination"

submitted 3 days ago • 222 comments

A lot of people now see that Musk is a vile extremist. But many still struggle to accept that he is also an oblivious fool. Once you actually listen to what he has to say about the world, you realize it’s all faux-visionary nonsense layered on top of profound ignorance.

submitted 3 days ago • 234 comments

my colleague @stevanzetti.bsky.social identified an overtly racist X account operator as an ICE asst chief counsel based in North Texas and, as always, a reminder that our work at @texasobserver.org is free to re-publish

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Russia started this war—not Ukraine. Putin is a dictator—not Zelenskyy. It’s shameful, yet unsurprising, that Trump has such little regard for democracy and the free world. There are Republicans who voted for Ukraine aid and know that Trump is spewing lies. It’s long past time they speak up.

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

The only minority destroying the USA is billionaires Don't get me started on the autocratic immigrant billionaire oligarchs

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

A friend from the VA just sent this and asked me to share. PMDB is Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior in the workplace. THIS is the real war against women: being forced to say there are only 2 genders but not being allowed to mention 96% of violence is perpetrated by men.

submitted 4 days ago • 1227 comments

He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

submitted 4 days ago • 1263 comments

🔥 Yet another @jessicatarlov.bsky.social truth bomb on Fox laying out just a few of the ways Trump & Musk’s federal government destruction is ruining lives & endangering Americans

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

submitted 5 days ago • 2640 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 346 comments

Imagine you have over $400 billion and you spend your time working to deny hungry children around the world meals to avoid starvation.

submitted 5 days ago • 494 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 5 days ago • 2287 comments

Captures it perfectly.

submitted 6 days ago • 459 comments

An excellent question. Where are the Fortune 500 & Wall Street CEOs? Where are the university presidents? Where are the civil society leaders? Not just speaking out specifically in defense of their institutions & democracy, but also about 🇺🇸's global interests? The silence is deafening & shameful.

submitted 7 days ago • 168 comments

“Donald Trump is a criminal sociopath, they don’t want to obey laws and don’t think the rules apply to them” @gtconway.bsky.social on the Trump administration’s plans to ignore court rulings.

submitted 7 days ago • 87 comments

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

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submitted 8 days ago • 688 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 7 days ago • 5664 comments

Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.

submitted 7 days ago • 495 comments

D.C. Democrats keep talking themselves into the idea that they're powerless. That any pushback is futile. It's a total misreading of the landscape, and misunderstanding of the game that's being played.

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

Doing great 👍

submitted 7 days ago • 1846 comments

Agree with this.

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

These morons fired people who protect nuclear weapons without thinking about it. Thank you, Trump voters.

submitted 7 days ago • 77 comments

"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC

submitted 7 days ago • 290 comments