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Yes! Please! Relax all the safety standards to get the guy his new airplanes ASAP!!!! Don't even bother to check the welds, whatever it takes!

With a 7” snowfall here I give you a version of Jean Ritchie’s “Wintergrace” from the late John Roberts and myself. debracowan.bandcamp.com/track/winter...

My dear friend Susan Werner gets it in one. (Lyrics in video description) youtu.be/5cMrw9YGFGY?...

One thing to remember as Democrats struggle to mount a response to Trump’s tyranny, the press fails to describe it accurately, and judges have their rulings ignored: The Republicans in the House and Senate could stop this all in a day if they weren’t craven oath-breaking traitors

I have never seen a politician who was as eager to raise taxes as Donald Trump. The Republicans have gone quite some distance from "read my lips, no new taxes."

More of this, America.

"nationalism of cucks" is a fantastic coinage

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

“…you must be aware that it is not a crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”

This is a feed of the most recent posts (not replies) from people in my "NE Folk Music Community" list. If you don't want to follow people individually you can Pin the feed, or open it manually bsky.app/profile/did:...

Canada is not the problem

It's Groundhogs Day: If he sees his shadow then there will be 6 more weeks of Winter. Otherwise, Spring starts on schedule on March 20 (6 weeks from now)

BREAKING: Ontario Premier Doug Ford says they are removing ALL American drinks from the market. The LCBO has a monopoly on drinks distribution in Ontario. Trump just torched $1 billion of US exports. Holy shit.

This is the Second Amendment moment that gun nuts have been fantasizing about for decades. But because it's their guy committing the tyranny, ain't nobody talking about the Second Amendment now.

Am I the only one noting that after demonizing China for years, Trump seems to be letting them off lightly, while going full tilt against Canada? Is it Musk's business interests? Have Chinese players been buying Trumpcoin?

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

Our curator Mark Erelli has once again assembled a stellar lineup! ANNOUNCING our Spring 2nd Shift Music Series Lineup! 3/7 Kathleen Parks 3/13 Robinson & Rohe 3/27 The Folk Collective 4/10 Michael Tarbox 5/1 Laura Cantrell

Anyway as they pull bodies out of the Potomac bear in mind that the guiding ethos of Trumpism is that the TSA, NTSB, and FAA should be radically downsized and run by dudes whose main qualifications are loyalty are a willingness to say “cunt” a lot

Trump "authorizes" creation of first Trump Concentration Camp. Conveniently out of sight

"sideswiped by"? Given that an e-scooter is basically a bicycle, esp. compared to a Cybertruck, and where the damage is, so I'm going with "I totaled my Cybertruck by sideswiping an e-scooter". Is he also getting sued for not yielding the right-of-way?

We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life

we are doing state collapse and we are looking at it very strongly, a lot of smart people involved and we are collapsing bigly in a way that, frankly we’ve never seen before in the history of our country probably ever ✋😑👌

Written in 2017. Sadly even more relevant today. youtu.be/vPJ1NAdGZk8

We have decided an acceptable level. It's fuck off. That's what it is. It's take your shitty fucking tech and fuck off with it.

I’m putting down a 75% chance that the Idiot-in-Chief “solves” this by issuing an EO to forbid culling flocks with H5N1. 99% is RFKjr is confirmed.

In a world of Pete Hegseths, be a Rev. Mariann Budde.

😂😅😆🤣😅🤣😂😅😆🤣😅🤣😂😅😆🤣😅🤣!! The Idiot-In-Chief threatens RU with tariffs, and doesn't understand that, due to existing sanctions, Russian imports to the US are virtually nil tradingeconomics.com/united-state... (leaving aside the idiocy that tariffs are a tax on the US purchaser, not the seller)

"Accepting a pardon would only insult the Capitol police officers, rule of law and, of course, our nation," she said. "I pleaded guilty because I was guilty, and accepting a pardon also would serve to contribute to their gaslighting and false narrative."

It feels like there's a corollary: "We cannot have a functioning democracy if our opponents are evil and we pretend to believe they are not"

@washingtonpost.com

youtu.be/ubWQHdHTLRI?...

Do you mean that his supporters _wanted_ to see him burst into flames as God struck him down for lying on the Bible? Seems like Roberts probably knew what he was doing...

New at Tusk: It's tempting to think that there was One Neat Trick that would have derailed Trump's return to the White House, but in fact there weren't many off-ramps