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Again: we can’t help but notice how the “we’re broke” crowd seems to think we have plenty of money for war and bombs and stuff 🤷🏼‍♂️ 🇺🇸 💰

The contrast is staggering

NPR: “There are already checks in place to combat waste and abuse” DOGE WHISTLEBLOWER says they looked into one guy who was 137 getting checks, turns out he was 75 So much damage over nothing. cc: @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @RepJohnRose www.npr.org/2025/06/20/n...

Super easy SUMMERTIME grilled recipe: we grill eggplant, red bell peppers, some ciabatta bread, fresh mozzarella and basil, and spread the bread with some mayo that's been dolled up with fresh minced garlic. OMG: SO GOOD!!! 🍽️ #sammich #recipe #foodie www.thatsusanwilliams.com/2013/06/gril...

A senator celebrating the murder of political opponents should be expelled. Not debated. Not excused. Expelled.

So these MAGA people tried to disrupt our protest. 30 minutes later and buying chocolate milk for the pregnant wife? Sold. They knew nothing because of Fox. Turned them to our side. @marcia2527.bsky.social @meidasjordy.bsky.social @beachandtreesplz.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

Nailing the actual problem clearly! substack.com/@politicsusa...

💯 this

One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about the ultra wealthy abusing the system and cruel people having unchecked power over all of us.

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

“They should have no trouble getting public funding but it’s time for [public funding to end].”

If this is awesome to you yet you also want government to STOP feeding kids (because they [cough] can’t do it efficiently enough)… is that really because you don’t want to let a few middle class or wealthy kids get a free meal by accident? Reeeally?

What really makes America great

I would definitely fire someone who absolutely did not do their one main most important job: read the damn things you are turning into US LAW!!!

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

In the spirit of the day, I'm serving up a recipe for Lunch Lady Tacos. 🌮 You can make them with beef, although I made mine with venison. (Use what's in your freezer.) Deeeeelicious! Don't CHICKEN OUT! Make them tonight. www.thatsusanwilliams.com/2019/06/lunc... 🍽️ 🌮 #FoodSky #recipe #foodie #taco

This part. It’s crazy-making that almost every media outlet in Tennessee is playing right along with Pinocchiogles’ hate-mongering. Truly shameful.

It’s been around since 1983.

Dehumanizing people! It never ends with one group.

Narrator: he didn’t

Again, companies like Walmart are the problem, not the poor Americans who work for them at non-living wages.

The GOP was supposed to cut through the deficit. Instead they’re slashing our social safety net while ballooning our debt.

All you need is a non-European name and some tone on your skin to be GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT.

They’re doing everything in the middle of the night without discussions.

Trump told us these people were so dangerous they couldn't afford due process to prove how dangerous they were. They had to go straight to the foreign concentration camp. Turns out *at least* one in five of them *didn't even break US immigration law*

HASSAN: What is sky diving? NOEM: It's the constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove parachutes from people in airplanes. HASSAN: That's incorrect

HASSAN: What is the second amendment? NOEM: It's the constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove guns from the people. HASSAN: That's incorrect

Yet again Trump is taking credit for what Biden did.

This. Very much this.

In case facts still matter…

Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽

🔥 Senator @ossoff.bsky.social: “Who out there is sitting at home demanding we shut down cancer & Alzheimer’s research? We’re going to pay for this for a century. Irreversible damage has been done. It’s an outrage.” On Trump, DOGE, & the GOP’s budget cuts (to make way for tax cuts for the rich)

I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan. (thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)

I have waited my whole life, for this moment....

Pritzker: And we have a president who claims to love America but hates our military so much that can’t be bothered to delay his golf game to greet the bodies of four fallen U.S. soldiers.

April 22, 2025

An important victory!

Wow

Someone on X pointed out the scant coverage of Ron Johnson saying 9/11 was an inside job. The press assumes Republicans are crazy and malevolent, so when they say crazy stuff it doesn't get covered. But they assume Dems are competent & sane, so any data point to the contrary is treated as big news.

It’s been 37 days since Ukraine agreed to Trump’s ceasefire proposal after the U.S. suspended intel sharing. Russia has still not agreed and continues to wage war without any additional U.S. penalties or sanctions. www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/w...