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. @dougjones.bsky.social weighs in on the Oval Office ambush 🔥 “The President has made the United States of America, the greatest country in the history of this planet….look weak…run by a couple of junior high school kids who would rather argue in a locker room than discuss…peace & security.”

Private companies that sell data that NOAA provides the public for free - as a public good/necessity - have been gunning for NOAA for decades.

Red-winged Blackbird Contrasts...

Latenite vintadge archival babbyGonz!

Facts matter.

The move consigns untold numbers of the world’s poorest children, refugees and other vulnerable people to death, according to several senior federal officials. Local authorities have already begun estimating a death toll in the hundreds of thousands. www.alternet.org/the-trump-ad...

Oakley was where my grandma lived. It’s a small town in west Kansas farm country, and seeing that place get red hot about Trump and Musk is sort of breaking my brain.

âś…Measles was declared eliminated in U.S. in 2000 due to the measles vaccine. đź“ŤToday, Mexico has issued a warning to avoid traveling to the U.S. because of measles outbreaks in Texas and 7 other U.S. states.

Judge Jackson makes a good point here: that OSC’s authority “is not significant executive authority. It is hardly executive authority at all.” I’m old enough to remember OSC correctly finding a counselor to POTUS violated the Hatch Act and the White House basically just laughed at the finding.

US Border Patrol doing a bang-up job, detaining a German tourist with passport & visa indefinitely because...she might tattoo here. Just one of countless horror stories... German tourist held indefinitely in immigrant detention facility www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

I'm booking our trip for Canada.

Male Cardinal Not so sure about this...

Northern Mockingbird A whole new take on interconnectedness...

Winter thistle Every single detail matters...

Gotta love Janet! ❤️ She is a badass, isn’t she?! 🤚 Pass. It. On. ✨

Tourism is going to take such a hit www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

Reminder that there are protests happening across Florida on Tuesday; I’ll be back in Tallahassee for Legislative Session but learn more about the Orlando protest here 💪

Macron: “But we must not forget one point—if anyone is playing the Third World War, it is Vladimir Putin. He was the one who started the war three years ago, and he brought 10,000 North Korean soldiers to European soil.”

ICYMI, new piece/thread from me on another Trump/Musk horror:

I have spent the morning on a European tour of responsible journalism, with help from Google Translate. Compare and contrast the direct, clear, forceful work in this 🧵with the prevarication, cowardice, credulity, and stenography of most American institutional journalism.

This folks is TREASON.

This weird MAGA cult is divorced from reality. 3 generations of women in my life have worked. The “traditional” role of women has been work for pay, for over 100 years.

Male House Sparrow Incognito...

Republicans want to slash Medicaid, which pays for nearly half of U.S. births. Republicans want to slash Medicaid, which pays for 3/5ths of nursing home patients. Republicans want to slash Medicaid so they can give tax cuts to the super-rich.

Dove Leaning into it...

We now have enough Starlink reentries to use the Kaplan-Meier survival analysis estimator to determine the median Starlink operational lifetime: 5.3 years. This mixes together V1 and V2M Starlinks.

I like how you’re treated as if you’re insane by Very Clever People when you say something about Trump’s relationship with Russia doesn’t smell right.

SHOCKINGLY INCOMPETENT!!!! “some U.S. embassy positions that are actually filled by CIA officers under cover may now be at risk of being revealed — potentially angering the host nation and exposing companies or endangering CIA assets who are known to have met with past occupants of the role."

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)

If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

Friday’s soul renewal for easy breathing 📷🕊️ ….

Red-shouldered Hawk Pondering possibilities...

Legal analysis and perspective on today's Judge Chutkan ruling from @nycjayjay.bsky.social. It's not what I wanted but this helped. A bit. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

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White House actions to pause refugee resettlement and funds to NGOs have stranded hundreds of organizations and thousands of refugees legally on U.S. soil.

photos of me with cool lighting and my cat!! wanted to post it here too cuz i love it so much

Lord knows I’m not a constitutional scholar not even a lawyer (and I’ve yet to check in with @kateshaw.bsky.social) but a legal regime in which “you can do crimes if you’re buddies with the president or praise him publicly” is *on its face* a violation the equal protection of the laws.

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?