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Retired Navy and retired civil servant. I love to build stuff and learn history. I love a quiet evening in my library with my books. PNW is home. Vote Blue
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Helena Marusarz was born #OTD in 1918 in Zakopane. She was a very talented skier and began competing at 7. Her older brothers Stanisław and Jan were also skiing champions. #History #WW2 #Thread

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

submitted 8 days ago • 2753 comments

Trump is trying to shake down Ukraine. Tantrum fueled Trump threw Ukraine under the bus today in the UN. Perhaps Ukraine should replace the US in NATO because Europe needs to unite against Russian aggression and its illegal invasion of a democracy. This is a shameful day for the US.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth admitted Sunday that he’d fired top military lawyers so that Donald Trump’s administration can get away with whatever it wants....he said so. www.yahoo.com/news/pete-he...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"Immigrants didn't steal my job. The president did."

submitted 3 days ago • 145 comments

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 3 days ago • 2636 comments

Trump is a fucking traitor who’s in bed with Putin. He’s a traitorous scumbag who’ll go down in the history books along with the worst of all the other traitors. Damn him to hell.

submitted 2 days ago • 97 comments

Republicans are getting rude awakenings in town halls across the United States. Here is our message:

submitted 3 days ago • 372 comments

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 2 days ago • 1050 comments

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

submitted 3 days ago • 1319 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 4 days ago • 2507 comments

“We have an obligation to resist kings, we have an obligation to resist oligarchs.”

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. General Mark Milley was right . . . ... and he's still right ! 💠 👊 💠

submitted 4 days ago • 334 comments

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

submitted 7 days ago • 2369 comments

I like that he posted a picture of a print-out of the email.

submitted 9 days ago • 912 comments

Captures it perfectly.

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submitted 9 days ago • 940 comments

Spot on.

submitted 11 days ago • 1550 comments

Good evening everybody, it’s just the old hermit checking in to remind you that the downfall of the United States republic was delivered to you personally by Chief Justice ( ha) John Roberts in the Citizens United decision.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

submitted 11 days ago • 453 comments

Absolutely LLLOOOOVEEEEE how our congress is just walking willingly into a complete gutting of our democracy... We need y'all to at least try to give a shit....

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

RFK Jr was confirmed. There is a lesson here for the future. The only chance that science had to stop RFK was a public relations strategy—to mobilize enough of the public that people not paying attention to politics would learn that he is a disaster. We failed at that. Let’s fix it and do better. 🧪

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

RFK Jr. is disqualified, dangerous, and cannot be given the power to make critical health care decisions for millions of Americans. I'm headed to the floor to put up a fight against his nomination.

submitted 13 days ago • 727 comments

Mitch McConnell voting no on terrible cabinet picks because he doesn’t have to run for reelection is all the proof you need that we must have term limits. You shouldn’t only have a spine because you don’t have to run again. We are breeding chicken shit power hungry electeds.

submitted 13 days ago • 837 comments

Someone drove a vehicle into a protected area of California’s Death Valley National Park last December, leaving behind two miles of tire marks on the Eureka Dunes and damaging several plants in an area with endemic plant species. National Park Service officials have yet to identify the culprit.

submitted 15 days ago • 41 comments

Yes he is.

submitted 15 days ago • 678 comments

To any interested in historical novels, Author Antoine Vanner, not on bkuesky that I know of, has a wonderful series. His web page. #histbookchat dawlishchronicles.com

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Another thrift store collection. I love finding used in new condition books. #histbookchat

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

🚨BREAKING: In a trio of rulings, North Carolina state court REJECTS Republican effort to overturn the results of the 2024 state Supreme Court election by throwing out 60,000 lawful ballots. A big victory for voting rights and democracy! www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...

submitted 18 days ago • 670 comments

BOO DONALD TRUMP AT THE SUPER BOWL BOO DONALD TRUMP AT THE SUPER BOWL BOO DONALD TRUMP AT THE SUPER BOWL BOO DONALD TRUMP AT THE SUPER BOWL BOO DONALD TRUMP AT THE SUPER BOWL BOO DONALD TRUMP AT THE SUPER BOWL BOO DONALD TRUMP AT THE SUPER BOWL BOO DONALD TRUMP AT THE SUPER BOWL PASS IT ON!!!

submitted 18 days ago • 916 comments

 Elizabeth Warren: "When unelected billionaires start ransacking our government offices, this is not business as usual. Nope, nothing is normal. We are living a nightmare created by Donald Trump & Elon Musk. We need to wake up. We need to use every tool we have to fight back."

submitted 21 days ago • 16 comments

Yes Jasmine! 👏

submitted 21 days ago • 675 comments

Yes, It’s a Coup and Yes, It’s Targeting You

submitted 21 days ago • 600 comments

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

submitted 22 days ago • 2484 comments

👇👇👇👇

submitted 23 days ago • 1206 comments

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

Perfectly captured.

submitted 23 days ago • 1487 comments

Reach out to your members of Congress TODAY, demand accountability, call for his removal. I already have. 👍💯 It'll be a weekly thing until they choose to listen. Put the FOTUS in PRISON where he belongs.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Borrowed from a friend: I hope you all see the pattern. Trump breaks something that was working well. We all feel the pain for however long. He then puts the same system in place that was there before he broke it and takes credit for fixing it. Stop being stupid, America.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments