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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🐈‍⬛ Salty, GenX, Scot. Politically homeless leftie, despite what my kids say. Cuppa tea, please. No DMs.
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“He tried to kill his own Vice President. Do you think he cares about you?” -Barack Obama

It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.

Mamdani: "I have never had to resign in disgrace, I have never cut Medicaid, I have never stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from the MTA ... Because I am not you, Mr. Cuomo"

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The horrendously dangerous situation in Iran must stop. The international community must bring Israel to account and halt this latest escalation of conflict in the Middle East.

Navarro: I'm very happy to see somebody that isn't afraid to speak up and call an authoritarian an authoritarian. And if it's Newsom, as a result of what's happening in California now, I welcome it because I have been so thirsty for somebody that is not cowardly

unlike Vietnam or Afghanistan at least the Marines coming to.L.A. know exactly what this fight is all about

SHARE this as a reminder to EVERY member of our military: “We don't take an oath to a King. We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator” “We take an oath to the Constitution." #FreedomToDissent #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

RIP to the great Sly Stone. A monumental loss. His PR just sent this out.

When President Johnson activated the Nat'l Guard in Alabama in 1965 over Gov. Wallace's objection he did it to protect protesters advocating for voting rights for Black people who had previously met violence at the hands of state troopers. Very different situation.

I didn’t know I needed this video of Jonathan Groff singing his heart out, standing over Keanu Reeves and leaning down to caress him but I did???????

AYMAN: "Should ICE be abolished?" @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social sky.social: "I believe it should."

Will someone please hand El Taco Gordo a tub of Ben & Jerry’s and a copy of The Notebook so he’ll lose interest in deploying troops against Americans to soothe his anger over his breakup with Elmo?

Zelenskyy: "Trust me, we understand the Russians much better, the mentality of the Russians, than the Americans understand the Russians. I know for sure Putin doesn't want to stop the war."

Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

To quote my distant friend Imran MacLeod, “A man with no culture has no identity”… —Hamid Shami, “Lost” published in Wish I Was Here: a Scottish multicultural anthology (pocketbooks, 2000) #poem #poetry www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/lost/

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Melon: time to drop the really big bomb - was Starlink used to manipulate the 2024 election?

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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Happy 40th to the Greatest Day Off