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Sunday's Sunrise & Antirrhinum Majus "Snapdragon"

I volunteer at @FordsTheatreNPS . When I was there yesterday I asked whether there have been cuts. I was told that Ford's Theater lost one Ranger but there were severe cuts at places in Anacostia where there is large African-American presence such as the Frederick Douglass Home.

I am calling my relatives to make sure they are aware of this.

Thank you for including me with this great list of resisters. 🦋💙🦋

Saturday's Sunrise & Marigold ... heralding Spring's soon arrival

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

Aloha Friday's Sunrise & Zinnia Peruviana

DEAR AMERICAN VOTERS & SWING STATE GOVERNORS.... It looks like the 2024 election actually WAS stolen! @marcelias.bsky.social THIS IS A MUST WATCH... youtu.be/6G8fu50VRXo?...

The Texas Observer has identified an “overtly racist social media account” on Twitter as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden in Dallas. Color me not shocked that a white supremacist is an ICE agent.

Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The Trump presidency is a threat to the well being of the American people.

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

To the @GOP senators and Congressmen who claim to support Ukraine, you do have some power… if you’re unwilling to exercise it then don’t pretend to care about your country more than your political career:

Floating the idea of them stupid ass checks from DOGE is literally a distraction while they keep ruining the country. "Here's 5000 bucks, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" (wizard of oz reference)

Dear business owners that voted for Trump, You could have had $50K in capital and a robust SBA. Instead, DOGE is cancelling all your government contracts and putting you out of business so he can have the contracts for himself.

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

Thursday's Cloudy Sunrise w/Dove & Dendrobium Macrophyllum "Pastor's Orchid"

🚨 The American Manifesto is THE ONLY outlet with a MESSAGING PLAN against the Trump Regime🚨 NO PAYWALLS NO ADS NO CORPORATE MONEY 1 Guy fighting like hell to expose the truth and give you the weapons to push back against fascism 👇FREE Subscriptions but any support goes a HUGE WAY💖 #BeRelentless

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS @democracyforward.org request to allow expedited discovery in lawsuit challenging DOGE access to Department of Labor data. First instance of discovery being permitted in the Trump accountability cases. Visit Democracy Docket for more info. www.democracydocket.com

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.

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In a new filing related to Trump's lawsuit against CBS News, lawyers for CBS laid the groundwork to seek a broad range of records in discovery – including those related to Trump's personal finances and those of Truth Social and his $TRUMP crypto project.

Jamie Raskin: "Given that I was marching at age 3, you know I’m not letting any coup-plotting, election-denying, insurrection-supplying autocrat, kleptocracy, plutocrat or theocrat, or any techno-feudalist Silicon Valley broligarchs aspiring dictator, turn me around now.” Amen!!

This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Marco Rubio's collaboration with Russia's Sergei Lavrov and Putin is one of the most disgusting acts of betrayal to democracy and our nation. Rubio has secured his place in history of infamy.

Testicles usually drop at around nine months of age. Mike Pence’s took 65 years.

Wednesday's Muted Sunrise & Billbergia Hybrid "Fantasia"

Tuesday's Sunrise & Gazania Linearis "Treasure Flower"

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

Monday's Sunrise & Crassula Multicava "Fairy Crassula" or "Fairy Jade Plant"

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

For DOJ alums, it was the worst week ever, with the Thursday night massacre and its bloody aftermath. Elsewhere, Trump had mixed success, powering through 2 more dubious nominees but taking it on the chin in a series of courts. Coming Monday bright & early a stellar roundtable to break it all down.

Have you heard about the SAVE Act? It's the newest effort at voter suppression by the House GOP & it's important for all of us. If you're a married woman or someone who doesn't have their birth certificate/passport handy, you're especially going to want to see this. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

This caught fire on X.

For Gaza, the worst is yet to come. #FLOTUS Trump's shipment of 2000 lb bombs & sending SOS Rubio to meet with Netanyahu to reaffirm the monster's plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians to develop it into the MidEast Riviera & open it to everyone but Palestinians is a war crime.

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

The community note 🤌😘

Authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat: It's time to take our country back from Trump/Musk—and here is how. My new article based on my interview of Ruth who offers some very important lessons: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/authoritar...

Correct. This is a President of the United States declaring himself a dictator. And instead of Americans understanding that we’re now under imminent threat of martial law and tyranny, we’ll get a month of think pieces about what the President of the United States meant by his UNAMBIGUOUS statement.

Knowledge is power…

Sunday's Sunrise & Cape Marguerite African Daisy

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany on Saturday accused Vice President JD Vance of unacceptably interfering in his country’s coming elections on behalf of a party that has played down the atrocities committed by the Nazis. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

Saturday's Cloudy Sunrise & Duranta Erecta "Golden Dewdrops"