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This is a great idea!

Indeed.

The ignorance and shortsightedness never cease to amaze me.

This is the kind of honesty we need!

I'm sad about this every damn day.

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

In addition to the trauma, it's also just super weird to watch fotus defer to this guy.

The Dunning Kruger effect in action

There’s no chance that Musk and his lapdogs will be yanked from their posts, since the point of DOGE is not really to reform government spending and accountability at all.

🚨 Nationwide protests THIS MONDAY, Feb. 17th, #NoKingsDay. We the people are pissed! Find a protest at > events.pol-rev.com 🇺🇸 Keep checking events.Pol-Rev.com for more listings, they are being added all the time. Where will we see you? #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #50501 #NoKingsDay #NoKings

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wwe vs loving trump = fake people hurting fake people for cheers vs fake people hurting real people for cheers

"audience vs constituency" is spot on

People you love will die as health care costs rise and your government pulls back. Ignorance will grow deeper and wider. Farms will fail and families with children will go hungry. Bridges will collapse. The rich will live well off the back of your labor. This is the Republican vision.

Exactly. Republicans are thrilled that Musk is doing their dirty work for them.

Now we know what the price of the prisoner release was yesterday. Didn't even take 24 hours for Trump to pay up.

Raskin: "The wrecking ball of rightwing authoritarianism is swinging right through Congress and coming directly at the freedoms of the press and the people. The self-appointed CEO of this operation is the unelected bureaucrat and aspiring techno-dictator, Elon Musk ... "

And now vibing with photoshopped muppets! poundsign MuchNeededEscapism

Vibing with nature today

Black Panther 'Saya' captured with his partner Leopard 'Cleopatra' by Wildlife photographer Mithun H, very rare pic of 'The Eternal Couple.!'

Letting myself imagine--just for a minute--the relief and hope I would have felt in the first weeks of a Harris/Walz term. Wow.

Also, here's our cute dog, Iris.

This time it is not a shock. And this time will be worse. What will be different (hopefully) is how I (and we) react to it. I want to be defiant rather than discouraged; determined rather than cowed. I am not going to let the barrage of evil chaos overwhelm me because that is exactly what they want.

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

One of our favorite photos: Old Faithful at sunrise.

I would add the admittedly difficult challenge of not looking at any electronic device to truly rest.

I need to make sure everyone sees the Wayans family dancing to Kendrick.

I thankfully never had to deal with Elf on a Shelf, but if I had...

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Giggle worthy

BREAKING: House Speaker Mike Johnson announces that male Republicans neutered by Donald Trump may continue to use the men's bathrooms.

I don't think getting Covid was the break he's talking about, but I have been too sick to doomscroll the past few days--a break of sorts.

The insanity is the point of Trump's increasingly wild cabinet picks, not the media's focus on a "confirmation fight" that probably won't happen, either by bullying GOP senators or the recess ploy Trump wants to create a world of disbelief. My new column🎁 share.inquirer.com/GlcsMN

I forgot how much I enjoyed McSweeney's--kinda The Onion's cousin. I need to reread their post on "gourd season."

Any fellow community theater people on here? Or improv folks?

Professor Carol Anderson nails it all: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #whitemalerageisreallyimpotence

For some reason, Mark Hamill reminds me of former President Jimmy Carter--underestimated/undervalued in the job that made him famous only to prove his integrity later.