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Blue dot 🔵 in a sea of red Love animals and love to laugh former pilot, caregiver professional worrier One husband one terribly spoiled cat Currently stuck somewhere between numbness and fear
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Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

Did you see the ugly celebration of autocracy by two presidents in the Oval Office, mocking the rule of law, mocking our Constitution, and mocking the authority of the Supreme Court?

The administration is looking for “nuclear verification” in a deal with Iran, meaning that they apparently won’t be trying to get Iran to stop enriching uranium completely. You know, kinda like we had in the JCPOA that Trump pulled out of in his first term. Absolute clown show.

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Thought of the day…

Last time he told you not "not to worry" half a million Americans died of Covid.

Celebrating Women’s History…

We could have had a decent, rational human being leading us into a future of possibility where everyone could have a seat at the table but now we don’t. It didn’t have to be this way. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-could-h...

This is last night AFTER the damning @60Minutes report. He wants American prisoners there. Believe him.

And the markets come crashing back down.

I didn’t want this to happen. I voted for the smart black lady.

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.

“This maniac Felon told NBC that if Iran does not immediately agree to a nuclear deal there will be “BOMBING THE LIKES THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE!” Remember, he pulled out of a nuclear deal in 2016 negotiated by Obama. They are now days or weeks from having nuclear weapons! IRAN JUST RESPONDED!”

We'll never know for sure what life would be like if Kamala Harris was president instead but no way would the country be so chaotic, scared and divided as it is right now. #Iran #JoyfulWarriors

In his 1st term Trump backed out of the Iran Nuclear Deal claiming he could get a better one. At that time he failed to get a deal with Iran & now Iran which has become stronger refuses to negotiate with him. His petulance to erase other's accomplishments is childish & dangerous.

Jamming out to some Dolly (Jolene) thinking about how we got to this point. Like WTF are we doing www.them.us/story/dolly-...

#FACTS... #DonaldTrump promised on his 1st day, he would bring #Peace to the world Instead he's threatening war with #Greenland, #Iran, #Canada, #Mexico & #Panama....

Cannot be emphasized enough: Barack Obama successfully negotiated a deal to stop Iran's nuclear program. Trump, having inherited a vastly improved situation with Iran, deliberately tore it up. The fact that they are now on the verge of having nuclear weapons is entirely his fault.

We had an effective nuclear treaty with Iran, but Trump cancelled it in his first term because it was the Black president’s treaty and Trump “could negotiate a better deal.” He didn’t.

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, John Ratcliffe, and Trump all lied about The Signal war plans chat. The Atlantic has the receipts to prove it. The group discussed timing, weapons, and targets on the chat with the reporter before the Yemen attack. The texts contradict denials from Hegseth and Gabbard.

In the Senate worldwide threats hearing just yesterday, Sen. Martin Heinrich asked: "Precise operational issues were not part of this conversation?" Tulsi Gabbard replied: "Correct." Pete Hegseth shared launch times in the Signal war plans chat.

Trump Text Fiasco Worsens as Tulsi Gabbard Implodes and Fox Melts Down As the controversy grows over a breach in a war-planning text chat, an expert in national security law explains how DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s Senate testimony made things worse — and why Fox’s spin is dumber than usual.

Yesterday, Tulsi Gabbard testified under oath that there was no classified information shared in this Signal chat. She lied. We need a serious investigation into this and we need it now.

I'm not saying anything novel here but it really is just truly despicable to watch them use THEIR OWN COLOSSAL SCREW UP to slander the reporter THEY INCLUDED ON THEIR CLASSIFIED GROUP CHAT

Not quite sure which is stupider, being the Defense Secretary who carelessly gives top secret military information to a journalist--or being the President who makes sure the public knows this humiliating mishap happened and where the journalist published his account of it.

Swalwell: Hegseth is still the Secretary of Defense? This moron texts out our war plans, putting our soldiers at risk, and he’s not gone? Every one on that chat—they just fire off texts not knowing who is on the chat? They all should be fired if they don’t resign.

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Hegseth. Must. Resign. #ResignHegseth

When some people see a Black pilot or a woman astronaut, they think, “Oh, they aren’t qualified.” When I see a Black pilot or a woman astronaut, I think, “Wow, they had to work their ass off twice as hard to get here —now that’s being more than qualified.”

Pat Bondi: "That a nice First Amendment you got there. Pity if anything happened to it. BTW, DMs are open for bribes."

WTAF #PedsSky #IDSky #MedSky

Is it at all surprising that a convicted felon would ignore a judge's order?

Good morning. This is an eastern towhee. I love their colors.

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

WE can’t afford SS and HEALTHCARE but we can afford THIS? That includes gold vermeil figurines that sit on the mantle. Gold medallions rest sit atop the fireplace, while gilded Rococo mirrors are placed over the doors of the Oval Office, as well as gold eagles… www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Meet Andromeda galaxy, our closest neighbor! 🙂 www.aura-astronomy.org/blog/2025/01...

BREAKING: A federal judge in Maryland has just barred DOGE from accessing Social Security, saying the group is on a "fishing expedition" that jeopardizes people's personal data. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Harriet Hageman got booed to oblivion last night in her own town hall for pumping up Doge so hard that even her loyal suckers woke up and smelled the bullshit—about five months too late!

Shot, chaser