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📚 WATCH: “I can’t do much, but I can do this.” As Rutherford County and other districts ban hundreds of books, a SMYRNA book store owner is offering banned books for free. #BannedBooksBrigade Full: www.newschannel5.com/news/how-one...

Elle Cordova is so funny y’all!

President Donald Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks.

"Vaccines have allowed us to live longer. The only reason frankly that we now question them is because at some level vaccines have been a victim of their own success." Watch Dr. Paul Offit in VIRULENT: THE VACCINE WAR this weekend! watch.eventive.org/virulentmovi...

Is this because there is a problem? How vague and strange.

I think they are seeing if they can make the democracy dies in darkness slogan come true.

DC police are mounting a criminal investigation of an alleged assault of a woman by GOP Rep. Cory Mills, who represents a district near Orlando. The incident started at a penthouse in a luxury DC apartment building. Mills, who’s married and has two kids, apparently had a fight with his girlfriend.

Idiocracy was a documentary

Cancer research is important folks! We lost a friend this year to pancreatic cancer he was an awesome guy and dad and we all wish he were still here.

Power of the people…

New research suggests mice may exhibit revival-like behaviors to help unconscious mice recover faster.

Don't look...Gary is coming over...just ignore him #Birds #NandayParakeets #BirdWatching #NatureLovers #WildlifePhotography

I think this great blue heron has some meaty plumpers. As the father of the term, @blakewexler.bsky.social do you agree? #GreatBlueHeron #Birds #NatureLovers #WildlifePhotography

We get a lot of American white ibis around the lakes and fields, but for some reason this shot made me think the bird on the left was ratting out his friend for forgetting to bring snacks or something. #birds #AmericanWhiteIbis #BirdWatching #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers

A tricolored heron takes flight #birds #TricoloredHeron #BirdWatching #NaturePhotography #WildlifeConservation

Nanday parakeets in in flight #Birds #NandayParakeets #BirdsInFlight #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers

This aratinga nenday seemed to be having a conversation with me. Such a cutie #birds #AratingaNenday #NandayConure #BirdLovers #nature

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

Amanda Zurawski, one of the Texas women who nearly died due to the states abortion ban, has been named one of Time’s Women of the Year.

a special 60-second teaser for our lovely Bluesky fans

Horror at Trump’s Guantánamo: 53 Migrants Now Held Illegally and Incommunicado in the “War on Terror” Prison www.andyworthington.co.uk/2025/02/15/h...

A new government tracker claims DOGE has saved billions from ending federal contracts. But an NPR analysis of the data finds the claimed savings don't add up.

Did you know there is a graphic edition of On Tyranny? Can’t wait to read this with my 12 year old. #booksky #resist

OMG this is horrible. Rebecca Marodi, a California fire captain who was targeted by the right-wing as being a “DEI hire” & blamed for the LA fires, has been found stabbed to death. May she rest in power. 💔

C-T's quintet is delicious late romantic music. Sadly, there's no bass part. I hope you like it as much as I do. COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 1 - ChamberFest Clevelan... youtu.be/1YQAczh-hTo?... via @YouTube

Ex-NFL punter Chris Kluwe called MAGA a “Nazi movement” at a city council meeting—and got arrested for it. He listed what MAGA stands for: book bans, attacks on trans rights, defunding education, and anti-democracy extremism. “You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is.”

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did