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They say less is more — celebrating my hubby Bradder's 71st birthday last night at Providence restaurant in L.A. with one candle.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2875 comments

My husband @robertcooper-us.bsky.social and I were the FIRST gay couple to adopt children in the US, way back in 1985. We went on to adopt five wonderful kids — all adopted at birth. They’ve grown so much! Here’s a pic from our wedding in 2000, and a recent one including their significant others. ❤️

submitted 23 hours ago • 2258 comments

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

submitted 2 days ago • 2805 comments

You can’t have democracy on stolen land. Let me repeat that: you cannot and have not ever had democracy on stolen land. Until it’s returned to its original life-bringing stewards, it is impossible for the land to have freedom again. Because the land is us. While the land is captive, so are we.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

If you’ve already started calling it the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico, you should have no trouble with someone’s preferred name and pronouns.

submitted 14 days ago • 304 comments

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

submitted 18 days ago • 3189 comments

If you don't think America is corrupt, Pam Bondi, the Florida Attorney General who took a bribe, was sworn in as the US Attorney General by Clarence Thomas, a SCOTUS Justice who routinely takes bribes.

submitted 21 days ago • 729 comments

THANK YOU! This action is inspiring! @maxwellfrost.bsky.social @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

submitted 22 days ago • 631 comments

Please Participate If You Can. Kindly Repost! 💙😎

submitted 23 days ago • 604 comments

JFK on why he founded USAID. “The economic collapse of those free but less-developed nations which now stand poised between sustained growth and economic chaos would be disastrous to our national security, harmful to our comparative prosperity and offensive to our conscience”.

submitted 24 days ago • 232 comments

NEWS Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says he’s putting a blanket hold on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running.

submitted 23 days ago • 1134 comments

There we go, @schatz.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 246 comments

The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could well violate state law.

submitted 23 days ago • 239 comments

Elon fucking Musk does NOT appropriate federal funds. That is the job of CONGRESS. Not some foreign born private citizen jumping bean exploding penis rocket car melting nepo-baby conspiracy theorist womanizer who exchanges horses for handjobs. Congress needs to stand the fuck up. All of them!!!

submitted 24 days ago • 970 comments

Irony is dead in this moment along with common sense. Trump who squawked “but her emails” incessantly, let Musk (unelected/not a govt employee) send his crew of kids in to review classified information & plug devices of unknown origin into the government computer system, compromising everything.

submitted 24 days ago • 362 comments

“The richest man in the world, whom no one elected to any government position...seems hell-bent on cutting off as much funding as possible for the programs that matter to the rest of us.” @groundwork.bsky.social's Lindsay Owens writes about Musk for MSNBC. READ: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 24 days ago • 148 comments

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

submitted 24 days ago • 136 comments

Congressman @beyer.house.gov will be going to USAID today with colleagues to shine a light on what is happening there, I think others will join us. Figuring out details now and will share but flagging now for press and public in the area

submitted 24 days ago • 523 comments

Californians: Adam Schiff's senate voicemail was full, but Alex Padilla's was still taking messages this morning.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone else wondering what Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran were up to on November 5th?

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This guy should have no role in running our government. We didn’t elect him. He’s not a gov’t employee who is accountable. He hasn’t taken an oath to uphold the constitution or work on behalf of the American people. He’s in it for himself not for us.

submitted 24 days ago • 755 comments

A foreign-born private citizen with unfathomable wealth & deep financial ties to our nation’s adversaries has seized control of our government and is currently canceling congressionally apportioned spending without a shred of authority. And no one seems to be able to stop him. So this is fine.

submitted 24 days ago • 612 comments

This would be nuts even if they were gov’t employees with clearances: “Three of the sources said the DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to security systems and personnel files. Two of those sources said also they wanted access to classified information.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

submitted 24 days ago • 369 comments

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 24 days ago • 819 comments

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

submitted 24 days ago • 3292 comments

So much winning.

submitted 25 days ago • 386 comments

It’s pretty insane that a private citizen can come in, hijack federal government servers, fire people, and steal their PII.

submitted 26 days ago • 1779 comments

Elon Musk literally bought himself the fucking presidency of the United States of America. And what that UNELECTED fucking psychopath is doing to this country is absolutely batshit motherfucking, game over, in-fucking-sane. So that means that we need to get motherfucking LOUD. Right the FUCK now.

submitted 26 days ago • 988 comments

If it were legal to fire you, they wouldn't put so much effort into getting you to resign voluntarily.

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submitted 27 days ago • 41 comments

🏆 Governor Pritzker- Illinois - has signed an order prohibiting all J6 rioters from state employment.

submitted 26 days ago • 2388 comments

NTEU has sent an email regarding the follow up OPM Fork email urging people not to accept the deferred resignation. The bolded “FU” is a nice touch.

submitted 27 days ago • 207 comments

1. School systems across the United States are declaring they will not comply with Trump's anti-trans executive order. MCPS, Maryland said they will fiercely protect their teacher sand students. Columbus City Public Schools president: "bring it on." Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 26 days ago • 64 comments

Get Elon Musk out of government. Now.

submitted 27 days ago • 191 comments

pretty incredible to publish this official executive order days before the largest deadly air crash in nearly 20 years occurs

submitted 27 days ago • 210 comments

Elon Musk pushed out the FAA chief — who resigned 1 year into a 5 year term, last week. Why? Because last year the FAA fined SpaceX $600,000 — for safety violations. Now the FAA has no chief — and we just had the first commercial airline crash in 16 years.

submitted 27 days ago • 176 comments

We did not have a FAA administrator to respond to the tragic crash last night in DC. Why? Because Elon Musk pushed the head appointed under Biden to resign after he fined SpaceX for failing to follow safety license requirements. www.theverge.com/news/603113/...

submitted 27 days ago • 259 comments

The head of the FAA was fired because he held Elon Musk accountable for SpaceX safety omissions. Donald and Elon don't care about regular Americans dying in plane crashes, they only care about themselves getting richer.

submitted 27 days ago • 240 comments

Years ago, ACT UP protested at hospitals cutting off LGBTQ+ people from their care. They didn't stand for it.

submitted 27 days ago • 35 comments

Senate hearings made clear that the majority of Trump picks to lead our country’s most vital departments are a strange, unsavory pack of liars w questionable affiliations. RFK Jr is dangerously ignorant in the field of health and Kash Patel is arguably the most dangerous- a poisonous snake .

submitted 27 days ago • 101 comments

🛬UPDATE—Airport control tower was understaffed at time of DCA airport crash—one controller was working 2 different tower positions, normally done by 2 people—which FAA memo says was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic”. ➡️We should not downsize the FAA

submitted 27 days ago • 241 comments

Montgomery County Public Schools comes out and tells Trump to pound sand with his EO telling schools that they have to discriminate against transgender students. This is how you refuse to comply.

submitted 27 days ago • 187 comments

When asked if he was going to visit the crash site he said, ‘what site? The water? You want me to go swimming?’ This is one of the last pics of the young skaters who died. He’s a sociopath. Anyone who voted for this monster should be ashamed at best.

submitted 27 days ago • 2681 comments

I love that a white guy was flying the plane, a white guy was flying the helicopter, and a white guy gutted the FAA last week but somehow the blame is too much diversity.

submitted 27 days ago • 671 comments

Women deserve to know the TRUTH about the impact of Texas' total abortion ban. Today, I along with Rep. Gerry Connolly, Rep. Summer Lee, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley sent ANOTHER letter calling on Texas to explain why it won't release maternal mortality data from the past 2 years after Dobbs.

submitted 27 days ago • 926 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 28 days ago • 1413 comments

They say don't meet your heroes, but I've been fortunate that my heroes are every bit the amazing people I thought them to be. Jonathan Joss, who many may know as the voice of John Redcorn on King of the Hill or Ken Hotate on Parks and Rec, is one of those lovely humans. gofund.me/98196cc0

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

adjusting my pov like camera settings... when the big picture is too much, i zoom in on the stuff i love for a little while. look at this pretty girl ❤️

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

submitted 29 days ago • 938 comments