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Vote blue responsibly. My pronouns are sangrias and blueberry pancakes.
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"Friendship knows no boundaries! This dog waits every day for his dolphin friend 🐶🐬❤️"

A stunning photo of the famous heart-shaped rock formation at the Drops of Sedona, Arizona, USA Courtesy of: The American Natural

Nature is the best engineer 🕸️

Gonna watch this new (to me) pottery making show..

For a US government that hates DEI, it's curious that the Secretary of State is Cuban, the FBI director is Indian, the DNI head is Samoan-Indian, and the President is South African.

Bryce Canyon National Park 🇺🇲

Gorgeous #Roman glass cups decorated with colourful enamel-painted animals from the Roman arena, AD 200s. Found in richly-furnished ‘princely’ graves in Denmark, where they are known as ‘circus beakers’. National Museum of Denmark. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Houston police captain, Daryn Edwards, who was arrested for possessing videos of children being sexually abused & released on a 250k bond, has been arrested again for child rape charges & is being held without bond. www.khou.com/article/news...

Not every day you get to call Trump "Putin's bitch" on Live TV and name the POC chickens for Colonel Sanders lining up for MAGA, but I appreciate @joyannreid.bsky.social inviting me to say what I had to say.

Trump just erased the only nationwide police misconduct database. Launched in Dec. 2023, it tracked disciplinary records across 90 federal agencies. Now? Gone. The White House won’t say why, but we know—accountability is bad for the people Trump protects.

Believe them. (What’s “the job”? Ending our democracy, and 🇺🇸 as we know it?)

Please remember this @abcnewsgo.bsky.social @cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com

Look at that quote. I’ve never heard of a military officer saying anything like this

Gen-X knows 🤣

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

Sean Duffy Booed. And rightfully so.

“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.

41 years. Honorable service. Combat experience. Served multiple presidents. Fired. I swear I can’t wait for that criminal in the oval to drop dead

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

How DARE you

Pulling out the same type of device on a traffic stop that was used to beat police officers on Jan 6 is probably not the best plan.

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

Happy Black History Month

NEW — “No immigrant is safe, not even those that serve in the United States Armed Forces. Whether you’re a member of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, Coast Guard or Space Force, if you were not born in the U.S., you are a target.” thetriibe.com/2025/02/blac...

Bruh you know how corrupt you have to be for a grand jury to decide the WHOLE police department needs to be abolished?? lol abcnews.go.com/US/hancevill...

Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

Here in Illinois, ten years ago we saw the consequences of a rampant ideological gutting of government. It genuinely harmed people. Our citizens hated it. Trust me – I was elected based in part on just how much they hated it.

For too long, pharmacy benefit managers have been the middlemen between Illinoisans and their prescriptions, adding costs without real value. Greater transparency and major industry reform are needed — the Prescription Drug Affordability Act reins in their predatory practices.

Keep pressuring Republicans. Call them. Write them. Visit their district offices.

The road to hell is paved with people telling you not to get distracted.

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

Among the reasons why Trump is down in his "mass deportation" promises is: The billionaire rich fucks don't let him deport their cheap workers. So ICE is going to Chicago and tries to scoop someone, anyone really, off the streets to have at least a little for the statistics. It's all a fraud.

Yes I typed this on fb… I wish we had more characters here.

I’m so sick of people saying this shit, especially elected officials. He’s the president. Declaring himself a king after issuing an order just the day before that says he’s the final authority on all laws isn’t a goddamn distraction.

Without federal government subsidies, Elon Musk would be completely worthless. Don't take my word for it, though.

Whoopsie.

You are outside your goddamn mind man 'He's not serious' is WHAT GOT US HERE

To those who think Trump is leaving in 4 years, why? He's telling you in as many words he won't. He's there for life. Prepare for this.

2 days ago Trump quoted Napoleon and claimed to be above the law. Yesterday Trump declared that only he and his attorney general have the authority to say what the law is. Today Trump called himself a king. He’s not joking. He’s normalizing that he’s a dictator, while his obedient peasants cheer.