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I’m a Kiwi in Aotearoa who watches US politics as a hobby. Kind of concerned right now to be fair. 💣🚀🍊☢️ 🌻🇺🇦🌻
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The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

It’s amazing that NBC created a reality show around a fake billionaire firing people who is the worst person in the world at hiring competent and qualified people.

Posted for an audience of one fragile ego.

Philadelphia Museum of Art – Master of Cappenberg (Jan Baegart), German (active Westphalia), documented 1465-1515 -- Christ before Annas c. 1500. Hey you, yes you, what are you staring at? It better be Jesus. It's not though is it. Be honest. Stop staring! Naughty!

Farewell to the great Maurice Gee. His novels go on looking clearly at the world and introducing us to ourselves. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Magic The Gathering event vs. Trump's Birthday Party

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he's their boss.

The photos coming from Trump’s birthday parade are just incredible. No one showed up.

George Orwell wrote in 1941:

“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

🚨🚨 Wow. Trump just gave the middle finger to his own supporters. Amid growing backlash over his decision to drag the U.S. into another Middle East war, Trump now says that “America First” means whatever he says it does—while falsely claiming he invented the term.

A Democratic Mayor arrested. A Democratic Congresswoman indicted. A Democratic Senator tackled and detained. A Democratic State Representative killed. A Democratic State Representative in critical condition. We can all see where this is going.

my MIL is cat-sitting for us & asked today if I wanted her help with anything around the house. she said, “no judgement, I know how hard it is when you work.” I told her that was very sweet but we’re OK & she sent me this 😭😂:

Elon getting fact-checked by his own machine as he amplifies lies that the shooter is left wing

The most Los Angeles sign ever. And it’s true.

Self-Portrait on the Border Line between Mexico and the United States, 1932, Frida Kahlo #womensart

Police arrest an elderly veteran protesting Trump’s wasteful military parade.

@governorwalz.mn.gov: "The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting."

The conservative movement is just three internet scams wrapped in racist trench-coat.

My cards and limited edition hanging ornaments are now available at the Octagon at whichford pottery but if you are not local you can get them from my online shop 🌞www.amyrosegeden.com

Using my sketchbook as a diary to capture the fleeting changes as the weeks go by, the wild roses in the hedgerow and the buttercups in the field at the bottom of the garden, won’t stay for long 🌱 #sketchbook

Ufton woods pool and flowers from my garden #sketchbook

Donating to United Farm Workers is a good way to fight against the targeting of minority labor (if you have the funds to spare). ufw.org/sparechange/

An older piece but a perennial favourite. 'La même histoire' Ink on Moleskine sketchbook paper, approximately 127 × 208 mm, 2018. #MerMay

Post your space art. 🌌 I don't know, does this count? 🤷🏻‍♀️ The Cow Jumped Over the Moon ('Hortense'). Watercolour on Saunders Waterford hot pressed paper, 110 mm diameter. 🐄 From 2019.

We’re now on our way to the southern river area of the North Sea, as part of work with the Taken at the Flood project. We’ll keep you updated on all our progress on the RV Simon Stevin over the next 7 days @bradarch.bsky.social @vliz.be

It's here! Pick up Lineages of the Long White Cloud Volume 2 on @drivethrurpg.com to add nine new species to your DnD game, all based on Aotearoa's wildlife. Play as native bats, birds, beetles, fight giant carnivorous snails, bloodsucking sandfly swarms, adorable owlparrot-bears (you monster!)

This is remarkably incoherent even for him. But I especially like the notion that these evil criminals are applying to pick crops and mop hotel bathrooms.

Raise your hand if you were dumb enough to have believed this.

“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.” --Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater

JUST IN: Judge Charles Breyer finds that President Trump exceeded the scope of his authority and violated the 10th Amendment by federalizing the California National Guard and orders him to return control to Governor Newsom. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I somehow gained 100 new followers on here today. If you're real people, then thank you and I love you. If you're bots, then beep bop boop beep I love you.

This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone.   If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

Underneath this sign lies a rich and hilarious story of a no good, very bad afternoon someone had.

Idiocracy was a documentary.

Wedding of Mr Papadam and Miss Basta. Spencer Digby Studios, Wellington, 26 December 1971. Ref B.088220/01, Te Papa.

I just wanna say something really plainly that I haven’t seen spelled out like this There is no such thing as legal immigration anymore. Because they are taking people at their citizenship hearings they are taking people who are doing everything by the book. 1/2

She is saying, in effect: "We are going to liberate the city from its democratically elected leadership using the military"

Alan Rickman as Sherlock Holmes and David Suchet as Moriarty in a production of William Gillet's stageplay Sherlock Holmes. Anyone have a time machine?

Speaker Mike Johnson just called on the Senate to censure...Sen. Alex Padilla. You read that right. The American Fascist Party at work.

Join us next Thursday 19th at 6pm (BST) with the amazing @emmamerkling.bsky.social for Occult Art Gothica! 🖼️ 🎨 🦇 🔮 ⬇️

DHS handcuffing Senator Padilla & forcing him to the ground after he had already clearly identified himself is outrageous. This is more than misconduct—it’s systemic abuse of power, aimed at a Latino senator. The Trump admin is shredding public trust. And when trust breaks, everyone is less safe.

A second top pollster finds Trump's approval plummeting: AP-NORC approve 39 disapprove 60 (net -21) Quinnipiac approve 38 disapprove 54 (net -16) BOTH are considered select pollsters by NYT.