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the time of man is over

submitted 23 hours ago • 19 comments

Enough of the boys! Let's look at the female Green-crowned Brilliant! Isn't she lovely? Monteverde #CostaRica #birds #hummingbirds #nature

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

He knows. He does not care. His donors will back him because they think money can outvote people, and they want their billionaire tax cuts.

submitted 10 hours ago • 302 comments

The 35 richest Republican members of Congress have a net worth of $2.5 billion. They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich. Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.

submitted 9 hours ago • 227 comments

Karma. She's quick. Here's looking at you, Murkowski.

submitted 9 hours ago • 389 comments

Do NOT stop talking about ICE abducting people. Do NOT stop talking about the violence against immigrants. Do NOT let it be a blip in the news cycle when ICE will be better funded than the Marines. Do NOT throw communities away just because you don't personally feel it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

A little Monteverde birding for a few days as we visit a friend here. I can't resist the hummingbirds when I spend time here. Male Green-crowned Brilliant from this afternoon. #birds #hummingbirds #costarica #nature

submitted 7 hours ago • 7 comments

Mark Warner: "It will move us as a nation aback to the same percentage of uninsured we had before Obamacare. It's not like these people are not gonna get sick. They're gonna show up at the emergency room. Rural hospitals are gonna shut down ... it's cruel"

submitted 15 hours ago • 473 comments

ICE raids have led to fear and anxiety for immigrants in Los Angeles. That fear extends even to those who are in the U.S. legally, keeping many away from public life.

submitted 7 hours ago • 73 comments

That’s right. The billionaire bailout bill forces your tax dollars to pay for concentration camps and masked thugs to disappear your neighbors without due process. 16M people will be thrown off healthcare to pay for that, along with tax breaks for the rich.

submitted 6 hours ago • 103 comments

Timeline: - Came 1978 - Fraudulent green card marriage in the early '80s, a permanent bar. - Applied for asylum. - Met current husband in late '80s. - Lost final appeal in 1998, but was granted a stay of removal. - Checked in without trouble from 1998-2025 - Grabbed by ICE with no warning in 2025

submitted 6 hours ago • 50 comments

The Trump administration's plans to convert some 50,000 civil servants into at-will employees has some worried that essential government functions will be politicized.

submitted 5 hours ago • 91 comments

Male Green-crowned Brilliant at Monteverde #CostaRica #birds #hummingbirds #nature

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

Nights of BLUE SKIES DAY 29 JUNE 2025 Happening Now on the Senate Floor Debating on the BIG BAD HORRENDOUS BILL Before moving to a vote-a-rama and a final senate vote Please keep flooding your Senators with calls 202 224-3121 Murkowski sold out America but pressure Susan Collins ty

submitted 6 hours ago • 12 comments

Located in Phoenix. SHAME ON YOU Phoenix folks Boycott

submitted 4 hours ago • 24 comments

Sorry, more Green-crowned Brilliant! At Monteverde #CostaRica #birds #nature #hummingbirds

submitted 4 hours ago • 9 comments

In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?” 🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season. Brilliant timing.

submitted 4 hours ago • 649 comments

“Alligator Alcatraz” will begin operations on Wednesday. This is your reminder that a prison without due process is a concentration camp.

submitted 12 hours ago • 380 comments

Night lizards are over 66 million years old and survived asteroid annihilation. www.newscientist.com/article/2485...

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

All of her physiological needs are being met, with the exception of her physiological need for attention, which apparently I am failing to provide her.

submitted 14 hours ago • 136 comments

Well, this we can agree on, even Senator Thom Tillis is calling out his own colleagues: “Too many elected officials are motivated by pure raw politics who don’t really give a damn about the people they promised to represent on the campaign trail,” the North Carolina Republican wrote.

submitted 11 hours ago • 198 comments

oh no

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

記憶の色

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Little flower Fini 🥰🥰🌸🌸🌸

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Mattson Tomlin shares the notebooks he used for writing #TheBatman2 🦇 🖊️

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

Icymi last month: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into a national criminal database originally built for people convicted of sex offenses and violent crimes

submitted 15 hours ago • 105 comments

The Trump administration has released a three-time felon and five-time deported immigrant because he's going to testify against zero-time felon Abrego - all to cover their tracks for mistakenly and illegally sending Abrego to El Salvador and then lying about it to the court to cover it up.

submitted 13 hours ago • 256 comments

Whoa! Alligator Alcatraz is going to be complete by Tuesday and open for operation on Wednesday. Am I the only one wondering how Ron DeSantis got this together so fast? Floridians, make sure you remember this the next time a hurricane hits and you can’t get disaster relief in your state.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1432 comments

Paved with Love Happy Pride month! 🌈🏳️‍🌈 I spent a long time thinking about what to paint for this year until I saw a photo of flagstones covered in chalk art of various rainbows. It made me realize that the path to equality and a better tomorrow is paved slowly, step by step, and with love.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

One of the clearest images of Venus taken by Japan's Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter. -Credits: JAXA

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Jesus wouldn't have cut $930 billion from Medicaid just to give billionaires more tax breaks.

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Dozens of Marines are now patrolling the border near Campo, California. Not just in support roles, but shoulder to shoulder with Border Patrol. A direct challenge to the Posse Comitatus Act, which bans the military from civilian law enforcement.

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What's in the Trump/GOP big, ugly bill? -Tax cuts skewed to the rich -Medicaid & SNAP cuts -Public land sell off -Big Oil tax loopholes -Blocks state and local regulation against AI -More money for defense contractors The oligarchy's wishlist.

submitted 1 day ago • 116 comments

Roughly 70K LGBTQ kids in crisis sought specialized services from the national suicide hotline every month, their director tells me. Trump wants to cut those servicea off on July 17.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

What Donald Trump is doing in Los Angeles and across California isn’t just cruel — it’s un-American. He’s not concerned about our safety, he’s instilling fear.

submitted 1 day ago • 192 comments

Federal agents used explosives to enter a U.S. citizen’s home and entered — guns drawn — on a baby, a 6-year-old, and their mother. She believes it’s because her boyfriend attended an ICE protest where he accidentally hit a cop car (and was released by cops). www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...

submitted 2 days ago • 94 comments

I wrote about MAGA's shocking cruelty and how Republicans have only gotten smaller and pettier under Trump's rule. www.publicnotice.co/p/mike-lee-w...

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing party.

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

This is what the fight against autocracy looks like!! Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Orban’s Ban www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

And Trump just gave asylum to 17 of the cartel's family members. Because he's tough on the cartels, you see. www.cnn.com/2025/06/28/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

submitted 1 day ago • 897 comments

Please make the calls ☎️ 202-224-3121 The cuts to Medicaid won’t stop there . It will trigger cuts to Medicare and will raise insurance premiums across the board.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

A while back, our Good Trouble assignment on the @dailybeanspod.com was to flood the National Parks feedback inbox. It worked. Keep causing #GoodTrouble www.sfgate.com/national-par...

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“What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome.” ~ A.J. Balfour 'Summer Blues' Delphinium. This variety only grows 15" tall. Butterflies, hummingbirds & bees love it.🌱 #Gardening #Gardens #Bloomscrolling #Nature #Photography

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment