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BREAKING: Federal court says Trump exceeded his authority to impose tariffs under IEEPA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Redwoods - Muir Woods, California #photography #nature #trees #california

This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

National missile defense is the longest-running scam in the history of the Department of Defense. Musk didn’t invent it, but he’s about to get a whole lot richer by perpetuating it. https://trib.al/XcrRiI8

On one hand, Biden was old. On the other hand, Trump is stupid, racist, evil, dangerous, reckless, narcissistic, depraved AND OLD.

TDS

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June 14 is Trump’s birthday and his military parade in DC — but the biggest story of that day will be the actions we take everywhere else. Join our nationwide day of defiance to show that organized people power is stronger than Trump’s authoritarian aspirations: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Mockingbird #photography #birds #nature #napa #california #macro

This Dua Lipa cover of "Wind of Change" by the Scorpions rips www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bGG...

Republican congressional districts with the most Medicaid recipients via @kff.org: #CA22 (Valadao) #KY05 (Rogers) #CA23 (Obernolte) #CA01 (LaMalfa) #LA05 (Letlow) #NY11 (Malliotakis) #LA03 (Higgins) #WV01 (Miller) #LA04 (Mike Johnson) #WA04 (Newhouse)

Mockingbird #photography #birds #nature #napa #california #macro

if the lesson is that we gotta take the president’s ability to form coherent thoughts seriously….

NEW: A federal judge said the Trump administration defied his order when it deported a group of migrants to South Sudan yesterday morning -- and may have committed criminal contempt. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Tropical Flower #photography #flowers #nature #macro #ecuador

the DOJ is literally **arresting Democratic members of Congress** and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation

Federal prosecutors say they're bringing an assault charge against Rep. Lamonica McIver for her role in the May 9 tussle with officials outside an immigration facilitate in Newark. They're also dropping the trespassing charge against Mayor Ras Baraka. Details TK

Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet. All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s #Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online. | WIRED

“I will not yield to disrespectful men.” - Rep. @aoc.bsky.social

Trump demands that Walmart “EAT THE TARIFFS” and not raise prices

BREAKING: A sweeping ProPublica report reveals the U.S. State Department is interfering with foreign countries on behalf of Elon Musk. Officials in both Washington and Gambia have aggressively pushed for the West African country to approve a license for Starlink, of which Musk owns a $150B stake.

The Constitution is clear: Congress—not the Attorney General or the White House Counsel—has the exclusive authority to approve or reject a gift 'of any kind whatever' given to the President by a foreign government.

The political media is obsessively relitigating the issue of Biden being too old and out of touch while the current president babbles incoherently at press conferences and regularly admits he's not the one making decisions on key policy matters.

Tropical Flowers #photography #flowers #nature #macro #ecuaador

Republicans have just proposed defunding Planned Parenthood nationwide. In doing so, they are telling women and people across the country that our healthcare doesn’t matter and that we are undeserving of care. It’s time to stop this bill in its tracks.

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25.62mi/41.2km - Zwift - Scotland Smash in Scotland and then some. #Zwift #Cycling

Good morning to everyone but the most corrupt president to ever exist, who is at this moment selling out his nation to the funders of terrorism so his boy can sign another $2 billion deal. Oh and Tom Holman

Lily #photography #flower #nature #macro #ecuador

JUST IN: Judge Xinis says the DOJ has failed to file a privilege log regarding invocation of the state secrets privilege in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case. She's giving them until 3pm or will construe it as "intentional refusal" to comply. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CANYON//SRAM Racing Serious about racing, not so much about everything else. #TakeTheLead #Cycling

Elon Musk has, if only by accident, done one good thing. He’s made millions of Americans realize that maybe the public servants caricatured as layabouts in the federal government do something vital, after all.

Great news for the awesome Alexandra Yet another blow to the reeling Washington Post. Last one out, please turn off the lights

TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7

Cowards.

"No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State." Nothing in there says there has to be an obvious quid pro quo. Utter bullshit.

Trump will be out of office one day, one way or another, so I'd like to remind everyone who's breaking laws on the assumption that Trump will always be there to protect them and pardon them that the reckoning will come for them all eventually. Sort of a Final Destination film, but with prison time.

I am renewing my call for a complete and total shutdown on "Trump says..." headlines, particularly when what he says is manifestly false.

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