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Recently retired newspaper/web editor now dabbling in fiction. Husband, stepdad, dog dad, Deadhead. Giants/Mets fan. Home brewer. Trying to learn guitar for over 30 years now. Relocated to Western Mass for life.
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This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

🔴MISINFORMATION ALERT🔴 Russian Sources are reporting President Zelenskyy is not going to acknowledge a debt with US. The ✅TRUTH✅ Donald Trump is trying to extort $500B in Mineral Resources, when $100B in Aid was provided. Drop a 💙 if you support Ukraine! I want to follow you💙💛

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

That’s the problem. We’ve been standing by for too long.

If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...

"Daddy says he owns you. Can you get me an ice cream?"

Laugh they may but the same is coming to them, if the EU Parliament doesn’t keep the reigns on. The UK is already infested with nazis, Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage together with the far right having infiltrated the conservative party.

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

Black excellence: Twice as qualified, half as respected, and still passed over or labeled as a ‘DEI hire.’ Black folks have always known this because we’ve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org

Outstanding photography 🦊

Help us get to 5,000 letters sent Congress today in support of the bill that would stop this Treasury takeover for good:

We researched events held across the country yesterday, and can confirm that there were protests in all 50 states against Trump.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

I’ve watched 60 Minutes for nearly 50 years now. All good things may come to and end. If CBS capitulates, that’s another channel/platform I’m done with. It’s all shite anyway. Goddamn greedy, sniveling cowards. Fuck all.

Ahhh...very Taliban-ish. Is it just a coincidence that these douchenozzles all tend to share beliefs with terrorist organizations? #MAGAts #rhetorical

It’s all performative for folks on the Right. Well, as least everything that requires them to not look like they would execute us all for a nickel.

We already have plenty of proof that Trump’s corruption and broken brain are worse than ever. Of course, the Press has gone to great lengths to sanewash the wannabe-dictator’s blitz of destruction. So I cut through all of that nonsense.

Do you have a self care plan for MLK day this year? If you don't have one, make one, especially this year. Preferably, it should include spending time outdoors, finding ways of serving your community, living life, and treating your neighbors in a way that honors MLK's life, his ethos and legacy.

Trump’s moving inauguration inside because it’s too cold for the big baby. Also, he didn’t want the visuals of another small crowd. Pathetic.

Today is January 6th and no one is watching the Capitol be plundered, feces being smeared on the walls, and police officers being stabbed with American flags. Why? Because one side believes in democracy no matter what, and the other side only believes in it only when they win.

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Exclusive: Jan 6 Hero Harry Dunn Calls Out Attempts to Whitewash Violent Capitol Attack Check out my new interview here:

This week: Orion, Mars and the Beehive, Moon and Venus, Saturn and the Moon. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

The Steelers may or may not win tonight (doesn’t matter to me either way) but this is why I’ve admired Mike Tomlin for nearly two decades now: “If we can’t get a years, we don’t deserve to win.”

OH LAWD!!! God bless Levon Helm forever! ✌🏼❤️

my biggest 2024 breakthrough: discovering that scarecrows aren't real. crops are just SO much easier to steal now. i used to pull up one or two turnips and run off, but i'm not scared anymore. the only challenge ahead of me in 2025 is to keep from eating so many turnips i give myself a stomach ache