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Single, dog lover, reformed optimist. Old enough to know better but still falls for some BS. Hopes Bluesky is the Better Alternative that lives.
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President Zelenskyy doesn’t take days off, and he has a good reason for it — to dedicate all his free time to Ukrainians who are fighting, working, and volunteering. “I think it’s really important to feel that your President is right there with you.”

Trump's threat to cancel Musk's federal contracts underscored his willingness to use government power to punish enemies. In the old days, that might have been cause for a corruption investigation. In the modern era, it’s just another Thursday. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

Everyone in America, regardless of immigration status, is entitled to basic rights and protections defined in the Constitution.  Know your rights. Share widely.

🎯 You DO NOT have to answer questions. Record any interaction!!! Protect yourself.

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

Trump congratulates the National Guard in Los Angeles for doing a great job despite the fact they had not yet even arrived. This brings up a quandary we all face: How do we know when Trump is just brazenly lying versus when he's experiencing another creeping advancement of his cognitive decline?

🚨SPECIAL ELECTION - FLORIDA STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 3🚨 Democrat: Dondre Markell Wise Election Date: 🗓️THIS TUESDAY, JUNE 10TH🗓️ Area: North/East of Pensacola Note: Blood red, R+57 (!) district, but we show up and fight for Democrats everywhere, right?

🚨🚨🚨 The federal deployment of the National Guard to suppress lawful protest is a clear and present danger to our democracy! Join your community June 14 and stand in solidarity against Trump's crackdown on dissent. Be loud. Be clear. #NoKings in America! Toolkit ➡️ social.demcast.com/s/F8X3FCHQ

As you see Trump defending his decision to deploy the National Guard into LA and potentially elsewhere, just remember that he did *not* order the DC Nat Guard to protect the Capitol on Jan. 6. I debunked that lie, told by some of his prominent surrogates, here: www.justsecurity.org/93316/anatom...

I wonder what it will take to internalize the reality that elections here are won on small margins of voters who either change sides or stay home, not on converting the hard-core partisans. "MAGA will always do X" does not explain PA or WI going blue one year and red the next.

“Inspiring backlash” is a feature, not a bug. Keeps the Taco Jefito in the news, keeps us busy and less able to focus bc of the sheer quantity of disruptive crap pushed out daily.

This whole interview by @governor.ca.gov w @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social is the way you would *hope* your governor would sound, in response to historic, lawless over-reach. But if short on time, hear the final minute. Starts at time 13:40. A msg directly to Donald Trump www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/...

"It’s not clear that anyone wrote the study cited in the MAHA report." Wow. If these were freshman, caught using ChatGPT that made up bogus studies, they'd get flunked or worse. www.notus.org/health-scien...

Breaking news from the can't-make-this-shit-up desk: The same folks who are certain that Fauci caused COVID by funding people to study bats in a Biosafety Level 4 facility now want to import 400 ostriches with the goddamn bird flu from Canada so they can live on Dr. Oz's ranch.

No Kings Day is just over two weeks away. While Trump wastes millions on his birthday parade in DC, we’re showing up everywhere else on June 14 for a nationwide day of defiance. There are events planned in all 50 states — we hope to see you in the streets again: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Trump is in the process of destroying our justice system, Harvard, CBS News, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the careers of countless scientists, and many other things that make America great. If we don't stop him, he’ll eventually get around to you.

“A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free People.” The Constitution is not just a legal structure — it’s psychological scaffolding against narcissistic control. www.huffpost.com/entry/psycho...

Elon Musk, DOGE and Secretary Collins are driving many of our very best critical employees out of the VA. The disastrous effect on our Veterans can't be overstated. To them, Veterans are just numbers on a spreadsheet, not human beings.

⚡️Poland intercepts Russian sanctions-evading ship near critical Baltic power cable, Tusk says. "After the effective intervention of our military, the ship sailed to one of the Russian ports," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on X.

The GOP prioritizes tanning beds over hospital beds.

Trump is killing America's small farms: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

How cruel and depraved would you have to be to think now's the time to give the super-rich more money and stick it to the poor?

#ProudBlue #MomSky Talk about waste, fraud & abuse. We are going to take food out of the mouths of children & cut into medicaid so that these fuck nuts can throw a parade for the Orange Blob’s bday. Make it make sense.

Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.

Russia isn’t winning. They’re burning through men, tanks older than your dad, and begging North Korea for troops. That’s not strength—it’s desperation. We didn’t let them win the Cold War, and we won’t let them fake a win now. youtu.be/lvVI64jVXuI?...

🦋 Huge May Day rally in San Diego #California #MayDay2025 #MayDayStrong #50501Protests #HandsOff 🦋

Massive Crowd at May Day protest in Chicago!

On May 2nd, in Western NY, federal immigration agents stopped a bus of farm workers from Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms. They had a list of names, including UFW worker leaders who have been organizing to unionize their workplace. Those workers were detained. 1/ #WeFeedYou

Like no “foreign exchange” program I’ve ever seen promoted. Poor fellas.