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Because not all passports are equal. And the U.S.’s isnt even the strongest There are layers to traveling. If the US keeps pissing everybody off OR we keep dismantling public health, other countries will close their borders to us OR at least require visa entry. Another passport as a backup is 🔥

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

submitted 3 hours ago • 166 comments

We kicked holocaust denier Ernst Zündel out of Canada. Why the hell would we let Elon Musk have any claim on Canada? He is a fascist threatening the people of Ukraine. I am proud to be helping drive this asshole from our shores. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

submitted 7 hours ago • 351 comments

If you're wondering where Elon Musk gets his lust for technocracy, his grandfather was part of a political movement in Canada called Technocracy, which was "…temporarily banned by the Canadian government out of fear that its members planned overthrow the government by force.” #Sask #CdnPoli

submitted 6 hours ago • 12 comments

Dear OPM FOIA staff - Remember to preserve all of these email responses, as we will be submitting FOIA requests for this consolidated compilation of information on what the entire federal government did last week. Thx - FOIA community

submitted 10 hours ago • 129 comments

Definitely sounds like an AI phishing expedition.

submitted 9 hours ago • 53 comments

Reuters reporting that the U.S. has threatened Ukraine with the “imminent” shutoff of Starlink access unless the country agrees to handover control of rare earth minerals to the United States. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 17 hours ago • 32 comments

This is direct theft of taxpayer money for political purposes. It is literally stealing.

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

another Nazi salute at CPAC

submitted 14 hours ago • 1036 comments

Edward Gorey photographed by Jack Mitchell, 1977 #EdwardGorey #BOTD

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Shotei Hiroaki (1871-1945) Evening glow at Sakawa Bridge #japanese #woodblock

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"I couldn't get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles, triangles and the sensations they give rise to." -Bridget Riley #BridgetRiley #OpArt #AbstractArt

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

One reason Trump is doing this is bc Trump has failed to come close to meeting his deportation promises. If that were to become a bigger narrative--if the mob learned that he was diverting NatSec resources yet is falling behind Sleepy Joe Biden's deportation numbers--Trump'd be in trouble.

submitted 14 hours ago • 36 comments

lol

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

Good morning. How’s your day going? Just starting mine. It’s garden pruning and spring cleaning season here, for me.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

#BlueSkyArtShow #Reflections Thriplow

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Reorganizing large entities is a marathon, not a sprint. Does GOP have the endurance for change management?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Plovers under the Moon, by Morikawa Sobun, late 19th century #Japanese #Art #JapanseArt #Ukiyo-e

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Můj už starší článek pro britské Byline Times: Czechs still recall Vondra's presence at the Future of Europe conference in Budapest. In the snapshots from that event, Vondra and Bannon are captured in jovial camaraderie. …It was a subtle dance of controlled opposition.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Photographer Varun Aditya captured this stunning clip of a pride of lions without using a flash. The photographer spent three nights in a hiding place, waiting for the perfect moment.

submitted 3 days ago • 212 comments

#TheFarSide by Gary Larson || est. #comic publication: 1980-83 || series run: 1979-95 & 2017-23

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

A quote from William McMillan (NSW) at the 1891 Australian federation convention: US constitution framers "were 100 years behind our present development—they having to make a man either a despot or a nonentity—for every president has been one or the other—[and their problems] do not exist with us"

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Here in Illinois, ten years ago we saw the consequences of a rampant ideological gutting of government. It genuinely harmed people. Our citizens hated it. Trust me – I was elected based in part on just how much they hated it.

submitted 2 days ago • 531 comments

Another roadside sign “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” Marcus Aurelius

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Keep up with the different surveillance technologies police are using across the U.S., from body-worn cameras, to cell-site simulators. Stay informed using the Atlas of Surveillance.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

@anntelnaes.bsky.social By Ann Telnaes. Never forget.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

I know I've shot and posted this scene 100s of times in the past, but I just can't get over it. You could be forgiven for thinking that all I do is wait for foggy weather, then head up onto the hill. But I just love this view so much. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #LandscapePhotography

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

Waiting for the run on banks in the states. Trump is turning the place into Lower Slobovia

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

NEW non-clarifying clarifications about Elon Musk's employee status filed just now in a NM-led lawsuit: —Musk, as a presidential senior adviser, "has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself." He is also not DOGE's administrator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 48 comments

HEARING: Today is the preliminary injunction hearing in Talbott v. Trump, the case challenging Trump's anti-transgender military executive order. Judge Reyes began by trying to go through the points on which everyone agrees. DOJ will not agree the EO is to ban all trans people from the military.

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

Today (2/17/25) at 11am Judge Tanya S. Chutkan will conduct a TRO (temporary restraining order) hearing in a challenge to the constitutionality of DOGE under the Appointments Clause (Art II, §2, cl 2). I’ll try to live-blog here for @lawfare.bsky.social . You can also phone-in yourself. ... /1

submitted 5 days ago • 61 comments