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I am curious. Embracing the calm on Bluesky as America darkens despite our efforts to bring positive change. Hope remains a constant with progressive elections on three continents! ‘If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.’ – Mark Twain
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There are people who believe the moon landing was staged but this wasn’t.

“.. Negotiations between the EU and US, which began in earnest last month, have made scant progress ..” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Senator @jeffyarbro.bsky.social (D) on the “LAWLESS” @TNHighwayPatrol & ICE raids in Nashville: “Due process and the rule of law mean something, and it’s offensive to see them sacrificed by those charged with enforcing the law.” tnsenatedems.medium.com/sen-jeff-yar...

The masked ICE agents are in DC today, as rumored, whisking people off the street while covering their faces completely.

This is one hell of an exchange. This is argument in the 2nd circuit about returning Ozturk - the student in ICE detention for writing an op-ed - to Vermont from Louisiana. You can follow along here: bsky.app/profile/josh...)

Granddaughter of a Navy vet. Daughter of a Navy vet. Mother of an Army soldier. Not one damn dime should be spent on a military parade for a draft dodger…

If we’re doing this, here are orgs we should strip of tax exempt status: - Heritage Foundation - Stand Together - Americans for Prosperity - Cato Institute - Mackinac Center - State Policy Network - PragerU - RealClear Foundation - TPUSA - Claremont Institute - Council for National Policy - SPN

Nothing says teacher appreciation like gutting the Department of Education and firing half of the people that make the agency run.

Daily snaps 5/5/25 youtu.be/dzCmeaBxMuw

Sad news today, friends. We said goodbye to Chief Brody yesterday. He couldn't get comfortable anymore and his body was tired. We took him for a final soak in the ocean & fed him chocolate as we said goodbye. He's been our sweet old man for 5 years. We will miss him like crazy🤍

Lutnick has shifted from "90 deals in 90 days" to "you gotta be patient" and "we're gonna get some deals done pretty soon"

Do they work between Fox appearances, preparing for Fox appearances, and tweeting about Fox appearances?

"POTUS, let’s get it done." i just do not know any more

THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS. Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!” Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.

you got any stuff that doesn't suck?

A man who holds the title of President of the United States, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, who then says he doesn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution, is unfit to be president and should be removed.

Reporter: How did you decide to reopen Alcatraz? Trump: I was supposed to be a movie maker… Nobody ever escaped. One person almost got there but they found his clothing rather badly ripped up, a lot of shark bites…

Maddow: A coalition of groups including Indivisible, Social Security Works and 50501 are all organizing a nationwide day of protest for June 14th. They're calling it No Kings day. Join us: nokings.org

A clear goal of the Trump administration is to give horrible people the license to be the c%nts they’ve always wanted to legally and publicly be. The objective of the opposition should be to return the favor, but with infinitely more style, cunning, and fervor.

You know that Twilight Zone episode where the kid has amazing psychic powers and can make people disappear with his mind and the entire town is hostage to him and has to cater to his every whim? That’s us right now.

Look!👀 The right wing rag -- The Federalist -- accidentally told the truth about why Trump keeps targeting me.😂

Very important. The lady in front of me at See's Candy asked for TWO free samples and he gave them to her. So then I asked if I could have TWO and I also got TWO.

sometimes sees candy will just give u a random sample but sometimes if the store is not crowded they will let u choose your sample

I grew up believing that we had learned the lessons of the German poem and Martin Luther King Jr's speeches. We would all speak out if we saw democracy threatened and the rule of law under attack. I will always speak out against wrong. I will always stand up for democracy. I will not back down.

Any US President, past or present, could have stopped aid and assistance to Israel with an executive order. The US kept selling weapons, sharing intelligence, pressuring allies to look the other way.

Contrasted with NYT, here's a newspaper exercising responsible editorial judgment.

phew glad that got settled

Also known as “lies” abcnews.go.com/Business/tru...

HUNT: Is Rubio still working on the Abrego Garcia case? TAMMY BRUCE: I'm not going to speak to his work in detail HUNT: You're the spokesperson for the State Department!

Recently, a legal group sued Chief Justice John Roberts storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... in a brazen attempt to seize control of the federal court system. Our democracy is under attack. The courts must hold. Our votes can not be suppressed. Don't look away. Join us and resist.

Philadelphia Inquirer knows where this story belongs

Good riddance

This is a shockingly mistaken understanding of due process by Stephen Miller. It is likely this misunderstanding that is informing the President’s misunderstanding.

Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented. His argument fails even on its own terms.

And there it is. The law he's using to make all those tariffs literally excludes films (among other things) from the scope of his powers. He can't do shit here. It's 100% unenforceable even before the "how" of it all. Thanks to @nanosauromo.bsky.social for the info.

this is me fending off your silly comments

It was always performative outrage.

Tariffs are taxation without representation. We wrote a whole Declaration of Independence about it. Threw tea in the harbor and everything.

Biden was boring… I say that with a great deal of nostalgia.

Be like Harvard and Maine Gov. Janet “I’ll See You in Court” Mills: Keep telling Shitler and his cabinet of corrupt and incompetent psychos to go fuck themselves. When you punch a bully in the nose, he can’t compute what hit him. Resist.

🚨BREAKING: Advocacy groups and student voter file lawsuit challenging Indiana’s new law — Senate Bill 10 — banning the use of student ID for voting. State is engaging in a “surgical attack” on student voters as state election law does not prohibit the use of any other form of photo ID.

Just got off the phone with Mrs Sicknick and just more slaps in the face with this settlement. She asked "why did my son die" (in response to all the whitewashing that is being done about January 6th) if it was a day of love, why is my son dead" Total miscarriage of justice

Promises made, promises kept. Stand by for details....

Roger Goodell and Muriel Bowser are in the White House flanking Trump

Foreign films are a national security threat? We’re shaking our heads. We’d laugh if this wasn’t such dangerous, authoritarian rhetoric. What other countries do this? Russia and China.

BRUSUELAS: “.. Cutting off the U.S. economy from the rest of the world without a plan to replace goods will result in shortages, higher prices and higher unemployment. “The damage has been done and this week all will observe a large decline in shipping volume into the Port of Los Angeles.” 🇺🇸

Morning from the fur balls!

Puppy palooza 😁