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As governor of Illinois, I’ve made it my mission to make our state the best to call home including for our LGBTQ+ community. No matter who you are or who you love, everyone deserves dignity and equality. Hate has no home here.

submitted 89 days ago • 1260 comments

The struggle is real.

submitted 89 days ago • 3 comments

Yes!

submitted 90 days ago • 14 comments

"when his church refused to integrate, he left to help found a new one that welcomed everyone" www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/o... many lovely factoids I didn't know about Carter, in this eulogy from @nickkristof.bsky.social

submitted 129 days ago • 114 comments

“Well done, my good and faithful servant”… are the first words that came to my mind when hearing of the passing of President Carter. He & his bride committed their lives to service in the most selfless way. Let us all honor his legacy by doing our part to serve our country & our community.

submitted 129 days ago • 293 comments

Shocking. Nobody (except for Finland) reacts to Russian war against the west, and they take it as a signal to continue. www.lloydslist.com/LL1151955/Ru...

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submitted 131 days ago • 8 comments

#81 for Keith Richards today... 🎸

submitted 141 days ago • 27 comments

It’s the time of year for mentioning one of my favourite ‘untranslatables’. ‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.

submitted 140 days ago • 377 comments

I do not have any coping mechanisms for the next four years. I am all tapped out.

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Can’t sleep. Obsessed w/ idea that 1st 15 years of my life- ‘65 to’80- seemed to take forever. But 3 different 15 year segments since feel like they whizzed by. I doubt this is the theory of relativity Einstein wrote about. But how can Sgt Pepper’s to Born to Run be same distance as Damn is to now?

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On This Day in 1978: I married my dental hygienist, Marilou York. She cleaned my teeth & the rest... is history. #HappyAnniversary2TheLoveOfMyLife. ❤️ 🎆 🙏

submitted 141 days ago • 5137 comments

pete hegseth doesn't want women to serve in combat roles yet he has his mother out here fighting his battles....

submitted 154 days ago • 1211 comments

Did the Haitians in Ohio stop eating people’s dogs? Suddenly that issue seems to have gone away.

submitted 156 days ago • 18 comments

Joe's pardon of Hunter makes me think POTUS is aware of the coming danger. Hopefully, this is the beginning of the pardons and not the end.

submitted 155 days ago • 796 comments

Quite the sunset in Seattle tonight.

submitted 158 days ago • 3 comments

I feel seen

submitted 165 days ago • 589 comments

I wish these were the only Presidential issues we had to worry about. Vegetables, not psychopaths. “Jimmy doesn't especially like green peas.” “French green beans (but not the frozen ones)”

submitted 164 days ago • 2 comments

I hate when they take away things you were just starting to really enjoy, like your favorite TV show or democracy.

submitted 165 days ago • 818 comments

Sarah McBride: "It is an attempt to distract ... Every single time we hear them say the word 'trans,' look what they're doing with their right hand. Look at what they're doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing Social Security and Medicare."

submitted 165 days ago • 656 comments

Three week since the election and I still have not watched one single network news broadcast. Easiest thing I've ever done.

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

An AG that can be bought for $25,000. That's a real deal compared to a $150,000 paid-off porn star.

submitted 167 days ago • 18 comments

@lolgop.bsky.social and I have the funniest process for our Ball of Threads podcast. I blather on for an hour saying, "here's what happened," thinking it's just my analysis saying so. Then he goes off to MAGAworld and finds them admitting it explicitly, each time with a crazier example.

submitted 166 days ago • 11 comments

One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election. Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control

submitted 166 days ago • 1630 comments

When all the undocumented immigrants are in concentration camps or deported, what then? Will construction project go un finished? Will crops rot in the fields? Will prices rise. Will families be separated? Will students be notified that their parents won’t be picking them up after school?

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

There’s a narrative that Gaetz was a deliberate head-fake — a distraction to boost the real candidate — but I am always suspicious of narratives that attribute four-dimensional chess to trump as opposed to knocking over the table and eating the checkers.

submitted 167 days ago • 1041 comments

I think Bondi will be confirmed but she provides the perfect vehicle to expose her and Trump: 1) Foreclosure fraud 2) Payoff re Trump U 3) Impeachment 1 4) Big Lie 5) Qatar and other influence peddling I'm missing a few. Anyway, a good vehicle to make it clear what the Republican party is.

submitted 167 days ago • 116 comments

Is the predictable "creepy Gaetz" scandal distracting the news cycle from absentee ballot discrepancies in many states, or no?

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

Fact check: true

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submitted 170 days ago • 19 comments

I'm thinking the unabridged version of War and Peace could be printed on that fivehead.

submitted 169 days ago • 2 comments

Bliss!! I am READING more, listening to all sorts of music, and my TV stays OFF when it comes to the news. That's why I subscribe to newspapers (call me old fashioned). This is what I did to survive Reagan/Bush.

submitted 170 days ago • 8 comments

not a landslide

submitted 169 days ago • 1086 comments

For almost 3 weeks now! 🤪

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submitted 170 days ago • 1365 comments

The appointment of Radmila Šekerinska as the new Deputy Gen Sec of NATO is not only significant for N. Macedonia, it is positive for the whole W. Balkans. She understands the threats but also minces no words re: the West's broken promises to the region. europeanwesternbalkans.com/2024/11/19/n...

submitted 170 days ago • 4 comments

Bullshit. If I had wanted power, I would have kept my mouth shut. I preferred my conscience.

submitted 170 days ago • 2896 comments

Today, like every day, Merrick Garland sat down with a cup of tea at precisely 11am. He then opened one email, composed a thoughtful response, saved it to drafts, and took a three-hour lunch. After he got back to the office, he opened the draft, fixed a typo, hit send. "Justice is done," he chuckled

submitted 169 days ago • 17 comments

In today’s news, someone without particular specifications was picked for a job where he can do only limited damage. He does not appear to be a sex and/or war criminal or a booster thereof and has not articulated vengeful or genocidal goals. This is okay news. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...