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Atheist, liberal. Pacific Northwest. We have to hang together in these dark times.
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ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention? www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

#Krasnov I would love it if this # goes viral... And better yet.. he will hate it...

Seems legit.... We don't want to be a nation of underachieving Americans.

Democratic leaders: I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working. Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.

A drug addict who makes cars that spontaneously explode, plows into cops, and crash at much higher rates than other cars, is going to fix the air traffic control system? I'm not getting on a plane until this drug-addled illegal immigrant is deported or imprisoned.

Can anyone tell me how to make Bluesky fit an iPad screen? It's only as big as an IPhone and hard to read on my iPad.

I'm in. February 28, 2025!

Captures it perfectly.

Oops 😬

If you are taking care of a parent, or struggling with the decision to put them in a home, remember you could have had a paid worker come to their house to help take care of them, but Kamala Harris laughed funny, so now their Medicare is about to get frozen.

Let's get this circulated!! 😤

How convenient.

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

Congratulations, plaudits, bouquets and a well earned pat on the back to all of the “Lets-teach-a-lesson-to-Genocide-Joe” activists; and a hearty well-done for the MAGA folks who railed against endless wars. Because what’s more America First than this, my good lads? open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

You misspelled "breaking." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...

Please read: @murray.senate.gov @ossoff.bsky.social @padilla.senate.gov @reed.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social @schiff.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov

Only Donald Trump has the negotiating skill to get Canada to agree to things they already agreed to under Biden and literally nothing else.

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

Just got home from a Town Hall with Senator Merkley (OR). Very bleak. No real answers as to how to stop all this--courts will move too slowly. He was pretty alarmed at everything---said Rs are cowed because of Musk money in the primaries. Scary times. What do we do??

This is the Second Amendment moment that gun nuts have been fantasizing about for decades. But because it's their guy committing the tyranny, ain't nobody talking about the Second Amendment now.

Seriously!

I hope Garland is awake right now, like I am. He shouldn’t have a full night of sleep again.

Disgusting

OK, you can't have it both ways, Donald. You can't stupidly brag about how you ended DEI to bring back safety at the FAA and then stupidly blame DEI the first time there is a crash on your watch.

If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.

This was posted yesterday morning before the DCA crash. Prescient.

Anyway as they pull bodies out of the Potomac bear in mind that the guiding ethos of Trumpism is that the TSA, NTSB, and FAA should be radically downsized and run by dudes whose main qualifications are loyalty are a willingness to say “cunt” a lot

FAA says a military helicopter collided with the American Airlines passenger jet from Wichita near DCA. There must be immediate hearings on how the federal government/Department of Defense allowed this to happen and if removal of safety protocols and recent personnel changes led to this incident.

Army Blackhawk helicopters are crashing into passenger planes at DCA while the Secretary of Defense is on Fox News ranting about DEI

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

Literally happening as we speak