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Never say that Trump supporters didn't vote for this. Yes they did. They own all of it. Saying anything else lets them off the hook for creating this catastrophic mess.

This was just 233 days ago:

First JFK Library briefly closed after several staffers were laid off. Now the Carter Library had to cancel author events for books about climate change, homelessness and the civil rights movement. But the Reagan, Nixon and both Bush libraries seem to be just fine. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...

Remember when having a really old president and questioning his mental acuity was front page news everyday for months?

So many wolves in so many hen houses

Friday mood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxa9...

The Moron Felonious Choir

There are many mysteries and ambiguities in life but the nature of this gesture is not among them. It's a Nazi salute.

Mamas (and Papas), don't let your babies grow up to be Elons.

Accomplices pretending to be victims.

“What’s strange to me is that anyone believes that quickly caving to Trump will ultimately save them from his bottomless wrath. It won’t, and they will have preemptively sacrificed their values for nothing.” - @rygraham.bsky.social So much this… 1/2 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/o...

Indeed. Daniel Dale needs to be on CNN several times a day everyday. (Weekends can be a super mix compilation of the week's lies.)

The Trump administration is now bringing the postwar era to an end. No one should be surprised: this is what they said they would do. America's European and Asian allies need to adjust, quickly. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Not if you understand how white supremacy works.

Cowards.

According to @penamerica.bsky.social, JD Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" is one of the books flagged by the Defense Department for a "compliance review" spurred by Trump's anti-DEI purge. pen.org/julianne-moo...

Fundraising would be an issue if he wanted to preserve the Kennedy Center. He doesn't. He wants to destroy it.

don't let them erase us. trans women of color were on the front lines from the beginning. thank you @rygraham.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/18/o...

Brian Gibbs, 41, was working as a ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in northeast Iowa. His wife, who is pregnant with their second child, will be kicked off his health insurance next week. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

He didn’t suggest that Ukraine invaded Russia. He lied that Ukraine invaded Russia. This is his well-worn pattern of declaring lies as facts to muddy the truth. He and his minions will continue to amplify this new Big Lie.

The JFK library appeared to be the only one of the 14 completed presidential libraries managed by the National Archives and Records Administration that was closed by Trump without a reason Tuesday. A spokesperson for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library said it “has not been impacted.”

"Jocelynn Rojo Carranza took her life after experiencing months of relentless bullying from her sixth grade classmates over her family's immigration status, with some students even threatening to contact the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)." Just no words ...

If we must die, let it not be from this administration's weaponized stupidity.

Trump's attempt to rewrite Stonewall's history is especially egregious because the role of trans women of color like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera at Stonewall was long minimized for decades within the community itself, writes @rygraham.bsky.social.

Or that his supporters were actively rooting for Trump to hurt people. It's always been as much about someone else's demise as their own survival.

March 2022 Marco Rubio might have been surprised to learn that a leading figure helping Russia try to achieve its war aims is February 2025 Marco Rubio.

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

MERRIAM-WEBSTER: kleptocracy (noun); klep·​toc·​ra·​cy : government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed

It's like the most bizarre joke with democracy, the rule of law, this nation, and the world as the punchline.

The story of America is undermining if not outright demolishing anything that fosters equity and threatens white supremacy.

And he extinguished it in less than a month.

Eric Adams has got to go. Your move, @govkathyhochul.bsky.social

Don't normalize fascism. Normalize calling out fascists at every turn wherever they are.

"It’s not Trump who doesn’t have ideas; it’s the people who should be fighting to stop Trump’s autocratic breakthrough." — M. Gesson www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...

JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Who wants to tell him?

Like dictators before him, Trump attacks the arts. My latest @globeopinion.bsky.social column. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/16/o...