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Windmill cancer survivor, published photographer, world traveler (not world famous), Jack of all trades, Master of none. And definitely, pro-democracy!
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Just to be clear! #MomSky

Love you Maxwell Frost, thank you for fighting for us, means the world to us!!!

Saturday night

The Fluoride-in-water “bans” motif is the latest attempted assault on our intelligence. The height of inventing a solution to a supposed problem, there is actually no issue here. We did a calm, fact-filled fact check (again!) this week and we will keep doing it. youtube.com/watch?v=ssv-...

Pappas gets the day of his life

Good Day, Blue Sky www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSMu...

#TrumpTariffs #TrumpMarketCrash

“No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession – if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning.” Anne Applebaum

They are trying…and making headway toward their goal every day…to squeeze every last breath out of the lungs of democracy. At that point, they plan to stomp on the lifeless corpse. You already know that, but sometimes it helps to see it in print. If we let it slip away…it’s gone forever.

Yeah so don't go on a cruise ever again if you were thinking about it.

If you never hold anyone accountable, you'll never again be able to hold anyone accountable.

The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else. Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.

pro tip: if your government claims to have no money for children's heathcare but will eagerly waste millions on a gaudy military parade to stroke the fragile ego of a broken-inside president, you just might live in a shithole country

Dogs and babies are always a good thing

Trump said he'd protect Social Security — Elon Musk is killing it from inside: employee www.rawstory.com/social-secur...

"The best thing he's has ever done for America is to undo the worst thing he's ever done for America." ~ Jimmy Kimmel

This isn't The Art of the Deal. It's insider trading with a bad comb-over. Step 1: Tank the Market, Scare the Non-Millionaires Step 2: Let the Aristocrats Feast Step 3: Flip, but say ‘Winning’ Step 4: Pretend None of This Ever Happened & Get Your Media Dregs To Do The Same Rinse, Enrich, Repeat.

'The Dollar Stores' are going to be 'The $10 Dollar Stores' now.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

#NationalLibraryWeek #LiteracyMatters

In 1990, thousands of Americans with disabilities decided to stop waiting for elected officials to act. Their efforts changed the minds — and the votes — of elected officials and resulted in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. We can’t wait for our leaders to act. We have to lead.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Q: 60 Minutes found 75% of the migrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have criminal records. That true? BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime? BONDI: *leaves*

If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?

War hero schools a chickenhawk.

Those representatives that are in power have abandoned us. Won't return calls, reply with standard replies, won't hold town hall meetings, and have no office hours. This is truly, "Taxation, without representation!" Sound familiar?

Authoritarian regimes run on lies. They fear the truth and people who act defiantly to tell the truth. The four patriots who testified against this regime during our spotlight hearing exemplify courage.

Please share this Far & Wide for friends outside the U.S. (and inside U.S.) who are not seeing any of this reported on Mainstream Media here in the USA. This is 18 minutes of Rachel Maddow's coverage of the NATIONWIDE, PEACEFUL! protests that happened on April 5th. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr4Y...

YES!!

As Mary McCord writes, law firms suing Trump over his blackmail executive orders “are winning not just for themselves and their clients, but for the adversarial system that undergirds the rule of law.” Bravo to the firms standing up for the values of our profession.

In theory this nightmare could end today:

#Whales are conscious breathers—surfacing every 5-15 minutes, while deep divers like sperm whales can hold out for 90 minutes. When one emerges, leaving a #rainbow in its wake, it's pure #magic

Just remembered this adorable old video, this kid has such good comic timing I hope you’re thriving out their queen

Goodnight Humans Be kind always 🌊🌊

This week Americans all over the country showed that WE ARE THE LEADERS THIS MOMENT IN HISTORY DEMANDS. Thank you for your heart and courageous love. Our nation's character, future and, with health care in the balance, millions of lives are at stake.

"DOGE is eliminating the government's tape backups because they're too stupid to know why they're important" is the generous interpretation, when what they might actually be doing is stealing all the money and trying to destroy the records of them doing so.

Australia is not for the weak