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Christ-follower trying not to be tribal. Loves kaiju, NFL, F1, jazz/blues/folk/funk/edm/good pop, film, must-see TV, and PC gaming (Bethesda Boy). Writing a book on fandom. I've written others: https://www.tedturnau.com/.
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We are at the point in history where Germany is having to lecture the US on the need to fight fascism.

I watched it 3 x

My colleagues across the aisle just called our fight to protect Social Security “garbage.” I’m sorry—WHAT!?!?   Seniors, veterans, children, & people with disabilities are not “garbage.” We don’t work for billionaires. We work for the people. And, we will continue to fight like hell for them.

Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s 'Camo series', photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt #Fridayfeeling

Seems like a great opportunity to communicate to parents and students that Trump is cutting higher education and scientific research in Alabama aldailynews.com/nih-funding-...

A Trump-appointed judge ruled that Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act for swift deportations is illegal.

Trump is disappearing people into torture prisons. Congress cannot sit on their hands. Demand they REFUSE to comply, OBJECT to every motion, and use budget talks to slow this administration down. Click the link, find your reps, and tell them: act.progressarizona.org/call/kilmar-... #MomSky

It's just unfathomable to me how one so mutilates their soul that that they feel justified to treat another human being this way.

America this is not normal. House votes to allow deportations of American Citizens to continue. Be enraged, resist, call your senators and reps MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD! Stand up. www.newsweek.com/republicans-...

Why?! 👇

Everyone treats this like it’s totally normal, instead of unprecedented levels of blatant corruption.

Attenborough at 99: naturalist ‘goes further than before’ to speak out against industrial fishing in new film

Yeah why not ?

At a time when veterans with VA loans are struggling to keep their homes out of foreclosure, the Veterans Administration (VA) under Donald Trump's stewardship has decided to pull the plug on a program built specifically to keep them housed.

NEW: Former employees of a Nike clothing factory in Cambodia said they sometimes saw two or three people taken to an onsite clinic in a day. One described how he carried workers who were too weak to walk. By @robwdavis.bsky.social

1 May 1924 | A Romanian Jewish woman, Bertha Feldinger, was born in Vișeu de Sus. She emigrated to Belgium. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Malines / Mechelen in 15 August 1942. She did not survive.

Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027

I spoke to @abcnewsbot.bsky.social Radio National about my former colleague, Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, who was illegally arrested on the occupied territories, tortured and murdered in a Russian prison. Russia's war crimes cannot go unpunished www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

The contracting economy is due to businesses being uncertain about the future, and that stems directly from Trump's inability to keep his word about anything.

Ok I am completely broken by this. The Hague and UN need to see this. #Texas

Let us continue to raise our voices in prayer. The Holy Spirit hears the cries of the poor, the excluded, the refugee, the meek, the peacemakers, the mourners and the marginalized. A change is happening.

If you've had one of those days when all you really need is a baby bear trying to catch snowflakes, here's a baby bear trying to catch snowflakes.

Breaking news: The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of 2025, contracting by an annualized rate of 0.3 percent, a stark reversal after nearly three years of solid growth, as tariff-related uncertainty upended spending patterns and raised fears of an impending recession.

My painting NORTHERN ENGLAND

A young male Resplendent Quetzal that was outside our cabin in San Gerardo de Dota #CostaRica #birds #nature

The cartoons coming out of Canada right now are hilarious. This one from Toronto Star’s Theo Moudakis.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, a move that medical experts fear could limit access to vaccines and undermine the public’s trust in immunization depending on its implementation.

This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200. The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money. Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.

NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it. By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

After the election of our lifetime, it is now time to share some lighthearted humour with our southern neighbours 🇨🇦❤️🇺🇸

History, apparently , doesn't exist.

Breaking: Man whose decision to attend three quarters of the Super Bowl cost U.S. taxpayers $20 million in enhanced security tells the American people they must prepare for austerity.

Donald Trump's confusion regarding Harvard and Harlem renews focus on Joe Biden's mental state.

Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.

Trump administration demands that libraries expurgate the last few pages of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” calling the ending “woke” and “communist.”

People keep posting “listen to the answer Trump gave about this and tell me he shouldn’t be impeached!” and bless you if you can stand to listen to that guys voice but I’ve got other stuff to do I’ll take your word for it

New in PN: Trump demands states obey law he just announced via tweet "Nowhere is Trump's legal fantasizing more bizarre than in the context of civil rights, where he's concocted new theories of gender and race discrimination and commands all of us to treat them as if they are real."

Rubio is a lawyer and officer of the court.

New: We interviewed six detained Venezuelans who the Trump admin accused of being gang members and likely nearly sent to El Salvador this month without due process. They—and their relatives—insist they are innocent and provided extensive evidence to support that. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Well maybe the children will have two dolls instead of thirty dolls."

Give a person a fisshe and thei will eate for a daye. Teache a person to fisshe and thei will eate for a lyfetyme. Destroye the fish ponde to make a computer tell lies about fisshe, you are a Gen AI companye.

Needed some good news this AM. Amphibians make me happy.

god god

Let them eat two dolls.

Photographer Margaret Bourke White, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945 #womensart

'Bluebells at Wisley' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #womensart