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Today’s BlueSky photo is a view of the Dead Sea as seen from the ruin’s of Masada Israel.

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Actual question, after watching Oval Office spectacle w one president standing up for his country, and a prez and VP pandering for Putin: I don't recall ever being more ashamed, as an American, of a president's public behavior. (Many have erred in private) What has been more shameful than this?

submitted 13 hours ago • 142 comments

If you’re a Dem elected and you’re not mentioning the massive cuts to cancer cure and social security funding in every public appearance you’re just not doing your job.

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🔥 out of Kyiv tonight

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1965 comments

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

submitted 12 hours ago • 551 comments

This should not be posed by journalists as cost-cutting measure. This is an attempt to gut civil rights enforcement across the federal government and therefore across American life. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 12 hours ago • 17 comments

Or straight to Moscow?

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Literally all he did was quote someone. Defining criticism of the government as treason is what authoritarians do. Turning a publicly funded news outlet into a state media propaganda machine is what authoritarians do.

submitted 10 hours ago • 62 comments

Latest in a series of canny observations from Joshi

submitted 10 hours ago • 37 comments

It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them. Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 386 comments

Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."

submitted 10 hours ago • 294 comments

Census working paper showing that more accurate weather predictions save lives www.census.gov/library/work...

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Note how the passive voice is used to describe Trump twice, once in the hed (who created this "debacle"?), and once in the subhed (the relationship "curdled," as if that's something that just happened, not something driven by Trump's conduct). The only actor with agency here is Zelensky, who failed.

submitted 11 hours ago • 49 comments

WATCH — @emmavigeland.bsky.social : “Trump is the privatization President. An agenda of authoritarianism and mass privatization.”

submitted 9 hours ago • 16 comments

New post by Jesse Parker: 2025 presents a strategic opportunity for the Iowa Democratic Party to engage with young progressives across the state. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/02/28/y...

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

I think Dems should not go to the Joint Session Congressional address next week. (Term of art for SOTUs given in first year of a term.) Just don't show up. Convince me that I'm wrong.

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Trump makes me ashamed to be an American.

submitted 10 hours ago • 15 comments

Putin is controlling America from inside the Oval Office now.

submitted 9 hours ago • 20 comments

phys.org/news/2025-02...

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

You'll never go in the water again.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

For a majority of 2024, the single most important issue in the United States, as measured by volume and placement of media coverage, was presidential candidate age and mental fitness. A president failing to recall what he had recently said was front page news. Then in late July it stopped mattering.

submitted 20 hours ago • 35 comments

Glad they made it easy for us to add "SELF" to that title.

submitted 20 hours ago • 32 comments

A report from, uh, one of the fronts. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

A young cat plays with dominoes on a tabletop. At any moment an unexpected move could tip the ashtray with a burning cigar onto the ground. With this kind of endearing and amusing scenes Ronner became one of the most successful Dutch artists of her time. 😻 🚨 https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200105887

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We are barreling toward a full blown constitutional crisis. Trump's announcement that he's ending thousands of aid contracts FUNDED BY CONGRESS is unconstitutional and illegal - and horrible for our security. 1/ A quick🧵on what's going on. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 21 hours ago • 135 comments

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

The excellent writing of @thetnholler.bsky.social has been a great eye on America. From it, it appears Tennesseans are masochists treated horribly, asking for more. We DO see 3 feisty legislators and some great gun-control advocates. But otherwise, why are Tennessee people so politically invisible?

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Can solar power avoid Trump’s culture wars? #solarpower #RenewableEnergy #DonaldTrump www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/28/n...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

It is sort-of sweet that in our current tech-bro billionaire Nazi dystopia there's still room for a concurrent Christian Dominionist dystopia to thrive as well.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Ah, yes, all those weeks sitting in his own shit in a Manhattan court room, nodding off dreaming revenge, imagining the total reversal of the story-- www.salon.com/2025/02/28/e...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

In a scathing letter, they also accused Trump of seeking to make the apolitical U.S. military an instrument of partisan politics and using firings, which extend to the top army, navy and air force lawyers, to "remove legal constraints on the president's power." - www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

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Fealty to Donald Trump will not spare you from his cruelty. It's strength — not weakness — that curbs his baser instincts. Now is the time for us to be strong.

submitted 1 day ago • 169 comments

Batshit crazypants is where we are at and we should not take seriously or listen to anyone normalizing this mess, finding the positive, or pretending that any of it is legal. The normalizers are in fact part of the reason why we are here.

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Federal Judge William Alsup rules mass firing by The Current Regime likely unlawful, issues restraining order I’ve been in Alsup’s Courtroom - He’s the Real Deal, thoughtful & fair, & NO ONE messes w/him. Unprepared attorneys have been struck w/his legal lighting bolts www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

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Corvids are misunderstood. Just saying.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

DOGE isn't here to serve anyone other than Elon Musk and Donald Trump. And it was never about "efficiency." Just like the doge meme, the lives of hard-working families are a joke to them. youtube.com/shorts/nHoGr...

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Hmm. 🤔

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2of2 our trustworthiness, our confidence, and yes our COLLECTIVE PRIVILEGE deserved and otherwise. Trump is a parasite on our strength. That's what makes what he is doing so screamingly maddening. Deep bullshit of breaking OUR relationships, in OUR name. NO WAY winning an election sanctions this.

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Trump's power is bluff. The real US strength always has been in our collective property, our collective knowledge, our generation expanding public utilities and infrastructure, our relationships-- locally, globally. Trump is a parasite who threatens others with OUR accomplishments, our wealth, 1of2

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all of this additional reporting is vindicating my argument today that by delegating huge amounts of presidential authority to other people trump has made the executive branch even less accountable

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“The Secretary of Agriculture is quoted as saying they’re letting non-essential people go. Does she think animal caretakers aren’t essential?…Who’s going to take care of all the animals? Does she even have an understanding?”’

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Ohio Republicans continue to be utterly lawless. Voters passed an unambiguous constitutional amendment last year legalizing recreational marijuana with very clear terms and restrictions. They are now passing a law that significantly rolls it back. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/02/26/o...

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