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whatsleftnow.bsky.social
Retired from teaching. Doting on only grandchild - adorably smart toddler. Hyper political. Always wanting to learn.
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Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

They’re firing the most qualified Black people and hiring the most dipshit white people.

Huge break-the-glass-ceiling moment for the Convict American community.

M. Garland got so caught up in the optics that the optics are now REALLY bad. A note for his successor: When you are dealing with politicians everything you do will appear political. You can’t avoid it. In fact, the more you try, the more political it will appear. So…just do your Goddamn job.

LIFE HACK: Answer your phone "Hello you're on the air" and 99% of the time people will just hang up.

The Lion King is probably my favorite movie about running away from your problems until you’re strong enough to kill your uncle.

Cat: You don't understand, you must let me out into the world, I yearn to be free and unfettered by domesticity Same cat five minutes later: WHY DID YOU BANISH ME TO THE FROZEN REALMS OF THE OUTER WORLD THERE IS NOTHING BUT A WASTELAND THERE HOW DARE YOU SIR

There's a fine line between can't keep up with all of Trump's clownominees and don't want to even know.

One of the greatest TV theme songs. i'll accept no questions or arguments. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2qK...

I spent so many years studying a justice system that I no longer recognize.

Another #TwoSpeciesTuesday pairing: a White Ibis and Little Blue Heron. #birds

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Whether it's Democrats proposing child care tax credits to help working mothers or it's Republicans being told they are abusers by their mothers, motherhood has become a thorny issue for both parties.

Maybe I need to reintroduce myself here: I’m rural. Born and raised poor. I live in red Missouri, population 480. I’m not elite. I’m not wealthy. When I speak about MAGA folks, I’m speaking about people I know. The way they vote harms my community. I’m not poking fun at them. I’m frustrated.

“I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it’s made illegal”

😭💀

Had a good run on this website but now the Censorship Cabal is after me for calling Heathcliff "Temu Garfield."

When I finish eating something, I have to show my hands to the dog like I'm a blackjack dealer.

I like the colors on this picture I took this afternoon

There is no specific constitutional prohibition against beating women or sexually assaulting them, so it’s hard to see why Democrats have such a big problem with Pete Hegseth or Matt Gaetz or RFK Jr. or Donald Trump. I’m probably leaving somebody out. But you see the point. by Jonathan Turley

Trying extremely hard not to buy Gracula.

Welp that last episode of 1883 made me cry so bad I’ve gotta eat a raw jalapeno to open back up my sinuses

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Repost to save a life

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

Let me introduce you to the United States Supreme Court

The “Look”

Ever since I started cutting off Trump voters now nobody in my family wants to talk about politics. That’s fine. Be ashamed I’m gonna keep talking about trump supporters like they’re trash right in front of them. Watch them sit there with a smirk like a damn coward

In this Quincy bar, Wakefield still means Tim. But they do know this: vaccines cause autism, just like RFK Jr. says.

Opinion | I don’t know what the next four years will hold, but I do know that whatever it is I will say that it’s not as bad as what liberals predicted.

Need a break from the relentless flow of bad news? Have a berb break! Not #BackyardBirding, but a nice #BeltedKingfisher nonetheless!

Atlantic piece on how “The Right has a Bluesky Problem” reminds me of a pattern observed in cults. After failed prophecies, members often appear even more committed but that misses changes in group composition: nonbelievers and moderate members exit so remaining group is inevitably more extreme. 1/

In case you needed this.

In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Wake up, film your Fox News show, drug and sexually assault a woman, and then down to the old Department of Defense to be installed without a confirmation hearing. But now the woke mob wants to take that all away.

1/ We're experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network. As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.

In a perfect world, you don’t put the guy who got away with stealing our national security secrets back in the office where he’ll get unfettered access to our national security secrets. Me and my pesky high standards.

Medieval women in England weren't regularly getting married as teens and, even the ones who did, likely didn't consummate their marriages until their late teens or later. Margaret of Beaufort is a horrific exception, not the rule. And some women even chose to be single, even without being nuns.

26 November 1921 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Bertha van den Berg, was born in Padang in Indonesia (then Dutch East Indies). In September 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz. She did not survive.

40 percent! This is why we need labor unions in America. Employers who refuse to pay a living wage need to be held accountable!! #UnionsForAll

Long day. Big stretch everybody