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Happy Monday Bluesky! Fun fact from today in history. This one seemed most relevant to today for some reason. 💙

My flabber is well and truly gasted. Turns out there actually exists some journalistic integrity somewhere in the US mass media...

So sad.

Sullivan: "When you see the car start careening toward the cliff, you've gotta say something. What I've seen in less than 100 days is terrible damage to America's credibility and trust with our allies & terrible damage to America's appeal... most of all what I've seen is China reaping the benefits."

Call me old fashioned, but I think any president creating a meme coin hustle to recruit anonymous financial backers and rewarding the biggest spenders with “a night to remember” private dinner with the president kinda feels like an impeachable offense.

“He is granting audiences to people who buy his meme coin. When the sitting president of the United States is selling access for what are effectively payments directly to him. There is no question that that rises to the level of an impeachable offense.” Sen. Jon Ossoff

Crimes against humanity! I am sickened to my core! This must be stopped!

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

Same! Cheers!

Just heard someone say “he sounds like he spends a lot of time on Facebook” and hooo boy everyone’s immediate understanding of what that means should be a brand crisis for Meta

i have always admired and looked up to dickerson and this is a very good example of why

I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism. It’s disgusting and dangerous. If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign. Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness. To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.

This is from J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a Reagan appointee:

The Vice President of El Salvador has told US Senator Van Hollen that the reason they are still holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia is due to the Trump regime paying them to do so. Trump needs to be arrested and brought up on human trafficking charges. #3E

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

#LockHimUp

Taxes fund peace, civility, and our shared humanity. If this administration targets HeadStart (AKA providing human rights of food and basic safety of 800,000+ of my neighbors who happen to be babies), the depth of my anger and the breadth of my action will reach new levels. #Headstart #ECE

This is terrifying. And outstanding reporting from NPR.

Exactly.

If Jeff Bezos can send Katy Perry into space, he can pay a wealth tax so every American has debt-free healthcare.

Oh come on! Seriously?

If you made my grandma stand outside in a line in AZ for hours to find out why her Social Security check hadn’t come and then told her to ‘come back tomorrow’ or figure it out online. I would spend the rest of my days making sure the political party that caused it became extinct.

2019 is calling and saying, hey, why didn’t you listen

Here’s the real reason why DOGE is gutting the IRS. (Hint: it has nothing to do with “efficiency.”)

In a better, more just timeline the House would be drafting another set of articles of impeachment for the President, the Vice-President, and the Cabinet because of their involvement in insider trading and rigging the markets for the benefit of the oligarchs in the US and abroad.

Remember: Republicans in Congress can put a stop to this at any time.

We would be DROWNING in think pieces explaining how she was out of touch/unprepared/lacked understanding/reached far above herself/listened to the wrong people/and so on and so on.

NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING ECONOMIST says:

If a deranged president intentionally destroying the country's economy with a ludicrous obsession (and misunderstanding) of tariffs *isn't* justification for invoking the 25th Amendment, I honestly can't imagine any scenario that would be.

Welcome to Idiocracy.

@warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov Good morning Senators. As a proud resident of Boston Massachusetts, I would like to request your support of making Senator Cory Booker the new Senate Minority Leader. New leadership is desperately needed to energize and mobilize public support for our party

Hello, Congress. Are you really going to go along with this tariff fiasco? Use your power.

Just watched the President's "Liberation Day" speech. Based on this, I can confirm many Americans will be liberated from: - Being able to afford groceries - Much of their retirement savings - Any hope of buying a home As for lower prices? Just the opposite.

I feel this anger. I very much wanted Kamala but I think this hatred/refusal/intolerance is pointed, more accurately, at women.

I am one of the authors whom Meta stole (sorry, ‘scraped’) from, by using their books to train Libgen. So I’m biased. But this from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social is👌

Just because he sucked at buying votes doesn’t mean he shouldn’t still be arrested for it

If you have a Republican representing you in the House or Senate, call them to demand they undo Trump's tariffs. They're already shaken by the 20 point shift in Florida and the Wisconsin loss. You can fuel that feeling.

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As tax day approaches, I would like to know what I'm paying taxes for if all the things government does are being forcibly and suddenly ended.

Who are you polling? Everyone hates this creep. He is actively steeling from us and whining about it. How did you find that many people who are okay with that?

It's time to take action!

Yeeesss!

Right now, Cory Booker is holding the Senate floor like a combination of Jimmy Stewart in "Mister Smith Goes to Washington" and Jerry Lewis in the last hours of his telethon. Compelling viewing! (On C-Span and Youtube)