Skeptic and Secular Humanist who believes Democratic Socialism is the only way to ever have a healthy and thriving society for all. I'm a bad musician and singer. A bad artist and writer. A bad angler and gamer. But... those are the things I want to do.
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The Dumpster said something I could stand behind! Except for the fact that TACO lies... all. the. time... as well as being the worst deal maker and diplomat since... well, since Trump. Also, dealing with something that could blow up in your face, would you want those tiny hands trying to defuse it!?
Absolutely hideous
If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me. #pediatriccancer #cancermom
The Oversight Committee subpoenaed the DOJ for the Epstein files. They now have 2 weeks to release the files to the committee. It’s time to find out who’s been protected, who thought they were above the law, and who’s been hiding behind power.
Right, Pumpkin Tits. Epstein "stole" your 16 year old Mar-a-Lago masseuse the same way John Wayne Gacy stole the boys he buried in his yard.
2 years after Epstein "stole" Virginia Giuffre away from him, Trump had this to say about his bff:
I think people are misinterpreting this wonky headline. The bombshell story CBS is reporting is that the Epstein jail tape the public got IS missing time and the FULL video exists. The FBI and DOJ have it. So when Bondi said the missing minute is normal, she lied. www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...
Let that sink in for a sec.
So... known associate of rapist will meet with known associate of rapist? Top DOJ official will meet with convicted sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in the next several days www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Oops: On Joe Rogan’s podcast in September 2018, Tulsi Gabbard acknowledged that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Rogan called it “amazing” that it took until 2016 for foreign election influence to become a major issue in the U.S.
I hate it when people use the word "skeptical" as a label for irrational people. Skepticism is 'withholding belief until evidence warrants it.' Religious communities aren't "skeptical," they're credulous. They believed nonsense from dangerous people like RFK Jr. and that's the opposite of Skepticism
Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he began what many in 2025 STILL consider a romantic tryst or loving affair with Sally Hemings. Ms. Hemings had no legal capacity to consent to such a relationship not only because she was enslaved, Jefferson's property, BUT ALSO BECAUSE SHE WAS 14-YEARS-OLD. /1
Cheating on your spouse with a consenting adult comes with consequences. Unlike cheating on your spouse with one of Jeffrey Epstein's trafficked minors.
Keep asking questions and remember that doubt is one of the greatest tools evolution gave to us. Search for answers based on evidence and logic. Scientific skepticism is the method by which progress is made.
Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking the Dept. of Education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's fascism.
You need to know what's going on at "Alligator Alcatraz." It's grossly immoral - no human being should be treated like that. It's political theater - many of the detainees have no criminal record. It's a taxpayer funded boondoggle - enriching DeSantis's political cronies.
"More than $9 billion in investments and almost 10,000 jobs have been cancelled, delayed or closed in Republican districts so far in 2025." e2.org/releases/may...
The Supreme Court handing the education of our children to a bunch of phobic, Conservative Christian, Bible-thumping cave-dwellers is a disaster that we might never recover from.
Like all authoritarians, Trump doesn’t like criticism or objective reporting. He just wants flattery. That’s why he wants to defund NPR and PBS. We need media in this country that is not owned by billionaires and corporate interests. I will vote to support public broadcasting.
So much for that “line.”
Justice Sotomayor wrote a chilling dissent in McMahon v. New York, handed down today: “When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary's duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.” We should all be alarmed.
We should be putting a gargantuan amount of money into solar and storage. War economy levels. It should be free to have a guy from the government solar your house up. Electricity should basically cost nothing.
Supreme Court my ass
A coalition of 24 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit today against the Trump administration, demanding the release of $6.8 billion in education funding that has been unlawfully withheld.
Charlie Kirk says he’s not going to talk about Epstein anymore and will “trust his friends in government.” The ones who covered it up. Charlie Kirk is covering up sex trafficking crimes.
17 million people are going to lose their health insurance because of the Trump administration. Dr. Oz's advice is “don’t eat carrot cake.”
This is so disturbing. That he did this, that her family was in danger bec she spoke up, that men conduct themselves like freaks together against girls & women. That women enable this shit or are forced to go along. Fuck the patriarchy. I hate these shits more ea day. No protection of girls/women
You've been conned.
Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com
This is Patty Hartman, a 17 year veteran of the Justice Department. She was fired on Monday by Pam Bondi. She is warning of a wave of retribution inside the agency. You must hear her words for yourself.
This is just sick. via @ktla.com: Footage obtained by KTLA shows a young man crying, saying his mother had just been taken, and children and protesters running from tear gas that was deployed when a crowd gathered at an immigration raid at a Ventura County farm this afternoon
But... why?
The Reproductive Freedom Amendment grants sweeping protections ensuring reproductive autonomy for patients in Ohio and this decision removes an additional barrier to making medication abortion widely available in Ohio. 👏 www.wfmj.com/story/529111...
My wife and I honeymooned in Toronto 26 years ago... I wish we would have just stayed there.
Wallace: “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” says the guy who’s still talking about his 2020 election loss.
This man should not ever have “all the levers.”
celesteheadlee If you earned $7,000 an hour every day since the birth of Jesus Christ, you'd have a whopping $124 billion by the end of 2022 and would stlll have made less money than 58-year-old Jeff Bezos -- whose estimated net worth is $138.2 billion. -Sarah Liez, The Pitt News
This is pretty freaking damning. This whole article is the degradation of public services to the point of death and destruction. | As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
Oh my! How tRUMP would love to join your little LARP.
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
Happy Independence Day Foxtrot Delta Tango
So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Why? Also, I call bullshit on this poll. apnews.com/article/poll...
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
He is going to kill countless children and elderly who come into contact with children. RFK Jr.'s newly picked CDC panel plans to scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and shots that have been approved for decades www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Blindingly insane
AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.
The cougar is eating my face
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from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB
You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight.
I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
A message from Carl Sagan from 1995—some of his last prophetic words.
Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"
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King Trump is now planning to destroy the lives of millions and millions of California children to get back at Gavin Newsom for his words. "Monstrous" does not _begin_ to touch the depravity of this.
ICE was "responding" to the chaos ICE itself created. It was not responding to the way LA is without intentional provocation from ICE. And now the National Guard is "responding" to the chaos ICE created. It is not responding to the way LA is without intentional provocation from ICE.
“If we didn’t get involved… Los Angeles right now would be on fire.” — Trump This is a figment of Trump’s deteriorating mind. Protests have been mostly peaceful. Unrest is limited. And unless you’re actually here on our streets, your opinion is just that—an opinion.
Land of the free.
The authoritarian level bigotry is insane!
Hypocrisy. Leave it to Leavitt.
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I’ve encountered zero political analysts who believe Donald Trump will leave office peacefully, and 100% of these analysts understand that Trump will need Hegseth and the Pentagon to hold onto power. Every story out of the Pentagon seems to have, as its subtext, WE ARE PREPARING FOR WHAT IS COMING.
A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for. Kudos, Sir.🌦️
If anyone is interested in the many reasons Rogan is a pathetic tool, there's an excellent podcast called "The Know Rogan Experience." Highly recommend!
The entire point.
The "corrected" copy is not much better. As reporters found more inaccuracies within the report on Thursday, the White House stopped denoting changes and removed references to past corrections. The report continued to be updated throughout the night. #MAHA #Medsky
“Fixing climate change is too expensive.” Um no. What’s really expensive is doing nothing. Climate disasters cost billions—and those costs are rising fast. Climate solutions save money and lives, as well as building a better world for us all 🌏💚
Yep! Payed for by Uuuuuuuuusssssssssss!
Make no mistake: Illinois is leading the nation in strengthening women’s health care. With the passage of HB 3637, we are expanding the ways we shield our providers from punishment for delivering life-saving health care. We are not going back.
Good.
"As Musk slinks away, spending went up, not down, during his tenure, and DOGE made the government less efficient, not more..." "A legacy of shattered institutions, weakened public services, and fired civil servants who did nothing but serve their country well..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
So when bird flu hits us en masse, only rich ppl will have access to its vaccine. I’m saying this with my full chest: RFK Jr. is a domestic terrorist. Period. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...
Republicans can only lose 3 Senate votes on Trump's Big Ugly Bill — and these senators are the most vulnerable in 2026: -Collins (ME) -Tillis (NC) -Sullivan (AK) -Husted (OH) -Moody (FL) -Cornyn (TX) -Ernst (IA) If they represent you, tell them to vote NO. (202) 224-3121
Whoever made this deserves a medal.
Karoline Leavitt is clearly making this stuff up as she goes.
As the Trump administration slashes the federal workforce, experts say cuts to the USDA, FDA and CDC have left the food supply vulnerable to outbreaks of foodborne illness.
BREAKING: Our client Andry's asylum case was dismissed ~75 days the enforced disappearance to CECOT. “It seems the government’s intention in dismissing these cases across the country is to complete the disappearance of people,” - @l-toczylowski.bsky.social #FreeAndry www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
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DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Of course he did.
They are purging all the transcripts.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to bar government scientists from publishing in major medical journals, saying on a podcast that three top journals were “corrupt” and influenced by pharmaceutical companies.
They will hijack every institution that is committed to facts and evidence. They have to eliminate truth in order to sell their lies. If they are successful, this country will be fucked for decades... decades.
Harvard is offering a FREE online course on the US Government & Constitution. Resistance isn't always loud. Knowledge is Power. Spread the word. #MomSky pll.harvard.edu/course/ameri...
Thank you to the actual humans talking about actual books by actual authors, by the way. It always mattered, but now it extra-fucking-matters given the deluge of lies from the bullshit machine, a bullshit machine that only gets to churn out the bullshit and the artbarf because of billionaires.
In that short clip, Rubio lied, misrepresented, misinformed, and established that he ended funding for programs he didn't understand. These are not the kind of people who should be in leadership.
Bullshit. If you accept science you have to accept the fact that physical punishment is not an effective way of reaching positive outcomes. It's abuse, and anyone who hits their children should be ashamed of themselves.
NEW: per the CATO Institute, over 50 Venezuelan men sent to El Salvador prisons 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗨𝗦 𝗜𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗟𝗔𝗪. Dozens of 𝗟𝗘𝗚𝗔𝗟 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 were stripped of their status and imprisoned in El Salvador. www.cato.org/blog/50-vene...
I was hoping this would happen. And I hope that companies like Netflix will do it for free. They have the ability and resources to help solve a problem that this ass backwards regime created.
"Some National Weather Service offices, including Jackson, no longer have overnight staff from midnight to 7AM. All three Kentucky offices - Jackson, Paducah and Louisville - are short-staffed. There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices..." www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...