Writer, graphic designer, foul-mouthed optimist. Easily distracted by owls, irritated by toxic positivity. Also, cancel culture must die.
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Thank you @peterbeinart.bsky.social for SAYING it out loud on @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social : Democrats are beholden to special interests & THATSβS why they wonβt speak up about Gaza. & special kudos for incl. Joe Biden in this takedown who btw received millions of $$ from AIPAC. #gaza #fuckbiden
I waited hours for this cloud to come near the lake #lightning strike reflection.
βAs I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of oneβs life or oneβs work,β Leonard Cohen said, in 2016.
This is too cute, dogs really are the best... π₯Ίβ€οΈ #dog #dogday #bluesky
CHICAGOβ¦
I need some of your rbf. Itβs handy. I could put someone in their place even while Iβm chewing.
@kenmartin.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Fuck all of you stupid tools.
Messaging strategists? Thatβs why we donβt hear outrage or concern about the environment being gutted to an inch of its life. Because the Ds, elected with our fucking money, care only about big donors, not us, not the planet, also, sit tight, not about trans peopleβs rights to anything. #fuckDNC
Five senators. Demanding food to be sent to Gaza where hundreds have died of hunger. The freedom to listen to your inner moral compass & demand for whatβs right - it only belongs to those who donβt belong to AIPAC. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Itβs so weird he has a granddaughter.
Saying weird things is kinda his vibe. If only he realized that each time he opens his mouth itβs so obvious he didnβt get where he is on his own. He was placed there by his tech bros.
Never apologize for being angry at what is clearly outrageous injustice and lawlessness. A lot more people should get a lot more angry about this.
We want to apologize if it feels like weβve been venting a lot lately. Itβs just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.
Jasmine Crockett is one Woman I Believe,and I Believe In Her......
Ah okay, thank you. I love it.
This is brilliant in every way. And yes, Iβm a sucker for paintings containing a painting.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says βCan I help you find something?β βIβm looking for the obituaries.β βThe obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.β βNot the one Iβm looking for.β
UPDATED: Connecticut, RI Governors Fight Trump-Ordered Halt to Nearly Done Wind Project ->Engineering News-Record | More info from EcoSearch
At least SOME countries recognize the value of NATURE and all its offerings.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Youβll know if itβs still good or notβ¦
He never had it in him to be anything other than what he was. Ineffectual and not very smart. Always watch out for the guy with a chip on his shoulder.
Politics IS messaging. It doesn't matter what you do if no one knows you did it. Nothing Biden did matters. It was all erased when Trump won. Biden's #1 job was to tell voters about the good stuff he did so that he could get reelected & solidify those things. He failed. Historically so.
Yeah look at Gaza.
Stop spouting nonsense. Nothing is possible with those entrenched idiots beholden to the Israeli lobby. Someone do some oppo research on Jeffries & find dirt to force him to step down. Thatβs how itβs done. Be profuckingactive.Think like a Republican.
Heβs also fucking up the planet big time and thereβs no comeback from that. Why is nobody talking about that? Itβs taboo to the Democrats, theyβre so scared shitless out of their minds. The pox on them. By this point I hate them more than the Rs who are evil by definition.
"New map exposes which US communities have dangerous levels of toxic #airpollution β these areas are most at risk:" #EarthDay www.clearcollab.org/pollution-ma...
Iβm just thinking, he forever changed the definition of sandwich man. Because I just thought for a second you were referring to a guy sandwiched between two boards of advertisements.π€£
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
Excellent question.
And the planet that goes with it. And this is what kills me about the Democrats - they sit and wait for the midterms payback but whether that will happen or not, the damage thatβs being done in the meantime climate & environment- wise is incalculable and irreversible!
π₯ need a political break ? π₯ #Catsky #Dogsky #Kittens β₯οΈ
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
"Hey look at what I can do!" π #bluesky #nature #animals
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
βA respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the groupβ
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/c...
πβοΈβπ₯ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
The White House is trying to hide how itβs blocking funding. The NYT read all the fine print. π www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
The biggest errors of our time? Wrong, REALLY WRONG beliefs about #environmentalism #overpopulation #money #work #education and more: mfioretti.substack.c...
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, Amoc, is vital for global climate. It brings sun-warmed tropical water to Europe and the Arctic, where it cools and sinks to form a deep return current. Amoc was already known to be at its weakest in 1,600 years, a result of the climate crisis.
When will we finally kick the cognitively challenged felon to the curb instead of letting him steal our kidsβ future?
@enviroaction.bsky.social π―π’ You need to get on βοΈTikTokβοΈ& make emotionally captivating videos that grab people by the throat. βΌοΈShake people up!βΌοΈ β¨οΈGO WHERE THE ACTION IS.β¨οΈ TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE.
Of course. Biden himself has been sucking on AIPACβs tit for decades. And nobody ever spells this out. Polite society and all. Please letβs never call a spade a spade.
Brain-dead Jeffries is never going to endorse Mamdani. His biggest donor base is the Israeli lobby. Heβs so far raked in over $1.5M.
Israel justified its strike on the Nasser Hospital, which killed six journalists and more than a dozen others, by claiming a "Hamas" camera was set up there. The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream. From me and others (see byline/contribs) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
Not the first time he's said this. Jack Lew: "The media...tells a story that...is shown not to be completely accurate. β35 children were killed.β Well, it wasnβt 35 children. It was many fewer. The children who were killed turned out to have been children of Hamas fighters" - Jan 2025
With βleadersβ like the Democrats have you donβt need enemies. Theyβre giving Trump so much rope in the hope this will be sorted out in the midterms, meanwhile the damage heβs doing is incalculable and Dems just donβt give a shit.
Ah yes, the date of the article. Because now things are different. The sense of urgency so palpable on the Democratsβ side one can rest assured theyβll keep speed-dialing their consultants and ordering more polls by the wagon load. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
π link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/c...
Republicans are the Western equivalent of Islamic terrorists with suicide vests. And Iβd have absolutely zero problem letting them die out that way if it werenβt for the vexing fact that theyβre pulling the rest of us under too.
Canβt voters do something about it? What if a petition with an enormous amount of democrats were to demand Schumer and Jeffries to step down? What leverage do voters have?
A felon in the White House opining on bullshit.
It βcan happen here?β It IS f*cking happening. Weβre watching it every day. Itβs a process, not a thunder clap. Weβre sliding into it and the world is aiding and abetting it. Everything keeps bending to his will, itβs unbelievable.
Finally someone said it.
This monstrous siege must end. What good is the UN if they canβt enforce anything. What the hell are we all doing?
Asked if he'd vote for Chuck Schumer to remain Democratic Leader, Graham Palmer replies: "No." "We need leaders that have vision and, frankly, the ability to fight. The things that I've seen recently don't show me a Democratic leadership that has that."
Sunday Nawal El Saadawi was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She wrote numerous books on the subject of women in Islam, patriarchy, class, and colonialism.
Ohh that's RICH @ohhthatsrich.bsky.social
Sharing this free article as I await my cancellation date. A good quote - wish more people got this: "All are entitled to be treated according to their identity. Courtesy isnβt merely a matter of manners β treating people with appropriate respect is an ethical obligation."
Our government is demanding childrenβs medical records, birth dates home addresses & social security numbers. Why? Because theyβre transgender. Fascism at work.
Stupid dumbass. Those βhippiesβ have more guts and brain cells in their pinky toes than this wannabe Goebbels who doesnβt dare go anywhere without his body guards. Slime ball.
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
What blue state is stepping up next? Whoβs gonna meet this moment with the urgency it deserves? Who wants to be able to tell their kids and grandkids that when everything was on the line, they didnβt just SAY the right things, but DID the right thing with the power they had?
What real leadership looks like. Thank you, President Barack Obama, for standing strong with California, defending our rights, and fighting for the people of this nation.
Heβs 22. The human brain doesnβt even finish developing until 25.
βThis is racial gerrymandering at its worst.β Rep. Al Green told Mother Jones during the Texas House proceedings, where they passed a redistricting plan that could give the GOP five additional seats in the US House.
Incredible - and you get to see this, like, where you live?? And by the way, it looks like a mini rainbow was created there for a moment, just above the wave.
This guy is so dumb it hurts my head. Wtf wtf wtf
Letβs do it. Letβs do it with all of them. Certainly, the elite von Stuckups, the elected Ds wonβt save us. Only we can. We should impeach Schumer and lobotomized Jeffries right along with his the Rs.
seems fair www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
Happy birthday sweetie pie!π
I love this creativity and technology. A solar powered train. Iβd love to have that here in the United States. A great step forward for Australia.
WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."
Aaaaaand that map itself is visual expression of Putin's talking points.
Public TV stations will be deprived of federal grants to build out their next-generation emergency alert systems because Congress decided to cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
i keep saying the outcome of their ambitions is essentially covering the planet with computation like the matrix, itβs interesting to hear them admit it out loud
This is what happens when we abdicate control to toddlers pretending to be really smart grownups. WE are to blame for this shit, not the mentally handicapped old man with the makeup.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Egypt slams Israeli plan to expel Palestinians as ethnic cleansing - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-slams-israeli-plan-expel-palestinians-ethnic-cleansing
If he actually gets it, the Nobel peace price will henceforth be barely good enough to wipe the diarrhea off your newbornβs tuches.
Nicholas Kristoff: Answering My Critics About the War in Gaza. "Hamasβs unwillingness to surrender cannot justify what Israel has done with American complicity: the killing of an estimated 18,000 children, the starvation of a population and the leveling of entire neighborhoods." These are war crimes
Bye Bye Big Bird π’ No more #npr
I love this! π #dog #dogday #bluesky
Thatβs actually unfair to toddlers. Theyβre smart and constantly learning. Whereas..Forget it.
A guy with the equivalent brain space of a cockroach sits at the lever of the worldβs fate. All because of everybody elseβs fear and greed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/h...
Everywhere they are on the rampage. Ecuador: "Mr. Noboaβs first and boldest step was to dissolve the Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition on July 24 and hand its powers to the Ministry of Energy and Mines." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
MAGA creates nothing but is rather a virus that invades an established cultural organism and uses the host's own machinery to generate a mutated, diseased mimicry of its designed purpose. wapo.st/470bWeo
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βShe went to go back across into the US & then I got a frantic call to say that sheβs being detained & βtheyβre about to take my phone off meβ & βtheyβre locking me up for the nightβ,β Sarah Shaw's father said. That was 3wks ago. The woman & her 6yo son are still locked up
Not all Greek Yoghurt is created equal. Try Fage.
I remain hopeful that a political party will make combatting online fraud β which jumped by 31% (!) in a year β central to their political offer.
"Please forgive my anger and my sadness, but I swear there is no pain greater than watching an infant who doesnβt even have energy to cry gasp its last breath before the worldβs eyes." I'm A Teenager In Gaza. And I Am Starving. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Socialist hellhole, Sweden; Sweden's stock market performance over the past century stands out as the best performing equity market globally from 1900-2000, according to the comprehensive Dimson, Marsh and Staunton study covering 16 countries.
The root cause of the problem are the Democrats.
Rep. Gabe Amo: "The only people who have demonstrated that they are soft on crime are Republicans in Congress and Donald Trump. I remember January 6 ... I also have seen this administration slash hundreds of millions of dollars from efforts to combat crime at the local level."
I live around men with huge arsenals they collected to fight tyranny. Turns out βtyrannyβ is being asked wear a mask or kids having access to books or women having access to healthcare or gay folks getting marriedβ¦