Trump has begun his war on the United States. He has begun the “Second American Revolution.” He is sending troops to American cities, who are acting like soldiers occupying enemy territory. People in D.C fear the troops in their city than any supposed crime they had. www.patheos.com/blogs/henryk...
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The hippo, despite its round belly and seemingly docile demeanor, is notoriously one of Africa’s most dangerous animals. Responsible for more human fatalities in Africa than lions, the hippo is fiercely territorial and unhesitant in showing aggression. www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/the-most-agg...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a “heroin and sex addict, anti-vaccination lunatic, and aspiring architect of death” who is replacing real scientists with “radical eugenicists” 🧠🪱 Kennedy echoes Hitler’s insistence that the German state must keep the weak from reproducing www.rawstory.com/amp/rfk-jr-2...
If Trump wasn't such a power-hungry demagogue, sexual predator, racist, sociopath, pathological liar, bully, and megalomaniac, I might feel sorry for him 🐔🌮🍊🤡 He has no real friends, just sycophants. All his relationships are transactions, including his three wives. www.alternet.org/amp/trump-em...
Genius badge in a rare spelling bee with an S 🐝🍯 www.nytimes.com/badges/games...
British wife of Trump voter faces deportation after 37 years in U.S. amid immigration crackdow 🐔🌮🍊🐔 A Trump voter regrets his vote after his wife, a legal resident with a small mark on her record, faced deportation proceedings in accordance with Trump's promises www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.
You are the Madame Defarge of our time 🐔🌮🍊🤡
One exception: A legal resistance led by public-interest groups, Democratic state attorneys general, and unions has frustrated Trump. Hundreds of lawsuits have delivered setbacks and judicial reprimands to a president who has systematically sought to break down limits on his own power. 🧵🪡🧶 3/3 🛑
The first seven months of Trump’s return have been a tale of ruthless domination. The Democratic opposition is feeble and fumbling, the federal bureaucracy traumatized and neutered. Corporate leaders bring gifts, the Republican Party has been scrubbed of dissent, and protests are diminished. 🧵🪡🧶 2/4
One exception: A legal resistance led by public-interest groups, Democratic state attorneys general, and unions has frustrated Trump. Hundreds of lawsuits have delivered setbacks and judicial reprimands to a president who has systematically sought to break down limits on his own power. 🧵🪡🧶 3/3 🛑
The first seven months of Trump’s return have been a tale of ruthless domination. The Democratic opposition is feeble and fumbling, the federal bureaucracy traumatized and neutered. Corporate leaders bring gifts, the Republican Party has been scrubbed of dissent, and protests are diminished. 🧵🪡🧶 2/4
The Anti-Trump Resistance That’s Actually Working 🐔🌮🍊🤡 A flurry of lawsuits is challenging Trump in the court of law and the court of public opinion 🧵🪡🧶 A thread, 1/3 www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Genius badge, with the dreaded C in the center of the beehive 🐝🍯 www.nytimes.com/badges/games...
America needs warp speed on vaccines, not RFK Jr.'s warped decisionmaking 💉 HHS canceled $500 million in 22 federally funded mRNA vaccine programs 🧠🪱 Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s lies about mRNA technology stifle innovation and impair America's defenses against biothreats www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Trump 'loves the poorly educated' 🐔🌮🍊🤡 America's backbone doesn't run from the Dakotas to Texas. These states are spineless. The obsequious manner in which conservative voters capitulate to an untelegenic mountebank is cultism, cowardice, or a combination of the two. www.alternet.org/amp/trump-lo...
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Trees in a meadow with poppies in bloom, c.1905 by Juliette Wytsman, Belgian impressionist painter #WomensArt #August #UnlockingWomensArt
RFK Jr. is the world’s most famous vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist. A practitioner of woo-woo wellness, he and Trump struck a backroom deal for a role in the administration. The woo-woo and wingnut factions of the anti-vaccination movement merged after COVID. www.salon.com/2025/08/31/r...
Hegseth is going out of his way to needle and mock Americans who see the Confederacy as a treasonous, doomed effort to keep millions enslaved. He and the Trump administration are making common cause with apologists who believe that the wrong side won the Civil War www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A clean board was slightly miraculous 😇 Connections Puzzle #813 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Skill 95/99 Uniqueness 1 in 119
A nearly perfect game of Wordle 😊 Wordle 1,535 2/6 🟨🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 99/99 Luck 99/99
Starlink and #ElonMusk should both be doomed 👏
A moron, but a terribly mighty one. Tom Nichols said (during the Friday edition of Bulwark podcast) DJT is like a "dysfunctional 8-year old whose parents are always in the principal's office arguing that their son is a good child.". A very striking description of this man, imnho
Starlink requires a tremendous number of low Earth orbit satellites with a 5-year lifespan, which will fall back down to the ground 🚀🚘❌ SpaceX’s satellites create astronomical pollution and financial losses. Musk's dream has become a nightmare of debts and turmoil. theheartysoul.com/why-starlink...
I had good, bimetallic chemistry with this spelling bee 🐝🍯 www.nytimes.com/badges/games...
The unfortunate thing is that a frontal attack on Sullivan could succeed in today's Supreme Court ⚖️
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‘A fücking møron’ 🍊🤡 “You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.” 🐔🌮 His lying and temper tantrums aside, evidence abounds that Trump's most important, and dangerous, feature is his ignorance www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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I deserved a perfect vampire for this puzzle 🦇 Connections Puzzle #812 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Skill 98/99 Uniqueness 1 in 1,164
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Trump has become the most power-hungry president of all time 🐔🌮🍊🤡 The president has sacked one of America’s most senior health chiefs and a governor of the Fed in the same week. The message is clear — and worrying. www.independent.co.uk/voices/donal...
More like mortar shells and ballistic missiles, I'm afraid 💥
What the Cracker Barrel backlash shows about Maga’s influence on U.S. culture 🐔🌮🍊🤡 What likely started as a routine refresh spiraled into a political storm that went all the way to Donald Trump www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Wait till the high court gets the case in which Lisa Cook challenges her dismissal from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors 🐔🌮🍊🤡 There will be fireworks 🎆
Wait till the high court gets the case in which Lisa Cook challenges her dismissal from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors 🐔🌮🍊🤡 There will be fireworks 🎆
Genius badge 🐝🍯 www.nytimes.com/badges/games...
They're trying to keep the presidency permanently in Republican hands 🐔🌮🍊🤡
The federal appeals court decided, 7-4, that Trump's nearly universal tariffs are illegal 🐔🌮🍊🤡 If the Supreme Court affirms, the decision would deal a tremendous blow to Trump's political authority and dealmaking reputation. But a reversal would have the opposite effect. www.bbc.com/news/article...
“Principled conservatives,” “adults in the room,” will not stop him. Trump and his MAGA movement did not take over the Republican Party. Their marriage was not forced. He simply gave today’s Republicans and conservatives enthusiastic permission to be their true selves and to drop the mask. 🧵🪡🧶 2/2 🛑
“Principled conservatives,” “adults in the room,” will not stop him. Trump and his MAGA movement did not take over the Republican Party. Their marriage was not forced. He simply gave today’s Republicans and conservatives enthusiastic permission to be their true selves and to drop the mask. 🧵🪡🧶 2/2 🛑
Donald Trump is conservatism’s realization — not its betrayal 🐔🌮🍊🤡 He gave the GOP permission to be themselves 🧵🪡🧶 A thread, 1/2 www.salon.com/2025/08/30/d...
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Für dich, liebe @bbattmer.bsky.social 📚
Exhibit A showing the decline and fall of the United States of America 🧠🪱
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
Trump remains a venal man who purposely confuses criticism with hatred and critical thinking with anti-American sentiment. He refuses to hold himself to a higher standard. In a world of acrimony, filled with the gasoline of fear and hatred, his words are sparks. www.salon.com/2025/08/29/a...
Genius badge 🐝🍯 www.nytimes.com/badges/games...
The White House ousted the CDC’s director, Susan Monarez. Four top officials resigned. The director of the Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and the chief medical officer said that they quit together to signal their belief that science is being ignored and public health is in danger.
The White House ousted the CDC’s director, Susan Monarez. Four top officials resigned. The director of the Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and the chief medical officer said that they quit together to signal their belief that science is being ignored and public health is in danger.
‘It Feels Like the CDC Is Over’ 🐔🌮🍊🤡🧠🪱 The CDC’s departing leaders discuss the agency’s future — or lack thereof 🧵🪡🧶 A thread, 1/2 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Purple first, but no vampire 💜 Connections Puzzle #810 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Skill 97/99 Uniqueness 1 in 677
Bogey ⛳ Wordle 1,532 5/6 ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 85/99 Luck 39/99
The not super spiritual Donald Trump has been thinking about getting into heaven 🐔🌮🍊🤡😇 Which suggests that a) he is contemplating the epilogue to The Art of the Deal and b) winning the Nobel Prize is not the only ludicrous Trump dream that will go unfulfilled 😝 www.thedailybeast.com/its-tasteles...
Yes, this took a while 🐝🍯 Genius without pangram www.nytimes.com/badges/games...
Harvard is trying to reverse grade inflation in elite academia and make its programming more academically rigorous. It’s confronting a question that would be absurd if it weren’t so urgent—Can the world’s top universities get their students to care about learning? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Katie Miller, a former Trump official and wife of Stephen Miller, says that media ignores conservative women 🙄 This claim is deeply untrue. Conservative women have never had more spaces to talk about lifestyle, motherhood, and wellness. The “womanosphere” is booming. www.vox.com/culture/4595...
A Reichstag fire is blazing in Trump’s America, and we know exactly who is fanning the flames 🔥 @dkrappe.bsky.social @vogulisi.bsky.social forward.com/opinion/7645...
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A skillful trey 🏀 Wordle 1,531 3/6 🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 99/99 Luck 67/99
Queen bee 👸👑🐝🍯 www.nytimes.com/badges/games...
Did Trump engineer all of this apathy, hopelessness, and rage, or did he simply find a fracture in the human spirit and push it? Is Trump an evil genius with incredible political instincts or a loud, lucky idiot? 🍊🤡 Trumpism is who we are. We’re not better than this. www.splinter.com/maybe-this-i...
America is amid a vast political realignment — not entirely caused by Trump, but accelerated by him 🍊🤡 The biggest indicator of your vote vote is now education. Went to a four-year college? You’re likely backing the Democrat. Skipped it? There’s the Republican lever. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Ya estamos en la vía a este destino 🇦🇷🐔🌮🍊🤡
It’s time to unmask the Trump tariffs as a giant national sales tax that will hobble U.S. economic growth 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Trump's tariffs look like America’s answer to Europe’s fatal attraction that has enabled that region’s high levels of government spending: the value-added tax fortune.com/2025/08/26/t...
Nobody is born with Mar-a-Lago face. These are luxury meat-masks that signal wealth and in-group status. People like Kristi Noem deliberately opt to look like AI-generated caricatures. They live in bubbles that embrace conspicuous consumption of cosmetic surgery. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump has spent years harassing and denigrating Fed officials. He is trying to replace Lisa Cook to sway monetary policy. If he wins, in the short term, he risks letting inflation get out of control. In the long term, he risks raising borrowing costs permanently. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Clinched genius with the pangram 🐝🍯 www.nytimes.com/badges/games...
One of the easiest Connections puzzles ever 😛 Connections Puzzle #808 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Skill 95/99 Uniqueness 1 in 37
Wordle 1,530 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 90/99 Luck 43/99
Queen bee 👸👑🐝🍯 www.nytimes.com/badges/games...
Genius badge 🐝🍯 www.nytimes.com/badges/games...
What We Learned from the Texas Measles Outbreak 😳 Robert Kennedy — who has questioned the MMR vaccine — did little to help curb the outbreak in Texas 😠 “We have an HHS Secretary who was pushing false narratives about the vaccine and the virus. It was controlled despite him.” time.com/7311758/texa...
I understand this to be the slow art of pushing up daisies 🐔🌮🍊🤡🌻
I got a perfect vampire in a puzzle with a 40 percent rainbow rate! 🌈 Connections perfection! You achieved a 🌈 Reverse Rainbow — solving categories from trickiest to most straightforward — without any mistakes. 😊 Connections Puzzle #807 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 99/99 Uniqueness 1 in 525
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Genius badge 🐝🍯 www.nytimes.com/badges/games...
Prost! 🥂🍾
Zwar böse 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Aber auch blöd bsky.app/profile/test...
Save these for the party when the Grim Reaper wins ☠️🐔🌮🍊🤡 bsky.app/profile/yola...
I would be pleased to sow Mar-a-Lago grounds with salt and saltpeter, plus sulfur and charcoal, and then to set the entire concoction ablaze 🔥🐔🌮🍊🤡 bsky.app/profile/rogu...
I will post anew this GIF when T-Day finally arrives 🐔🌮🍊🤡 bsky.app/profile/msmi...
In 2020, amid the pandemic, I opened a bottle of champagne once the election results became clear 🥂🍾 What shall we do for an encore when the final score reads, Reaper 1, Trump 0? 🤔🐔🌮🍊🤡 @msmichy.bsky.social @danihere.bsky.social @catincognito.bsky.social @yola4liberty.bsky.social
He was an evil man
The Trump administration will pull the COVID vaccine off the market "within months" 💉 So says Aseem Malhotra, who claims, against scientific consensus, that the vaccines are more dangerous than the virus. Malhotra advises Make America Healthy Again Action. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
‘I would not feel safe’: Americans on the sorrow — and the relief — of leaving Trump’s U.S. for Europe 🇪🇺 As relocation firms report a surge in inquiries, U.S. citizens who have made the move talk about why they left — and what they think could happen back home www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Connections Puzzle #806 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Skill 95/99 Uniqueness 1 in 369
Wordle 1,528 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 97/99 Luck 53/99
Genius badge in a huge spelling bee, clinching with the fifth of six pangrams 🐝🍯 www.nytimes.com/badges/games...
& das heißt auch noch Fort Bliss? Es ist immer noch unbegreiflich für mich, was binnen weniger Monate aus den USA geworden ist. Es ist in der Tat eine Tragödie
Zwar wiederholt die Geschichte sich noch nicht, @bbattmer.bsky.social @dkrappe.bsky.social 😳 Die reimt aber, eben tragödisch
Through some sort of wizardry, I'm sure we can rearrange the letters in "Donald John Trump" and obtain "congestive heart failure" 🐔🌮🍊🤡 @yola4liberty.bsky.social @msmichy.bsky.social
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