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A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
Hell yeah. This Texan, and those he celebrates, represents the Texas I was born in. substack.com/@defiance13/...
Venmo Sucks Again Dept: To schedule payments Venmo says enter the amount and tap the "schedule button." But there is no "schedule button." Where do tech co's like Venmo find developers this inept? It's a plague. As if Advanced Irrationality and Annoyance Development 301 is a prerequisite "skill."
I thought it was a federal crime to impersonate a police officer, yes? And yet these ICE goons are constantly dolled up in tactical gear that says "POLICE." ICE are not police. So how do they get away with impersonating police officers when they are not police officers?
And why the disconnect? Because the internet / social media / cable tv is the biggest most effective lie machine ever invented. Combine that with a population increasingly comprised of gullible, semi-educated, intellectually lazy bigots and - behold! www.facebook.com/ianbremmer/p...
Gov. Newsom and the CA legislature is locked and loaded if this scam goes forward. They're willing and able to redraw CA districts to more that make up for any "lost" in TX. They will redistrict CA Republican districts out of existence. Game on MAGAt assholes. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...
Gov. Newsom and the CA legislature is locked and loaded if this scam goes forward. They're willing and able to redraw CA districts to more that make up for any "lost" in TX. They will redistrict CA Republican districts out of existence. Game on MAGAt assholes. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...
Gov. Newsom and the CA legislature is locked and loaded if this scam goes forward. They're willing and able to redraw CA districts to more that make up for any "lost" in TX. They will redistrict CA Republican districts out of existence. Game on MAGAt assholes. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...
Gov. Newsom and the CA legislature is locked and loaded if this scam goes forward. They're willing and able to redraw CA districts to more that make up for any "lost" in TX. They will redistrict CA Republican districts out of existence. Game on MAGAt assholes. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...
Gov. Newsom and the CA legislature is locked and loaded if this scam goes forward. They're willing and able to redraw CA districts to more that make up for any "lost" in TX. They will redistrict CA Republican districts out of existence. Game on MAGAt assholes. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...
Gov. Newsom and the CA legislature is locked and loaded if this scam goes forward. They're willing and able to redraw CA districts to more that make up for any "lost" in TX. They will redistrict CA Republican districts out of existence. Game on MAGAt assholes. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...
Fighting fire with fire... California Gov. Gavin Newsom has told aides that he will move forward with a plan to redraw the Golden State’s map and to get more Democratic seats if Texas’ redistricting plan goes through. That's how we do it now. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...
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In service to his one true god - Donald Trump - a typical fake “christian” takes no position on pardoning a convicted child sex predatator. #MAGA !
That embedded video. Astonishing. Gatherings of troglodytes such as this are why god invented meteor strikes. Dear God: Aim well. Thank you. www.mediaite.com/media/podcas...
MAGAt starts with the sacrosanct conclusion their orange god is infallible, and works backwards from there, mutilating logic as necessary to exonerate him of all responsibility for anything every time and everywhere. Of course they'll embrace any fresh new bullshittery to deny his Epstein depravity.
MAGAt starts with the sacrosanct conclusion their orange god is infallible and work backwards from there, mutilating logic as necessary to exonerate him of all responsibility for anything every time and everywhere. Just wait, they'll embrace some fresh new bullshittery to deny his Epstein depravity.
MAGAt starts with the sacrosanct conclusion their orange god is infallible and work backwards from there, mutilating logic as necessary to exonerate him of all responsibility for anything every time and everywhere. Just wait, they'll embrace some fresh new bullshittery to deny his Epstein depravity.
Trump: “It looks like it’s about $3.1 billion…” Powell: “I’m not aware of that.” Trump: “It just came out.” Powell: “You are including the Martin renovation. You just added in a third building.” Trump: “It’s a building that's being built.” Powell: “No, it was built five years ago.”
Epstein didn’t build the system—he refined it. The modeling industry was the real pipeline: visas gamed, girls exploited, silence enforced. Trump’s agency played its part. This wasn’t a scandal. It was infrastructure. And it didn’t collapse. It rebranded. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1CSK...
Democrats are grossly incompetent at politics. I might regain some shred of enthusiasm if assured none of these fools still serve any role in the DNC: anyone who served in Biden’s cabinet, anyone involved in his campaign, and everyone who said those opposed his ridiculous candidacy were “whiners.”
Good point, and thanks for the reminder.
Heroic, and pretty damn cool from the looks of him.
MAGAt liars KNOW they can vomit the most spectacular lies and spineless reporters will typically let it pass, saying something flaccid like "not sure that's totally accurate." But not THIS guy. Bravo sir, bravo. Finally some professionalism and integrity. Don't. Let. Them. Lie. And just slide on.
Cross Country Odyssey Dept: If you ever find yourself crossing southern New Mexico don't miss White Sands National Park. So wonderfully peculiar, peaceful, and most of all gorgeous. Huge white dunes stretching to the horizon like giant waves with purple mountains in the distance. Ahhh...peace.
Ever known a drug addict? Ever known an unreformed alcoholic? They cannot be negotiated with or accommodated into being non-destructive. It's not good for them, it's not good for you – not good for anyone. Don't be an enabler. The same goes for people addicted to propaganda and self-serving lies.
If 50% of your friends are MAGAt you need to set aside more time for some serious self-reflection.
Decent people don’t have MAGAt friends. Problem solved.
But I want to be sequestered from that 50% of the population. Why? We don't just have normal differences over politics. No, my differences with MAGAt cultists are differences over basic morality, principles, and human decency. Politics can be debated. Morality? No, that is an unbridgeable chasm.
It really is a masterpiece. And the performances, the dialogue, Walter Matthau's sinister philosophizing, the building tension. incredible.
Huh, go figure.. You mean to tell me this brainstorm has been tried BEFORE and failed magnificently? You mean to tell me Americans take for granted the hard-working migrants who grow our food? Huh, go figure. www.npr.org/sections/the...
Exactly. Thank you Scott, thank you. I've been trying to warn people in similar terms for some time and getting abundant blowback of course. Bullshit. Euphemisms and weasel words are timidity, they're surrender. Step-1: Telling it like it is to encourage effective resistance. Thank you.
Occasionally I get the urge to get in my trunk and drive to Georgia just walk around MJT's district, just to see what strain of hominids elect a baboon like this to represent them in congress. You know, kind of a zoological / anthropological field trip to marvel at the odd creatures thereabouts.
"I will sincerely celebrate a nation that, despite its demagogues and fools, was capable of producing an Abraham Lincoln, a Franklin Roosevelt, a Frederick Douglass, a Wendell Willkie, a Martin Luther King Jr., a Learned Hand, a Dwight Eisenhower."
Solid progress in a positive direction. The rest of the United States, especially in its current state of devolution, has absolutely nothing California wants or needs. ic.institute/2025/06/29/j...
The aftermath of the Israeli/US attacks on Iranian nuclear sites. Concise and thoughtful without partisan political bullshittery – as usual with "Foreign Policy" mag. "Israel's Attack on Iran Backfired: Despite what it claims, Israel failed to achieve its goals in its latest war." archive.is/5xqSI
Turn the tables on ICE creeps impersonating police and abducting innocent people. The ICEBlock app allows you to report their presence and warn others in the area. www.iceblock.app
If Americans wanted billionaire parasites to "pay their fair share of taxes" they wouldn't keep voting for billionaire parasites like Donald Trump, and MAGAt Republicans. But that's what they do. Things will never change for the better until blame is assigned to MAGAt's 78-million guilty enablers.
Oh please. It's blindingly obvious that (other than cruelty toward brown, black, and gay people) MAGAt votes for Trump have nothing to do with policy proposals. He's as variable as a weather vane spinning in the wind. No, they buy whatever he's selling in the moment because it's a bigotry cult.
MAGAt Republican Gestapo
ICE fishing,,,
"Russia is the worst ally in the world'" with the USA under Donald Trump coming up hard on the outside, closing the gap.
Evangelicals use their religious faith as camouflage. They use it to camouflage their myriad bigotries; they us it to put a holy imprimatur on their politics. In doing so they portray anyone who argues against their politics as arguing against god. It's heretical, dishonest, and intellectually lazy.
“This combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces”
Pull the cowards' masks down. Out them. Out the Republicans' ICE/SS.
As veteran of abundant out-of-town business travel I can confirm..
Not so great a turnout for the Dictator Birthday Party eh!? 😂🥃🥃 www.facebook.com/reel/1204887...
I wonder how many Americans are aware the USA (American tax-payers) shovel 10.4 MILLION dollars A DAY into Israel, year after year, decade after decade. It's parasitic relationship propping up a country run by particularly zealous religious fanatics.
I couldn't care less about Israel any longer. Zero. it wasn't always so. And I know MANY former supporters who now feel the same way. As nation states go it's a dead brand – and rightfully so.
I dunno. I know of exactly 77,284,118 American voters who might absolutely LOVE having their healthcare cut to further enrich zillionaires as long as Trump says it's "big and beautiful." Screw me over again Daddy! Mmm thanks! Never underestimate the power of human stupidity – it is a mighty thing.
Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest
Agreed, and yet I'm still amazed how consistently incompetent Democrats are at politics and elementary messaging. They can't get even ONE person at the front of those crowds, in high-visibility locations carrying an AMERICAN flag? So stupid. Again. If I was still in CA I go and do it myself.
LAPD when they think nobody is watching
Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
Trump is a simple, stupid, dishonest bigot. That's why other simple, stupid, dishonest bigots like him so much. He put a presidential imprimatur on their myriad bigotries. It's not complicated. The appeal of "populists" like Trump has never been complicated, it isn't now, and never will be.
"The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated." L. Tolstoy (etc.) Having been failed by our government, business leaders, universities and courts, the limits of Americans' tolerance are quickly coming into view – finally. Our institutions have broken the social contract and now, the result.
AIDS Memorial Quilt on display October 11-13 1996 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Let us never forget.
Fuck you and your MAGAt bullshittery ICE Gruppenführer Lyons.
Time to out ICE cowards. "Out ICE." Know an ICE MAGAt? Name them. No more allowing them to hide their identities behind their masks and GI Joe army-man outfits.
Time to out ICE cowards. "Out ICE." Know an ICE MAGAt? Name them. No more allowing them to hide their identities behind their masks and GI Joe army-man outfits.
Good idea. "Out ICE." Know an ICE MAGAt? Name them. No more hiding their identities behind masks and their GI Joe army-man outfits.
Why do ICE cowards always hide their faces?
Trump threatens to cut Fed. funding to California, and Gov. Newsom's immediate response: “Californians pay the bills for the federal government. We pay over $80 BILLION MORE in taxes than we get back. Maybe it’s time to cut that off." Now THAT is how you fight back against MAGAt Republicans.
Cowards.
Works for me.
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Is Apple ever going to fix the defect in Apple TV that prevents shows from loading? Judging from the many complaints online this a widespread problem that's been left unaddressed by Apple for a very long time. #AppleTV
So the Chinese will be paying a 10% tariff tax and American businesses will being paying a 30% tariff tax. Such a deal! 😂 Nice work TrumpTrash! Honestly, I find it hard to believe how people so ignorant and gullible even survive to adulthood.
Well, I've only been to six of these so next time I'm in the most beautiful city on earth I gotta get busy and go hungry... www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
I imagine owners are beginning to what the scrap value is for a their Tesla Cybertruck at their nearest junkyard. www.mediaite.com/news/teslas-...
Party Pete has never "organized" anything more complex than his liquor cabinet.
Just reinforces my decision to dump the WaPo a while back due to the its owners craven grovelling before Emperor TrumpleThinSkin and his MAAGt congregation.
What happens when the Chinese stand up to TrumpleThinSkin and Team MAGAt? media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...
What happens when the Chinese stand up to TrumpleThinSkin and his MAGAts? media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...
Science is cool but brilliant science teachers? Even better. bsky.app/profile/saga...
Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.
Just when you think you've seen it all in baseball! Even after 150 years it can still surprise you - a glorious game.
"China wins the 21st century only if the West commits suicide, and that is exactly what Trump is urging upon us." Cold hard truths, frank and compelling: www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Donald J. TrumpTrash: Driving our friends and allies into the arms of our enemies. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. www.reuters.com/world/china-...
Because people enjoy being lied to when the lies reinforce their bigotries. They don't enjoy it, they need it. They need these lies to avoid admitting error and adjusting their behavior. And the lies are not just stimulating and reassuring, they absolve them of responsibility to be a better person.
I don't think it was actually Trump's ring that she kissed.
Mar-a-Lago face crowned with MAGAT hair.
Yes, because she was frustrated over her failure to successfully "train" the 1-1/2 yr old dog she shot him in the face with a shotgun. In a gravel pit. And this depravity has broader implications: www.facebook.com/share/p/19w6...
"...the pilots who flew on those strikes should rightly be furious that the most senior civilian defence official placed them in harm’s way...If this text had been received by someone hostile to American interests... the Houthis would have had time to prepare..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Are MAGA(t) literally Nazis? Does that become a distinction without a difference when they adopt Nazi tactics?
He's going to get worse, much worse if this comes to pass... www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/this-is-ho...
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Ask yourself: Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this? Why would any decent human being do this?
Clearly Ms. Rubin. However, I am continually shocked at how Democrats absolutely suck at politics. Presentation, framing, and messaging is everything. Why don't they just repeat: "Trump Crash, Trump Crash, Trump Crash." Tell Americans to look at their retirement acct. balances. "Trump Crash...etc)
They voted for this shit, may they get it good and hard.
Together with our allies, we defeated the Soviet Union - an empire so evil it had to build gulags and walls to keep its own people in. Destroying America’s alliances and abandoning the cause of freedom is morally and strategically indefensible.
Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
Don't attend. Trump only cares about half the country and to hell with the rest – so demonstrate that, and do so vividly: Trump addressing a half empty room.
In a fair world this is how that meeting would and should have ended. Enjoy. I have. Repeatedly. www.facebook.com/100009012042...