Lovely couple! You're a real hero Professor!
Lovely couple! You're a real hero Professor!
And the Q and a cross on the right. Pandering to Qanon I guess.
Aww, how could you not let her join?
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Such gorgeous birds! I saw them a few times here in San Diego, but not since I moved about two miles away in 2017. Wish they'd return.
I'm going to a protest Monday and the theme is Workers over Billionaires. Does anyone have any catchy slogans I can put on a sign?
Dead-eyed douchebag
The full 12 minutes of @govpritzker.illinois.gov speech today, which was superb. (Via Nicole Wallace / @msnbc.com segment.) www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
What if it’s the “Epstein files” that are the distraction from our descent into being an authoritarian police state?
Trump will declare martial law and also invoke the insurrection act if it seems GOP won't win 2026 and 2028.
Beautiful! We had some a few years ago here in San Diego that were attracted to a dwarf orange tree. Do you know of any other plants or flowers they like? I'll look into getting some Zinnias. Thanks!
"Too many reporters have resorted to sane-washing Trump, forcing his bizarre statements somehow to make sense by cherry-picking the occasional phrase or sentence related to policy while ignoring his kooky rants about sharks and his Stalinist threats against his political enemies.
I could say something here, but for now I'll keep my fantasy in my imagination.
Brave Mama Squirrel!😍
Here's a clip of a hooded oriole enjoying some grape jelly. They're up from Mexico and will be returning in the fall. Always a treat to have them here.
Funny how Shitler didn't care about violence when the mob was attacking the capital. Never called in the national guard.
What a cutie!
So he just blows off the question.
So far, the Trump - Zelensky meeting was...Trump treading water. I think Putin gut-punched him and now he's at a loss about what to do next.
Bizarre degree to which Trump’s psychopathology drives global affairs these days.
Good evening! Here's a video from this morning of one of our resident spotted towhees enjoying a bath, while goldfinches wait their turn. youtu.be/DF7yCbjGhP4?...
There’s no longer any pretense this has anything to do with crime (there are cities or parts of cities in SC and Ohio that have higher crime rates than DC — send the troops there!). This is about establishing a precedent for Trump seizing control of the nation’s capital when he wants to.
Lavrov hasn’t had such a good laugh since he yukked it up with Trump in the Oval Office after Moscow helped Trump win in 2016.
With Russia on the march in Europe, Trump Putinizing the US, and KGB man Putin (and foreign minister Lavrov in a USSR shirt) in Alaska, no better time to talk to a man whose office is next to the Berlin Wall's infamous death strip. Please listen (or read) and share.
Maybe fleeing to avoid prosection?
It's nice to see something positive.
Beautiful!
"They are entertainers and grifters, shock jocks and freaks. Whatever talents they may possess, mastery of governing is not one of them." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Great article in The Atlantic. "We believe they must tell voters that in all sorts of ways—the economy, health and health care, disaster relief—Trump is making their lives worse, not better. He and his administration are amateurs, inept and in over their head."
How about adding 666 on his forehead to this one?
Great. I didn't know they were on YouTube and Instagram. I'm look for them. Hope you get your lasers back.
That would be great! I've only seen a few and they're fantastic 😍. Or maybe put them on YouTube.
Is there a website where you regularly post images of your laser displays?
I just looked it up. It looks amazing. We watch lots of amazing birds in our backyard in San Diego. Right now the hooded orioles are here, and the usual residents -- spotted towhees, California towhees, goldfinches. It would be a real treat to see all those amazing birds.
That must be a wonderful place to hang out.
He'll sell Zelensky and Ukraine down the river.
They did dig a pretty big burrow and I read that they don't disperse.
Uh oh. 😨.I had that problem with rats, here in San Diego. We were going to move the ground squirrels to a new location that looked good -- access to water, shade, but we both like watching them so much we postponed that.
We have a bunch of these guys in our backyard. We give them lettuce and some of the no-mess blend we feed to the birds. They are awfully cute.
Or maybe he'll pardon George Santos and give him one of those jobs. He's good at faking stuff.
A real treat -- my two favorite thinkers and writers together. Tom, to brush up on who Sidney Sweeney is, I highly recommend watching the first season of the White Lotus. It's great, as is the second season. Sydney
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Ten years into this mess, it really all does come down to this, doesn't it?
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Hummingbird bathing. youtu.be/ADMftJ1R5tw?...
He runs his administration like it's a combination reality TV show and an extortion/protection racket.
Sure seems like CA needs a Stand Your Ground law. A reasonable person could be afraid of grievous harm from a masked man impersonating an LEO in this situation. They ought to be able to defend themselves.
Trump will spend his weekend promoting a new golf course at his resort in Scotland – costing taxpayers an estimated $10 million. After this jaunt, he will have spent at least $52 million of taxpayer money on golf trips. If that’s not fraud, waste, and abuse, I don’t know what is.
Subpoena him!
So sorry 💔
Keith Edwards kind of nailed it. While no one agrees with me, I expect it to come soon (versus the end of his term). bsky.app/profile/atru...
here it comes
Thanks! That's amazing. Is it an actual photo?
🚨🚨🚨 Jeffrey Epstein during a 2010 deposition: Q. Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18? A: Though l'd like to answer that question, at least today l'm going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights, sir.
It's shaped like a heart.
I am sure that Trump’s investigators are still working hard in Hawaii.
Next week we will learn that Tulsi Gabbard has located a Barack Obama birth certificate from Kenya.
we are currently watching an entire political party run cover for the most notorious sex trafficking ring in modern human history
It will become his private army/paramilitary group when he refuses to leave office or some other fascist move.
It’s still amazing tens of millions of people want this guy in the White House and making life-and-death decisions.
I know I'm looking forward to "the many hours of depositions and testimony."
I hope investigative journalists are trying to contact the women who took part in these contests, where Trump walked in on them. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_...
Their chickenshit laughter🤮
So after 6 years of Republicans calling Democrats pedophiles, they have been exposed at the party who defends pedophelia. Sick
They'll probably use ChatGPT or Grok to come up with fake transcripts.
Probably. But he will spell it wrong.
Writing with a fountain pen that you either put cartridges in or out had a rubber bladder that you pumped ink in from an ink bottle. They could be messy, but were cool. Mine were Parker pens. I'm thinking of getting one.
Dershowitz is trying to get on her good side so she won't spill the beans on his involvement.
sound up
There is only one way to read Trump’s post today about Epstein - basically a confession. He’s guilty, he knows he’s guilty, his cult isn’t culting on this, and he’s a cornered rat with no way out other than to plead with people not to care about child sex trafficking.
Thanks for that link. I'm going to check out the recipes on that site.
Can you post a link to it?
If you won't be silenced or intimidated, if you want to stand up against Donald Trump's authoritarian project--then join us in speaking out and fighting back against his disastrous agenda. Join us at ofthebrave.org. (And you can begin by following us at @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social.)
Trump, Epstein, and The Corruption Of It All The Epstein conspiracy has radicalized the MAGA base, who demand answers from the Trump Admin. This is the perfect time for Democrats to attack and for corporate media to ask follow-ups. With @levparnas.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
No one had to think much about who would defend America or conduct its diplomacy; Trump’s appointees were apparently chosen largely for shock value and trolling efficacy rather than competence." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Less than a year into his second term, it’s clear that the goals of Trump’s 2024 run for the presidency were, in order of importance, to keep Trump out of prison, to exact revenge on Trump’s enemies, and to allow Trump and his allies to enrich themselves by every possible means.
Excellent essay by Tom Nichols -- "Who’s Running American Defense Policy?" "This administration was never directed or staffed with any coherent foreign policy in mind beyond Trump’s empty “America First” sloganeering.
Either martial law or seizing the voting machines -- maybe both.
And he has the nuclear codes 🤯
And will she go after MAGA who dox?
Says the man whose companies declared bankruptcy six times.
True love lives forever
@theatlantic.com Can you please change the crossword back to the way it used to be, where you can see the entire week's crosswords instead of just the current day's crossword?
Maybe from kissing the hemorrhoids in Trump's ass.
Magnificent bird!
We have a San Pedro cactus that has never bloomed in the nine years we've lived here in San Diego. Now it has three flowers in full bloom and maybe four more buds. BTW, is a psychoactive cactus as depicted in the movie Crystal Fairy.
Why am I now seeing ads in the online version of The Atlantic, even when I'm signed in and a subscriber?
@theatlantic.com Why am I now seeing ads on The Atlantic online, when I'm signed in as a subscriber?
When was that photo taken? Maybe it's like the a Portrait of Dorian Gray.
Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, DEI, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
Great personal advisor to the president. So dignified.
"We never ask you to go to war, unless you absolutely have to" -- unless we decide to invade Canada, Greenland or Panama.
No Kings - Rancho Bernardo youtu.be/qinLtXIEGOU?...
No Kings -- Rancho Bernardo, San Diego youtu.be/qinLtXIEGOU?...
This headline in the WAPO -- WTF???
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