Photographer and lifelong Democrat (well, I did wear an "I Like Ike" button in 1952)
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Random thought: Our mass shooting problem has two elements: Assault weapons, and butt hurt men. If they wonโt allow us to regular the guns, maybe we need to regulate the men. Aggressive and unregulated men cause like 90% of all crime on planet earth. Just sayinโฆ.
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See, Putin? We can use little green men, too.
Antidepressants do NOT cause shootings. Many of the safest countries have high rates of antidepressant use. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Here in the US, โtwo weeksโ actually means never.
Not today, Satanโผ๏ธ Got this garbage in the mail a few days ago. Republicans trying to trick California voters into voting NO on Prop 50. Suddenly they care about โdemocracyโ? Please. Vote YES on Prop 50. Donโt let the cheaters write the rules.
The problem isnโt refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Birds are really smart.
America's Mayor who caused unnecessary deaths of first responders.
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.
He'll be fine. He's Medicare eligible.
We had presidents who talked like this. Had.
SEC. NOAH [BIG LIPS!] COMING WITH GUNS. PUT CRIMINALS & UNTRAINABLE [USELESS!] PUPS OUTSIDE!
All those nice countries payed US $8T. We should thank them. They must really love our charming president.
Y'all survived a day on Chicago streets? What are the odds?? Oh wait -- they're much better than for those poor suckers living in red states:
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Justin be best.
"We are seeing the federal budget cuts implemented by DOGE impact nonprofits and health care in addition to the government. AI was cited for over 10,000 cuts last month, and tariff concerns have impacted nearly 6,000 jobs this year" www.newsweek.com/us-hits-high...
CNN confirms that the pilots landed the plane using paper maps. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/w...
Cigarettes don't kill. Smoke kills. Guns don't kill. Bullets kill.
1/ The elimination of de minimis is emblematic of the worst kind of reactionary, knee-jerk policymaking that's sadly not confined to the US. For those who don't know: The US has largely eliminated a rule that let packages of lower value (<$800) to skip most customs formalities and tariff duties.
Hey, they were just born that way. You know, evil...
More than 20% of mortgages now cost homeowners at least 6%, the most in over a decade ๐คฏ๐
Please give him my worst wishes.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobsโeven multiple jobsโaren't safe from homelessness in this country.
An "interview" is not a legal deposition. How many lies have you heard in interviews of Trump? Ya think Gizzy is any more honest?
Difference between a husky and border collie... ๐๐ ๐คฃ #dog #dogday #bluesky
"Republicans, before the Donald Trump cult took hold, frequently railed (rightly so) against communist and fascist regimes that nationalized industry, indulged in crony capitalism, and substituted propaganda for the free flow of reliable information..." open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Make him pay his lawsuit judgements, and he can learn how Medicaid works.
It'll be fine. Love means tolerating idiocy. I hope.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nationโs public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
And don't get me started about the time Hillary stumbled at her limo's door.
"If Donald Trump really wanted to fight crime in cities, he should have run for mayor, not president of the US. While he's pulling these antics, consumer confidence is down; manufacturing is down; farms are closing..." ~ Rep. Ro Khanna on MSNBC
Wonder what Justin doing tonite. Maybe call.
The cotton gin. That's all I got.
j.lulu_photography ..Lulu๐ฆ "Shelf cloud and sunset, Gulf of Mexico"
I'd pray for Rudy if you paid me enough, because I'm an atheist.
When the federal government leans to the right, it's safer to live in a blue state. Hell, it's ALWAYS safer.
Chicago is #48 in the total crime rate for US cities, and #92 in total violent crimes STFU, Republicans. Your cities and states are the worst. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers to make sure everyone will still have access.
Oh, the poor bastard! Well, he SHOULD be poor, and he IS a bastard.
Trump stopped threatening to seize Canada, after Trudeau left the Prime Ministership in March. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...
Score it a hole in one, and leave the scorecard by the hole with your ball in it. No one will ever know.
I hope our democracy is not gone for good. But we damn well vote better throughout our lifetimes, America, or it's gone. We were #28 on the list of democracies, rated as "flawed" -- BEFORE Trump was re-elected. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eco...
Yeah, I heard about it on my CB radio. Good Buddy is sorry, but schedules, you know...
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Mary Shelley wrote an entire book trying to warn us about extremely arrogant nerds who create things irresponsibly and take no accountability for them for when they wreck society, by the way.
Ergo, your kids are ten times SAFER around trans people.
Republicans: โStop making everything about race.โ Really? White people enslaved Black people for generations, stole Native land, lynched and segregated us, burned down Black communities that thrived, and treated Mexican land & labor like property to be taken. America already made it about race.
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control theyโve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But weโre denying Venezuelanโs asylum claims who fled for their lives. ๐ค
Denying historical facts doesn't justify bigotry. Israel kept some border lands they occupied in their various wars with Palestinian invaders and five Arab armies that allied with them, beginning in 1948, as a "buffer" against future invasions of Israel, and used settlers to occupy them. That's war
But he doesn't even like pets. He doesn't deserve that farm.
That could happen to anyone. Hey, I like crows too.
LBJ was the last president of any party to have SUPERmajorities in BOTH houses of Congress.
From the people who brought us Pizzagate -- Wha? What list?
Many states donโt let you get a COVID vaccine without a prescription as they had existing laws that tied access to official CDC approval. This made sense as a safety measure, but now the CDC has been taken over by antivaxxers, several states are rightfully modifying these laws to reinstate access.
RFK just complimented his suburb manly appearance, so he's OK.
Carter did have a โ supermajority at first, so he was able to pass a Constitutional amendment, but it wasn't ratified so it died. He had many other accomplishments but he inherited stagflation (and here we go again, unless tariffs are reversed). He succeeded with energy & other Platform items.
No, Obama had a 60% majority for a short timev in 2009, not long enough, and subsequent presidents did not: they were subject to filibusters except for limited types of bills. Stop making snotty remarks, especially when the facts do not support them. Gotta blockya.
I discovered two KGB officers in California and dealt with them for two years, blocking their attempt to acquire cruise missile guidance tech. It took the FBI three years to arrest them. They wait until they have a near-certain chance of conviction (then they either blew this one, or made a deal).
My good cholesterol is too low. Oh OK, I can handle that.
๐ฆ RFK Jr. wants to rewrite science using vaccine critic David Geier in his Autism study Millions of scientific hours have been spent studying hundreds of thousands of children in hundreds of peer-reviewed papers To debunk a 12 child study by a gastroenterologist who was struck off in 2010 ๐ฆ #MMR
Hope springs eternal. So does authoritarianism.
Because they MUST work with Republicans. Unless you control a trifecta -- which the Democrats haven't achieved since LBJ's era -- you're stuck with whatever bills you can pass bilaterally.
It must be dinnertime somewhere.
watching the netflix series "how to become a cult leader" and stunned how some of the most powerful current world leaders resemble some of the most notorious and dangerous cults leaders of the 1970s & 1980s
Democrats are powerless, thanks to ignorant voters.
Dem's are powerless because voters don't elect enough of 'em. All elections matter.
Dammit, I wanted Rudy to suffer in poverty for decades.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Jamie Oliver brilliantly debunks the lies and ridiculous statements that RFK JR. has stated on multiple occasions. Experts are saying that RFK JRโs statements could very well be related to the worm in his brain. He is extremely dangerous and unfit! #USDemocracy #Pinks youtube.com/shorts/JPzXG...
When you cut the social safety nets, you can expect people to fall and land on the streets.
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NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
Soon relatively cheap drones will be able to use facial recognition and machine learning for targeted assasinstions. Politics is about to get a lot more violent. We need to get out of the dying US empire before we are drowned in blood.
The exception proves the rule; some Hollywood 'elites' are not.
Me2, and I try hard.
Yeah, we all love happy endings.
Is that a DeLorean? No, that was in the movie version of his youth...
We're looking forward to an annual Greek Fest this month!
I get vaccinated AND eat beans. Best of both realities, actual and alternative...
Daily smile for today... ๐ #bluesky #animals #nature
Israel defends itself. Get over it, bigots. Blame the terrorists who refuse to release all hostages and surrender their arms; that's how wars are ended by invaders who lose them.