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Retired construction worker, USMC '66-'68. I enjoy listening in on thoughtful concept development. Louisburg, NC
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"Suddenly [one of the gang members] began hitting me in the face, dragging me by the hair across the floor, and shouting: ‘This is my final warning. If you don’t change your mind, the next time I see you on the street, I’ll kill you.’” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/n...
In the aftermath of Emmett Till's lynching, white supremacists called for federal troops to invade and occupy Chicago. "If the federal government intervenes in the interests of law enforcement anywhere, it should start in Chicago, crime capital extraordinary." h/t @larryglickman.bsky.social
The key here, or course, is this: www.wired.com/story/white-...
The AUMF was, and is, a fig leaf. (I actually think no POTUS needs one.) I'm only pointing out that blowing up terrorists who are not in direct combat with us at the moment of their death is not new. "This car in a friendly foreign country had some bad guys in it so we zotzed them" is 20+ years ago.
Meanwhile: www.cbsnews.com/news/grok-el...
The saga continues! Today's episode: "Today's version of farm slavery isn't even cheap, farmers are getting TURBO screwed." youtube.com/shorts/e5R53...
Typo Tuesday: just told someone "you are the wind beneath my wigs"
As a physician, I know conversion therapy is dangerous and goes against everything we stand for in healthcare. It's abusive and not grounded in science.
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
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Leading Genocide Scholars Say Israel’s War in Gaza Fits the Definition
BREAKING: The Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges. This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two. Every day, we inch closer to fascism.
I think if other countries were to poach scientists from the USA, they should try to get entire programmes. This seems like a good one: arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Holy smokes This is the crowd at the Bernie Sanders/Graham Platner Fighting Oligarchy event in Portland, ME tonight Platner is the oyster farmer challenging Susan Collins; Senate seat👇 Overwhelming turnout! I feel like maybe Susan's number is finally up ..
We're at the stage that if you have a better idea of what people need to do, then you have to do it. And maybe it starts with a couple of people and grows. YOU really have to do it.
“Rather than defending civil liberties and civil protections, you’re turned inward to potentially hinder [them].” In June, we sat down with a veteran and military law expert to discuss “being used against your neighbor” as a soldier.
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
This!
Having a bad day?? Here's a pick me up... 😊 #bluesky #nature #animals
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
Sea Level xkcd.com/3135/
![Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidj2tdqhkgoamiqf5reqt7kvbpt26x3cgjxsp4rtwwb46qumcltdq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Awesome! I'm also looking forward for you to discuss THIS with Brian, Marc.
🚨BREAKING: Federal court STRIKES DOWN down new South Dakota law imposing a nine-month deadline to file ballot measures declaring it unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Congrats to Dakotans for Health and their legal team! www.democracydocket.com/cases/south-...
Well. He’s puffier and oranger than usual. His hair is insane. But that seems pretty normal to me.
When my dad died, he left 12 sealed envelopes in a big box. The final one is for September, my birthday month. The copy of The Countryman is from Autumn 1968, when I was born. He wanted me to live the landscape, the people in it, and the issues they face. He'd be glad I do.
Kristi Noem's Non-Stop Slander Invites Congress to Ask Melania about Her Close Ties to Jeffrey Epstein www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/02/k...
💊 A cheap diabetes drug may slash long COVID(LC) risk. Metformin cut cases by ~64% in overweight/obese adults. -Without metformin: 1 in 3 got LC -With metformin: 💊 1 in 5. academic.oup.com/cid/advance-... #BlueSky #MedSky 🧪 #IDSky #SciSky #EMSky #EndoSky #NurseSky #FmSky #PedsSky #ObSky
September 3rd. 10:30 AM. Steps of the Capital. LISTEN TO THE VICTIMS NOT THE PERVS! RELEASE THE FILES!
And I share it!
Nation Mourns As 79-Year-Old President Shows Proof Of Life
Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
People have strong feelings about the NYT. But about 2,000 journalists work there. I read the folks who are caring and talented. Strong recommend to follow science and global health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli. Her work is brilliant; her dedication second to none. Follow: @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Release the EPSTEIN FILES
WAKE UP REPUBLICANS!! Trump sending troops into our cities are,, DRESS REHEARSALS,, for Martial law. It's NOT ABOUT CRIME.
Main pt: If true, genuinely hostile, threatening, etc from Putin. Secondary pt: Almost every plane is equipped w multiple ways to figure out where it's going if GPS fails. Happens more often than you'd think. So: bad move by Putin. But pilots knew how to cope. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
This is my 95-year-old neighbor. He's been living alone since his wife passed away from cancer, and not long ago, he also lost his loyal companion dog. Now, every day, our chicken Hei Hei escapes the yard just to visit him. She sits with him, accepts treats, and lets him pet her like an old
I love this guy
“Do Not Climb.” Anarchy on the Halifax waterfront (“The Wave” by artist Donna Hiebert).
Ukrainian aviation destroyed a huge grain elevator in the Kherson region with an airstrike. Russian occupiers had set up a training center for operators and a command post there. It was there — now it’s gone.
If you're watching Trump's press conference, a good way to make sure you fully comprehend his message is whenever he says "homeless," "criminals," "scum," "filth," "savagery," "gang," and/or "illegal," substitute in the word "black."
So, what are we looking at here? 1200 soldiers deployed to Washington DC? That should be more than enough to secure the White House, take the criminal in the Oval Office into custody, and liberate the Epstein files.
You know, I sure do hope all this fascism doesn't cut into Jake Tapper's book profits. That would be a damn shame.
The only way Putin could have owned Trump any harder is if he'd shown up wearing a Я с тупым T-shirt Once again demonstrating the difference between a trained educated focused professional (say what you want about Putin, but he is that) and an out of his depth no fucking clue amateur.
Okay, hear me out, what if we hired some 15-year-old Russian goons to "car-jack" Big Balls. Maybe then Trump would finally take military action and stand up to Putin.
Gavin Newsome really want to troll Trump voters, he'd start showing up at the McDonald's drive-thru wearing orange face paint.
The guy in charge of America's health is a raving antivax loon who drinks raw milk, eats rotten whale meat, and thinks Froot Loops cause autism. AND he has a dead worm in his brain. I mean, seriously, how much worse can radioactive Walmart shrimp possibly make it?
Don't worry, Folks. Your prayers worked. The guns are safe.
BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr poised to surpass gun violence as leading cause of death among American children.
A trans person never caused the price of my groceries to increase by 60% over the last 8 months. But Republican policies sure did.
A trans person has never threatened me. But the leather-faced worm-brained science-denying conspiracy nut in charge of America's healthcare is openly threatening to kill and maim tens of thousands of us.
Trans people aren't stopping Americans on the street and demanding to see their papers. But Trump's Gestapo sure are.
Don't get your hopes up, Folks We're not that lucky.
Trump fakes his own death to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
I've never seen social media so ... hopeful
Told you. Trump is like herpes, just when you think he's gone he's back.
Trans people never stole the entire Social Security database and put every American at risk by uploading their personal information to an unsecure server. But Trump and Elon Musk sure did.
JD Vance: "Immigration destroys national unity!" Also JD Vance: Thanksgiving gonna be awkward.
MAGAs be like, who else would have the stamina to play a round of golf after being dead for three days? Huh? Huh? He really is Jesus.
You know what Trump's thinking about right now? Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and the Clintons... ...sitting in the front pew at Trump's funeral.
If you think I'm being a crass insensitive smartass about this now, wait until you see how I am if he actually does die.
"A Martin PBM Mariner plane is loaded on USS Chandeleur (AV-10)'s aft deck in Apia Harbor, Samoa, 15 February 1943. The nose of the plane had been damaged during a take off attempt due to wind and high sea. / Date: 15 February 1943" 📑 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US...
Martin PBM Mariner craned aboard USS Chandeleur (AV-10). "USS Chandeleur (AV-10) in the Pacific Theater" 🎞️📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/140105280
Sorry @jaketapper... still no wheelchair in sight. Just a fit 82-year-old — unlike the guy actually sitting in the White House.
A good statement but a bit weak. RFK, Jr is a malicious, dishonest nutcase whose views amount to flat-Earthism and everyone with influence should say so. We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
WWII ended 80 years ago today, as Japan surrendered on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
Man, I feel this. 🙏🏽😭
NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
something something two weeks tremendous never seen anything like it huge many people saying
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
HIMARS and FPVs struck an assault column in the Pokrovsk direction. As a result, Russia’s 155th Brigade lost between 50 and 100 personnel and 7 pieces of heavy equipment.
I’m sorry, WHAT?
Back at work on another experimental batch of bappir—according to our interpretation, a dried out sourdough starter—for another round of Mesopotamian brewing with Trophy Brewing in Raleigh, NC, later this week
Every person, without exception, who claims they voted for King asshole “because of the economy” is lying. All of them. Not a single person voted for that criminal asswipe because of the economy. They voted for him because they wanted team white man to win and be in charge. That’s it.
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
🧵 Trenches had become very elaborate structures by the end of WWI. 1/3 "POST ARMISTICE TRAINING, ENGINEERS CORPS TROOPS [1919]" 🎞️📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/24940
I don't think Elon Musk should be questioning anyone's "stronger emotional responses".
“When he showed up at the House’s impeachment proceedings against Mr. Trump in 2021 carrying a grocery bag from Zabar’s, he went viral. Asked what was inside, he answered: “A babka and the Constitution, what else?”(gift link)
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
A reminder, since there’s a meme going around: there will be little or no further news about the Minnesota assassinations until close to or at trial. And this is good, because that’s how we serve justice. The killer is in custody, won’t be getting out, and the state won’t wreck the case by leaking.
If you want to do something in the meantime, talk to your state legislators about legislation. Banning cop auctions, for example. Make cop shops pay for their own disposals or maintain their hardware better, rather than pocketing cash for their trash. Ban the sale of police-like clothing to public.
Talk about banning no-knock raids and midnight/early morning raids. Talk about policy process for coordinating local police in a wide threat zone. Stay on your local press to get them investigating police misconduct, because police misconduct erodes public safety. Do these in memory.
I said this months ago but I really need a BLUE STATE COMPACT IMMEDIATELY. Bring together all health depts, all education depts, etc... under one umbrella. Collectivize guidance, ensure that disabled students get what they need, etc... An emergency meeting of all Blue State Governors is overdue.
Featured story, from @liseolsen.bsky.social: The doomed man condemned the system that was about to kill him, saying, “I’m dying tonight based on testimony, that all parties, me, the man who gave the testimony, the prosecutor he used knew it was a lie.”
If you’ve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, you’ve seen the former are more likely to die.
Or, the vaccinated kids have not been brainwashed by their numpty parents into thinking a scorched, beat-up looking dude who smells like roadkill and rancid meat grease and sounds like his voice is trying to prevent him from lying is the great savior? And so are skeptical and grossed out?
There’s only one country where there is a concerted effort to make it easier for unsuitable people to access powerful weapons. There’s only one country where the use of vaccines is being made harder.
When you're ready to start worrying about it more seriously, there are books about art materials that you can consult and you can decide where your lines are: This is old but you can get it cheap. www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta...
On being an artist in this day and age who was trained by a restorer and a museum curator: it's rough, y'all. People are out here making bad science decisions in their art because you can self teach HOW TO PAINT, but not that many people are teaching themselves CHEMISTRY.
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.