Retired fire officer; Obie; Born in New England but found home in the PNW; garden variety observer of many things, but constantly looking forward; wishing I had a better way with words… Also been piping for decades. Music can bring us through.
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Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.
It’s a room full of faux reporters and journalist posers. And toadies.
Lawrence, Kansas Sundays thru 2028
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This makes me want to barf. When Trump is finally thoroughly discredited (which will happen), I wonder what these toadies and myrmidons will say.
May I ask: What the Actual F? The Manhattan shooter, from Nevada, had both mental health issues AND the ability to possess firearms. How many people in this country have played football, sustained CTE and are walking around with guns?
If I didn’t know any better, I’d think this country is weirdly addicted to this nightmare, to discord, to chaos and drama.
Many millions of us feel the same way. And we are all losing our patience…
The idiots who spout this bullshit never say it under oath.
And a multi-count convicted felon with a city of clowns and criminals for his entourage.
Good thing we replaced an old president with an old president who's also a compulsively lying sociopath with an advanced case of dementia.
So sure they are right and never wrong, so sure they will not be held accountable, and as you say, so certain they will not have to leave. We need to make it all crash down on them.
“Delicate subject?” What the hell makes it delicate? The fact that powerful people are most likely involved?
Or maybe raised its awareness.
Yeah, but hey, “Don’t mess with Texas.” Because if you do you will reveal their massive incompetence covered up by macho bravado bs.
And if he had no clients he would have been acquitted so why did he “ commit suicide?”
What? Trumps skirting laws? Perish the thought!
I wish wish wish that he actually was on another planet, far removed from us.
They are not criminals until they have had their day in court. Just arresting people dies not make them guilty, and therefore the numbers are just bullshit.
The Fall of Viktor Orbán: From Strongman to Surrogate as Hungary Turns Against Him Less than a year before Hungary’s most consequential election in a generation, his political empire is collapsing at every level kyivinsider.com/the-fall-of-...
Traitorous cowards. Not a McCain among them.
Thank you Governor. You have earned the title “Honorable.” I’m glad my kids live in your state.
They have a fogging machine in the van.
I agree, Mr. Dunn. Completely.
It’s my understanding that lawyers need to have a strong memory, so they can pull up relevant case, precedents, facts, with ease. A lawyer who doesn’t remember what he said is a worthless waste of resources and an oxygen thief.
We live in a rogue and dangerous country. Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.
FOTUS 👇🏾
This 👇👇👇👇
Straight from the Old Sage, Ron Vara…
The American version of Reinhard Heydrich.
I blocked the mf before the banishment.
Exactly! And we’ve let the German American Bund, the KKK, the McCarthyites and the January 6 traitors off the hook as well.
You know that “Thank you for your service” line? It goes both ways, I.e. eff you for your disservice.
It seems when democrats protest, they protest in favor of rights for people. When republicans protest... they are trying to take rights away from people In the words of the great philosopher Kendrick Lamar... "They not like us"
How is this not witness tampering? “That’s a long sentence you’ve got there, be a shame if you had to serve it all…”
‘Twas a good day in Central Oregon!
Freedom Democracy Truth The American vision, as yet unrealized. But worth fighting for.
You “may have?” As in “mistakes were made?” Damn there are a lot of cowardly unaccounts out there.
Put that incompetent and unqualified mf’s feet to the fire 24/7. Thank you for standing up, Congressman.
That’s about 12 million of us…on a sustained basis. Besides breathing and eating (and drinking coffee), what else is more important to do on a sustained level?
I think Miller really is “getting off” on the cruelty. He is relentlessly fixated and so shrilly passionate about it that it’s hard not to see it as a weird psycho-sexual obsession that trump is happy to let him run with. Plus he probably has some damning footage.
#SteelCity says no fucking kings in Pittsburgh. #NoKings
I think he’ll have some questions for her in a Senate Immigration Committee hearing, of which he is the ranking member. She will be UNDER effin OATH!
If you are upset about Senator Padilla, please be equally upset about LaMonica McIver apnews.com/article/lamo...
Senator Padilla was driven violently to his knees–as if made to kneel before the authority of the executive–because the administration called his questions “disrespectful”. This should offend not just the other 99 Senators. It should offend the conscience of this country.
open.substack.com/pub/thomhart... Robert E. Lee killed more Americans than Hitler. More than Khrushchev. More than King George III, Ho Chi Minh, or Kim Il Sung. He killed more Americans than we’ve lost in every war since the American Revolution, combined.
Let’s go for a grand slam and take out JD Vance and Mike Johnson too! #BlueCrew #ProudBlue #ElonVsTrump #KillTheBill #PoliticalFeud #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #TACOTrump
With sincere apologies and condolences to the athletes, I hope so. Taco, like his German predecessor, wants so bad for this to be his crowning glory.
Angry? ANGRY!? I’m fuckin’ livid! Furious and enraged. This mf is taking years off our lives.
Hell, they voted for his idiot nominees, they might as well fill their bellies with hamberders. Shallow…
Senator Awshucksmam, Ol’ Foghorn Leghorn, descendant of a major slaveholding family.
What a principled stand, Rand! 🙄 That respect I had for Rand was laying around here somewhere, where the heck is it? Actually haven’t seen it for years..,
Indomitable, relentless, undaunted, fearless. Resist! Indomable, implacable, impertérrito y intrépido.¡Resiste sin miedo!
72% of Americans support legal status for Dreamers—and for good reason. DACA recipients contribute billions to our economy every year. They’re workers, students, neighbors, and essential to our future. It’s time Congress gave them the stability they deserve. #HomeIsHere #BlueCrew #ProudBlue
What just kills me is we recognize each one of these certified idiots.
And the confederate traitors and the German traitors before WWII, and Father Coughlin and Joe McCarthy…
Let us make sure we actually get to the other side.
Now everyone will go look up the book and it will make NY Times. #sighs #booksky #writingcommunity
Fascinating, illuminating, eye-popping conversation between @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @gilduran.com about the unholy stew of techbro-fascist-religious delusions bubbling behind the current attacks on democracy
West Virginia is warning that women who have a miscarriage could be charged with a crime unless they contact local police. Every woman in WV should call 911 every time they have a period. Gum up the system with malicious compliance. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/h...
So if you lie to the president, is that not a crime? (Even as he is the most prolific liar in the history of dishonesty)
Phillip to Jennings: When you answer my question with a question, you are dodging. Answer the question. It is very telling that you are not able to entertain an answer.
With her especially, you have to ask, “What’s in it for her?” Is she up to something?
No notes. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👇🏼💥✊🏼
NYT has a long history of soft pedaling dictators, going back almost a century and Stalin’s manufactured famine (in Ukraine…). Apparently they don’t print the news that doesn’t fit inside their comfort zone.
Why the hell are IRS and ATF even involved? (Let alone any of them…)
That’s about 20% of republicans!
This guy is a mega goon.
my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“One more question, sir. You wrote a book about the former president's cognitive issues, but the current president posted that the former president was executed in 2020 and replaced by a mindless, soulless robot with cancer. What am I missing here?”
From “Ron Vara” to faked HHS citations, from frequent costume changes at Interior to the mysterious black eye, from the ever-changing tariffs to the daily loophole lawyering and outright obvious lies wafting from every corner of the regime, the whole administration is a fraudulent house of cards.
I just hope i can live that long. I SO want to outlive that sob
Overheard: Apparently Zelenskyy had some cards, and he didn’t need a suit.
There's a special place in hell for those who hide behind scripture.
Requested. They left out the next couple of steps. If it’s not forthcoming, you demand it. If it’s still not forthcoming coming you double down your demand publicly. In other words, you raise holy hell and make sure everyone knows why. Don’t just request and drop!
My favorite Jack Black line in School of Rock: “Nailed it!”
And they laughed about it.
Never to be forgotten or erased from America’s history of racism. I no longer believe that I will live to see Equality in America as hard as I fight for it every day. #TulsaRaceMassacre en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_r...
✅️ Diversity 😤🚫Dictators #Pinks 💞💖💞💖
I also came here to say “Yes you did vote for deportation…of moms and kids. You voted for family separation, disappearing people with no due process, you voted for dishonesty, decimation of our country and the utter disdain for our Constitution and the rule of law. You. Voted. For. That’s.”
She means,”You proles are all going to die, but we have the best health care, free thanks to you, suckers. You are on your own.” They apparently dislike their own constituents intensely.
And yet he thinks he is so clever and witty, in that supremely supercilious, arrogant smirking and pathetic manner that he has carefully curated.
“He said” is definitely not equivalent to the truth
Why, good sir, as a matter of fact…
We need more people like this with a steely spine, a strong heart, a razor sharp brain and an unyielding and relentless will.
IT ALMOST SEEMS ILLEGAL ☹️
It’s finally infrastructure week, now that Biden and the Democrats did the infrastructure bill!
Just because Elon, the Felon or any of the Clown Car Cabinet says something does not make it true and we have no obligation to believe what they say, especially when we KNOW they cynically disdain truth and integrity. They clearly don’t respect the American people.
Even the grasping avaricious Koch brothers have donated to decent causes. Of course, they have ulterior motives for their “generosity.”
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Not unlike “Ron Vara” being cited by the inimitable Peter Navarro 🙄