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Killing 11 Venezuelans in an attempt to create a bigger story than the Trumpstein files is probably a crime.
9/2/25 Meeting with Epstein victims Don't let them distract you With some Space X nonsense
"Palestinians.. know what happened to their grandparents.. left their lands amid hostility & for 75yrs they've been denied their right to return.. the idea they're going to take a few thousands $ & come back when they want to, nobody trusts Israel & rightfully so" Omar Shakir from @hrw.org
Breaking News: Google must hand over its search results to rival companies, a federal judge ruled in a landmark decision to resolve the company's monopoly in search. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
DAILY MEMO: Hundreds of New Agents Arrive in L.A. as Chief Bovino Prepares to Take “This Show” to Another City @eltragon.bsky.social
Big thanks to all of you who mobilized on Labor Day to demand a country that puts workers first.
REP. @yassaminansari.bsky.social on the bipartisan demand for the Epstein files: “This is the most corrupt administration in 🇺🇸 history, and this story shows it more than anything.”
Jeffrey Epstein survivors say they haven't had any contact with the DOJ
“From stress relief and mood enhancement to improved mental clarity, connection with nature, and community engagement, the benefits of riding your bike are abundant and far-reaching” bikeleague.org/5-mental-hea...
Making slave owners and murders sound heroic is a real work of fiction
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
This is ICE-style immigration enforcement in the UK, it is also very reminiscent of Windrush.
In this detailed blog, we’ll explore the specifics of Apple’s environmental innovation, breaking down the technical details into clear, digestible insights.” sigmaearth.com/apple-leads-...
“An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.” www.indigo.ca/en-ca/cobalt...
The work truck we desire Give us this truck 🛻 www.motortrend.com/reviews/2025...
“A sense of humor when facing adversity is our most useful and gratifying tool. Maintaining a sense of humor in critical circumstances helps us stay on our feet.” exploringyourmind.com/humor-facing...
Khanna: It’s going to be a bombshell press conference tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. The American people will hear directly from survivors of the Epstein abuse. And they’re not just going to talk about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s abuse — they’re going to talk about rich and powerful men…
ICE is on track to gain access to controversial spyware designed to hack phones and read private messages after the Trump administration jettisoned a Biden-era order.
There is a ton of things happening this week youtu.be/L7wC4qbppoQ?...
This tune will play well here I think youtube.com/shorts/m18uA...
Reminder! Tune in tomorrow and support these survivors. If you’re in the area, maybe you can be there in person. Goodnight BlueSky.
It wasn't a great last week of the August recess for Republican members of Congress. At town hall events across the country, attendees booed, laughed, jeered, and demanded answers as their GOP representatives tried to defend President Donald Trump’s agenda.
The House just released the first tranche of documents in its Epstein investigation. But the materials likely won't satisfy those clamoring for more info about the case. Most of what was released in the first batch of files is already publicly available.
What is Kash Patel looking at?
Nice meme Good work
"That is why I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it." Yes, there is a difference.
1st amendment rights? Maybe they should have spray painted a swastika on it, then it would be ok with republicans
abcnews.go.com/Health/forme... Nine former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are speaking out, saying Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is endangering the health of Americans.
190% true!
In discussions with some friends recently they have decided paying attention to the news is too stressful For me I have decided it is too worrisome not to know what all the fucking nazis are up to
I know this sounds crazy, but shouldn’t the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?
the memory hisses and pops with the cloudy connection of analog synapses confused with plaque where the data just stirs in place hoping to be read while the mind’s screen conspires to elude the sharp focus of some just yesterday when the the memory was last played #vss365 #elude #poetry
See through it.
Here's a ray of sunshine in a very dark world Germany has already exceeded its goal of shutting down 8 GW of coal plants - 3 years earlier than expected Amazing what a little sun and wind can do 😎 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
Let’s make sure the Epstein victims get the attention they deserve. REPOST all the Epstein/Trump content you see and make it trend! #Epstein #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #Trump-Epstein mdavis19881.substack.com/p/epstein-xi...
We’re back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
Nothing is more powerful than solidarity. On Workers’ Labor Day and every day, America’s unions are keeping up the fight to make sure we get our fair share ✊
"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners." Albert Camus
Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced. n.pr/4g7YKqg
"Do we really want to live in a country where troop presences substitute for actual governance, and civic problems are met with military deployments?"
"There is no cleavage between white-collar workers and manual workers, between artists and artisans, musicians and mechanics, lawyers and accountants, architects and miners." FDR:
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
“Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.” ~ Anonymous medium.com/incendiary/p...
🚨 SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 18. Millions of Americans took to the streets in June to drown out Trump’s birthday parade. As Trump’s regime escalates his authoritarian power grab, we’re gathering again on 10/18 for a nationwide day of peaceful protests to say NO KINGS: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
So tax payers money used to develop AI and then those AI systems used to disenfranchise tax payers from Medicare It’s like paying someone to poke you in the eye
Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
That sounds amazing! I have some apple cider in my freezer from my tree. I’ll check out the recipe Thanks for sharing
Geoff Bennett: You say that poetry is not useful, and that's exactly why we need it. Why? David Duchovny: "We want to get educated to be able to work, to have a job of some kind, which is great and it's necessary. But we've lost sight of educating a mind on how to think or a soul how to feel."
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
It's being reported that the Pentagon is authorizing military lawyers to serve as immigration judges. This is a threat to the Constitution. Don't say we didn't warn you. From the archives:
Rest in peace, All those hopes and little dreams; How the lesson burned; Onto canvas of my soul; Now grey where colors once did glow. I warm myself, Where they blazed in glory’s show— They were loveliest— In my epoch’s flow; Now,is only tragedy It remains a melancholy tale to know
This hits harder than when I saw this movie the first time. #CaptainAmerica
This chick already looks like it’s seen too much 💭🦤😂 #birds #humor
Waves crash in silver spray. The lighthouse stands, night turned to day. Storms may rage, the sea may roar. Yet its beacon stands guard on the shore. Sky ablaze with twilight’s flame. Eternal watch, its solemn claim. To guide the lost through dark and foam. Until the sailor finds his home.
No shit Mr. Billionaire
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
Every ICE official that refuses to ID themselves, show their warrants, deports without due process must be prosecuted for violating civil rights when we get power back. And we will. They can't "weekend at Bernie's" forever.
Portland,OR #WorkersOverBillionaires
That one sizzles
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." ~ Oscar Wilde #QuoteOfTheDay
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.
2: capitalized: a member of a fanatical sect arising in Judea during the first century a.d. and militantly opposing www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/z...
Know the difference between a religious zealot and person of sincere faith They may at times speak some of the same words but their actions are vastly different Zealot: noun 1: a zealous person especially : a fanatical partisan a religious zealot
He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil.”
Psalm 36:1-4 “Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes. For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated. The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.
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A Democratic super PAC is launching a $700,000 digital ad blitz slamming Susan Collins for opposing a bipartisan bill that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks. This ad accuses Collins of “the worst kind of greed… using insider information to trade stocks.” Please WATCH and SHARE. 👀
2 obsolete : MALICE 3: an object of envious notice or feeling Ex: his new car made him the envy of his friends www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/e...
Ecclesiastes 4:4 “Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.” Envy: noun 1: painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another joined with a desire to possess the same advantage
Ecclesiastes 9:17-18 “The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.”
Hey jealousy Hey jealousy “Hey Jealousy” by the Gin Blossoms Writer(s): Doug Hopkins
Cause all I really wants to be with you Feeling like I matter too If I hadn't blown the whole thing years ago I might be here with you Tomorrow we can drive around this town And let the cops chase us around The past is gone but something might be found To take its place...hey jealousy Hey jealousy
We must be content with the possessions we have But we must never be content with injustice and oppression
Later, she would tell ABC, “I didn’t know how to handle that episode,” adding, “I still think about it every day.” www.politico.com/news/2021/04...
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
“You aren’t going to catch many fish that way,” said the businessman to the fisherman. “You should be working rather than lying on the beach!” The fisherman looked up at the businessman, smiled and replied, “And what will my reward be?” thestorytellers.com/the-business...
This is a conversation before Cain murders Abel. Envy Genesis 4:6-7 “The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.”
And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.”
James 3:16-18 “For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
This is my conspiracy theory: There are corrupt people in this world who will cheat, lie, steal, and kill to get whatever they want They operate under their own rules and consider themselves above the law The end
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
“Words, then, are action. They are power in motion. They are tools that shape reality. And the way we use them—flippantly, destructively, or with purpose—matters more than we often realize.” www.thoughtlab.com/blog/the-pow...
I some Bluesky stats Here are some more stats if interested that are a bit more big picture backlinko.com/bluesky-stat...
Defiance: noun 1: the act or an instance of defying : CHALLENGE Ex: jailed for defiance of a court order 2: disposition to resist : willingness to contend or fight Ex: any defiance of the authoritarian regime would have dire consequences www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/d...
Thank you Poppa. 🙏🏿😇❤️
Can we fill in the potholes with the fuckwits or are they the potholes?
Coverage of Gaza war youtu.be/fqj9lYlitDE?...
Good words from Jim youtube.com/shorts/uB34N...
Just bringing it back in the cycle. Congress will have to deal with the Epstein files soon I hear youtube.com/shorts/R_VsQ...
War … youtube.com/shorts/3jLpp...