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Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"
Good
In the event of the Rapture, Iโll still be here, posting. You can count on me.
Kevin Ryan @kevryanforillinois.bsky.social Marine Corps veteran, Chicago Public Schools teacher, and candidate for the U.S. Senate in Illinois. I am running a progressive, grassroots campaign to take money out of politics and put it into the working class.
Cows don't just give milk, they give good vibes! ๐ #bluesky #nature #animals
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And itโs all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax โ it's cruel.
Solar is no longer โalternative energy.โ It is the energy of the future. America risks remaining a petro-state, clinging to the past, instead of becoming an electro-state, embracing the future.
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?"
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."
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.
Los Angeles - Black mayor D.C. - Black mayor Chicago - Black mayor Baltimore - Black mayor San Francisco - Just lost a Black mayor Seattle - Black/Japanese mayor New York - Black mayor (technically) and Letitia James We gotta stop with the "Democratic Run cities" bullshit and see what it is
Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasnโt ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. Itโll only be up through October 19th.
The Soothingly Blue Ridge Mountains
Anton Geraschenko Yesterday Putin: We endured for a very long time as Ukrainian troops carried out, constant strikes on our energy facilities. After that, we began to retaliate. And we are retaliating, letโs say, in a serious way. Thatโs trueโ Russia has been attacking Ukrainian energy since 2022
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."
BE LOUD FOR AMERICA
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
I am compelled to say that whatever the felon says today will be a DISTRACTION from the victims testifying. He thought he got away with it by bribing Maxwell, but karma keeps catching up to him. Anywho, whatever he announces today will be BIG to overshadow his guilt of raping little girls.
๐ฅ future Senator of Maine @grahamformaine.bsky.social Platner rallying with Bernieโฆ
NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.
Kristi Neom's "facts" are as authentic as her lips and hair extensions.
By far my favorite part of January 6.
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 โthe worst kind of greedโฆ using insider information to trade stocks.โ Please WATCH and SHARE. ๐
I am 76 & I have had most of these vaccinations at one time or another. Also vaccinations against Covid, Tetanus, plus Cholera & Yellow Fever when travelling in foreign countries. These prevented me catching horrible diseases & dying a gruesome death. They did not harm me, they protected me!
The pattern of shootings in red states, as well as densely populated areas, is clear. Some excellent graphics here: www.gunviolencearchive.org/charts-and-m...
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. ๐ญ
Anyone wondering what the Founders meant by "We The People, "in BOLD PRINT on top of the Constitution, listen to this until the end. This is exactly where America is, letting the Wealthy and Trump divide Our Country. This is not a conspiracy; it's playing in real-time youtube.com/shorts/w0gvc...
Three years ago I joined a group of antisocial people. We havenโt met yet.
Dogs are amazing! โค๏ธ๐๐พ #dog #dogday #bluesky
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
Thank you on this labor day!!
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Get over it!
I love this ad by Gavin Newsom! Must watch ๐๐๐๐๐
Just had to pass this along again, in honor of all the working people who keep America going. #LaborDayWeekend
cv.nmhealth.org/covid-vaccine
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg explains that the necessity of the Freedom Flotilla comes from the inaction of governments and international silence.
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Chief Justice Roberts, the MTF, With the stroke of a pen, he gifted Trump a shiny new toy: immunity. This was not jurisprudence, itโs was judicial corruption. When the dust settles on the Trump era, weโll need to ask why the referee decided to play quarterback. Consequences will be required.
I was at a prof. sporting event at the Navy Yard in D.C. today. Passed multiple Nat. Grd. members fully kitted out with long arms. It wasn't "normal" as we've been doing this for years. It felt dystopian. It's NOT supposed to be like this in the U.S. I was federal law enforcement. This isn't OK.
go.bsky.app/FNu8xXw Thanks Mark for the SP add๐๐ @markrf400.bsky.social
Hey Congress โ make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
My future...๐ฌ I'll be seeing y'all there too. ๐ ๐๐ผ
Happy Labor Day. No matter what job you have, we owe much to organized labor, their efforts: -Established the 40 work week -Child Labor Laws -Overtime pay -Paid time off/leave -The weekend -Employer contributed health insurance -Fairer pay To ALL American workers, I wish you a great day. ๐บ๐ธ
happy labor day. solidarity forever youtu.be/fmsCDVTvOcI?...
Let Me In So I Can Go Out Again. ๐ป New #painting. Winter scene with an anxious cat. 12x12 on cradled board. #ArtAdventCalendar #artistsonbluesky #bskyart #Art #caturday almost.
Keep Doing That... ๐ #bluesky #animals #nature
ITโS ALL NATIVE LAND!
#SilentSunday #Photography #Landscape #Nature #Outdoors #Mountains #FallColors #Autumn #AutumnIsComing #Colorado #Fallorado #Nikon #CaptureOne #DehancerFilm
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be โexplosive,โ one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victimsโ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
THEY WERE RAISED TO BELIEVE, THE โWHITE RACEโ WAS ORDAINED BY โgodโ TO RULE THE EARTH AND THOSE UPON IT. #ApartheidSucks
Live your life so that people donโt consider rumors of your death a form of edging.
Fire in the Forest (1897), by Alexey Denisov-Uralsky
Apparently, there are two kinds of people in this world. 1. Live and let live. Stand up for the rights and beliefs of others. 2. Everyone must believe what I believe, and if they don't, I will do everything I can to force them to follow my way of thinking. Don't be a #2.
As women, we have to stand up for ourselves. As women, we must stand up for each other. As women, we must stand up for justice for all. - Michelle Obama -
This is so true The more of us The louder our voice
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j.lulu_photography ..Lulu๐ฆ "Shelf cloud and sunset, Gulf of Mexico"
South Park goes off on JFK jr ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐๐
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a โfinancierโ? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. Iโve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, itโs not criminals theyโre targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
If the GOP has taught us anything, it's that we must never again leave laws with wiggle room for interpretation, under the assumption that common sense and human decency will be utilized by or even exist within the people in positions of authority.
Notes from an old broad.. history is watching
Notes from an old broad.. for facts sake
Notes from an old broad.. for facts sake
The apathy has been very surprising
I supported Jimmy Carter's initiatives in High School (Midwest). I was laughed at by many of my peers and community. Same with Al Gore re: climate change. Our country has been sabotaged by rich men wanting more personal wealth/power. They proved willing to sacrifice the rest of us to get it.
We had a POTUS who just recently passed away that tried to get us on the solar track 45yrs ago. Can you imagine where America and the world would be if American resources were put behind alternative energy for 50yrs. Unfortunately America is 1 step forward 50 steps back
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?
I wonder if he can grow a little mustache. Be fun to see an orange version.
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โKrugman continues, "But for Europe and Japan, the American Empire was a subtle thing, with the United States avoiding crude displays of power and bending over backwards to avoid being explicit about its imperial status."โ
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Lucius Annaeus Seneca 5 BCE - 65 CE
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.socialโs @mizzwelch.bsky.social
GOV. WHITMER on marriage equality ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ attacks: โTreating people equally is a Michigan valueโฆ LGBTQ+ Michiganders make our state stronger, better, and more vibrant.โ
โโฆI 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.โ My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
