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One more thing I’ll say about northern Michigan is the starlight. My only camera is my phone
Planet Uranus, NASA
‘It happened so fast’: the shocking reality of indoor heat deaths in Arizona Heat deaths could surge in the state as energy poverty linked to Trump’s energy and trade policies burns -The Guardian apple.news/A5GVWOn27Su-...
Michael Moore: "Because the numbers don’t lie. There are only 800 billionaires in this country, 6 million millionaires and 160 million of you reading this right now who are living from paycheck to paycheck and literally cannot afford the rent." What we can do with our numbers? Read the pinned post.
Here’s a sad statistic for you: In the United States, we have a whopping 1.4 million people employed with the job of DENYING HEALTH CARE, vs only 1 million doctors in the entire country! That’s all you need to know about America. We pay more people to deny care than to give it.
whatever hurts Starbucks! whatever strengthen unions! GO TEAMSTERS!!! GO SWU!!! #StarbucksStrike #strike #union
Visualise this every time you go to sleep. Remember how you feel when you get up and realise the difference.
Think medical insurance companies deny too many claims already? Trump's bringing in AI "death panels" to supercharge the process! AI gets paid based on how many Medicare claims they reject. Automated cruelty. They're turning healthcare into a video game where killing old people scores points.
If you think Palestinian struggle is their own problem, think again - it's coming for you next. Israeli spies from Unit 8200 are flogging their Gaza-tested surveillance tech to US cities like Minneapolis. They perfect oppression on Palestinians, then export it worldwide to crush dissent everywhere.
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
Disaster Gentrifiers: Perhaps this is why our real-estate-developer turned grifter-president is destroying FEMA? Disasters destroyed their homes. Then the real estate “vultures” swooped in. - Grist apple.news/AFojtMK1NSt2...
Opinion | Palestinians warned of a genocide in 2023. Why weren’t we believed? Western academics now speak of ‘genocide’ with newfound authority. Why weren’t our voices enough? - The Guardian apple.news/AqCFnyz8dRb6...
ChatGPT encouraged Adam Raine’s suicidal thoughts. His family’s lawyer says OpenAI knew it was broken Jay Edelson rebukes Sam Altman’s push to put ChatGPT in schools when the CEO knows about its problems - The Guardian apple.news/AHMRRjajNQD-...
I have a perfect #shiny image for today’s Saturday #blueskyartshow ❤️ #eastcoastkin #newyork #smArtist #blackandwhite #photography
live your life in such a way that millions of people don’t joyfully await your demise
The Rev took attendance…
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"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Only the best experts for 47.
Cowards
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
An appeals court ruled 5-4 that Trump couldn’t levy his tariffs. They are illegal. What happens now? - The Washington Post apple.news/AiwUyEkNGRK-...
they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.
Zohran Mamdani will be a good mayor bc he loves his city and the people that actually live and work in it.
Curls are always the bomb!
🪬🧿 There is no amount of money, oil, or gold in the world that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.
Indeed. All life, including OURS, depend on them.
🪬🧿Conservative Christians #quora #religion #sacrifice #christianity #controversy
Most importantly: Public health officials MUST continuously reify & safeguard the HUMANITY of the PUBLIC. This admin cares not at all for OUR humanity.
“That’s my experience of public health. It’s people who really, really care. & so having them dehumanized by certain factions, including, I think, the secretary, made it all the more important to remind them of their humanity.”
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Yet, the wolves continue to guard the hen house.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Court blocks DHS from ending deportation protections for more than 600,000 Venezuelans - Miami Herald apple.news/AuGzkFkUtSg2...
Mother of boy, 15, held at gunpoint by US immigration agents files $1m claim Trump officials accused of false imprisonment and ‘unconstitutional racial profiling’ over incident (actually, brutality) in LA. $1M is NOT nearly enough!!! That scar will never go away. 🤬 apple.news/AU2ARrBy3Tfe...
When a president decides to disregard the will of the American people, you’re right, that’s the mark of authoritarian rule. The White House has notified Congress that it plans to cancel $4.9 billion in foreign aid funding that lawmakers had already approved, doing so without their consent.
Would be helpful to know something about Conrad…
Indeed!
Thousands of Mike Johnson's own constituents are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage following the passage of a budget bill he pushed for. And it’s all so he could help bankroll more tax cuts for corporations and the super-rich. Don’t let him forget.
The New Yorker…
Thou shalt not listen to a damn thing that RFK Jr. says.
A group of Colorado and national LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations filed an amicus brief this week defending Colorado’s 2019 law banning conversion therapy for minors in a case challenging the law before the U.S. Supreme Court. By @lindseytoomer.bsky.social
They were PREVENTED from getting an indictment by ORDINARY CITIZENS who refuse to be fascism-complicit. While politicians waffle, we clearly need ORDINARY CITIZENS to continue to refuse!
Fuckers. Please go sign in support of these good folk. www.huffpost.com/entry/fema-l...
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Seriously. This is entirely on brand for Louisiana.
Those who have the power to stop mass shootings can go to hell with their "thoughts and prayers." Do something about it, you evil bastards.
“Thoughts and prayers.” “There is something deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem you are unwilling to resolve.” -Miroslav Volf
You can't have vaccines or cancer research but RFK definitely wants you in a wearable that can transfer your health data to unsecure databases or have it shared with third parties, as Charlie McGill writes. prospect.org/health/2025-...
Please tell me YOU are actually DOING something to protect all these programs for our well-being from being cut/discontinued. Ordinary citizens say we SHOULD, but elected officials have the power to propose legislation & enact laws.
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I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
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👆🏽 Quoting Pleune, the report—titled Debunking the Abundance Agenda—notes that "most delays in the NEPA process are functional, NOT regulatory."
👆🏽 In a post on X, the UN body referred to Israeli attacks last week in the village of al-Mughayyir as "another example of the ongoing oppression of and coercion against Palestinians."
UN Report: Nearly 1,000 Palestinians in West Bank Killed by Israel Since October 2023 Note: Palestinians in the West Bank did NOT attack Israel on October 2023. West Bank Palestinians are being murdered for racist, land-grabbing, genocidal reasons. en.tempo.co/read/2043701...
Beyond unforgivable!
Don’t look away
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is asking a federal judge for a gag order against Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and their subordinates. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Daskalakis: I very specifically use the term pregnant people, and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy of trying to erase people
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
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"You risked your life out here to save the community," the firefighter told The Seattle Times. "This is how they treat us."
‘Nightmare’: family in shock after Ice moves LA teen out of state without their knowledge All of this cruelty & abuse. - The Guardian apple.news/AgazdXZ-oR7u...
Israel struck Gaza's Nasser Hospital four times, analysis finds Not an accident. - BBC News apple.news/AG5PSmrvMRm-...
👆🏽 The group said the corrections department should also immediately disclose to Billa’s family the circumstances surrounding his death. Billa had been in custody at Rikers since February, awaiting trial.
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3 correction officers suspended following death of man incarcerated at Rikers Island Legal Aid Society of New York, representing Billa, called for an independent, impartial investigation. Billa was housed in a unit for people w mental health issues, supposedly the highest level of supervision.
In some circles this is but mere salt & pepper, the spicy word that makes the point.
Shocking brutality! ‘India put us on the boat like captives - then threw us in the sea' - BBC News apple.news/AwFqbghr_Qw6...
Spot on
New York Representative Ritchie Torres—one of AIPAC’s strongest soldiers—left Jewish comedian and talk show host Adam Friedland stunned by the soulless, robotic talking points he kept leaning on to justify Israel’s abhorrent genocide of Palestinians. newrepublic.com/post/199737/...
This has always been the home schooler and private school plan: Selective Admissions and Segregation paid for by the taxpayer.
RFK’s illogical, false “continuous drug use argument = addiction” argument could EASILY apply to him. He uses Testosterone Replacement Therapy, which are anabolic steroids. His use of TRT rests on the same “depletion” arguments as using insulin or SSRIs.
First deportees arrive in Rwanda from the US - BBC News apple.news/Ak2_GjhjdTLa... www.bbc.com/news/world-6...
Absolutely correct! Drug use for health management, even when it leads to tolerance or continuous use, is NOT addiction! RFK, consult DSM criteria for drug dependence (addiction) There’s NO evidence that “reparenting farms” are effective treatment for addiction. It’s prison by another name.
If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: —Gun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings —More guns don't make us safer —A majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this.
“When CDC Director Susan Monarez [Trump’s nominee confirmed by the Senate] refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives & fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda. For that, she has been targeted," Monarez's lawyers wrote.
Exactly! We have been sliding down a slippery slope since 9/11.
Like the patriot act...
The reality is simple our rights are not bargaining chips. Liberty is not something you trade away for “temporary safety”, because when you do, you lose both.
Yet MAGA propaganda insists Trump is “protecting” you, while branding dissenters as supporting criminals. That’s a fake choice built on fear, not fact.
Americans do not want to live under a military state, that was never the American dream. Our country was founded on the promise of liberty, not soldiers patrolling our streets. The Constitution is clear: the military does not police civilians.
The truth is, temporary safety measures imposed by force rarely stay temporary. History shows that once freedom is surrendered, it is almost never freely given back. And just like Franklin, we’re here to say no.
reshaped by executive whim, and broad powers are justified under the vague banner of “ensuring public order.” Just like in Franklin’s time, the deal on offer is a scam: we hand over essential liberties, and what we get back isn’t real safety it’s control, submission, and fear.
Fast forward nearly 270 years, and here we are in Washington, D.C., watching this lesson repeat itself. Once again, people in power are demanding we give up freedoms in exchange for the illusion of “safety.” Federal troops and militarized police flood the streets, agencies are
We’re going to go on a rant for a minute, and yes we’re bringing some history with us. Back in 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote words that still echo today: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
MONEY TALKS: Business Interests Call the Shots in Eric Adams's New York From outright bribery to political contributions that change policy, a little money goes a long way to get business interests met over the safety and well-being of New Yorkers apple.news/AH_cPwihwT-K...
Quit Starbucks over their practices long ago.
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
The very real hardships of everyday people is a topic about which they clearly do not even think.
'Exhausted, hungry, and scared': What it's like to be a journalist in Gaza - BBC News apple.news/AacFn1PleSCG...
Anytime! But… Actually the credit goes to another Blue Butterfly 🦋in this post chain. Looking now for that person’s “handle.” Just thought the article would get lost so far downstream from your important point. 😉
👆🏽Exactly right. Bunch of malarkey from Cuomo, ofc. He has and will do absolutely NOTHING to make NYC affordable for everyday New Yorkers. He’s bought. Profiting off war criminals and cryptocurrency criminals.
So after failing to deliver any of that as Governor, he wants to deliver it as mayor?! 🙄😂
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