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At an event with DeSantis, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said officials will push to end "all vaccine mandates" in law. "Every last one of them is wrong," (Politico) That’s measles, polio, chicken pox and tetanus… America’s anti-science anti-intellect shift is going to kill so many people.
bizarro world
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events: "I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
the gold makes me sick
military flyovers disrupt the Epstein victim press conference
yes
Thanks! 🙂 Sometimes when you are standing in the reeds or near bushes, they can't see you until they are on top of you. When they suddenly spot you so close, they take sudden evasive action. I've seen it lots of times, but never caught it in mid-manouver until now. 😀
same for me
These two change of direction pictures are terrific. I have lots of Great Blue Heron flight pictures, but I've never seen one perform this evasive maneuver.
@11tulips.bsky.social
love!
Charming moments. Goodest boy.
love
omg
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
brilliant
Isn’t this lovely? By Tom Thomson.
LOVE
Everyone who was wrong about Trump — please say so openly to those who trust you and follow you. You have influence and thus bear responsibility.
"Nothing that happened in medieval eastern Europe bound future states to make war against each other a thousand years later" My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war" www.ft.com/content/9731...
Quick change of direction #2. This Gray Heron (Ardea cinerea) was headed straight towards me getting quite close before it spotted me. Then it was "Whoa! I think I'll go the other way!" 😄 #BirdingHungary #herons #waders #birds
brilliant image
wow, I never saw that angle before
Judge just ruled no can do
King Midas
I'll bet you a quarter he doesn't take any questions
Today's my birthday and I'm hoping @realDonaldTrump will send me one of his amazing handcrafted cards with a beautiful Sharpie-drawn woman on it
happy birthday
the DOJ atty (& 2x Harvard grad) who suggested Harvard showed "wanton indifference to antisemitism" once wrote a paper from the perspective of Hitler & expressed admiration for Mein Kampf stunning reporting from @hilaryburns.bsky.social @talkopan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
wow
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
great image
he looks so different without face makeup
Looks like he came up from Hugh Grant's basement in The Heretic.
I have no idea one way or the other, but if the president was gravely ill & dying, this is exactly how it would play out. Any president, not just him. We wouldn’t want hostile foreign powers to know we were vulnerable. Especially when the leaders of said hostile foreign powers are all together.
"Silence speaks louder than words, and all we’ve gotten from the loudest-ever White House, for a full week now, is silence."
does Congress get a vote on this?
"The Apprentice"
thanks
Ashley Biden just posted this picture from this weekend with her father. Both look very happy.
bizarro world
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
The great @mikeallen remembers the same: "After a Bush speech, the newspaper reporters would be struggling with their leads when suddenly the gym (or wherever we were filing) was engulfed with the voice of Knoller ... with an efficient, insightful take." www.axios.com/newsletters/...
Truth does not exist in the current Republican universe. They realized that truth is the enemy, so they eliminated it altogether.
Ex-Trump associate Lev Parnas reported on Sunday that “Trump’s health is deteriorating behind closed doors.” I’m here to remind you that it’s deteriorating everywhere else, too, lol.
wearing more make-up than usual
there was nothing in it for the dog
"He was incapable of normal friendships, unable to debate intellectually, filled with hatred and prejudice, bereft of any real capacity to love, and "lonely."" from Laurence Rees, Hitler's Charisma: Leading Millions into the Abyss
wow
Great conversation with @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social for ‘On Democracy with FPWellman’ tonight on @meidastouch.com! Catch it now! www.youtube.com/live/Ql-PEkV...
When Trump takes away money from institutions and grants, where does that money go? My guess: into his pocket
This isn’t politics. It’s not left or right. It’s not conservative or liberal. Cutting funding to treat children with brain cancer is hate and greed.
“tHeRe’S nO LiSt” I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Ghislaine Maxwell is not a credible source.
Honestly, the hour-long run and march of people shouting “Free DC” up 14th Street today is the energy I needed this morning. I love you, DC.
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Art of the deal.
The shooter did not act alone. He was assisted by one president, 219 House members, 53 senators, and the NRA.
Cat found: #Evanston, Illinois: Young female, very friendly, found on the 600 block of Brummel Street. No microchip. Please call the Evanston Animal Shelter at (847) 866-5082 if you recognize her. #lostpets #illinois #cats
Russia, Russia, Russia!! HOAX!! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee election security.
Trump never hires based on competence or intelligence
wow
“Republican Sens. Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Rand Paul (Ky.) both came out against Trump’s deal, with Tillis telling CBS’s Major Garrett, ‘I don’t care if it’s a dollar or a billion-dollar stake.’
“‘So if you support socialism, apparently Donald Trump is your guy,’ Erickson continued.” www.huffpost.com/entry/gavin-...
This is NYTimes-speak for calling Rudy’s account total BS: “The narrative of how the accident unfolded, based on accounts from [Rudy mouthpiece] Mr. Ragusa and the New Hampshire State Police, is a little unclear.”
Free advice for the administration: If you want to stop the Trump health coverage, maybe stop posting verifiably old videos and keeping him as far away from cameras as humanly possible
Hello Bluesky friends See below. Our neighbors are talking about our loud drunken abusive family...they won't say anything to us directly, but, we've gotten out of control.
title of movie?
Women who chose to have control over their own bodies somehow show political bias. Is it the hormones? 🙄
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Republican Rep. Barry Moore was heckled so badly at his Alabama town hall that he literally left out the back door in the middle of the event. Moore didn't offer concluding remarks or even bid good night to the rowdy crowd as they chanted "Shame!" during his exit. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
what a read! thank you. It's even worse than I imagined.
thank you
If anyone’s looking for some background on what Trump is up to with the warships he’s deployed to Venezuela, I get into it here:
Ukraine used its new Flamingo cruise missiles in combat for the first time yesterday, the intelligence service has announced. They were a huge success, destroying an FSB base and several patrol hovercraft in Crimea.
uh oh?
his sadism is showing
Massive Ukrainian drone attack now hitting Russia. #explodey
Ukraine is once again hitting Russian targets in occupied Crimea. #explodey
good
made me hopeful to read www.rawstory.com/trump-lost-p...
usa
Delusional thinking by Vance, but he might farm out the job to his Silicon Valley backers.
Thanks for that insight!
But he’ll have far less support in Congress and among voters.
interesting!. I hope his plan is not to out-Trump Trump.
Florida Republicans plan to add 4 New Republican Congressional seats in a Trump gerrymandering exercise. They’re targeting Orlando, Tampa, and surrounding Miami districts.
Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe is getting into the election-fixing Trump gerrymandering business. He’s called for a special session to redraw the congressional map which thrusts Republican areas into the fifth district represented by Dem Emanuel Cleaver.
He doesn't really care.
true too
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.
plus, trump's the felon
NEW: Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook sues Trump after he attempted to remove her from the board for “potentially criminal conduct,” citing mortgage claim allegations. Cook argues the president failed to show requisite sufficient cause for the attempted dismissal.