Retired teacher, avid reader, animal lover. 100% Democrat. 100% Anti -45.
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🇩🇪 German soldiers are legally required to disobey any orders they believe violate human dignity, under the Soldiers’ Act and Basic Law. This stems from post-WWII reforms and the Nuremberg Trials, ensuring ethical judgment and accountability in the military. www.ethikundmilitaer.de/en/magazine-...
This whole thread is just appalling. The hearing arises from the Trump admin conspiring with a foreign country to violate a federal court order in the middle of the night so it can deny due process to children who escaped dangerous circumstances.
Trump goes 2 full days without an impeachable offense, and we all just assume he's dead.
www.politico.com/news/2025/08... Appalling 😡
“'ILLEGALS' my ass.” Rami Othmane has a green card and is married to Dr. Wafaa Alrashid, a hospital chief of staff. Despite having legal residency, ICE detained him for 13 days after grabbing him during a grocery run. This injustice cuts deeper than words.
Seven Sisters and Geirangerfjord From Ørnesvingen Viewpoint. #StunDay #scape #chasingwaterfalls Møllsbygda, Norway 🧭 62°7'35" N 7°10'0" E #photography #landscape #originalcontent #waterfall #fjord #travelsky #travel #norway
Breathtaking
Your Tess is a little beauty.
"That’s why it’s so hard to sell the lie that Trump doesn’t collude with Putin: He just goes out and does it again." ICYMI @saletan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/putin-trum...
"In four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote." ~ Donald Trump, 7/28/24
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Remember when Hillary coughed and the media were practically writing her obituary?
Hope you two are having a fabulous Sunday! Enjoy your evening Josie and Chance! ❤️
Happy Sunday Pip and Tasnim! Your fur is so thick, do you ever really get wet under there when it rains?? Hope you two have a fantastic evening!!
Happy Sunday Peanut and Butter! Enjoy your day! Nice to meet you.
Science is real
Good!!
Love you Josie and Chance!
Everything we take for granted — weekends, paid vacations, sick leave, safer workplaces, health care — exists because of unions.
Hope you are enjoying your Sunday Gio! Love you!
here's today's post: "Chicago cordially invites the Mad King to go fuck himself" — Chicago will not comply with Donny’s police state fascism. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
Happy Sunday Layla and Piglet! Love you!
EXPERTS WARNED SINCE 2015 that Trump's Wall is a Neanderthal fool's errand and massive waste of US dollars: 1) It's easy to climb over, even without a rope/ladder 2)Easily cut through with any reciprocating saw 3)Easily tunneled under/built on sand 4) Washes away in floods 5) End's animal migration.
Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."
GREAT Trust - The new name for Trumps project to create a Riviera at the Gaza Strip. Relocating all the people to problematic countries, bringing Gaza under the administration of the US for 10 years to build resorts and so on. I thought, this is a joke, but Trump, Kushner and his buddies are serious
Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Evening walk. Focused heron. #birds #nature #wildlife
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
Good Morning Chloe and Dorothea! Enjoy your day!
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
This was one of my father’s favorite sayings. A friend forwarded it and I felt the need to pass it along.
Good Morning Izzy!
"Here’s the truth we cannot escape: If Ashli Babbitt is honored, then few things are sacred. If loyalty to the Constitution and an attempt to overthrow it are treated as equal, we lose the very meaning of service." www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Happy Sunday Rikki and Kiki! Enjoy your day!
After a successful day... 😅🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky
Happiness on 4 legs!
Good Morning Cheesecake! Enjoy your day!
Make America 3rd world Country again! 😒 The new head of the CDC has no training in medicine and once helped Peter Thiel develop man-made islands floating outside U.S. territory | Fortune share.google/xUU2WVRsTgfU...
Good Morning Uni!
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
Five years ago I was a lot more inclined to believe that we could just remove the incumbents from power and build a better world around them. I'm afraid I am now much more of the opinion that if they do not learn the price is too high, they will just come back stronger.
Putin has not changed. In the last 25 years he started four wars. He can only be kept in check through strong deterrence. We must be precise and fast with the surge in our defence posture ↓ europa.eu/!wgH6QK
Good Morning Missy!
#Europe must speak with one voice – No one wants or needs this war‼️ The aggressor is very clear: #RussiaIsATerroristState It should be named as such – It must be fought for its behavior with: Sanctions, deterrence, isolation in international forums.
🚨 President Donald Trump is pressuring Israel to cancel Prime Minister Netanyahu’s corruption trial, igniting backlash over political interference. Netanyahu, also indicted for war crimes by the ICC, faces charges of bribery and fraud. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p... UN needs to move HQ out of USA, hold meetings elsewhere for a start.
For sure not sure how many adults are left in the room at this point.
Happy Saturday Eileen!
To take an approved vaccine off the market, the FDA would have to revoke the manufacturers’ license. “Vaccine law experts said they expect that vaccine manufacturers, physicians or patients groups would file legal challenges if the FDA tried to revoke COVID-19 vaccine licenses.” #pinks #proudblue
“Reports of mistreatment have been widespread and have included disturbing details of overcrowding, food shortages, lack of adequate medical care, and unsanitary conditions.”
A “win” for Trump! No! NATO is forced to increase defense spending because they have a hostile enemy on their doorstep. Actually, two,Trump and Russia. Treaties, alliances are meaningless. To further extort the EU, he could abruptly stop selling them weapons. He is a grifting anti American fascist.
He HATES NATO and wants the USA out.
Appeals court upholds ruling rejecting sweeping Trump tariffs. The judges delayed their ruling from going into effect until October, providing the Trump administration an opportunity to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. @fischler.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/08/30/r...
Appeals court backs Venezuelan migrants’ effort to keep protected status @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/08/30/r...
The overall goal here is clear: Trump wants full control of the U.S. economy. That’s reckless no matter who the president is. But it’s a ruinous mission for a president who obviously has no idea what he’s doing. trib.al/VnbR4iD
"The President, on his own, can't tax the American people. That's what King George III tried to do – we had a revolution about that." Neal Katyal
Happy Saturday Ginger!
Let that sink in.
Here's two baby otters having a snooze. Enjoy!
“Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” — Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
Why the Texas AG is trying to lock me up and what we're doing to fight back and win. open.substack.com/pub/betoorou...
Happy Saturday Boots and Binx! ♥️
You should go out for just a bit of sunshine Chloe! Enjoy your day!
“You cannot argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” -Mark Twain This is why the medical experts are leaving the CDC.
Happy Saturday Gio! Love you!
Good Morning Cheesecake! Enjoy your day!
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.
Philadelphia’s District Attorney Larry Krasner has suggested an effective playbook— We should arrest rogue ICE agents at the state level, which would shield them from a presidential pardon. This is the kind of hardline approach we need from our Democratic leaders.
It's adorable that ICE thinks it *could* lower its standards for new recruits.
NEW: For decades, protecting the voting rights of people with disabilities was a bipartisan priority. Now, as the GOP restricts voting access through the lens of “election integrity,” those long-standing protections are already beginning to erode. From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social
Enjoy your Saturday Josie and Chance! Love and hugs
🌻✨☀️ “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It’s what the sunflowers do.” -Helen Keller #FlowersOnFriday #nature #EastCoastKin
Not a drag queen????
"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:
This administration won’t stop until it undermines all our independent institutions and centralizes power under its far-right cronies. From the Fed to the CDC, they’re chasing out nonpartisan career professionals that don’t bow to their crazy ideas.
Happy Saturday Chloe and Dorothea!
Happy Saturday Izzy!
God Speed Rudy. I am so sorry for your loss.
you just know somebody’s being called by their full name right now
so adorable!!
Happy Saturday Josie and Chance! Have a stupendous day!! Continue with the brawling!! Love and hugs
Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.
We’ve been lied to our whole lives. The maps we grew up with shrink Africa down, making it look so much smaller than it really is. The truth: Africa is massive. You can fit the United States, China, India, Japan, and most of Europe inside it—and still have room left over.