Sunlight glistening off shining icicle #BlueSkyArtShow #shiny #photography #naturephotography
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Sunlight glistening off shining icicle #BlueSkyArtShow #shiny #photography #naturephotography
“To bomb one hospital, Mr Netanyahu, may be regarded as a misfortune; to bomb the same hospital again twenty minutes later to wipe out even more medics and journalists looks like a war crime” - Oscar Wilde, UN prosecutor.
NYC & Jersey from the Empire State Building #BlueSkyArtShow #Skyline #photography
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
Dandelion mist #photography #flowers #nature #naturephotography
Where are the hard-working Americans who screamed, “They’re stealing our jobs”? You’re getting your wish. Immigrant workers aren’t showing up, and farm owners are hiring.
Just a reminder that immigrants are good for society and the economy. https://youtu.be/LCl9-uaKzv8?feature=shared
Mark Kelly: "I hope we got something out of this. Putin is a war criminal. This is not a show of strength to allow him to fly into the United States to land here to negotiate with our president."
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The scientists at CDC are right. @joho.bsky.social and @noupside.bsky.social and @gorskon.bsky.social have been saying this for years. We need more science and academic institutions to stand up and criticize RFK Jr and medical disinformation.
This is what abuse of power looks like. If only we had a Congress that could actually do its job.
A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
Hoarfrost on Crabapple #BlueShyArtShow #Jagged #photography #nature
Bogdan Bezpalko, a member of the Presidium of the Council under the President of Russia for Interethnic Relations, openly called for genocide of the Ukrainian nation and the destruction of Ukrainian statehood. In case anyone still thought Russia wants peace.
🚨 ICE destroys a restaurant, arresting 16 people, literally started a FIRE; no criminal activity being committed by those arrested. 📌 The criminals destroyed a restaurant and kidnapped 16 people.
mRNA vaccines can be modified and produced cheaply and quickly. This doesn't only help us respond to pandemics better, it enables researchers to rapidly test different treatment strategies for many diseases such as cancer. Cutting mRNA funding slows all of health research and makes us all sicker.
Odd, how South Park is covering Kristi Noem and her ICE hooligans more accurately than The New York Times.
As the piece notes, the PragerU propaganda is being used in schools in Louisiana, Florida, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Montana, Arizona, South Carolina and Idaho. Check with your district to see if they're using this garbage to brainwash your kids.
Canadians are polite until we are we are not. What makes us not polite is fascism. We fought them on the streets of Toronto in 1933. We fought them in Spain. Long before America joined the war we fought them. When you tell us we don't have a right to a country or kidnap our people we will fight back
All you really need to know about the federal prison facility to which Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred is that the official signage looks like the kind of place that offers 2-for-1 slider specials, 10-cent wing happy hours, and a live karaoke band every Tues. night. She sex trafficked kids.
This man is a danger to us all.
NEW: Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, and yelling "kill 'em" as rioters attacked law enforcement. He’s now working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice.
In Alabama, another horrible ICE detention story— pulled over for going 1 mile over the speed limit and then put into detention, a woman who earned a masters degree and has become a beloved community advocate. Not a criminal. Someone who contributes to America. www.al.com/news/2025/08...
Fed’l prosecutors dismissed charges against a Florida woman whose lawyer is Brad Bondi, the AG’s brother. The client is a former GOP lawmaker accused of Covid relief fraud. abcnews.go.com/US/woman-acc...
No way older grey Epstein could go into a mall, or a fitness club, and entice children to go with him - only a posh sounding woman can do the enticing, fishing, and entrapment. This is Maxwell - she is NOT and never HAS been, a victim. She is just as evil and guilty, if not more so.
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
A wild turkey's quick prayer #BlueShyArtShow #Gratitude #photography #naturephotography
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Eastern Swallowtail Butterfly on butterfly bush #photography #naturephotography #butterflies #flowers
Dear Leader doesn’t like being inconvenienced by the consequences of his incompetence. So he's firing the person who put together today’s jobs numbers. They will be replaced by a MAGA apparatchik who will cook up imaginary numbers more to the glory of Dear Leader. www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Always has someone to scapegoat for his screwups
He's firing the Labor Department official who puts together the job numbers because the job numbers this month were weak. What a fucking weak-ass loser.
One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.
Let them eat cake.
No one wakes up in the morning happy to breathe in more ozone and carbon dioxide during their morning coffee or workout A clear majority repeatedly poll wanting stricter controls on greenhouse gases, not a let it rip strategy This new EPA rule is in proposal stage. Please speak up and make noise!
Former US special forces soldier working for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), Anthony Aguilar, recounts how a 5 year old Palestinian kissed his hands to thank him for the food he gave him. Seconds later, Israeli soldiers executed the starving child. #3E #FreePalestine 🧵
ICE Raids Alabama Construction Site, Wrongfully Detains and Drags U.S. Citizen from Workplace.
Taking a break from pollination duties #photography #nature #bees
94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet. The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year. Something has gone terribly wrong.
Chilling video from Pasadena shows ICE agents ripping a mother—selling strawberries—from her children’s arms. No warrant. No mercy. Her kids scream, clinging to her as she’s dragged away. Her whereabouts unknown. This is happening in broad daylight. youtu.be/RI9gxT84sSA?...
Holy shit we’re legitimately at “some cancer screenings are too woke.”
Thank you, @pingree.house.gov. The Palestinian Information Center tells the truth when it says, "The world’s silence on this new model of mass killing—hidden behind relief boxes—is complicity in the crime, if not actual partnership in its execution." english.palinfo.com/Zionist-Terr...
Is NOBODY going to call DoJ's Todd Blanche "questioning" Ghislaine Maxwell what it actually is - WITNESS TAMPERING? Really, not one person?
Yes … what have we become?
It’s been 16 years since Congress raised the minimum wage. Meanwhile, folks are out here trying to survive on $7.25 an hour. In this economy?! I’m standing with my Labor Caucus colleagues to #RaiseTheWage, because $7.25 ain’t cutting it.
Tom Kean Jr. is buying and selling stocks as a member of Congress at a remarkably corrupt rate. And he's getting filthy rich. He's out for himself while his constituents struggle to get by.
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. 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.
Forget about what year it is. What century is it? nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/d...
To be clear, this now a massive cover up involving the President, the Attorney General, the FBI Director, and the GOP Congress.
The EPA just proposed rolling back all limits on carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. Comments on the proposed repeal may be submitted now through August 7. Act now and urge the EPA to follow the science and protect public health. act.ucsusa.org/3TQKisA
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"We are so frigging scared of how much the Epstein files could hurt Donald Trump that we are shutting down Congress!!!!" isn't the savviest maneuver to get people to stop thinking about the Epstein files, Republicans.
The governing party of the United States is shutting down the federal government to cover-up evidence the president sexually abused children so he can continue trying to implement dictatorship. That's just a true statement about the world!
jfc
The Trump admin is using the NYC shooting of an off-duty CBP officer to push anti-immigrant fear, blaming sanctuary laws with zero evidence. Now they’re threatening to flood the city with ICE agents. Classic scapegoating.
"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, according to a report published on Monday into conditions at three overcrowded south Florida facilities."
Hummingbird Moth collecting nectar at a butterfly bush #photography #Teammoth #naturephotography #moths
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it will shut down its Office of Research and Development and eliminate thousands of agency jobs. According to the agency, this office has long served as the scientific backbone of its efforts to protect both public health and the environment.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL: ICE has detained hundreds of U.S. citizens by “mistake.” And now they want 100,000 beds and more planes to scale up? They’re not deporting “illegals”—they’re running a kidnapping ring with government contracts.
ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days. They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention. Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...
What CBS' disgraceful termination of Stephen Colbert illustrates is how quickly a Republic can fall when the media chooses cowardice instead of courage.
The Home Depot is the fourth largest retail store in the US by revenue. Its stores are being terrorized on a daily basis in California. Where are the articles being written about the company's response or lack of response?
Give this guy a medal
It’s mind-blowing to me that there’s not a single corporate news outlet with an update about Dems walking out of a hearing over republicans not following the rules to advance the judicial nomination of a guy who told the courts to fuck off. Nothing on WaPo or NYT yet. Just wild.
Rather than participate in the travesty, the Dems walked out of the Bove vote, which therefore was officially 12-0. Really a day that should live in infamy -- a result of so many different acts of corruption and malfeasance.
Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought." h/t @msnbc.com
With all eyes have been on the Epstein debacle, Trump quietly returned 2000 troops to the California National Guard from federalized duty. Trump’s efforts to politicize the military are a significant challenge to our democracy. He can’t be permitted to do it. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
They held him like this for 100 days.
Here’s the sick thing: all for tax cuts that the very rich won’t even notice because their accountants do the work and they just know if they can buy a new G5 or not. Meanwhile:
Next up: sue this administration! A disabled vet says he was wrongfully detained in last week’s Camarillo raid, despite being a U.S. citizen. • Reporting for his security job at Glass House Farms • Told them he was a citizen • No charges. No phone call. No lawyer. • No care after chemical exposure
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
REPORTER: Will you commit to include California in any disaster aid package? MIKE JOHNSON: We've not seen the formal disaster relief request from California yet REPORTER: The formal request was sent to your office in February
Crockett: Earlier someone was talking about cities being hellholes. Los Angeles contributes almost 20 billion in taxes. That’s more than all states in this country except for four.
Dear Andrew Cuomo, New Yorkers rejected you in the primary. And now you’re pressing them again to pick you? No means no.
This is Saif Musallet, 21, from Tampa, worked at an ice cream shop with his dad. He went to visit family in the West Bank this summer. On Friday, he was beaten to death by Israeli settlers. A U.S. citizen, murdered. RIP, Saif. The State Department must act—this cannot be ignored.
What is more summer than a day at the beach with sand sculptures. #BlueSkyArtShow #SummerDaze #photography #beach
ICYMI: The mind-boggling list of hundreds of #bannedbooks in Tennessee now includes Calvin and Hobbes by cartoonist Bill Watterson, They Called Us Enemy by @georgetakei.bsky.social, and The Complete Book of Cats by Rosie Pilbeam. More at: pen.org/magic-tree-h... #Caturday #Censorship
Imagine this! The “Big Beautiful Bill” gives ICE $170 billion to lock people up and build walls, but only $150 billion for the entire US Marines to fight wars, house troops, and support families. Because nothing says “secure nation” like funding cages over combat.
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France warns of ‘extremely worrying’ Russian activity underwater and in space Moscow is a “lasting threat,” says top French general. www.politico.eu/article/fran...
He is trying to crater the economy. That's how fascists work.
What form of sociopathy required them to need a court order to stop doing this?
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"
Who is his source, RFK Jr?
Summer is the opportune time for an afternoon siesta #BlueSkyArtsShow #SummerDaze #photography #nature #foxes
The incompetence of this administration is stunning. Two days after the floods in Texas, FEMA failed to answer two-thirds of incoming calls. Contractors were laid off on July 5th, and Kristi Noem didn’t renew their contracts until five days later. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
It should be lost on no one how significant it is for a Supreme Court justice to issue these warnings. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is telling us that our democracy is in extreme peril. It would behoove anyone who cares about this country to listen. www.cnn.com/2025/07/10/p...
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
