I am an independent thinker, lover of family, nature, animals especially horses but all kinds. I believe in equality and inclusion. I believe our democracy is in danger.
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It is wild that the Washington Post -- which claims "Democracy Dies in Darkness" -- has remained completely silent for more than a day about Trump's latest attack on free and fair elections. Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
Been doing some reading on Peter Thiel, the thinkers he likes to invoke, his origins in South Africa, and the Christian School he attended there. I think it might be reasonable to start calling him Peter T-Heil
What a fine boy!
It means Jody the pig is there. (An Amityville Horror movie reference if anyone needs or wants context.)
Well… not anymore.
Wow! Outstanding!
Me too
Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”
🚨When all is said and done the money that was WASTED on Alligator Alcatraz could’ve easily been the 1 TRILLION that was cut from Medicaid. There must be oversight for the OUTRAGEOUS costs: 1) Monetarily 2) Environmentally & 3) The Physical & Mental Health stress this cost people and their families.🚨
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
I wish people would stop blaming COVID mitigation policies for the acceleration of right wing extremism, and instead acknowledge the fact that we endured a mass casualty and mass disabling event that was mismanaged by narcissistic authoritarians who shifted the blame to marginalized communities
No WAY!!!
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Wow!!!
Well that should help fund Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Right?! Or FEMA?! For clarity I know you can’t believe anything out of this WhiteHouse or any sycophantic brown nosers associated for Trump.
The thing I don’t get is the same press that is being kept at a distance from an obviously not hale and hearty president isn’t screaming for answers?
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
We did this to ourselves www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Trump is destroying everything good in our country. His buddy Putin is so pleased.
Me too!!
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Both. She is both.
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit.
A must for reposting.
Take your medical guidance from your PCP and local hospitals. Everything at the federal level is nonsense.
The businesses are going belly up. How much money is this costing us to have military in the streets?
My God these charlatans are like jackals at a carcass. Darting in and out to get a chunk of the spoils.
ICE Continues to Detain Award-Winning Journalist Who Filmed Immigration Raids Truthout truthout.org/articles/ice...
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.
'The findings add weight to a growing body of evidence that beavers may be acting as ecosystem engineers, reshaping waterways in ways that benefit not just their own survival, but that of entire landscapes.'
It was probably always inevitable that the rise of a dictator in the US would be greeted with a shrug by many Americans and Europeans alike. But it doesn’t make it any less shocking to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
They believe in eugenics and technofasicsm
🙃 #GavinNewsom #EpsteinFiles
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I bet there is a hole on the backside of that barrel.
Feel safer yet? ICE made a “brave”arrest of two firefighters in Washington state who were part of a crew battling a massive fire. Are they going to march into a hospital room and arrest the anesthesiologist? Or maybe the nurse who is giving CPR? New meaning of stupid!
What are we even doing?
Done!✅
Fox Noise is directly responsible for the situation we are in. They have poisoned the well of public discourse with deliberate misinformation, manipulation by appealing to the darkest leanings of humanity. For money and power. The rotten greedy bastards.
Fox Noise is directly responsible for the situation we are in. They have poisoned the well of public discourse with deliberate misinformation, manipulation by appealing to the darkest leanings of humanity. For money and power. The rotten greedy bastards.
Trump & Kennedy, instead of attacking diseases are attacking the scientists who keep us safe, exactly what anyone who watched Trump’s performance during Covid, is familiar with Kennedy’s anti-science views, or read Project 2025 could have anticipated. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...
Miore quid pro quo.
There's a Bob Dylan song for every occasion
That is too cute.
Why isn’t RFK researching the effects of long term heroin use on cognitive function?
I see what you did there! lol. 😂
He’s a fascist through and through.
And what a hunk! 😁
"The COVID-19 vaccine kept us healthier—both physically and financially" Same goes for wearing an #N95 mask & breathing cleaner shared air indoors. Think #SwissCheeseModel layers - Via @ocanannain.bsky.social www.mpo-mag.com/breaking-new...
Raw milk too. He’ll suggest swimming in polluted water and eating dead bears.
Trump will be unfortunately unforgettable for all the wrong reasons. He has many firsts to his name. None of them are good.
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social’s @mizzwelch.bsky.social
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
Let that sink in.
Oklahoma will have a teacher shortage for the foreseeable future unless he is replaced by a non religious zealot and basically sane and competent person.
The unprecedented step to redraw Missouri maps in the middle of the decade and without an updated census is not an act of democracy – it is an unconstitutional attack against it. My full statement on the effort to gerrymander Missouri here: cleaver.house.gov/media-center...
As I said earlier this year… www.editorialboard.com/unsaid-make-...
The 21-day period to help save the Roadless Rule has kicked off. Three weeks is a stupidly short comment period for something of this magnitude- because they IKNOW how unpopular it is. Let's remind them again. Our voices DO help. www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency... saveourroadlessforests.com
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “If a Democratic president were doing any of these things you would be losing your mind.” 🎯
urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Making America Great 🫠 “The U.S. is helping China to increase its global influence. China may suffer economically because of the tariffs, but politically, China is gaining more sympathy and more support from other countries, and not just in the Global South.” www.wsj.com/world/while-...
Corporations socialize their losses and privatize their gains.
BREAKING: New bill introduced to stop politicians from stock trading would require lawmakers to sell their stocks in 180 days. Those who don't face fines.
“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.
Enough said…
Kim Jung-un, eat your heart out.
I think these people are on crack.
No notes
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
By all means let’s eliminate more ways to have human interaction.
I just saw someone refer to rfk jr as microwaved mel gibson & i can’t unsee it.
It just keeps getting better.
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Jain: We have a U.S. Attorney’s Office that is also facing a vacancy crisis. And that is at least partially because the predecessor to the current U.S. Attorney, Jeanine Pirro, was Ed Martin. He fired more than 20 prosecutors whose only “crime” was prosecuting violent January 6 insurrectionists.
Another super wealthy kook who is delusional
I’m sure they are fellow eugenics fans.
SARAH PALIN: "There are going to be death panels!" RFK JR: "Technically, it's just me."
Can't believe that in 2025 we have to be telling people that vaccines are safe and slavery was bad.
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
Excellent question.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files