Shame.
Proud Democrat. Retired software developer. Lifetime learner. Facts matter. People are more important than things. Happily married. 🚫DMs.
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Shame.
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Thank you on this labor day!!
Women’s portable pee funnels will be in high demand.
The man who completely upended the lives of two innocent poll worker by spreading baseless conspiracy theories wants us to give him privacy and not spread conspiracy theories. How cute.
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A spokesperson says Rudy Giuliani was seriously injured in a crash after stopping to help a victim of domestic abuse but is recovering “tremendously.” If you don’t think there’s something really sketchy behind this, you’re crazy plus who (besides Trump) would say someone is recovering tremendously?
Alliterative nonsense. Her tastebuds need to get woke.
#DebunkHisLies
The only person in the world who doesn’t see that as nonsense is Trump himself. In fact, Trump also knows it’s nonsense. He knows even Noem doesn’t believe it, but it makes him feel powerful to know he can make people say shit like that.
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I have never spent more on groceries than I did yesterday. When it rang up on the register, I almost fainted.
Don’t most National Guard members have civilian jobs that they are pulled from when they are deployed?
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
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
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If I understand it correctly, most National Guard members also hold civilian jobs and their employers are required to allow them leave to serve and guarantee the same or equivalent job when they return. These employers must be thrilled to see their valuable employee picking litter and laying mulch.
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
A church I can actually believe in.
Were the children not praying when they were shot?
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
Great news.
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
I don’t just love eating them, I enjoy the process of creating them. The colors, textures, and aromas are inspiring and the process of chopping and assembling relaxes me. Same with soup.
I am literally begging anyone who does any kind of journalism to spend an hour in an eviction courtroom every week for a month. Please. The eviction crisis in this country is downplayed at best and ignored at worst. It's racialized state violence that hearkens back to the worst of Jim Crow,
SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov on fascism in 🇺🇸 : “There is not safety in keeping your head down… People who oppose public policy decisions but are too afraid of retribution from their government to speak their mind should send a chill down all of our spines.”
Wow. It really is. I wouldn’t have noticed.
Trump has already sent the National Guard to DC and today said he plans to send them to Chicago and New York City. None of these three cities are in the top ten cities for crime. There is no emergency situation and it has absolutely nothing to do with law and order.
It should be blue.
It is indeed unnerving.
I wish I felt sorry for John Bolton having his house raided by the FBI. He, along with many others who covered up for Trump the first time, are largely responsible for creating the fascist clusterfuck we wake up to each day. #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Here is how the media should be reporting this morning's news. As part of a growing pattern of political retribution, Donald Trump's FBI has raided the home of a prominent administration critic. In this instance it happens to be John Bolton. The pretense is largely irrelevant.
I remember falling for this type of doublespeak. I empathize with those who still do.
I don’t believe in hell, but recently I have wished it was real.
Gavin Newsom and Jaimie Raskin do a nice job mimicking Trump’s grammatically challenged, unhinged social media rants except they pack facts in their posts rather than lies.
They all are.
Me too!
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So, the Texas GOP is holding a Democratic representative prisoner in the state Capitol Building, because she won't sign a 'permission slip' to be followed 24 hours a day. It's time to take the kids gloves off.
Mark this moment.
Watching Putin’s gaslighting and delay tactics regarding the Ukrainian “peace” negotiations reminds me of watching all Trumps legal maneuvering after his indictments. Just keep stalling until it’s too late to save any of Ukraine at all.
Yes, truly incredible.
Folks keep talking about the parallels between real life and The Handmaid’s Tale. Here’s another one: they seized Washington, DC, and the seat of American power collapsed overnight into authoritarian rule.
Where are they taking the DC homeless?
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Our cat chases hair ties too. If you click your fingernails it sounds like a hair tie being flicked and she comes to attention and looks around for it.
Pride of Ownership...
Look at the smug look on Putin’s face.
“Putin would eat you for lunch.” And today, that’s exactly what he did.
Helsinki redux. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...
In other words: They lied.
How Stupid. apple.news/AUS7RXIWyRXu...
Without translators?
Good point.
Why waste a perfectly good sandwich when you can use rotten tomatoes?
I haven’t seen that anywhere. In fact, a CNN article said republicans would have an edge, but CA has so many more seats than TX and TX is already heavily gerrymandered so I must be missing some important information.
I don’t know the legal obstacles to gerrymandering districts outside normal timeline as TX is threatening to do, but if you overlay the most gerrymandered states and the states with the most house seats, it’s looks like democrats are in a better position to win a gerrymandering war. Am I wrong?
Precisely. Every democratic lawmaker and governor should follow suit. Post as you normally would, but at least once a day make a Trump style post. It’s a perfect way to highlight the embarrassingly egotistical, rambling, word salad that republicans like to pretend is perfectly normal.
I will NEVER forget.
There are no coincidences.
KENTUCKY’s @govandybeshear.bsky.social: “That’s what’s so sad… the flood killed over 100 people. Their daughters didn’t come home — and now a Texas special session that was supposed to be about them and their families has become purely political. It’s wrong on so many levels.”
JFC. He seems nice. How very “make America white again” of him?! Let’s make him famous - he seems proud of himself.
It really is that absurd.
Call to Activism - Joe Gallina “Holy shit. Lisa Kurdrow did an impression of every Republican and it’s absolutely perfect. This needs to go viral.”
My reporting has come to the attention of Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney. Here’s the response I provided to the @thedailybeast.bsky.social
THE GOVERNORS OF EVERY RED STATE (THE BEST STATES) NEED TO POST LIKE THIS ON SOCIAL MEDIA EVERY DAY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. — AMERICANS
So the same guy who insists he couldn’t activate the National Guard in D.C. on January 6, 2021 suddenly has the power to activate it today?
Something tells me the focus will not be in poor white neighborhoods.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
These Regimes Do Not End Well’: Group of Former NatSec Officials Warn of FBI ‘Purge’ in Open Letter to Agency www.mediaite.com/politics/the...
Exactly. He’s going along with everything hoping to jump over Vance and inherit the dictatorship. If Trump goes down in flames, he’ll claim that he hung on in order to be a voice of reason.
If Trump’s goal is to hobble higher edication, he’s found a good way to go about it & feed his xenophobic base. www.nafsa.org/about/about-...
Eliot Cohen skewers Hegseth in this article. Worth a read. apple.news/AfnxAbyjXQT2...
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Congressional republicans have already chosen fascism.
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That we are right now dragging off to concentration camps people whose only crime is trying to protect their children while simultaneously shredding laws and the constitution to protect a guy who is almost indisputably a serial child rapist is the greatest condemnation of America I can imagine
NEWS: Annie Farmer, an Epstein survivor who testified against Ghislaine Maxwell, just revealed on CNN that she wrote a letter with her concerns to Deputy AG Blanche — and received no response. She says neither she nor other survivors have heard a word from the DOJ.
Thank you I’m so glad more people are saying this out loud.
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I give her a dollar if she tells Trump to his face that criticizing women for how they look is lazy.
Trump's trade policy is to the rejection of economic expertise as Trump's vaccine policy is to the rejection of medical expertise.
Ghislaine Maxwell has been barred from participating in service dog training while in prison because of her crimes. I feel like if prison officials don't trust you around dogs, you shouldn't be eligible for a pardon under any circumstances.
The CEO-to-worker pay ratio at S&P 500 companies last year was 285-to-1. The median employee would have had to start working in the year 1740 to earn what the average CEO received in 2024. Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?
Parts of the Constitution were erased from the Library of Congress website, including the section featuring the foreign emoluments clause. The removal was blamed on a "coding error." Here's a reminder of what the clause says, just in case Congress ever decides to enforce it...
I’m sure the show’s writers are at least as angry as Colbert.
Indeed.
I agree. IF we are able to throw off this oppressive regime and return to a democracy, and that’s not a given, I think they will have learned from this dark era.
It is a desecration.
This is not a coding error.