Science is magic that works. Kurt Vonnegut Army brat/midwest transplant to beautiful PNW - best decision ever! 2 kiddos, 1 enormous dog, and 1 tolerant husband.
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My late June son was the youngest in kindergarten. He had to work more but made greater gains. By 4th grade, his redshirted peers lost any academic or physical advantage. By 8th grade, many lost momentum as school became “hard.” He graduated 2+ years ahead in math and is better read than any peer.
Definitely AI - T **** looks way too fit…
A hex….
Same in Washington.
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Really appreciate our AG. Thank you AG Brown.
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
Neil Young quits Facebook and Instagram over Meta's use of chatbots with children 'Meta's use of chatbots with children is unconscionable,' Young's team shared in a statement. www.cbc.ca/music/neil-y...
Gun reform NOW Gun reform NOW Gun reform NOW Gun reform NOW (ps. what a brave and kind dad) Gun reform NOW
A priest explains morality to T****…that his policies are violence against his people. T**** will never get it, but we do.
The most accurate description ever.
I too am enraged daily. I find it hard to balance that rage with my work and raising my kids (now 18 and 12) to be both vigilant hopeful. Please keep posting. You are a light of hope. We need all the support we can get to keep our heads above water. 💔
Just another shitty layer of this f***ed up racist cake… Lt. Michael Byrd of the U.S. Capitol Police shot Babbitt while protecting members of Congress. He fired only after his commands were not followed. The DOJ found his actions were lawful and within department policy.
My son came home from his second day of school this year to see news coverage of the Minnesota school shooting. His reply was so simple and so out of reach. "They should just make a law that people can't have guns, why can't they just do that?" - Jack, age 11 We have failed our children so deeply.
A couple months ago, I heard a spellbinding talk by a futurist named Tracee Worley, who's spent a lot of time thinking about sci-fi writer Octavia Butler and her stunning predictions. I talked to Worley about futurism, prediction, and collective survival: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
It’s almost as if appointing an anti-vax lunatic with zero qualifications to oversee America’s health was a numbskull idea and everybody with a functioning brain knew it.
WTH?? Is he using again and hallucinating??
Who told them exactly where this team would be and when???
Liar. Where are the Epstein files?
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.
Gupta: Here’s why this matters: 1. Because the FDA indications have changed, if I prescribe it to you, I’m opening myself up to a lawsuit. He directly signals that… 2. A pharmacist is no longer able to prescribe and administer a COVID-19 booster that doesn’t meet indications.
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”
Boot licking is just gross.
Moore: "The thing that gets me most about this is how deeply disrespectful this is to members of the National Guard who signed up for this job as I did when I deployed overseas & led paratroopers in combat where we signed up w/the expectation the commander in chief was actually taking it seriously"
It’s truly frightening when the T**** administration sues 15 federal judges for enforcing federal laws, rather than simply appealing their rulings. The executive and judiciary are co-equal branches of government. We have descended into fascism. apple.news/A0OiqxY4pSdi...
Don’t forget the blue state AGs - they are the ones filing the lawsuits against the administration. From defending birthright citizenship, to unblocking federal funding, AGs are the tip of the spear protecting us from federal abuses. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/state-a...
Maybe he confused WWII with the Civil War??? The losers of the Civil War were not punished and allowed to maintain their property and dignity, and continued to celebrate their racism as “culture”.
He changed everything about himself - even his name - but he can’t change his self-loathing. He’s an insecure miserable person, and is out to punish everyone who can see him clearly….
He's promoting his music, but it gave me chuckle Adamn WhoDeyWant Fall On - Adamn Killa
The Supreme Corpse
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
Utterly depraved.
THIS…is the mindset. THIS…is the attitude. THIS…is the fire in the gut….that we are going to ALL have to adopt. I have. Have you? We can’t have people sit this one out…and still prevail.
“Where I come from—in LA representing Crenshaw and Slauson—when they go low, we squabble up,” says State Assemblymember Isaac Bryan on the redistricting fight. “They've changed the rules of the game, and we've got to meet them where they are. And that's what we did today.”
Newsom’s trolling is on point…multiple similarities between SM and “He who shall not be named” HILARIOUS.
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We visited the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam this summer with our kids. My youngest is the same age Anne was when she was sent to a concentration camp - and based on the height marks on the wall also the same size…. We bought the diary and are reading it this summer. We should NEVER forget.
F*ck‼️ Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.
“The homicide rate for all Black officeholders in Reconstruction was 2,317 per 100,000. This would make the homicide rate among Black officials more than 20 times greater than *any* *other* demographic in the United States as of 2020, where the highest homicide rate was less than 105 per 100,000.”
"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."
Way to go, San Francisco!! 👏👏
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Bluesky just went dark in Mississippi. The platform says the state’s new age-verification law is censorship in disguise. Free speech or child safety? The fight for the internet’s future has arrived.
#news
And here we go. As I previously stated, around 90% of what this regime does is not lawful. This is our governor and others in Washington State . . . *STANDING UP* to their unlawful Attorney General. @king5seattle.bsky.social [35 minutes] www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxEI...
Slept with a CHILD….not an “underage woman.” Coward.
listen the world is a mess but a judge ordered the Florida migrant prison closed, California passed their "fuck around, find out" redistricting, and James Dobson is dead this is the best net good news day in awhile, I really do think
The backlash to the Civil Rights Era is here. We’re gonna keep fighting for it. Believe.
This is how a judge properly uses the power of the bench. When you have discretion and authority to exercise compassion, you should do so. And, with kindness. 💔
Fr Gierlach points out Trump’s idiocy….If we don’t measure CO2, it must not be happening.
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
The Calvinball reference is spot on…this Supreme Court majority is twisting itself in legal acrobatics to reach the conclusion it wants without due consideration of existing jurisprudence. No rules at all. Plus, the reference only makes me respect Justice Katanji Brown Jackson even more. ♥️
Good riddance to bad rubbish. May all those he has harmed find healing.
Illinois tells Bondi that its sanctuary status stands firm.
THIS is how you involve voters in redistricting. Rather than cheating and disenfranchising voters like Texas, lawmakers in California are giving their voters a choice… apple.news/AdFiBr9wTRlW...
If you are in a democratic, leaning state, contact your state legislators contact your governor, request redistricting.
Democratic Governors, unleash hell. Fight. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
There’s absolutely nothing to be proud of…
Our kids got their first library cards when they were babies. Used them every week for years to get whoever books they wanted… The oldest is entering college next month and his high school literature teacher said he was the most well-read of all her students. ♥️
T****’s official portrait looks like the country is on fire….
Yes. Yes, it does.
these people just fundamentally believe that only they have the legitimate right to political power www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-house-...
⚡️ Germany sending Ukraine 8th IRIS-T air defense system — here's what they can do. The IRIS-T is an integral part of Ukraine's layered air defense system which consists of multiple different systems, most supplied by Western allies.
Congratulations! How amazing! I’ve always heard Stephen King was a kind soul….
It will be a big plate of nothing burgers…
Well…. Pacific means “peaceful”… and that’s a word he also doesn’t understand.
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
Disability advocates say that the U.S. Department of Education could cancel hundreds of grants made under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in the coming weeks.
No, he can’t do what the bully does. He has to exercise decorum and restraint. Balderdash.
Can’t buy taste.
Collier: I refused to sign and so I was told that I was gonna have to stay here on the floor. They have locked the doors. The sergeants have been instructed not to allow me to leave until I have a permission slip.
Here outside the House chamber with folks chanting “LET HER OUT!”
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: "To be honest, we all would like to see a ceasefire...I can't imagine that the next meeting would take place without a ceasefire. So let's work on that and try to put pressure on Russia."
T*** must be thrilled he’s at the “grown up’s” table. He’s outclassed and out of his depth.
And he looked so happy!!
He’s big, so we go to a local dog wash. Still takes an hour. 🙄 Here he is after a recent wash…
Our household has been such a fan of the President of Ireland since learning he also has a Berner!!
Gross!!!
Wish bathing our pupper was this much fun! ♥️
🤮 #Hoosiersky -- Vote. Them. Out. Call. Them. Out. This is NOT okay.
Excellent choices. Especially love the Sinclair.
Your attention please: Sue Bird. That is all. @wnba.com @stormbasketball.bsky.social #SueBird
Can someone tell @RepOgles this country was founded to get away from having a king? We know he’s not an economist - turn out he’s not a historian either. 😕 🇺🇸
Congratulations, Margaret Magruder, on your excellent Letter to the Editor in today's Arizona Daily Star!! Woo-hoo!!!
“Agrees” = judge strongly hinted they would lose…
Any time now you worthless shitbags.. #politics #fascism
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.