We are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts, some have canoes, and some are drowning. Just be kind and help whoever you can. 🎨 Illustration by Barbara Kelley 🖋️ Quote adapted from Damian Barr ...

🧵 When Trump 🤡 was president, he acted like he was tough on China, saying he wanted to ban TikTok. He failed! Facebook then tagged his posts as lies and banned him because Trump's an asshole. Facebook then encouraged people to vote and gave them online tools to register to vote. 1/

The Russian puppet who lied to the FBI about fake Biden extortion money was of course paid $600,000 by Trump associates. “Hussein, Damac, a friend of mine, a great guy,” Trump said in 2017. At least Republicans still have “drag show story time” to run on.

As Cheeto 🤡 traipses around the country rage-screaming about voter fraud & rigged elections to drunk hillbillies, he knows that he spent millions & millions of hillbilly donation dollars to prove it, and found nothing - zero, zilch. They still love him though & cheer his lies.

GOP Rep. Ken Buck: “We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say.”

Multi-billionaire Mark Cuban backs Biden: “If they were having his last wake, and it was him versus Trump, and he was being given last rites, I would still vote for Joe Biden"

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Alabama Pediatric Care Unit 🤣

Coming to Restaurants in Alabama ... Eggs 🥚 to be legally reclassified as chicken 🐓 in Alabama

The real question you must ask is why the Billionaire is taking 999 cookies.

Nature is grand indeed! 💙❄️

Good Morning ☕ Tree tops against a blue sky on a winter's day 💙

California faces more atmospheric rivers. Lake Mead's risen 7 ft since the beginning of 2024. "Back-to-back storms are heading for the US west coast, bringing more heavy downpours and raising the risk of flash flooding."

'He is a cheat.': Devastating court penalty shatters myth of Trump business savvy for good - MSNBC "Trump even lost money on Casinos, not in them, ON them, as an owner." 🤡🤣

Trump-appointed FBI Director Christopher Wray has declared that the entire story of Hunter & Joe Biden engaging in a $10 million extortion scheme in Ukraine is FAKE news! The Star-witness fabricated the entire conspiracy theory. He’s been charged, will be prosecuted, found guilty & rot in SuperMax.

Trump 🤡 may have 'stolen' $1.7 billion from the gov't while serving as president. Trump-owned properties repeatedly charged the Secret Service rates far higher than gov't rates, as high as $1,185 per room per night. That's nearly 6 times the allowed per diem rate of $201 per night!

NATIONAL POLL: Nearly 1 in 5 Americans (18%) believe Taylor Swift is part of a covert government effort to reelect Joe Biden. Among this group, 71% identify with the GOP, 83% are likely to vote for Trump, and 73% believe Biden won 2020 by fraud.

30 yrs ago, starting w/ Bush & Clinton, safeguards were put into place for college students who declared bankruptcy, students who became legally disabled, & students w/ other predatory loan issues Biden is just administrating programs put into place decades ago, not just arbitrarily cancelling debt

While Trump 🤡 pounds hillbillies with nonsensical lies & chants of a doom economy, sparking craziness over egg & gas prices, he is personally prospering wildly in the Biden economy. Bloomberg did the analysis. 👇

No one asked for Special Counsel's opinion on Biden’s mental acuity. Was NOT part of job. With ZERO evidence to bring to trial Comey injected personal opinion into proceedings. Shame on Mr. Hur We can choose Biden w/ some memory issues OR a convicted rapist who tried to overthrow govt of the USA.

Today's America

Balloons 🎈 don't fly up into space nor get to your loved ones in heaven. They come back to earth to choke wildlife. Pls Do NOT release them! The same goes for Sky Lanterns! They're a fire hazard! “What goes up must come down!"

50 years of "Trickle Down" + 30 years of Globalization ⎯⎯ sending jobs to low-wage countries ⎯⎯ and what did we get? An increase in Income Inequality!

80 years ago Patriotic Americans went to France to throw out the Nazis. This Tues. Nov. 5th, all you have to do is go to the polls and #VoteBlue

NO IMMUNITY FOR TRUMP 🤡 DC court denies "the former guy" immunity for any crimes he may have committed as President. He has 5 days to appeal to SCOTUS. “We cannot accept that the office of the Presidency places its former occupants above the law for all time thereafter,” the opinion says..."

The GOP doesn't want better Border Policy, because once they have it, they'll have one fewer thing to gin up Culture Wars with misinformation politics about immigration. For Republicans, fomenting chaos in gov't is the feature, not a bug.

News Flash... So, BlueSky is out of beta and no longer requires an invite.

New study says the world blew past 1.5 degrees of warming four years ago

Professional athletes never discuss politics. Missouri's a Republican stronghold. Taylor is a far left liberal who champions reproductive rights so there's zero chance she’d date a Republican. Lots of NFL fans are Republicans, struggling with how this 255 lb white alpha male is actually a snowflake!

Diversity, Equity, + Inclusion ⎯⎯ put yourself in your own shoes 👠👟👢👡👞🌈

A highly secret Russian electronic warfare system is interfering w/ GPS guidance of airliners + ships on NATO’s eastern flank “What we've seen is a malfunctioning of GPS for ships & air traffic. We really don't know if they [Russia] want to achieve something or just practise & test their equipment”

“There's a cult of ignorance in the U.S. & there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political & cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov

For decades, low skill Americans have demanded higher pay & dignity for jobs that don’t require college degrees, so now Covid changed everything, and everyone is making more money, and at the exact same time everyone is angry that the cost of goods & services has gone up because of labor!

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Captcha Buddha 🙏 ... maybe self-driving cars are a bad idea.

Republicans do nothing. Like literally nothing! No accomplishments, no policies, nothing to talk about except social grievances, culture wars, predatory gays & sexy books. That’s why they don’t talk about actual policy change, or visions for a brighter future, because they can’t. 1/

DeSantis blew thru $160 million to get 23,420 votes in Iowa. That’s how unlikable, fiscally irresponsible & how ineffective he is. While doing this he passed 2 shady laws to keep his Governor job while spending an entire year in Iowa, & to keep his travel schedule secret from Florida residents. 1/

► Exxon returned over $32 billion to investors in 2023 ► Chevron returned over $23 billion 40% of the country is in a rage over gas prices and blame Biden. 🙄

U.S. law now requires prior tribal consent before a museum can exhibit Indigenous artifacts.

Re today's defamation award 🤡

Happy 95th Birthday to Benny Golson! 🥳🎷🎶 Benny Golson is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer & arranger. He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, more as a writer than a performer, before launching his solo career. Photo © John Abbott

In today's episode of "Texas is torturing pregnant people," we have the case of a woman who learned her conjoined twins would not survive after birth and how Texas made her carry to term and get a C-section anyway.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists re-sets the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight, and global destruction.

A dozen high-profile people who've worked with Trump say that they would never vote for him. 👇 Brave New Films ► "former Trump allies (his "best people) urgently sounding the alarm on his instability & outright contempt for democracy. No sugar-coating, no filters — just the unvarnished truth."

🎨 Alisa Shea, American Painter, born 1974 The Common Thread 2020 (Watercolor on Paper, 25 × 16 in.) Private Collection See more of Alisha Shea’s work at alisashea.com and on her IG page, @alisa_shea

ZERO ... The amount of moral & ethical integrity Republicans have by voting for someone whose proven criminality, sadistic tendencies, seditious actions, anti-Democratic compass, mean-spirited core, vainglorious narcissism & obvious con-mannish grifter, stupidly endangers the civilized world!

Hundreds of bodies have been found buried in unmarked graves behind a jail in Jackson, Mississippi. The families are angry they were never notified of the deaths nor given the chance to retrieve their bodies & pay their respects. PBS interview below on the disturbing details that have emerged 👇