A symbol for where we are now. #America #WhiteHouse #Democracy  www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgm_...

Happy #NoKings day to all who celebrate imgflip.com/i/a9h0gw

apnews.com/video/sculpt... depicting Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump reemerges on the National Mall

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social has suddenly risen in my estimation. #politics #socialmedia #Trump

#Newsom brings elan to #Trump's sombrero #politics

The latest jobs report from the B.L.S. shows that, in July, there were more unemployed people than job openings, for the first time since April, 2021. @johncassidysays.bsky.social writes about the impact of MAGAnomics.

The #Illinois gov. just made an important statement. "If it sounds to you like I am alarmist, that is because I am ringing an alarm, one that I hope every person listening will heed, both here in Illinois and across the country." Full text here: www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Curtis Memorial's Library of Things is my morning's ray of hope for a better world. Here you can check out a drill or an extendable pole saw instead of buying them at Home Depot! Almost a reason to move to Brunswick, Maine. Let's do more of this! curtislibrary.com/library-of-t...

Woaa, #Texas. Think #Trump will send the #NationalGuard there next? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump's #DC #takeover isn't about immigration or crime or homelessness. It's a #power grab with the capitol as ground zero. Coming soon to a blue-voting city near you. #cities #bluevoters #nationalguard #police #militarization www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtKr...

#Presidential #avarice in plain view -- "Villagers whose #farms in #Vietnam will be bulldozed to make way for a ... #golf resort backed by the #Trump family have reportedly been offered rice ... and cash ... of as little as $12 for a square metre of land ... ." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

#FreedomOfThePress is alive and well in #Scotland.

My husband will love this. He's up to here with laundry and dishes.

In mourning this morning with #Haiti as Instagram and Twitter sources report that #PortauPrince's #Oloffson Hotel was burned down by members of the Viv Ansanm #gang on Saturday.

You can't make this up -- a #prison in the #Florida #Everglades -- unless you're Donald #Trump and Trump wannabe Ron #Desantis. Reportedly it's scheduled to start in July. #Environment #NationalParks #TheEndOfEverything www.wlrn.org/immigration/...

The husband bought me a chainsaw for my birthday. We named it Elon.

On one hand, I love David Marchese's interviews. On the other, Phillip Montgomery's masterfully staged portrait of Curtis Yarvin is what imho the #NYT does the worst: giving currency to bad ideas. #visualjournalism #framing #narcissim #monarchy #dictatorship #CEOs www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m...

One of the most dangerous things about the #Trump #tax bill the #House just passed is an item stripping #federaljudges of the power of contempt, RobertReich reports. With this, Trump can rule by #executiveorder with impunity, without #Congress. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-hidden...

I can't stop watching this. #journalism youtu.be/0fCcQyokIOk?...

A special #Mother'sDay wish for all the world's women who give birth to creative work, nurture lovers and spouses, nieces and nephews, parents, friends and animals, plant gardens, feed the homeless, defend the environment, lend neighbors a hand, and work for social justice. Every day is your day!

#CNN shared this remarkable #photogallery of #PopeFrancis from childhood to his last Easter mass. What I find so extraordinary is the pictoral difference between a leader who dedicated his life to #humanity and the leader of our country. I ache for us. www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/w...

"WTF! Who's in charge!" Hear Rep. James Horsford rip the #US #Trade Representative to pieces about #Trump's 90-day pause on reciprocal #tariffs after playing yo-yo with people's lifesavings. Meanwhile the #GOP rushes to memorialize Trump's 2017 tax cuts. …https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2on5G3Npm2o

Seen at a #HandsOff protest in our town. After three days seeing my ROTH drop like an elevator express, this says it all. #Trump #tariffs #stockmarket

Our pain, his gain: “This is a great time to get rich, richer than ever before!!!” President #Trump said on #TruthSocial as the #stockmarket tanks and a market selloff attracts #investors like vultures to buy at fire sale prices. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

A #Canadian family business that makes shoulder rests for concert violinists speaks to the infinite and kaleidoscopic ways #Trump's #tariffs will affect the world; ways the Trump administration can't anticipate and doesn't care to. #economy #trade #reciprocaltariffs www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/b...

How far will #goverment reach into our privacy? Today #WaPo reports on a data sharing agreement between the #IRS and #ICE that would change how federal agencies manage #taxpayer information and #immigration enforcement.

#FortMyers is the 1st city in #Florida NOT to sign an agreement with #ICE to train and deploy our #police to perform #deportations. Gov #RonDesantis is threatening to have the 3 council members who voted against the agreement removed: Diana Giraldo, Darla Bonk and Terolyn Watson. Proud of them.

In an outstanding piece of #environmental #reporting, the BBC reports that #Colombian #energy giant Ecopetrol has polluted hundreds of sites with #oil, including #water sources and #biodiverse wetlands. lnkd.in/eAFak36t

If you doubt the #Trump admin. won't end #SocialSecurity, consider: Besides cutting up to 12% percent of its work force, the agency "has offered early retirement and other incentives, including payments up to $25,000, to the entire staff." #layoffs #retirement #benefits #fixedincome #noincome

What a feeling -- I just wrote the last sentence of the #novel I've been working on for two years, and it passed the husband test (tears). It's a killer of a blue day in springtime Florida, and I'm going outside to enjoy it! #writing #fiction #books

My husband can't stop laughing about this. youtu.be/VYRqU8P64jk?...

As he faces Senate confirmation, remember that Dr. Oz: -Pushed Medicare privatization plans on his show -Owns ~$600k in stock in private insurers -Has ties to pyramid scheme companies that promote fake medical cures His main qualification to oversee CMS is loyalty to Trump.

#House #Republicans have approved a 2.8% cut in reimbursements for #doctors treating #Medicare patients --a pay cut people on #fixedincomes will no doubt have to make up for. #DOGE #Trump #healthcare #DeathByAThousandCuts

It seems the #Trump #EPA has removed the #Census #data from its #Cleanups In My Community #map service. The data show the overwhelming pattern of #pollluting #poor + #minority communities. As #LeeZelden closes all #environmentaljustice offices, I suspect this is to deny our #toxic #dumping past.

When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh?

"This case goes further. It concerns what would be the first fully taxpayer-supported hashtag#religious school in modern #American history." #SCOTUS #firstamendment #education #christiannationalism

Keep calling the White House: 1-202-456-1414 (switchboard). 1-202-456-1111 (comments). Keep calling your senators and representatives. The Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121. The operator will connect you directly with the Senate or House office you request. #Trump #Musk #Vance #SaySomething

Listen up, #U.S. #Congress: #French #Senator #ClaudeMalhuret has set the bar you must meet. #SaySomething #GetUpStandUp #Europe #NATO

Nothing will ever trickle down.

According to the #eggsky index, as of March 08, 2025 04:22 AM CST, the price of #eggs is $10.02. Sample size: 1125 That's a 107.78% difference since Trump became president. How much did you pay for eggs? #eggflation

"After being sealed off from the outside world for decades and experiencing a mass #exodus, #Albania is leaning into its #culinary roots with the help of grandma chefs." #food #culture #memory #oralhistory

This is exactly what we're doing in our podunk corner of FL and I'll bet you are, too. Calling all friends with laying #hens. #eggs #inflation #economy #birdflu #tariffs

Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme. It’s a high-functioning, universal, and exceptionally efficient part of the American social safety net. Zoom out and you’ll see the biggest Ponzi scheme of them all — the entire Trump 2 regime. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-biggest-ponzi-scheme-of-all

"It took #Bush almost 3 years to convince #Congress to start the process of #privatizing and ultimately destroying #Medicare. Having learned from that process, odds are #Trump will try to privatize #SocialSecurity within the year.

Anyone else convinced our country is over? I dreamt about it last night + awakened feeling sure we should change course and steer asap for the UK. My #MAGA neighbor with whom we somehow bond said she felt this way under #Biden + isn't now. What's real? #Trump #DOGE #US (art via @rbreich.bsky.social

Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad

The #murder he committed was barbaric, but this is no better -- "Some 46 prisoners have been executed by lethal injection and electrocution in South Carolina since 1985. Brad Sigmon’s #execution will be the first by firing squad."