This is a new recipe for me, but I think it’s a keeper: Asparagus and tofu with black bean sauce. 😋🍽️ #foodsky Recipe in comments

California Poppies by the side of the road, Emeryville, California. (Deleted the first because of an error. 😊) #flowers #nature #eck #eastcoastkin

Some 2,000 years ago, a Roman fresco painter transformed a room into an enchanting garden filled with lush plants, trees, and birds, all under a clear blue sky! 🌿🌳🐦‍⬛ 😍 House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii 📷 by me #FrescoFriday #Archaeology

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Four years ago, President Vladimir Putin offered Moscow and its business elite a de facto deal: 'support my war in Ukraine, and in exchange you won’t have to think about it.' In the past week, that deal was broken. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Xi Jinping Was Only Humoring Trump In Beijing, a lame-duck president personified the decline of American power by Franklin Foer Atlantic Gift Article We call ourselves leader of the free world but the free world no longer believes it This nails it about Trump Time for regime change bit.ly/4tIOB8O

New short story by Stephen King in the Atlantic (Gift Link)

Wrote about the importance of adhering to an effective, disciplined nonviolence in fighting the Trump regime, especially given a growing obsession with “heroic” violence online (gift link). www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Atlantic: The Men Who Don't Want Women to Vote Hegseth's Pentagon prayer invitee, pastor "Douglas Wilson has a modest proposal to improve American life: He wants to repeal the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the vote." Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

WATCH — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social : “Trump entered office worth $2.3 billion and is now worth $6.5 billion… Decisions are made based on what's good for the president's own companies, not Americans… for example — why did the Saudis invest $2 BILLION in Kushner’s companies?”

The Department of Justice is now an active participant in multiple conspiracy theories, and doing profound damage to the government's credibility. From @qjurecic.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

loosening these rules could even RAISE grocery prices 🙄 www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

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So you can not be confused about what is going on.

It will be truly karmic if the results of Putin's war, and of Trump’s ego-driven quest for foreign policy achievements, end up destroying the Russian vassalage in the post-Soviet “near abroad” that was the last vestige of the Russian (or Soviet) empire.

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Let's make billionaires pay their fair share and find out

Why isn't there more in the news about this? www.yahoo.com/news/article...

FFS. If this doesn’t sicken and anger you to the very depths of your soul, you better check your pulse 🤬 Prison to Pardons to Payouts: Jan. 6 Rioters Are Elated at Trump’s $1.8 Billion Fund www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

New from me: Some of Donald Trump’s favorite world leaders have been scoundrels, bullies, and dictators. The China summit showed, yet again, that such men can both intimidate and flatter Trump into taking their side, even against the United States. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I never thought I’d be unhappy about a republican losing, but I am with this one. Midterms Live Updates: Rep. Thomas Massie, Frequent Trump Critic, Ousted in Primary www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

I don’t even have my salvia potted yet, but something tells me I better hurry #birds #hummingbird #gardening

It’s been touch & go with this English lavender, but this first bloom is lovely. #gardening #flowers

Congressional Switchboard 202-221-3121.

Block the Settlement youtube.com/shorts/Rh1GC...

Trump’s settlement with DOJ is even worse than we knew. A secret add-on to the agreement was revealed today. It is an unconscionable betrayal of the American people by the president and Acting Attorney General. youtube.com/shorts/_nz15...

I just signed a petition: Reject Trump’s $1.8 billion heist. Sign here: act.commoncause.org/petitions/ad...

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Block the settlement! Call your reps

Block the settlement! Call your reps

Donald Trump just stole $1.7B from us — and he's creating a slush fund to reward his political allies. I've never seen anything like this in my 50 years in politics. It makes Nixon look like a boy scout. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/t...

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Trump Administration Live Updates: $1.8 Billion Fund Could Funnel Money to Trump Allies www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

DOJ announces 1.8B (1.776B if that doesn't make you puke) fund for victims of lawfare/weaponization, supposedly as part of Trump settlement. but That's 100% improper as a settlement of Trump's bogus lawsuit. Can only settle viable lawsuits, and htis is isn't one. This is going to be a fight.

This is Trump and his Republican allies stealing your money from the U.S. Treasury to further their plot to overthrow democracy. It's fucking outrageous. (NYT gift link)

While Harp is clearly very attentive to Trump, possessive of him and has influence over him and tries to cut others out, we have only reporters' word for it that she's "devoted". She spends time with the Moscow-born Boris Epshteyn. We don't know yet what motivates these people, and who is using who.

If Democrats are so great at rigging elections, why do the Republicans have the presidency, House, Senate and control of the Supreme Court? Their whining is just unbearable.

Wait until Mike Johnson doesn’t hear about this!

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here's today's post: "meet the smitten cultist who finds racist memes for Dear Leader to post" — her job is to keep Donny stupid and happy. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

i think #wordle and I are headed for a break up 😿💔 Wordle 1,792 X/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩

Trump didn't just break his promises. He broke the movement that elected him. America's new counterterrorism strategy: no Proud Boys, no militias. "Violent transgender anarchists" made the cut. @radiofreetom.bsky.social of the Atlantic on what's really unraveling. youtu.be/wDOVJ087KxU

"Gorka is a mediocrity who holds a job for which he is not qualified. The poor quality of this putative strategy is a reminder of what happens when unserious people are asked to undertake a serious job." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It’s chilly and rainy today 🌧️ and Vegan sloppy joes were calling my name 😋 🍽️ I used a canned vegetarian SJ sauce, added cooked red lentils and plant-based ground meat #foodsky

I just signed a petition: Reject Trump’s $1.7 billion heist. Sign here: act.commoncause.org/petitions/ad...

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"Taxes protect us from an unhealthy aggregation of power..." starts about 37:00 We must tax the 1% and dump Citizens United ✊ youtu.be/SR7vtUBBGZg?...