I travel by train, instead of by plane. I just got seated to have lunch on the train with a gentleman I had lunch with on a previous train trip. Reason #472 train travel beats flying.

This is an excellent description of the impact of the tariff situation on small businesses. Ford will be fine. But businesses who make less than a million dollars a year (that's over 90% of small businesses, by the way) will suffer or go out of business. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

I am heartbroken.

Congress can't manage to deal with a budget, or the economy, or anything else related to running the country, but they're going to take on your local law enforcement agency's job? Okay...

Why has #TMobile partnered with #Starlink? #Starlink is owned by #ElonMusk. Elon Musk did two #Nazi sieg heil salutes on January 20th 2025 during a political rally. #TMobile #CEO #MikeSievert should divest from all business with Elon Musk. Cancel #TMobile! #Boycott #TMobile until they #Divest!

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Love this. It should not be limited to this term. But it’s a great step forward. Now @khanna.house.gov and other house members need to make the media tour , including Fox News, to talk about it @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

Tulsi Gabbard has promoted pro-Putin and pro-Assad propaganda for years. She's been such an effective cheerleader for Russia's invasion of Ukraine that the Kremlin-controlled Russian media refers to her as their 'girlfriend'. www.thetimes.com/world/russia...

If you live in Texas 30 & experience casework delays as a result of these purges, I want to hear from you. If you're a federal employee in Texas 30 and have been impacted by these purges, I want to hear from you too. Please contact my office: tx30.us/contact

This is also a valuable resource for sky users theblue.report

I was just having this discussion with a friend today. I said I guess we just don't do science anymore in the US. The following is definitely a better way to put it.

NEW: Despite multiple judges blocking the Trump administration's funding freeze, the administration is still totally failing to comply with court orders. We're tracking notable examples of shuttered programs and services.

1/ The medical community is fighting back! In the Doctors for America lawsuit in DC, a judge has just ordered that at least for now, HHS, CDC, & FDA must restore public health webpages taken down. by midnight tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders. The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.

Occasional re-post. Constraining the executive to comply with the law is *central* to the separation of powers... and far from being self-enforcing, it's been under considerable strain for a long time before the current crisis. www.constitutionalstudies.ca/wp-content/u...

It's called Judicial Independence, and it's kind of important. www.fjc.gov/sites/defaul...

You know how Wikipedia begs for money every time you visit the site. They may finally have found a way to get me to donate.

I know they're mostly being funny, but honestly I would immigrate in a heartbeat.

Since JD Vance just converted to Catholicism 5 minutes ago, he might not know this: the Pope authoring a letter where he goes out of his way to correct you, specifically, is considered "bad" in the Catholic tradition

❗️The measure to repeal ranked-choice voting in Alaska is now trailing — by 192 votes statewide. The roughly 3.9K ballots counted today broke for the 'no' by 29%. (About as many more ballots remain, probably a little more.)

Except with curse words...

Here’s an interview with Nadia Odunayo, Founder & CEO of The StoryGraph ~ I just started watching! youtu.be/I9NsNWAVVnw?...

Hope is a precious commodity.

Yes, I am.