From @steveinskeep.bsky.social : If I understand this correctly, the US president has launched a trade war against the world, believes he can force the EU and China to meet his terms, is determined to annex Canada and Greenland, but is powerless before the sovereign might of El Salvador. Is that it?

At least 12 crosswalks in various Silicon Valley cities were hacked this weekend so that when you press the the crosswalk button you hear a message claiming to be from Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg. 🫢😁😁😁 www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

@nightvaleradio.bsky.social thanks for playing What Really Matters in ep 265!

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

Others have pointed this out already but the Booker's "stunt" is him literally Doing the Job - impassioned speechmaking is supposedly the main reason for Senators to exist and the only reason any of them from before the United States was established are remembered by name

Senator Cory Booker concludes his record-breaking Senate Floor speech after 25 hours Massive applause for Booker

#corybooker PREACH. 23rd hour.

💥@booker.senate.gov 💥

It's not that what's happening in the US now is "like" the Holocaust: they're actually doing the exact same thing. Calling it deportation, doing it some place where the laws are more malleable, that's how the Nazis did it too. The same rhetorical and legal sleight of hands were used.

Daily routine now: Gratitude list. Coffee. Yoga. News. Inspiration to fight. Fantasies of flight (Spain? Canada?) Freeze. Gratitude list. Bed.

Thank you for this @chenoweth.bsky.social Everyone should follow their important research on resistance

I have said this from the start: the pace and scope of change in America resembles a post-coup situation.

@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Authoritarianism scholar Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to answer the Internet's questions about dictators & Fascism. This is excellent and well worth the time to watch. Prof. Ben-Ghiat has the unique gift of concise specificity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...

Here’s an idea: Rogue government has installed itself in the US capital. 100,000 federal workers from the former US are unemployed. Sounds like there are 100,000 highly skilled experts looking for a new job could be a good foundation for a new nation…

Seems Vance is getting off scott free. For now on: Trump-Musk/Vance. Credit where credit’s due.

To digest it all, I literally hand-wrote in my journal the entire timeline outlined in this Canadian Mugsy Margarit’s recount of WTF has been happening with Canada/US. I stand with Canada. 🇨🇦 It’s chaos down here, and this cuts through. All below is from the link in the first🧵

Vaccines for chickens. Oh to be a chicken. 🐓🐓🐓

Friends keep emailing me with news about the coming of an #asteroid... Glad to have a song for the moment. 😂 ICYMI, the music video: youtu.be/BEAwGnTaisc?...

Morning rituals. 2024: meditation, coffee, journal 2025: meditation, coffee, journal, calls to Senators and Reps #yoga

Federal workers new web site explains what real efficiency is. www.wethebuilders.org

This, too, is our work: to not turn insensitive to sweetness and love. TY for the reminder @nytimes.com #poetry #books

ICYMI everything that happened with Trump this week @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...

Slogan should be MTUI: “making the unimaginable imaginable.” Two for today: 1. Even in #OC - a public library? 2. Me posting anything about a %footballer. Really, though. Unbelievable, Huntington Beach Central #Library www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

At the height of a historic moment of sweeping and unchecked austerity measures, the loudest and wealthiest people in the room have built a movement that culminated in this: an executive order that establishes a precedent to strip funding away from #womeninsport. www.theguardian.com/sport/commen...

Needed a break from #coup talk with a few minutes to journal on this question: If were the last day on Earth, what would you be grateful for? Feeling better. Also: Anyone know the artist of this graphic? #thursdaythoughts #yogaeverydamnday #maryoliver

World, you might want to think about the fact that the #US is gutting every #taxpayer-funded program except the #military.

@nytimes.com seriously, while this US #coup is happening, wtf is going on in your newsroom? Every. Single. Day: “bury the lede.”

‘This is a coup’: @theguardian.com is publishing #coup as headline news what others only write in OpEds. (Ehem looking at @nyt.bsky.social app - “front page” and top of fold gone in favor of oped and analysis?? #burythelede #trumpmusk www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If you agree with @cherijacobus.bsky.social Raise your hand ✋️

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

Author byline has never shouted so loud. @theatlantic.com can someone clarify why @grimes.bsky.social - former spouse and 3x parent with Musk - is a coauthor (aka “author”ity) of this LA housing article? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

@inheavyrotation.bsky.social since you asked - found.ee/watershed Thanks for listening!

Also @who.int

Like #birdflu, the thing about fact is that it stays even when data disappear. Thanks for holding on to both @archive.org

After years of flirting with Substack, this week I fell in love. It reminds me of someone I knew who wanted to quit Diet Coke. His personal trainer told him to not worry about the soda quitting, but advised him to drink a gallon of water a day. 🧵

Musk via livestream: “If it’s not possible now, it will never be possible. This is our shot, This is the best hand of cards we’re ever going to have. If we don’t take advantage of this best hand of cards, it’s never going to happen.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Been trying to up my #adulting game and with all the #musk shenanigans figured today was a good day to freeze my credit reports at @transunion.bsky.social experian and equifax

One of those days when you set up identity theft protections for yourself in case of theft from the government… www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

Came home from S. Florida #folkfestival with a prize for my song about values clarification, and spent the rest of the night watching the #grammys and catching up on the slow-mo steal of the US…

Well said, Pete Buttigieg

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

Trump and his advisors are high on their own supply after getting away with so much in their first week. But they are going to regret this one. It’ll devastate red states that rely on this money for basic programs that keep people fed, clothed, alive. A huge unforced error politically and legally.

Hi, friendly reminder: You can open stories and read them instead of merely responding to a headline? Reading stories is proven to be a way more useful endeavor, and, fun fact, it helps journalists keep their jobs. If you like that sort of thing.

Exactly

Next live show and last of 2024 Friday Dec 6 Songbirds of Ramona Ranch W Ashley Norton and @ariellesilver.bsky.social Tix at addmi.com/e/songbirds-...

I think I like this Bluesky world.

Blue Xmas soundtrack for your listening pleasure on this fine Saturday — open.spotify.com/playlist/5uB... #music #spotify #holiday