As long as ~30% of voters *want* a white supremacist dictatorship, and are willing to break every law, convention, rule, and Constitutional clause to take complete control, this will keep happening.

The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.

Hegseth's not doomed. He can simply say something different now and tRUmp will forget he ever said any of the bad stuff. I mean, Vance called him Hitler and he's the Vice President!

Congress getting micro-targeted on Hegseth in push to get info and video on strikes in Caribbean. New draft defense bill includes proposal to withhold 25 percent of Hegseth’s travel budget if he fails to give the congressional natl security committees a copy of the execute orders behind the strikes.

My 80 year old mom just told me she killed 3 ants in her sink … and doesn’t understand how it can be that she feels more remorse than Trump and Hegseth do about murdering men in the Caribbean. So tired of the monsters. #FireHegseth #RemoveTrump

Anton Harrison serving up a stack of pancakes on this fine evening🥞

These maritime murders are going to get to the SCt eventually. Bondi will just switch gears & defend tRUmp's illegality. Again. CJ Roberts is blasting holes in his "legacy" faster than the Secretary of War Crimes can bomb shipwreck survivors. #WorseThanTaney www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...

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Follow up: it doesn’t say it’s illegal to fire on incapacitated shipwrecked. It just says it’s illegal to fire on the shipwrecked. Where’d you get “incapacitated” and why are you such an asshole?

If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.

Good morning. Took this two years ago. No time to go through camera this morning. Nankeen Kestrel. Have a great day.

I do not work for the shelter. Just been sharing MELIA for awhile now. The shelter does post videos on Facebook, Instagram and X. It's under "Adopt MELIA & Friends". I only have Bluesky. I post videos as I receive them. Check her out below. 💗 ☎️ 516.785.5220 ⬇️⬇️ www.threads.com/@adopt_melia...

A stormy sunrise from last week. #SundayYellow #Stunday #Photography #EastCoastKin

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

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White Daisy #photography #flowers #art #macro

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I agree with both of you & all of the above... However, this admin is formalizing *swiftly* & the amount of immediate capitulation 'nobody thought possible' was Troublesome & Problematic Won't crit-theory u to death, but this is a whole lot of Planned WSpremacy 'basement' BS IRL & we gotta Ω now!

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

They start from the wish to do harm tho, their reason for VOTING was the spectacle of seeing harm done

It’s the same B.S. reaction they have when they see Black ppl get shot in the back by police when they run away from police. “Why did he run if he didn’t do anything? dismisses the human instinct of fight or flight…as if Black people are not human. It is an absurd response.

If your first reaction to someone having their legs run over by an ICE vehicle is “was he here illegally” then you’ve completely lost your moral compass The same goes for asking what the “whole story” is There’s nothing a person could do to justify running them over with a car.

Both incidents remind us: when leaders abandon restraint, atrocities follow. From Vietnam to the Caribbean, the lesson is clear — unchecked orders to “kill everybody” lead to moral collapse. The past is prologue. Eventually, the bill comes due. Always. #KeepItWoke #DedicatedToTam✡️🕊

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 To put into perspective the war crimes committed by Sec. Pete Hegseth, we have to go back to Vietnam, 1968. One of the most horrific war crimes in history was committed. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.firstpost.com/explainers/h...

Disabled people do not owe you their medical history. They do not owe you their diagnosis. They do not owe you an explanation. Benefits are exceedingly hard to get and the process is punishing & dehumanizing. No one is doing it for fun.

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Dr. Bill Cassidy’s legacy as a hepatologist, will be that he brought about more liver disease. Put that in his obit.

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Meiselas: The official Trump U.S. National Security Strategy document has been released. The document says a top priority of the U.S. is "cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory." In other words, to destroy the European Union.

Strands #643 “Tolkien's world” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵

She needs to sue this administration. If not for herself, then for all the American citizens who are being illegally kidnapped. #USDemocracy www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

Certainly the most impactful violation of the Hippocratic oath by a doctor-turned-Senator in US history. “Do no harm,” my ass.

🥺 oh baby girl, you have many Bluesky friends sharing your story. We will find you a home. Hopefully soon 🤞 Here's MELIA's bio. Please read and repost. She needs someone who will be fully committed to her. ❤️ 🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter ☎️(516) 785-5220 📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793

Each time, the found world surprises - that is its nature. Jane Hirshfield

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again: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

🗽🗽🗽 New York 🗽🗽🗽 MELIA needs 1 person to be her forever. Shes sweet, playful, has guarding issues with food and toys. She needs someone who is committed to her. She will thrive with the right person. No dogs. ⬇️ Hempstead Animal Shelter (516) 785-5220 3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793

📚🎁 Reminders for everyone looking for specific books to purchase online as gifts: 1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org) 2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦

if you are in a mental place where working your smartphone is hard, then you are in a mental place where life without a smartphone is hard smartphones aren't the problem; lack of support for old people is

ICE is building new detention centers across the country, with very little oversight, endangering thousands of people in immigrant detention. Our elected leaders must act to hold ICE accountable.

And if you need any further incentive to spread the word to any friends or family you have in Miami, just know that the Republicans are very concerned about losing this race. bsky.app/profile/trum...

🚨MIAMI MAYORAL RUNOFF ELECTION🚨 Democrat: Eileen Higgins Election Date: 🗓️THIS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9TH🗓️ Area: The city of Miami, FL Note: A Democrat has not held this office in 30 years. A win for Eileen Higgins - in Mar-a-Lago's backyard - would send a strong message to the GOP in red Florida.

🚨Miami Mayoral Election THIS TUESDAY DEC 9 🚨 Please TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW IN SOUTH FLORIDA even if they don't live in Miami--they may have family & friends in Miami. This odd election date means Republicons hoped no one would pay attention. Now they are worried--good news for the Blue Team!

Strands #642 “Feeling peckish?” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵

Happy Thursday free thinkers in the sky that's blue. As a bad birder, one of the things I love about trying to follow Rob and Alan's #BirdOfTheDay theme is it forces me to learn. Today's is #Songbirds and I now know cardinals fit the ... bill ... and the beak 🐦🦉 #Photography #Birds #EastCoastKin

Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map

Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.