While you're following along on the stories of how Elon Musk removed the safeguards and enabled Grok to create AI images of women and children undressed, remember... techbriefly.com/2024/08/08/d...

200 US troops obeyed ILLEGAL ORDERS in Caracas, Venezuela, issued by war criminal Pete Hegseth. 80 people died.

Marcos Rubio is essentially admitting it this morning. He’s asked what their legal authority is to control Venezuela. His answer: leverage Their “authority” is our military capacity to use their oil supply as a control system. It’s disgusting bsky.app/profile/atru...

So far the media has sanewashed the incompetence and incoherence, but they can’t do that forever.

If I killed kids in Samoa maybe he’d call me intelligent, well read, and fundamentally honest.

See also: presswatchers.org/2025/04/the-...

I want to remind everyone that the US has sanctioned members of the International Criminal Court for going through a formal legal process to identify international leaders who engaged in war crimes, making them vulnerable to arrest.

That's a threat. That's a knife leveled at your throat. She's telling you to love Trump and love his actions or risk finding yourself arrested and put in one of the warehouse camps.

Broke: America is a violent, expansionist empire but we tell ourselves we're not Woke: Damn straight we're a violent, expansionist empire and we're not not going to hide it anymore

Comer: "You're gonna see the Trump administration continue to freeze funds until Democrat governors do like what the Republican governors are doing: they're complying with the federal government, with the Trump administration."

The Heritage Foundation, TPUSA, many others, including billionaires, want to turn education into indoctrination and turn the population into superstitious Christians who pray and sing about the Apocalypse instead of fighting climate change, who believe when they're told 'witchcraft' or 'demons.'

Two billionaires that want your children to be gullible and superstitious, to believe people speak different languages because ancient people built a building too tall. God didn't want them taking a stairway to Heaven, so he destroyed the building and made it so they couldn't talk to each other.

"Why Is the US Not Vaccinating Poultry Against Bird Flu?" www.newsweek.com/why-us-not-v...

Washington State farm workers are harvesting Pink Lady apples. This variety is harder to harvest than most because it has to be 90% red when they cut it I must cut the stem off of each apple. They get paid $35 per box and harvest 4 to 6 boxes in 8 hrs. #WeFeedYou

I hate the capitulate eight.

Here...they are: 1. Catherine Cortez Masto (D–Nevada) 2. Jacky Rosen (D–Nevada) 3. John Fetterman (D–Pennsylvania) 4. Dick Durbin (D–Illinois) 5. Tim Kaine (D–Virginia) 6. Maggie Hassan (D–New Hampshire) 7. Jeanne Shaheen (D–New Hampshire) 8. Angus King (I–Maine, caucuses with Democrats)

Since Trump’s 2024 win...Democratic leadership...as a collective unit....has been playing Tiddlywinks. Never unified. Never fierce. Never using every tool with spit-flying intensity. Not. One. Fucking. Time. You may "feel" like they have been...but...the facts do not support that feeling.

Anyone waiting for "a promise of a vote on healthcare" is still waiting for Mexico to pay for a wall.

Leadership doing what their donors tell them to do. It's oligarchy.

US HOUSE SPEAKER JOHNSON SAID HE WON'T COMMIT TO A VOTE ON ACA SUBSIDIES, I'M TOLD – SEMOFAR REPORTER ON X

Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"

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So now that we’ve given up the only leverage we had, against the will of the voters, we’ll see if the GOP will maybe think about the possibility of a vote on the concept. Ugh.

Exactly. "They will come to the table"? That _was_ the table, and they didn't come. I'm thinking they can't actually be this dumb. I'm thinking it's probably just corruption.

I heard from my cat that she is willing to consider never throwing up on a rug again. So now we'll see if she's really gonna work with me.

I’ve heard from the rabbit in my back yard who loves my young plantings, that it’s willing to consider leaving them alone so they can grow. I’m waiting to see if working together ever materializes.

The Constitution says a senator must be at least 30 years old, so I can't understand how we have all these senators who were born yesterday.

Lucy is really going to let Charlie Brown kick the football this time. She really means it.

The people showed up in the streets for "No Kings." They did their part. The people showed up at the polls on Tuesday. They did their part. 8 Democrats in the Senate surrendered last night. They did not do their part.

CNN's Harry Enten: What President Trump is trying to sell, the American folks aren’t buying, and we can see it pretty simply here. Take a look here. This is consumer sentiment, the current conditions…and get this: according to the University of Michigan, we are dealing with the worst ever

There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely. *If all goes by the regular schedule

𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐭𝐚𝐱 𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦.

Congressional Republicans have never found themselves in a serious predicament where Democrats weren't willing to ease the pain. It never goes the other way.

Truly pathetic.

@dennisgoris.bsky.social By Dennis Goris.

So we are finally protesting the right people. This is outside of the Heritage Foundation.

The 8 Dems that caved and need to be Primaried.

Fuck the Feeble Minded Old Man #Trump and Cronies in #ICE 8647 #Resist #TACO and his Clown Show on every front 24/7/365 Turn up the Volume and FILM ~ FILM ~ FILM #NoKings

Listen to the frustration in this pilot’s voice. He just wants to do his job & provide on-time service to his passengers, but can’t due to the Trump Administration’s level of incompetence.

@jesseduquette.bsky.social By Jesse Duquette.

Residents have been shaken by the violence in an area typically known for its family-friendly atmosphere.

I'm going to make so many calls this week I hope my phone burns its circuits out because it got so hot. Consider doing the same. Have a sensible "script" written out...so you make sense, but do it while you're pissed off. It feels better, and the person taking your message WILL feel your intensity.

Trump’s presidential limo parked outside his Palm Beach golf club today. Trump is the first president to golf during a government shutdown.

Paula Deen, who admitted to using the n-word, popped up at Mar-a-Lago this weekend