Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

🚨BREAKING: Rep. Ro Khanna just motioned to SUBPOENA FCC chairman Brendan Carr in the House Oversight Committee to stop the intimidation of private businesses and assault on free speech

How can it be wrong to say these people hate America when every day they proudly declare their opposition to a pillar of American jurisprudence? This is not me saying they hate the America I created in my head—or that I falsely believe the Founders wanted—this is them hating *basic* American shit.

You can’t talk about cleaning up crime in D.C. while a 34-count convicted felon is running the country.

Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.

Folks, I don’t know what end is up right now.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs

For #WorldHippoDay an #Egyptian carving of a Hippo, made 5.000 years ago from calcite. Hippopotami were regarded as very dangerous animals, but they were also associated with life, regeneration, and rebirth On display at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 📷 me 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

#AncientBlueSky🏺 Red colour-coated #pottery These were produced in Oxfordshire in the later #Roman period. They were found at Segontium, Caernarfon, north #Wales. 270-400 CE. 📸 My own. St. Fagans National Museum of #History #Archaeology

The pages that are set to be revived include information for patients about HIV testing and HIV prevention medication, guidance on contraceptives and data on adolescent and youth mental health.

Birthright citizenship order - BLOCKED. Federal funding cut off - BLOCKED. Illegal feds resignation plan - BLOCKED. Access to Treasury's vital data system - BLOCKED. Firing 2000 USAID workers - BLOCKED. Drastic NIH Grant Cuts - BLOCKED. Removing public health websites - BLOCKED.

Millions of federal workers are subject to drug tests; why not require members of congress to take cognitive fitness tests

This is Mrs. Florence Bell, the first nurse to go to the Royal Veterinary College of London. This is a cigarette card from my collection and in the info about her on the back it says “the more she sees of humans, the better she likes animals”. 1938.

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

Something lovely for the weekend! 🦛❤️ Acient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago! 📷 by me

What if history just didn't repeat itself, for once?

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

So the billionaire president’s multi-billionaire sugar daddy had his feelings hurt by the head of the FAA, so the billionaire president fired the head of the FAA — now there’s no one in charge of airline safety, and we have our first commercial airline crash in 16 years? Got it.

Gosh, I remember when we had an actual president instead of a loudmouth bully who won't take responsibility for his actions.

i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve

We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

The “migrant facility” at Guantanamo Bay will be a concentration camp. If you need a Jewish person to say it, that’s a concentration camp.

A walk through a Bronze Age town. Minoan Akrotiri on Santorini, buried in volcanic ash by the Theran eruption in the 17th/16th century BC. #Archaeology

Cis women need to understand: the attack on trans women is an attack on all women. Imagine any other “group” of women having their rights stripped away, where’s that rage? Channel it into standing with our trans sisters. Women’s rights are all of our fight.

TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky #StateMediaCensorship

Excellent post

Updated DEI list of companies committed to DEI Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)

Only saying once on bsky b/c I know it is not entirely useful, but it is totally exhausting that in 2016 some of us said “they’re Nazis,” some of us screamed “they’re segregationists,” and a whole lot of very serious people now posting about them being Nazis and segregationists gaslight us for years

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

ICE arrested US citizens for deportation last night That was no mistake — it was INTENTIONAL Trump has made it clear: legal immigrants aren’t safe, naturalized citizens aren’t safe, and even citizen military veterans aren’t safe It’s ETHNIC CLEANSING — 100% UNCONSTITUTIONAL

Working on smoky effects always feels like a moment of pure meditative relaxation. ✨️⁠ ⁠ #oilpainting #oilpaintingprocess

I have a little plea and it's this: please keep posting about things that aren't The Horrors. I am not saying to not look at or be informed about The Horrors. What I am saying—what I am genuinely kind of begging you to do—is keep posting about books and movies and sunsets and pets and joy. Please.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

All groups are political. Your book club. Your knitting group. Your gardening collective. The companies from which you buy your food, clothes, entertainment. The place you work out. Right now, in this cultural moment, anything you can do in the groups you're in contact with makes a difference.

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

I’m not at all surprised. 💙

Costco shareholders have overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal as other U.S. companies retreat from their diversity policies

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It figures that the people glorifying nazism had bone spurs, didn’t have a grandfather who enlisted to fight against fascism in WWII, were wealthy enough to get out of the Vietnam draft, never watched a loved one suffer through PTSD after Desert Storm, relate to war through video games. Fuck off.

This, from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social, has been on my mind today.

SHE WAS A NON-ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX AND DID NOT FIGHT. 😭😭😭 (𝙰𝚕𝚜𝚘 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚖𝚎, 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜𝚗’𝚝 𝚜𝚙𝚘𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐! 𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝙸 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚚𝚞𝚘𝚝𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝙸 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔, 𝙸 𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚞𝚙 𝚋𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚒𝚝!) #Manacled #Booksky #Booktok #TBR

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