You're only seeing this reaction from me because Bluesky - like so much of social media - is top-heavy with people whose reaction to almost everything is to freak out. If you want to know the stuff I believe merits strong reactions, I write columns about it all every week.

The most swing state of the swing states, PA, just saw an effort to remove three Dems from the PA Supreme Court. All three came through with 60 percent of the vote. That's how you do it: Vote.

"Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth." ~ St. Francis of Assisi Deer at the Edge of a Lake (1888) 🎨 Carl Frederik Aagaard

Morning tea: a unique 2019 Shu Puerh fermented with black tea kombucha instead of water. Taste: muscovado sugar, dark rum, maple syrup, sweet herbal liquor, vanilla custard, preserved plums. Gives a mind awakening energy. Delicious! 🙃 “May you live all the days of your life.” -Jonathan Swift

Charlie Sykes has a look at the new WSJ disclosures on the Trump and Epstein lovefest, focusing on little girls. The WSJ uses the anachronistic word “bawdy” to describe them, but we should not be bound by such Murdochian-prudity. The notes quoted by the WSJ are on the far-side of creepy.

For those of you who love the smell of political napalm in the morning…. If you want to grasp the significance of today’s headlines, simply try to imagine how much Donald Trump hates them. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

If only there had been warnings

SHOTS. FIRED.

Keep it up!

Charlie Sykes-Rick Wilson: Why the Epstein Thing is Different open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Trump’s entirely capable of firing the Fed chair and wrecking the dollar to distract from his close friendship with a criminal sex abuser. That’s the nature of the man.

Government By The Unqualified And The Absurd open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

The Arsonist Blinks open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

To launder money.

Look for things that inspire you and create joy.

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one went hungry in my nation before colonization. I have been thinking about that. Our culture was communal: food was shared with everyone. There was no hunger. If a small nation like mine could achieve that, imagine what big nations could do. Peace in every bite. Charleston

I have had several DM's asking if I've left here. The answer is no. I had surgery several weeks ago and one of the tumors removed was pre-cancerous. After the surgery I developed an infection. The last couple of months have been a rollercoaster and I needed to focus.

Dear JD Vance…

“Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up & chase them.”

Today was a grim, terrible day for the United States and the cause of democracy. Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” Mark Twain

We do too! We have read them all as well💗

As far as IQ goes, I know doctors, lawyers, engineers, chemists etc. who voted for Trump, so saying “All Trump voters are low IQ” doesn’t hold. However, it’s not IQ that gets you through life. It’s judgement. If someone voted for Donald Trump in November, their judgement is in their ass.

Reviving this one

Hell yes.

A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock. DAN SIMMONS

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FFS this is an outbreak where an unvaccinated child died

Volodymyr Zelenksy’s approach to Donald Trump isn’t the problem, Tom Nichols writes. Nothing the Ukrainian president can do is going to sway Trump from his choice to back “the only world leader he both fears and respects: Vladimir Putin.”

The FDA's abrupt decision to cancel next month’s vaccine advisory committee meeting — where experts recommend the strains for next season’s flu shot — is raising concerns about whether the U.S. will have enough of the vaccine for the next flu season.

My advice

“The purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good news for #Michigan #Detroit www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...

I’m quietly meditating… yet there are 2 chilling thoughts keep haunting me— 📌1. Measles is not just highly infectious with R0 of 12-18, but it has a long ***2 WEEK*** INCUBATION period—ie Texas outbreak could be in the HUNDREDS or more already, and we are seeing just the early tip of iceberg.

Good morning, and happy Thursday. This is from a few days ago, walking home with the kids. Have a goatastic day! linktr.ee/ozthegoatguy Click the link to help support the sanctuary.

Anyone ever see one of these before? It is a yellow-headed blackbird, and this is the only one I have ever seen. It showed up at my feeders one morning a few years ago. I am northeast of their traditional range so it is rare in my area. #birds 🐦

Ebola? EBOLA?

In Trump’s Washington, a Moscow-Like Chill Takes Hold www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

A trifecta.

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Not surprising at all..

If your representative is dodging in-person town halls, call them out! Tag them and demand they face their constituents.