When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

Fiery sunset - Central Florida..🌶️

🏀🏀🏀 The CAVS Win!!!! The CAVS Win!!!! ✨

Did you know 60% of colonized bees died last year? We have an incredibly anti-science gov't running things - pray for huge change soon or send up good vibes! We need to correct this foul man's horrific agenda & terrible actions of his embarrassing Cabinet, ASAP! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#Sunday 💮 Sunpatiens to brighten your day.. #Peace 🌱

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion

The US is being ran into the ground, so if this midterm isn't a sweeping blue win I am 100% going to believe no matter what is said, that it was stolen. Gas going up to 4.50-6 a gallon would cause a 20-30 seat swing in the House, add to it the disgust with the ICE brutality & job market = Blue Wave.

Operation Close the Strait of Hormuz is over. Time to launch Operation Open the Strait of Hormuz.

Cartoonist: Steve Sack

Trump Mobile no longer being manufactured in America. If MAGA ever gets their phones - what will they think⁉️

The pain isn't less and it isn't short-term. Trump has no idea what doing without is like. He is and always has been spoiled and arrogant, one of the elite. We can't afford our groceries or our gas, to pay our bills and buy our medication. It's been going on for some time and is getting worse.

🚨 As El Niño Approaches, Scientists Predict Fierce Heatwaves, Wildfires and Floods Emerging Pacific Ocean heat, combined with ongoing human-caused global warming, is a grim recipe for deadly climate extremes. Heat alone already kills more than 500,000 annually. shorturl.at/KUAxu

The KS atty gen is appealing, but they'd be arguing on behalf of the parents if the situation was a fundamentalist religious couple suing to make decisions for their child against the attempts of the state to determine care, saying the parents views come first. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Wow. Would a GOP governor retire all the judges who are 55+ if they were in the same situation as Spanberger, and put new judges in place? Honestly, I don't think they'd waste a minute in getting it done ASAP. newrepublic.com/post/210536/...

⚕️ "Alzheimer’s smells like rye bread, cancer like mushrooms and diabetes like nail polish, says Joy Milne, who sniffed out her husband’s Parkinson’s Disease 12 years before he had received a Parkinson’s diagnosis." ⏬ www.carehome.co.uk/advice/parki...

🚨An FBI agent showed up at the home — not the office, the home — of Milwaukee County's elections director. They didn't call or go through official channels. They arrived at her front door..⏬ www.wisn.com/article/fbi-...

This is what maga voted for.🤬

Hey guys

A 4th grader wrote Congresswoman Virginia Foxx about EVs for a school assignment. She sent back propaganda accusations and a lecture on the national debt. I served with Foxx for 10 years. This is what MAGA does to people, and to character.

This must've been in the fine print of Project 2025.

Scott MacFarlane slams the corporate media for helping Trump rewrite January 6. By underresourcing coverage of the largest criminal prosecution in American history, MacFarlane says mainstream outlets created the vacuum that allowed Trump and his allies to spread lies about the Capitol attack.

This Jefferson Starship song is the perfect example of music of the 1970s to me! I love all the other upbeat or harder stuff too, like Journey, Bee Gees, Queen, Heart, etc but there's few songs that match to this level of emotion! Marty Balin and Grace Slick? Cosmic! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK7E...

🚨 Breaking: Supreme Court Rejects Virginia Democrats’ Effort to Reinstate New Voting Map.. State officials had asked the justices to step in to allow the state to use a congressional map in the midterms that was drawn by Democrats and recently approved by voters.. ⏬ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

🚨Immigrant rights lawyers send complaint to ICE over conditions at North Lake detention facility www.newsfromthestates.com/article/immi...

🚨A massive severe weather outbreak is firing up across the central US, with forecasters warning millions of people from Wisconsin all the way down to Texas could soon be dealing with destructive storms producing “monster” hail, damaging winds, and possible tornadoes. ⏬ youtu.be/iIeoNaqjm1s?...

❇️ Developing El Niño Could Reach Historic Strength: What It Means For FL.... Read more » ⏬ shorturl.at/Ul9iM

194 people killed by US military boat strikes. No trials. No public evidence. Ever. Some were fishermen. It took 20 journalists 5 months just to name and identify 13 of the dead. This isn’t a drug war. It’s the blatant execution of poor people. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AFeRtpmL6Qba...

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee says he's ending bid for reelection after redraw of his Memphis district.

🚨More Trump grifting tactics - This time a $1.7 Billion fund to compensate people investigated under President Biden: Critics denounced the highly unusual plan, which has yet to be finalized or approved, as a vast political slush fund financed by taxpayers.. ⏬

really insightful and horrifying stuff from @thefarce.org

✨ Welcome the weekend with this big beautiful Cardinal..Enjoy your weekend..🐦

🚨The Mystery of a Congressman’s Absence Deepens..Republican Representative Thomas Kean Jr. last voted in Washington on March 5, citing a medical issue. An appearance planned for late May has been canceled. ⏬ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/n...

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

WOW JD, that's quite a story! Well, hell, why not also add, "And the next thing you know, you're waking up in a bath tub filled with ice, and your kidneys have been cut out, and your wife is crying as she begs on TV for someone to donate one!"

🚨 The plan to bring a 40,000-acre data center to a Utah valley dotted with ranches has met intense public outcry in the state and far beyond, and has frustrated voters who said they didn’t get a meaningful chance to weigh in. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/box-...

So deeply impressed with them all. I've admired Charles Barkley for many years for his commitment to equality and in such a way that it cuts through the lies and stupidity. #JasonCollins

“We live in a homophobic society…if you think there are not more gay players in the NFL, Major League Baseball, and the NBA, you’re just stupid” - Charles Barkley saying the quiet part out loud. I fuckin cried. god bless him and Jason Collins.

A Gallup poll found that seven out of 10 Americans said they would oppose a data center being built near them. Opposition is so intense, the poll found, that more Americans would rather live near a nuclear power plant than a data center. | Washington Post archive.ph/8yQin

Since Callais came down, Democracy Docket has published 81 pieces of redistricting content: 74 news stories 4 analysis pieces 3 op-eds I challenge you to find another news outlet with more detailed coverage. Support independent and pro-democracy media. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

BREAKING: Mifepristone will remain accessible for now, which is good news — but it’s clear women’s health care is under attack. We have to restore the protections of Roe. v Wade nationwide.

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WOW JD, that's quite a story! Well, hell, why not also add, "And the next thing you know, you're waking up in a bath tub filled with ice, and your kidneys have been cut out, and your wife is crying as she begs on TV for someone to donate one!"

🐙 Florida to end international export of manta rays for aquariums..The policy follows public outrage last year after a viral video showed the capture of a manta ray, destined for an aquarium in Abu Dhabi, off the coast of Panama City Beach. ⏬ www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/05/14/f...

I'm sorry, but California needs to fix their election system for governor's races. The fact that a MAGA pos could face another MAGA for the job - and no one can write-in anyone else in Nov - is asinine. The Dem candidates shouldn't have to have one of them pull out just to prevent it.

So infuriating.... The scumbags just make deals and get out of everything.

JD announces the Trump admin is illegally punishing California because most of us hate Trump. www.mediaite.com/media/news/j...

The decision by Vance to withhold over $1 billion in Medicaid payments owed to California-made with scant evidence that the state is refusing to investigate fraud-will harm thousands of Americans It’s hard NOT to believe this is a politically motivated decision