Protecting the right to vote shouldn’t be a partisan issue. While some are obsessed with making it harder to cast a ballot, we’re focused on expanding access. Our democracy works best when everyone’s voice is heard. 🗳️✨ #VotingRights

The responses to this post are encouraging in that they show BK has intelligent followers who can also respond without resorting to insults or labels. Preparation is everything, and these responders sound as if they're on the way to being prepared.

“Hondurasgate Looks Worse than Watergate and Iran-Contra Combined” — my @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social look at the giant bonkers scandal no one (in America) is talking about washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/12/h...

Metronomes started randomly synchronize after a short period of time as they influence each other through the side-to-side motion of their shared base. 📽: UCLA Physics & Astronomy

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

Thanks. Yes, people do need to know what their obsessions are. And it's not always easy to figure them out. Maybe that's why some business schools, for one example, teach that stating assumptions is the very top priority. "State your assumptions" is like a mantra. It takes intention & application.

When is the USA going to declare the Strait of Hormuz is now to be referred to as the Strait of America?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgV5... All National leaders should be required to play hockey (and pass mental fitness tests, have clean criminal records and empathy evaluations) #carney #canada #finland #stubb #elbowsup #nato #eu

The more the US tears down any sense of rules around their stock market, they less foreign investment you're going to attract. Good luck on the polymarkets I guess. I'm investing in countries that have oversight. (or seem to)

Before the 2024 election, federal prosecutors were “full steam ahead” looking into how a prison gang in Puerto Rico gave drugs to inmates if they voted for a GOP gubernatorial candidate. After Trump’s election, the investigation evaporated.

And ignored building strengths for phantoms of power. Spent on conquest rather than on improving domestic conditions. Had vain people happy to be poor as long as someone they deferred to claimed to "rule abroad." Strangely this made them feel superior. Strangely they valued feeling superior.

💪The Ukrainian Army has entered the top four strongest in Europe, - the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Ukrainian army is one of the four armies in the world that "deserve trust". Therefore, Ukraine should be integrated into NATO as soon as possible.

In contrast, the United States is finding new ways to give children measles and skin cancer.

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

??? bsky.app/profile/clue...

Russia has nuclear weapons, Ukraine bombs them daily, so if Iran has nuclear weapons, they will use them is a LIE TO SCARE YOU.

What would a typical worker earn today if their wages had grown as fast as CEO pay over the past 50 years? Take a guess and watch this video to find out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lPPsrAMtTI

Corporations need to pay a compensation gap tax

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

The conduct of a violent, totalitarian state. When federal agents came to the home of David Morens on Monday with an arrest warrant for allegedly concealing federal records related to the debate about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic,

Greetings from Germany. It would be nice, if you prevent him from bombing any place in the world, because he did not like them and mixing the things that are in his head. We all would sleep a little bit better.

Well put. And having a huge military and a huge economy given to one person to do with as he or she pleases...? Even if there had been 100% voter turn-out and 100% of those voters had cast MAGA ballots, this "giving over" would not be the result in a democracy.

CANCEL! There's no reason to visit this rapist!!! STAY HOME. Come once he's gone! Buckingham Palace says discussing King Charles' visit with US after Washington shooting - Reuters www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-... via @GoogleNews

No men in women’s sport you say?

More than 20,000 Ukrainian children have been abducted by Russian forces since the start of Putin's bloody war. America must work to secure the return of these missing kids to their families and freedom for the Ukrainian people.

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

When facial recognition pinned a crime on Kimberlee Williams in a state she'd never been to, Maryland police didn't question it. Ms. Williams will never recoup the 6 months she spent in jail for a crime she had nothing to do with. We're demanding justice and policy change.

In fact with their gained combat experience in drone technology since April 2026, Ukraine signed 10-year deals with Saudi Arabia, Qatar & UAE for interceptor drones and expertise (costing a fraction of US produced technology), transforming Ukraine from an importer to a producer and exporter!

@therestpolitics.bsky.social a cunning way to re-jig an unwanted Royal visit to the US might be for King Charles to send (former) Prince Andrew to visit Trump on his behalf...

its worth noting The Trans-Iranian Railway is a 1,394-kilometer (866-mile) line connecting the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf, designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2021. #bbcnews

The 25th Amendment already gives Congress the tool to remove Trump. Raskin’s bill would finally create the independent commission to make it happen. This is one more real shot to protect the country. Tell Congress to pass it.

It's notable that Sen. Ossoff is pressing this attack in a tight re-election fight in a purple state. The rest of the party needs to pay attention.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. - Anaïs Nin

well... THAT's pretty eye opening, actually, Mike, to just say it out loud like that. Did that sound different in your head?

Brief excerpt from the good RR article below....

In light of Trump’s increasingly cruel and bonkers behavior, many of you want to know: “What can I do now?” Here are 10 recommendations. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-f4a

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United. No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed. Here's how it works. https://youtu.be/p1fPbGHe3xE?si=QZRQImV8KYD5Y90r

This is the reason the stock market is completely disconnected from the real economy.

"The first Polish pope helped liberate his home country from authoritarian rule. The Trumpists are worried that the first American pope could contribute to such a development here. The view Pope Leo is upholding—that right matters not just might—is an American one." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

If you don't live in a "swing state," your vote counts less. But we can reform the Electoral College and fix that. Since we made this video, Maine and now Virginia have joined the National Popular Vote compact. Here's what you need to know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXPwJqSdLfE

"Pope" is also just a power word for somebody who is seeking a headline. Intoning the Pope will direct public "noise" to a new subject if the old subject is awkward. The word "pope" turns heads.

This article really helps. Thanks for posting.

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Probably the worst thing Russia wanted to hear today.