@jaketapper.bsky.social What exactly do you think concentration camps wete like in the 1930s? You should be outraged and horrified, like decent people are, that our tax dollars are doing this to human beings in our country. Instead you are providing cover for the monsters responsible.

So apparently we've moved on from waste and fraud in government, even looting the treasury, to the "set money on fire" stage of Republican governance. See El Paso.

#地衣類 #lichen #fungifriends

A vote for the GOP is a vote for conservitude, as in, the poor in conservitude to the rich and begging for food, shelter, and medicine.

It was good to hear Iggy Pop close out Superman. Loved it.

I am 100 percent okay with people opening dialogue about a topic they do not understand. I am 100 percent NOT okay with that dialogue being with neo-Nazis. Gavin Newsom is an opportunist. And he frequently engages with people that want to see LGBTQ+ people put to death. Period.

Weird to see news sources' headlines crowing about $100 billion in tarriff revenues as if it isn't a $100 billion tax increase on American businesses and consumers. Yay steep tax increases!

@cantwell.senate.gov what do you call a photo of 14 senators and a war criminal? Looking forward to voting for your primary challenger.

Paxton wants privacy during his divorce. I needed a good laugh! Where is that energy for people seeking abortion care? Where is that energy for abortion funds? Where is that energy for people seeking abortion care while Paxton encourages abusive partners to report them??

I'm not just mad about this shit because I'm tired of seeing it (tho I am) It is scary to me that people legitimately don't seem to understand enough to know that 20% of the population of Texas voted for Trump. That is it. Out of every 5 people in Texas, 4 did not vote for this.

Tide line Lichens from Barmouth. Ramalina, Leconora, Xanthoria and Caloplaca all loving the salty sun kissed rocks. Anyone know the dark Parmelia one ? #Lichen #FungiFriends

#lichen #nature

Little kids with cancer. That’s how you know those dudes are extra tough.

My meaningless insight is that Mamdani’s campaign managed to sustain “Kamala is brat” energy for the duration, probably because he didn’t retool halfway through on the advice of David Plouffe and James Carville

Big Bullshit Bill. That's the framing.

I love Queen Bey, but Blue Ivy is too young for the exposure she's getting. There's an extremely long list of child stars with trauma from short-circuiting adolescence. Just because she's rich doesn't mean she won't miss out. Queen Bey grew up too fast, too, I guess. Dang. Everybody suffers.

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

🦋 BREAKING: National Guard storm peaceful protesters Shooting nonlethal rounds & dragging away a protester outside the Federal Detention Centre in downtown Los Angeles There were no signs of any violence or abuse prior to the incident 🦋

If nothing else it’d be nice if at the same time Senator Padilla was getting arrested trying to help the protesters and vulnerable communities being targeted, his fellow California Senator Schiff weren’t on the floor of the senate condemning the *protests* as vandals and miscreants doing vile acts.

Anyone think it’s possible that Noem’s attack on Senator Padilla was preplanned? The recent arrests of SEIU President David Huerta and NJ Rep. LaMonica McIver, both of whom were charged with “conspiracy to impede an officer”, have me thinking about the regime’s message to brown people in power.

Secretary @KristiNoem accusing Padilla of “political theater” is delicious

Private prisons and detention centers will be paid more than a billion tax payer dollars this year to detain and enslave tax paying people (oh wait, not tax paying because to the GOP they're human cattle). All so Republican voters can get off on in sadistic cruelty. FUCK THE GOP AND GOP VOTERS.

The professional agitators are ICE.

Along with abolishing ICE we should abolish all for-profit prison companies in the country.

I don't need do-nothing Schumer to disparage people in LA; or for Fetterman, who calls for Palestinian genocide, to lecture me about "moral high ground." We have plenty of Republigoons already without Dems siding against our citizens being attacked by our military. Senate Dems have no shame.

You fight for a zygote, but cheer when a child is ripped from a mother‘s arms by ICE. Tells me everything I need to know about you.

Sad day. Goodbye Sly. Thanks for so many great songs, especially this one. youtu.be/q_mIFXZ5ykM?...

Kehlani--amazing artist, better person. I'm streaming her to support her for standing up for Palestine. She's not just amazing, she's moral. Support moral artists. It costs them to make a statement--back them up.

Trump and Elon broke up

Ernst's cynical use of Christian belief in salvation and eternal life while she mocked them for their fear of losing their healthcare and general assistance is staggering in its vulgarity. Vulgar, purile arrogance of the lowest brow feudal era wannabe royalty. Even MAGA voters deserve better.

My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️‍🌈 Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.

A real big Vulpicida canadenses (Brown-eyed Sunshine) lichen thallus. Cranbrook, BC 🌿

Just for fun…

Violence is one thing, it motivates storylines. But if a predominant feature of a book is torture, gratuitous helplessness, that is sadist service. There was a bubblegum pop series I enjoyed with magic and were-animals, but a torture porn chapter put me off the author, and her books, altogether.

“I didn’t think the face-eating leopards had mouths big enough to also take a piece of my face off when eating someone else’s face”

Steven Pinker’s new research on face-eating leopards

More piccys from a very wet and windy day exploring Mullagh more !

I'm thinking about premium subscription services. New US law is ripping the seams of society, raising the cost of living. Good art is loudly subversive, artists need patrons. Middle class patrons support artists, but pay providers first. I also support small news orgs, but with COL rising?

It's time to kick Congress off their health insurance.

I love these lichen @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social Still not totally sure of a name yet.

Huh. Watching the tariffs debacle. Making black markets great again. Living in a lawless country is going to be a real interesting last act setting.

So a "libertarian" friend asked me to telling him "liberal propaganda" re the current Trump administration. Everything I've shared with him is verifiable fact and straight reporting. Fucking nuts. Mother Nature isn't just burning us out with rapid climate change, she's pumping up incompetence.

Thanks for being Norm, George. RIP.

It's so frustrating that we (Dems) let jealous, small minded people set science and research for national health on fire like it's some Friday night football pep rally pyre. There is always room to make a system better, but letting kooks take charge has never and will never improve any situation.

A simple path, followed by an equation. Basic research leads to knowledge, which leads to nonprofitable ideas, which leads to profitable ideas, which leads to commercial products, which leads to jobs, which fuels the economy. Kill research=kill the economy

I'm getting distressed re the relentless severe weather in the midwest. It ought to be a huge story. Just the hail alone will destoy crops that feed people and livestock, let alone tornadoes destroying buildings and storage facilities. We don't need to hear Biden was old for the zillionth time.

Exactly If you don’t have a clear plan for how people will get food, water, childcare, medicine, medical care, and housing *during* the revolution you’re sure as shit not going to be successful building a humane society after the initial violence is over

In the past 36 hours: -USA Credit rating has dropped -Trump has threatened Springsteen, Swift, SCOTUS, and Walmart -Trump has rattled on about groceries -Tornadoes have devastated parts of the US no longer covered by NWS …and I’m supposed to care about Joe Biden’s mental acuity in 2023? GTFOH

Talk about texture! Found another stick with lichen that looks like octopus tentacles! Even a bit of moss sticking out. #HotStickSaturday #BlueSkyArtShow #Texture #Lichen #FungiFriends #Moss #ISeeMoss #Macro #Nature #Photography #PNW #CoolStick #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice