Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters. His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound. A true hero.

I really wish we could sue Republicans for making false statements ( like illegal immigrans getting health insurance from the ACA ) and from refusing to counter false statements made in their presence like this one. They work for us, not to create content for news orgs. bsky.app/profile/ronf...

This is why we have to fund medical research. Who would have thought that the King Tut curse would lead to a possible cure for leukemia ( targets leukemia and not healthy cells ) www.livescience.com/health/fungu...

John Roberts is a joke. apple.news/AtvKxQA0vRbq...

NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

Trump mega-donor’s paper savages his pardon of Las Vegas Republican - The Guardian

As Republicans push work requirements in Medicaid, this state offers a cautionary tale - STAT

I saw this in an article, something to laugh at while I see my 401k shrink. Look at the stock market. Maybe now we know why Trump chose red as the MAGA movement’s color.

So us non-farmers are going to bail these guys out because of the stupid tariffs. “Shock to the system”: Farmers hit by Trump’s tariffs and cuts say they need another bailout - The Guardian

The EU strikes back www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/e...

Holy Cats! The bottom graphic shows that these countries know that putting a tariff back on USA will hurt them, but they want their government to do it anyway.

Robert Reich is a treasure. His take on Social Security problems and solution. youtu.be/GfZuB7XSFys?...

We had four kids and we had to get their vaccinations up to date before they could go to school. The religious exemption thing is a danger to all children. apple.news/AmJn6H9NdS9K...

Yea! apple.news/APqZHefm_QlO...

A diversity hire /s dailygalaxy.com/2025/03/100-...

Holy Cats. Nick Wright, the sports guy, just posted a youtube video with an awesome defense of why we need DEI "Damn rigth Robinson was a DEI hire". about 32 min into this video. www.youtube.com/live/6PmdSF5...

It seems crazy now to feel I have to post something like this: In 1917 they gave IQ tests to WW1 soldiers. In it the white soldiers had higer IQ than black soldiers. In 1945 it was noted from that same data that northern black soldiers scored higher than southern white soldiers.

They want to erase anything not white. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...

Seriously, F@&$ those white nationalist MF apple.news/AYyYlSlzJTPG...

Saw this opinon in USA Today. But, would Canadians want to give up their healthcare system ( which covers all citizens ), and submit to our lax gun laws? I think not. apple.news/AVWQIm6KcQby...

apple.news/AucZlohZ_Qk6... Can DODGE look into this waste?

Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."