Great blue heron and friends, Anna Maria Island, FL IG: j.lulu_photography

This is how Capitol Police officer Michael Fanone summarizes Lindsay Graham's death.

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Priorities 🔹Rooting out Corruption 🔹Protecting Consumers  🔹Making Life More Be Affordable 🔹Making Our Communities Safer  🔹Our individual Rights 🔹MAGA’s Looting of Our Tax Dollars nathanfortexas.com

Resistance is an art form! Kevin Champeny's work celebrates the beauty of accumulation how countless small elements can create depth, movement, & meaning that no single piece could achieve alone. A reminder that the smallest details often carry the greatest impact. 🔥🔥💙 #pinks

GOP: Slash funding for schools, infrastructure, and healthcare. Then blame “big government” when it fails. Classic move—starve the system, sell off pieces to donors, repeat. Working families suffer while billionaires get richer. Fiscal conservatism at its finest.

What a picture from cheney orr of @reuters.com — a Black woman on a train surrounded by masked white supremacists, emboldened in Trump’s America. One for the history books.

This photo should be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. This young black woman is surrounded by masked white supremacists on a public bus. This is Trump’s AmeriKKKa. This shit is unacceptable and has to end. We, the People, need to step our fucking game up and do more to end this racist fuckery.

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-Notice News 1/ "YES: Mamdani's administration just funded New York City's first-ever pet food pantry program.

So he's gonna advocate for all people with depression to get four months off for rehabilitation, right? And he's gonna tell RFK jr to fuck off with his quest to limit the medication that Kean is very clearly taking to be functional?

Trump's budget director announces the Iran war has cost taxpayers $30 billion

@jamestalarico.bsky.social is what a politician should be.

Just looked up 50000 rubber ducks at ALIBABA and the CAN be delivered by July 2nd. Would it not be a great site on July 4th to have them christen the reflecting pool? With orange print "made in China"?

The corporate media is predictably shitting itself because the NYC Rent Guidelines Board actually voted 7-1 to freeze rents. Landlords are crying about an "absolute farce" while one million rent-stabilized households get a tiny fucking microscopic breath of fresh air. 🗽🛑🏚️

"I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody." -- Donald J. Trump "I don't want to hear about affordability. The affordability crisis is a hoax." -- Donald J. Trump "No one gives a shit about housing." -- Donald J. Trump Getting it yet, America?

Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...

In short: their vision is for private contractors bidding for federal contracts to build, staff, and run giant locked facilities. Places like this won’t be bound by state care regulations, and even if they’re not profit institutions, large amount of money will change hands.

from my own perspective this is one of the greatest harms done by this government and plotting a course to reverse this damage is must be a very priority in our speech and our activism

The hypocrisy is impossible to ignore. Critics spent years attacking Obama over Iran, yet many of those same voices have little to say now. The outrage seems to depend more on the politician than the policy! #SheShed #Politics #Hypocrisy #TruthMatters #Accountability

"I won't help you afford a home until you allow me to make it harder for you to vote." a man who lives in a gold tower, says to the rest of us. .

A wildlife rehab center collected the dead ducks to conduct necropsies.

Two pages. The same story. SNAP cuts: American children are losing food assistance and going hungry. USAID gutted: Children overseas are dying after humanitarian aid was cut. History won’t remember the excuses. It’ll remember who let children suffer. #RepublicansStarveChildren

More than 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits after Trump changed the federal food program. Read that again. Then ask who voted for this. #RepublicansStarveChildren

Sealant Team Six guarding our vulnerable shores against Algae-Qeada, Algaetifa. And Algae Sharpton.

Fewer than half of Americans can afford healthcare, the lowest rate since 2021. We’re saddled with the highest healthcare costs with the worst health outcomes among other rich countries. Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All? We do not have to keep living like this.

Since Trump's Iran War began: -The Pentagon has spent at least $40B on the war -Inflation has surged to over 4% for the first time in three years -Gas prices have risen nearly 40% and the strategic petroleum reserve is at historic lows Tired of winning yet?

And the next Dem president will clean this up, and republicans will sue block the refunds until a republican takes the white house again and resumes gouging borrowers. Rinse. Repeat.

This...

Reading a book, seeing a word you don't understand and having to look it up, thereby allowing you to understand something that was previously opaque is sometimes called "thinking" and it's good for you. It's one of the nicer parts about being alive.

We lost a lot more than a few hundred billion in Iran war. We had invested much more over 80 years on peace in the Middle East. In one brief orgy of violence Trump threw that away.

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

It's #Caturday morning, friends!! It's a rainy one here!! Prefect day to stay inside and make some gluten free, dairy free brioche buns🔥🔥 Maybe whip up some gluten/ dairy free oat sandwich bread. Have a day, y'all!🔥 #SheShed

Had the Roman's known that lead piping was injurious to health they would have found another way to obtain clean water. America? No way. Convenience, "shareholder value," and jobs require poisoning the environment. Nevermind the health of our increasingly obese children.

News you can use from the opinion editors of the Italian right-wing daily Libero: "TRUMP IS AN ASSHOLE" www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/esteri/...

He's gonna dump the algae on the Ellipse to make it green again you just know it

Ratings...

Compare and contrast. #G7

Once again, it doesn’t do this, because we are worse off on every dimension now than when it started: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

I’m from Donbas. I remember Ukrainian songs in school. I remember peaceful streets. I remember books, not bunkers. Don’t tell me we were “always russian” I was there. Donbas wasn’t destroyed by Ukraine. It was destroyed by those who came claiming to “save” it.

J.D. VANCE: “Manufacturing jobs are increasing at a large number.” REALITY: They’ve declined since Trump took office, largely because of his tariffs. (Nobody pushed back on this)

Health is too expensive Imagine if we put this money into clean air, water, and food for all...

The Art of the Concept of a Framework of a Plan for a Tentative Deal, Perhaps..

800 National Guard were deployed in DC initially, there are 3500 there now, and there will be 5000 this summer. Clearly lardass sees them as his own private militia. There is no other reason for them to still be in DC.