Huh. You mean to say they want healthy soldiers or something? www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...

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Sundogs today with a rare but cool circumzenithal arc (that's the inverted rainbow above the sun). I've upped the saturation and contrast to make them visible in the picture. Very cool in real life.

A late summer rose taken at ‎⁨Le Jardin de Rodin⁩, ⁨Paris⁩, ⁨Île-de-France⁩, ⁨France⁩ #photography #flower #Paris #Musée_Rodin #Support_Public_Lands

We’ve been warning about the propaganda. For more proof of how aggressively the Trump administration is pushing its propaganda machine, just look at the government websites.

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And while these messages are blatant violations of the Hatch Act, the administration sent out a Hatch Act policy to all federal employees this week to remind them that THEY must follow Hatch Act on Social media. END/

The shutdown is not the fault of democrats. Republicans can vote to fund the government without a single democrat by changing the rules to lower the 60 vote threshold like they did two weeks ago to push through 48 trump appointees at once. 10/

NEW: THREAD: Just a small collection of propaganda emails sent by the regime to federal employees who have sent them to me on the condition of anonymity. First, we all saw the HUD banner from Tuesday morning. 1/

2 October 1931 | French Jewish girl Alice Huberman was born in Paris. In August 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

am i the only person who cares about housing prices? is this like a niche political interest or something?

i feel like im going crazy bc housing prices are crushing me and every day i wake up and see the political convo being "is cantaloupe is woke?" "did TGIF change its logo?" "are we renaming new mexico to new america?"

2 October 1933 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, István Vass, was born. In May 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- Learn about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow/

2 October 1924 | An Austrian Sinti, Karl Baranyai, was born in Doiber. In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 16 April 1943. No. Z-6516 He perished in the camp on 30 December 1943.

We should all lead a life as interesting and useful www.npr.org/2025/10/01/4...

We get closer every day to replacing the perjorative "kapo" with the word "greenblatt."

It may be that a visionary is simply a person who sees the steps between dream and reality, and takes them with passion and determination. The touching illustrated story of how Jane Goodall turned her childhood dream into reality www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/19/m...

2 October 1936 | Czech Jewish girl, Anita Brandeisová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- Gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

I hosted a podcast using a pseudonym for a couple years to avoid violating the Hatch Act. I got fired anyhow.

1 October 1912 | A Polish woman, Janina Kałanczyńska, was born in Łomża. In #Auschwitz from 13 November 1942. No. 24451 She was evacuated to KL Ravensbrück and liberated there. --- Women at Auschwitz Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/ Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

This is Ruby. She likes to pet the other dogs at daycare. 14/10 extremely relatable (TT: alanahlorraine)

Republicans control the shutdown. Top to bottom. For example, construction of Trump's ballroom will continue as "essential" during the shutdown. But the stuff that helps you will not. abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

It's #WaterfallWednesday and while Skútafoss wasn't an impressive falls, it had a fantastic framing device. #photography #WaterfallsWednesday #Iceland #hiking #caves #WaterWednesday

1 October 1924 | Polish Jews, Chaim and Wolf Perel, were born in Warsaw. They emigrated to France. They were deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 19 July 1942. They were both registered in the camp. Chaim perished on 29 September, Wolf on 2 October 1942.

1 October 1890 | A German, Walter Peters, was born in Nakel (today Nakło nad Notecią in Poland). A doctor. In #Auschwitz from 10 October 1941. No 21409 He perished on 15 October 1941. He was imprisoned in Auschwitz for homosexuality (paragraph 175): https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/paragraf_175_en/

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Virgin Falls, near Sparta, Tennessee, is unique. The waterfall is "formed by an underground stream that emerges from a cave, then drops over a 110-foot high cliff before disappearing into another cave at the bottom". #waterfallwednesday #nature #photography #landscapephotography #careforcreation

"Run wild and free like a waterfall" Wishing you a wonderful day 🫶 📷 Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia #WaterfallWednesday #ForestFriday #WaterWednesday #photography #landscape #scape #nature #thelittlethings #photohour #roadtrip #vanlife #EastCoastKin

The hike to Third Vault Falls, ‎⁨Fundy National Park⁩, ⁨New Brunswick⁩, ⁨Canada⁩, is an easy walk through a mixed hardwood and conifer forest. And then you get to the point where the trail drops down to the bottom of the falls. #photography #Support_Public_Lands #WaterfallWednesday

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Dear @apnews.com The republicans control congress. Democrats did not vote down anything. If the GOP wanted to fund the government, they could have changed the rules to pass a CR with a simple majority like they did 11 days ago to approve 48 trump appointees at once. Fix your headline.

With no staff to manage restrooms, enforce rules, or provide maintenance, sites quickly descended into chaos: overflowing toilets, piles of trash, vandalism, and lasting damage to fragile ecosystems. Cleanup and repair costs ran into the millions, a preventable crisis created for political optics.

Joni Ernst’s lifelong legacy for women serving in the military from her time in the Senate is Pete Hegseth. Every woman denied promotion, denied a job specialty, sexually harassed, or forced out for bs reasons, owes it all to Ernst and the Republican Party.

30 September 1942 | A French Jewish boy, Daniel Serge Szuster, was born in Paris. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 August 1943 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 727 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

The White House told a federal watchdog office overseeing the Trump administration that it would cut off its congressionally approved funding for the upcoming fiscal year, forcing the agency to close at midnight today. This move was separate from the broader budget

The GOP (Guardians of Pedophiles) are using the shutdown to harm the United States.

Republicans don’t need a single democratic vote to fund their regime. Here’s why. Please share widely.

Today, Trump declared war on his own citizens, calling for U.S. cities to be used as “training grounds” for troops to confront what he called an “invasion from within.” Americans are a proud people, and no one (foreign or domestic) will threaten our home.

This is so so awful. He left four children (all Americans, not that it should matter) and a grieving wife (also an American, not that it should matter)

The Hólmanes-Eskifjörður Nature Preserve was my favorite hike of the trip to #Iceland. It had it all -- scenic variety, an interesting and challenging trail, critters, flowers, and solitude. More INFO in ALT #photography #fjords #wildflowers #rocks

30 September 1928 | Elie Wiesel was born in Romania. A Jewish writer, Auschwitz & Buchenwald survivor, Peace Nobel Prize laureate. "Indifference is the epitome of evil." / „We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

A surprisingly fuzzy sage leaf #photography #macro

30 September 1934 | Dutch Jewish boy, Joseph Pais, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in July 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- Video about the first two gas chambers near Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

Googled this today for no reason.

Sure. Left wing terrorism is at an all time high, going from 3% of domestic terror fatalities to 4%. Right wing terrorism on the other hand has dipped to an all time low of 95% So technically, yeah.

30 September 1922 | Czech Jewish woman, Blanka Hoffmannová, was born in Pardubice. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

Y’all. Republicans are FINE with poking holes in the filibuster. They did it ten days ago so they could confirm 48 Trump appointees at once. Don’t let them tell you they can’t pass a CR without Dems. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

30 September 1887 | Jewish man, Bernhardt Meier Freidmann, was born in Russian Empire (territory of todays Latvia). He emigrated to Norway in 1912. A sausage merchant. In #Auschwitz from 1 December 1942. He perished in the camp on 20 January 1943.

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Couldn’t Trump just use the $17 trillion he says he got from all these other countries to fund the government? That should cover us for a while. Where is that, by the way?