Anyone who knows even a shred of #AmericanHistory knows that this is the exact thing the founding fathers were trying to escape. We’ve sleepwalked right back into #tyranny. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/w...

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." #1A

The annual Fat Bear Week featuring gluttonous brown bears at Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve is back.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

What’s at stake here is free speech. Across the board, we’ve seen the Trump administration use the power of government to go after anybody who’s criticized them — and in this case, Jimmy Kimmel. We need to all stand up and speak out.

#OpenAi recently acknowledged that they are scanning users’ data for reporting to law enforcement Huge #privacy concern. futurism.com/people-furio...

Morning Bluesky. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says his country’s airspace was "violated by a huge number of Russian drones". He described them as a direct threat. This incident should be a wake-up call to people in Europe. Putin won’t stop at Ukraine.

This is what happens when a wellness influencer is put in charge of HHS and people are convinced instagram influencers know more than actual scientists. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...

I had the chance to talk with @scottdetrow.bsky.social for “All Things Considered” about my belief that an important line was crossed in America this month: www.npr.org/2025/08/30/n...

The people are not bowing down to #fascism.

@diabetech.bsky.social newest video about the Ai food search capability in #DIYLoop is a great way to start the week. While watching the video I was able to update my Loop code in Github and build the customization directly to my phone. Amazing how far we have come. #WeAreNotWaiting

She tried to warn us. Too bad more people didn’t listen.

I had no idea until today (despite using the app for years) that #Reader by @readwise.bsky.social could be used for ePubs!! This is a game changer, especially with a #Boox e-reader and wanting to keep my reading synced across all my devices and the web. Very cool.

"Whatever comes of the FBI raid on Bolton, legally speaking, there is a certain awful predictability to it," writes @sbg1.bsky.social. "In his first months back in office, Trump has made clear that his vengeful threats were not simply campaign-season bluster." www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Between his crypto ventures, real estate deals, and licensing agreements, Trump and his family have profited off the presidency to the tune of $3.4 billion. The grifter-in-chief knows no bounds. We must not become numb to this.

Mark Zuckerberg has spent $110M to buy 11 houses in one Palo Alto neighborhood. He's turning the homes into a compound. That's on top of his 30 bedroom, 30 bathroom compound in Hawaii and another in Lake Tahoe. I don’t want to hear that billionaires can’t afford a wealth tax.

Blumenthal: "My stomach turned when I heard the president of the United States characterize Vladimir Putin as his fabulously good friend. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal."

OBAMA TO TEXAS DEMS: "We became complacent... This precious democracy is not a given. It requires us to fight for it." 🇺🇸

Bending to authoritarianism never ends well. The oligarchs falling out of windows in Russian are a cautionary tale. They thought they’d benefit from the regime, and then the regime took their assets.

This is going to really help the struggling tourism industry.

One man, the son of Holocaust survivors, said, “People being kidnapped without arrest warrants, without trial, without recourse, by the president of the United States’s ICE armies ... We are not headed toward an authoritarian fascist government; we are already there.” trib.al/f5JzLeJ

Kelly: "I had another situation here with a kid who was on his little league trip in a baseball tournament. Border Patrol pulls over the vehicle, identifies the brown kid, he winds up in lockup for a week...this isn't what the American people wanted and I don't think it's consistent with our values"

You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.

Mark Kelly: "I hope we got something out of this. Putin is a war criminal. This is not a show of strength to allow him to fly into the United States to land here to negotiate with our president."

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

This is what happens when you have people in power fanning the flames of conspiracy theories and easy access to guns.

Four CDC buildings shot up. Employees under lockdown and in fear for hours. Public health is physically under attack, and the silence from the administration is deafening.

Stochastic terrorism is what we’re living through and it’s being fueled by the people in power right now.

I guess something good is coming out of the tariffs.

This morning, ICE rolled into a Home Depot parking lot using a moving truck loaded w/agents, like a Trojan horse, to snatch up Latino workers. Whoever they could find. No idea if they were undocumented or not. That’s not enforcement. That’s racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

Federal mRNA funding cut is ‘most dangerous public health decision’ ever, expert says www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Is it their goal to just kill people? Because this will do it.

We should have the House right now. Let me say it again: we should have the House. This ain’t just a Texas problem, it’s a national problem. They’re stealing seats to keep power, and that’s how we ended up with Speaker Johnson instead of Speaker Jeffries. They can’t win fair, so they cheat.

This only makes sense when you realize they want to destroy our country, including our public health infrastructure. Covid vaccines were a huge success - ramped up at record speed, effective at preventing severe illness and hospitalization, rapidly distributed. www.axios.com/2025/08/05/m...

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., denounces Trump tariffs and the firing of a senior Labor official, saying Trump needs to "get this under control" or Congress will "be a check on him."

A really good look at why everyone should be using RSS to consume news. Been doing this for many years and love it. Currently using Reeder by Silvio Rizzi which is lovely on iOS. But there are so many good options out there and it’s pretty easy to move between apps. reederapp.com

The small government, privacy-minded republicans are going to be fighting against this right? RIGHT!?! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

Ironic how I’m reading #Abundance by @ezraklein.bsky.social as I’m sitting at an #Amtrak train station waiting on a delayed train to NYC. America needs to do better.

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

The situation in Los Angeles is about to plunge us into a national emergency, except the people that normally solve national emergencies are the ones creating it.

Authoritarians always go after the media. A free press is their enemy.

FINALLY

The Trump administration just flew two Asian immigrants to South Sudan in violation of a court order, their lawyers say.

Rep. LaMonica McIver being charged by Trump’s DOJ for “assaulting” a cop is particularly scary because it was all on camera with many witnesses and the administration feels comfortable enough to straight up lie with impunity and target a sitting congresswoman

Trump fired over 1,000 National Park staff in February, and most still haven’t been reinstated. The $45 million he’s wasting on a military parade for his birthday could have paid their salaries for over a year.

Have to give Pete Buttigieg credit, it takes a lot of skill to have the FAA run fine for four years, but set it up so it all falls apart soon as you leave office.