@profciara.bsky.social black-bellied whistling ducks eyeing me suspiciously from my yard in New tampa.

🐝 kind

A YouGov poll has the percentage of US adults who identify as MAGA as just 18% of citizens. However they account for 57% of Republicans. Both percentages are much lower than you would expect from the noise they make.

It came out, of course, the same day CNN detailed that Markwayne the Plumber decided on his own it would be a good idea to take away CBP processing in sanctuary cities, AKA major hubs. Markwayne may be less corrupt than Noem, but he is stupider. edition.cnn.com/2026/05/29/p...

Russia has banned jet-fuel exports and most gasoline sales to foreign markets to safeguard local supplies, amid risks of domestic fuel shortages and higher fuel costs.

You can’t embargo the sun or sanction the wind. As more countries invest in renewables, energy systems become more stable and resilient to global shocks. This shift is already underway: www.worldenvironmentday.global/2026/latest/... #WorldEnvironmentDay #NowForClimate

BREAKINGE: ALF hath backed out of Freedom 250

Ossoff: This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand—that our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas.

Their purge of immigrants is the most unamerican thing I've ever seen. Sadly, their racism is not.

people spend enormous amounts of time fighting online about whether to talk about epstein and corruption or affordability and, look, it’s really not that hard to do both at once

NY Times Reports There is Still a ‘Major Underlying Problem’ With Reflecting Pool — Despite Trump’s Costly Renovation

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Odesa 💔

Heritage Foundation President Brags About Trump Implementing Their Agenda #CrooksAndLiars

“donald trump’s brownshirts” Ossoff going way harder than i expected wow

Tax. Him. Out. Of. Existence.

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Russia’s war machine wipes out lives, families, and the innocence of childhood.

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@andrealaflamme.bsky.social is running, too. She’s a reproductive health advocate, a public health professor, and a union leader. Maine is fortunate to have such a candidate 🙏🏽♥️

I hope all the libs chime in, share this. I want to give the artists who refused to normalize the LiedPiper by performing at his 250 celebration a great big THANK YOU cause anyone thinking our country should be celebrating right now in the land of Todd Carte Blanche's law & order is no patriot.

The Quiz: Can You Spot the Satire? open.substack.com/pub/newsguar...

BREAKING: I'm suing Todd Blanche and the DOJ to STOP the $1.8B slush fund. The Justice Department violated the Administrative Procedures Act when it established the fund, and it must be set aside. You can read my complaint here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-i...

At a minimum say he was "convicted" defamation and sexual assault.

Who needs a majority in Congress (or a supermajority in the Senate), when the Supreme Court can just rewrite laws you don't like for you? Maybe someone with the power to do something about this should, you know, do something about this.

Extraordinary paradise.

Investors are missing long-term gains by not entering Ukraine’s recovery. 🧵 1/9 ⬇️

Note to self: His days are numbered. So is his regime. Plan accordingly.

"Donald Trump and his partner in crime, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, have constructed what may be the most brazen heads-I-win-tails-you-lose arrangement in the history of American government. And to be clear about who is on the short end of both sticks: it’s the American public."

🔴 Ukraine identifies 500 potential targets in Belarus if it joins the war. Commander Robert "Madyar" Brovdi stated that these locations have been designated for response should Alexander Lukashenko join Russia’s war.

Wherever you are and what ever you do to support the fight against corruption, you are making a difference. It’s persistence that matters. HONORING OUR FALLEN SOLDIERS ON THIS MEMORIAL DAY weekend. 🇺🇸 (Photo from Robert Hubbell’s newsletter.)

The Republican party in Florida playing along with the right wing scam that there is voter fraud Florida has made it harder for people to vote. Don't give in. RESIST.

Love this. Call them 👇👇👇👇👇

Not just Rosenbaum. The editorial staff of Matt Holt Books/Simon & Schuster needs to come clean.

Putin goes after civilians. Ukraine goes after oil infrastructure. See the difference? #ObnuleniyePutin #RussiaisaTerroristState shaunpinner.substack.com/p/putins-ret...

A listen, listing of all the civilian targets Putin has had his Orcs attack over the last four years: shaunpinner.substack.com/p/putins-ret... #ObnuleniyePutin

As I just posted the other day, Republicans were appalled at the slush fund, not because it was , illegal, unconstitutional, and the epitome of greed, but because they hadn't yet figured out how to grift from it. Apparently they figured out a way to grift from it.

Queen Hornet during test flights 👑 The footage was shared by an operator from the 2nd Mechanized Battalion of the Presidential Brigade. The video shows training ahead of combat missions.

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A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

Well, this will be exciting!!!!!!! [This is the lawsuit by two DC Cops, attempting to stop the Terrorist Slush Fund. Leon is the judge (also on the bunker-ballroom case) famed for using exclamation points by the busload.]

A vote for a Republican is a vote for a data center in your backyard.

🚨 OUTRAGEOUS 🚨 Trump wants to use YOUR tax dollars to pay off the criminals who viciously attacked Capitol Police officers and our democracy. Democrats are fighting back to stop this "felon-to-felon" slush fund. Add your name and tell Congress to block it! 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

"Corruption is paid by the poor." #PopeFrancis

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Since the beginning of 2026, at least four landslides are reported to have killed hundreds of people at the Rubaya mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a major global source of coltan. Coltan is widely used in smartphones, laptops and e-vehicles. www.youtube.com/shorts/RZ_PH...

Oh this is delightful. Let's start with SpaceX's violation of 17 CFR § 229.504 (Item 504). Their "use of proceeds" neglects to mention they are contractually obligated to use the first $20 billion from it to pay off a bridge loan. This is also while their quarterly cash burn exceeds $8 billion. /1

📺 VÍDEO | Manuela Bergerot, de Más Madrid: "Nadie debería tener más de diez casas. No es un derecho. Por cada millonario que tiene diez casas, hay diez familias que no tienen ninguna. Hay que freír a impuestos a los grandes propietarios” shorturl.at/VVoZP