German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is stating the obvious: the climate in the USA under Trump is NOT friendly to foreigners. Why would anyone choose to visit, study, or invest in a country that invest so much treasure into abusing foreigners?

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Trump is cutting Taiwan loose, just like Ukraine.

Hey @americanbar.org what the FUCK is this?

He is an empty waymo stuck in a cul-de-sac.

Politicians say they have “national security concerns.” In fact, Chinese cars are better and cheaper, and American corporations know they can’t survive market competition. www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-the...

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo This is really about Helen of Troy allegedly being cast with a Black actress. And Elon Musk not understanding the Iliad or the Odyssey LET'S TALK HELEN OF TROY from memory, while high.

Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton has frequently opted for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost taxpayers more than $24,000 for a day’s work. (Published July 2025 w/ @texastribune.org)

He’s offended because The Odyssey is about something near and dear to him: being an absent father while chasing vanity for 20 years

Absolutely Disgraceful....

Now we get to the Americas. As per fucking usual, rice in the US was mostly grown via slave labor. Rich white South Carolinians and Georgians made TREMENDOUS amounts of money off slave-grown rice, and they strategically (🤮) kidnapped rice farmers from Sierra Leone and Senegambia.

Why is Trump so terrified of teachers? Because like every dictator, he knows the greatest threat to his rule is an educated public. I spoke with American Federation of Teachers president @rweingarten.bsky.social about Trump's war on teachers — and how we can fight back.

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Now do this 49 more times.

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

It's funny to see Disney willfully ignore that Star Wars is only at its best when it is EXTREMELY political.

Ok well we can rule out the dressing rooms at Maralago

YES

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

your performance rating is now tied to AI use meanwhile "88 percent [of executives] expressed concern that employees are using AI performatively rather than adding business value"

Make it stop already.

If my tax payments went to giving every child a trip to the state fair it would still be more worthwhile than atleast 50% of what the gov currently spends money on

Had the surgery, think we are clear on the lymph nodes front too! Now I have chemo. Please donate if you can. As always, sending healing, prayers, positive energy- I truly appreciate you! 💗😘

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

Just assimilate.

People on here will post anything. 'Snuffleupagus is aquatic.' No he isn’t. That isn’t true.

YOU DON’T SAY

Racing to extinction... "Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan. Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area." #ClimateSky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The lawsuit accuses Trump, his foundation, top Florida officials, and Miami Dade College of violating the Domestic Emoluments Clause, which prohibits states from giving financial benefits to a sitting president.

And this may make a great reason for upper age limits on representatives.

I predicted many times that Trump is going to sell out Taiwan during this presidency just as he has tried to do with Ukraine and Xi is well aware he has the first US president who can be taken advantage of.

Release all the Epstein files already, this is getting crazy!

Look, I get wanting to protect your trademark. But, this kind of legal bullying is BS. Y'all know what to do. Here is the website for the Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit: www.metrodetroitanimals.org. Show them some love. 🩷

GET THIS MAN A BIGGER MIC

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

ZERO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......

Yesterday's CPI report found inflation is now wiping out wage gains. Today's PPI report confirms that wholesale inflation has seen its highest annual increase in four years. Food, gas, and shelter costs are skyrocketing, fueled by one man's unilateral decision to go to war.

I’m sick of our media pretending like it’s normal to have a president snoozing during Oval Office meetings then raging on social media in the dead of night. It is not a storyline you gloss over. It is the story.

Mike Johnson, like Sam Alito wants you to believe that the Reconstruction Amendments and the Voting Rights Act were designed to protect white men from discrimination. It’s obnoxious, racist and wrong.

Good morning (It’s still closed)

THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

coachella deserves to be yeeted into the sun for this