I mean, it is true…

I heard someone here mention letting car companies sell directly to consumers as a way to both cut off some trump support and lower prices because dealerships don’t add anything except another layer of cost. Is there a downside?

6.6 billion to end world hunger today. How much do those bombs we used in Iranian schoolgirls cost again?

spouse & I were discussing why folks hate police. Today I learned that police kill 25-30 dogs a day usually in black & brown nbrhoods. Police immunity destroyed any trust built. They are the only one like that. I laughed out loud when spouse says, "Notice how we never say F the fire department."

I love this and we should always remember these rules.

Tonight I am reading shifting shadows by Patricia Briggs. Ben’s story stuck with me. Dominance isn’t only about who you can or can’t take down, but more about who in your life you are willing to protect. We need more leadership like that! We need leaders who pride themselves on who they protect.

I’m not a fan of this building. I just want to be part of both raising the profile of the Obama center and of course troll the now neon green reflecting pool.

Society constrains us & makes civilization & art possible. When men get enough money, they can buy anything & anyone they want. This is the epstein class. Men so rich and powerful they knew they could rape & torture girls & women and never be held accountable. They did it because they could.

Yes yes yes! This is the entire AI industry in one photo!

I agree with everything she says, but when I got to the part about water, what?? nestle doesn’t think water is a human right? Ok he didn’t say that. he did say that the idea water is a human right is extreme. We only die inside a week if we don’t have it. Seems pretty extreme to me! Capitalism sucks

I can wholeheartedly recommend The Sheep Detectives. I haven’t seen many movies in recent years but this one is worth the watch.

If anything is going to scare me away from a cruise ship- this is it. Terrifying read top to bottom.

Snoopy sums up what I want and don’t want quite nicely.

100%!

trying to think of the last time someone asked for my ID & that would probably be months ago when I went to the doctor’s office because medical insurance fraud is a thing since healthcare costs are beyond so many people. But I go to restaurants all the time and never try asked for ID. This is a lie.

I'm sorry what? I know we're there, but I'm constantly surprised that someone can get arrested and maybe die on the say-so of Laura Loomer who has zero status in the government except for maybe being the president's special friend.

This. No real wage increase in 40 years. The first time we got “real-meaning adjusted” wage increases it caused inflation and people panicked and blamed Biden. Biden is the only president to make progress on this issue in my lifetime

Unions made and make America fair and equitable for all. Join your union today! Don’t have one? Start one!

This is the only thing that comes close to explaining the existential dread I am feeling about the unchecked person in the White House. To declare the authority to wipe out one of the oldest civilizations on earth on a whim… I just… credit to @michaelfdubois.bsky.social

I really like this video explanation of immigration. I also want to point out that before this ICE crap, 84% of new small businesses were started by immigrants, who made new jobs that everyone could take advantage of.

Reading Dan McClellan’s book the Bible says so. The most shocking, and yet not, thing I’ve read so far is that Gerry Falwell and others tried to use legal abortion as a way to leverage evangelical power to stop the govt from requiring Christian colleges to admit black people. Racism yet again.

Yes! Previous attempts to kill the postal service include requiring them to pre-pay pension benefits. That’s what is nearly bankrupting them, not lack of business, not lack of customers. This drives up postal rates for all of us.

Whenever we start talking about Iran, I remember that Reagan paid Iran to keep the hostages a lot longer so Carter couldn’t take credit for getting them released. This is the republicans party ladies and gentlemen. Keeping Americans hostages of a hostile government to get elected.

Really great piece of writing about the importance of history on today’s politics and tomorrow’s realities.

I’m listening to Amanda Montell’s book cultish. It makes me realize we all have to stop using 47’s verbiage like “fake news.” I’ve watched the right wing control vocabulary since I was a kid and when you control the vocabulary, you control the debate.

reposting a star wars meme is obligatory.

I don’t mind paying taxes to get services. This is a list of the services I want!

I can't say it better than this. Warning: I didn't listen to the audio because I was supposed to be grading, but the visuals are really good. My only criticism-dancers make ice agents look smother than they do in real life.

I learned the word grift from the 1st trump administration. This time it's so much worse. Heather Cox Richardson's letter from today 2/16/26 says that trump applied for a trademark for his name so his private company could take money from the government for using his name on an airport. 🤮

Today February 14th is Oregon’s birthday. Happy Birthday Oregon!

It's incredibly easy to abuse people when you've decided they aren't fully human.

Oh this is really genius. You changed the terms of my service so now I want a refund. I love it!

I've always been proud to have Ron Wyden as my senator. He's experienced & smart. If he thinks something fishy is going on, it's absolutely going on. He has had his office working on tracking Epstein's money for the last couple years and asking deeply inconvenient questions about Chase and J.Diamond

This is a humanitarian crisis. Locking people up and then not providing any medical care is disgusting. Pregnant women have lost babies and other folks on meds can’t get them.

I'm down for this. I am union, and I support unions. www.rawstory.com/trump-immigr...

This is one of the most chilling photos I’ve ever seen.

This! When I heard this, I realized what they were really after.

This is a direct result of losing the manufacturing jobs we had. In the 80’s in my college economics class my prof said if we lose manufacturing jobs, all that is left are service industry jobs. He saw the writing on the wall about how this would mess us up and it’s been a doozy.

I want to express solidarity with Minnesota today as they work to protect humans and repel ice. American is diverse and multicultural and that is its strength! Immigrants are welcome here!

I'm sorry...what? The EPA has decided that business and not the effect on humans is the deciding factor for setting pollution limits? Why even have limits if they don't save lives. I am pretty sure that's going to be the next step. I really miss when the government protected humans over businesses.

Is flashback in the New York Times calling out the government today? The first item in the history quiz is that in 1917, in order to buy the US Virgin Islands from Denmark, the US government agrees to leave Greenland alone.

Wow!

ICE agents moved into the way of this car and then killed the driver by shooting her in the face. She was an American Citizen. This is beyond horrific.

It’s profoundly upsetting that I could protest today and use the same sign I used in 1990. No blood for oil! The same rich slime balls still dictate government policy and now they don’t even bother to hide that they’re after oil because trumps dementia is too advanced for him to be nuanced

Thinking as I cook my dinner how I changed the way I prepare food because there are microplastics in every organism in this planet yet my fool of a government wants to depose and kidnap a sovereign head of state to get access to more fossil fuels. Gosh I wish anyone was forward thinking about this.

I have to admit that this is the one post that made me laugh out loud multiple times yesterday.

Well this is interesting. Was the DC gunman granted asylum during Trump presidency? Administration is dodging that question. If they’re dodging, it’s probably true.

These people are not human. There is no other way I can explain this. Raiding churches on Thanksgiving and Christmas is inhumane.

ICE is inherently lazy so they don't just take who they're looking for, they take anyone with them. In the raid on a mother and baby mentioned in the article, ICE wanted the previous occupants, but took residents because they were there.

I mean..... about Epstein not being a pedophile....this sums up the problem nicely.