Thank you for posting this @cristianfarias.com and thanks to José Mario de la Garza for writing it. Because the 1st paragraph in the 3rd screenshot is EXACTLY how I have felt about the Trump administration:

We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions

You can tell how much Trump cares about the wellbeing of Venezuelans by how he arbitrarily and cruelly revoked protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan-American immigrants just a few months ago.

I expect evil people to do evil things I also expect people selling themselves as a bulwark against those evil people to fight tooth and nail against the evil things evil people do only one of these groups is currently performing according to expectations

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

Absofuckinglutely ghastly.

Let’s loosen our grip on the mofocken pearls, people, regarding the Kennedy Center. Yeah Big Gross Idiot Guy’s renaming schtick is bigly gross & idiotic, but jeebus folks isn’t the outright MURDEROUS behavior of more immediate concern?! No wonder we can’t crush this Nazi scourge!

“Sir, you wouldn’t come to this committee and say something you can’t prove, I know. I knew you wouldn’t do that,” Thompson said. www.mississippifreepress.org/where-does-a...

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

I couldn’t have said it any better.

What fresh racist buffoonery is this?

QUESTIONS: 1 why do people post *images of text* rather than posting the text itself, or a link thereto? 2 why do people who post images of text, even when providing Alt of the text itself, fail to cite where the text is from?

A cool thing I have seen reshared a couple of times without Alt text or with only the words reproduced.

the people who said "the bombing would stop if Gaza released the hostages" are very quiet lately

So many people, so many families in Gaza are living in such horrifying circumstances - I cannot help and it’s so hard to bear. Mona touched my consciousness a year ago and it’s so painful she and her kids still are suffering from Israel’s ongoing campaign to destroy their people.

If you believe me , thank you. If you want to share my voice , I’m grateful. If you still doubt me , please leave my page. I have no content to offer. I am not an influencer. I am simply… trying not to die. That’s all. chuffed.org/project/mona...

I very much hope that @murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov and my Rep @repricklarsen.bsky.social heed this call.

Amen.

SO MUCH THIS!

Very good reminder.

“As a Republican, who overwhelmingly votes for President Trump‘s bills and agenda,” she might consider that “his aggression against [her]” and against everyone he has any dislike for is all part and parcel of that same hateful agenda she has so gleefully supported up to now.

The only thing I needed to read about the “what just happened” shutdown. I freudianly typed “shitdown” at first. It was a shutshow. And we have lost so much.

I put a 📌 in this to read in full later, when I have time/ mental bandwidth.I heard part of the Fresh Air interview on this topic last week and this Vought geezer is one abjectly malevolent mofo.

Please understand that people will not be "going without SNAP/EBT/food stamps" - people will be going without FOOD. Actually and literally.

A stunning catalog of criminal, unethical, and obnoxiously vile actions.

Reshare via @jamiedupree.bsky.social who failed to provide Alt text. Senator @markwarner.bsky.social (D-VA) statement on exclusion of Democratic senators from briefing on military strikes.

News organizations are fond of saying they don’t want to be in the news, as they so nobly and objectively want only to report the news. 1/2

I haven’t seen any U.S. mass media outlet mentioning this, or questioning it, much less complaining.

Salient comment on the publicly spoken gibberish of “Justice” Amy Coney Barrett. Deep shame on every Senator who confirmed this unqualified joke.

Soooo once again I find myself wondering about the New Ways of Social Media, which I as Gen X apparently am too ancient to understand. Now people don’t post links to articles etc, about which they have smth to say, instead posting just a screenshot of the headline, with their hot take/comments… WHY?

Spouse and I had a fun time watching #SpinalTap II at our small town cinema with 2 other people… the nostalgia was thick and the cameos fun, but the best part was finding out about drummer Valerie Franco, who beat new life into the Tap!

Wow I just watched the documentary about #Devo on Netflix. I was familiar with their hits as an Mtv tween in the early 80s and I’ve dug Mark Mothersbaugh’s work in cartoons and other shows, but hadn’t realized they were so amazing, and spawned in the aftermath of the murders at Kent State - whew!!

I haven’t shared the E-files obsession because I honestly feel there are far more critical matters to address, so I ignore most stories focused on them. This one provides a clear and concise overview of the current status though, and i’m grateful for it getting me up to speed.

it is appalling that @jennbudd.bsky.social feels unsafe enough to post this.

I had not thought of nor realized this but I believe it is true. And the fascists who have seized power with the complicity of millions of white Americans are moving swiftly to dismantle all that was fought for, while the rest of us white Americans are sitting dumbfounded.

EVIL.

www.courtwatch.news/p/exclusive-... Found via @skiles.blue - I wish there was more nonspecialist reporting on this, because it seems important! WTF is going on?

Junk science and fascism. Dr.Gunter: “Dr, Timothy Snyder, a noted expert on fascism, offers the best framing–fascism, he writes, is ‘the triumph of will over reason.’ This strips away right-wing and left-wing ideologies, and just leaves us with the perversion of truth in the quest for domination.”

For your consideration @governorferguson.bsky.social

Mind BLOWN at how long and how short 34 years can seem. Also, RIP Paul and Robert. 😔

Thank you @sifill.bsky.social and @nhannahjones.bsky.social for this, which contains all I think needs to be said about that guy who was assassinated recently.

I recognize one of my favoriteCongresspersons ever, @jayapal.house.gov but I would be interested to know who the sensible young white man is and the context of the exchange. Bottom line: mass deportation of undocumented worker HARMS & does NOT help US workers.

This encapsulates all my thoughts and feels on the use of AI in education.

Dear news outlets: Link to the actual things you're writing about. A lawsuit? Link to it. A previous court ruling? Link to it. A bill? Yup, link. So often we instead get a link to that outlet's past coverage, only to learn the original story also didn't link to the source. This is bad. Stop it.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

“People shouldn’t be killed because of political beliefs!!!” Me thinking of all the women and girls dying because they can’t get medical help thanks to the GOP’s ham fisted abortion bans: “Yeah. No, I know.”

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely