Now we are hearing from Sky and Amanda Roberts. Sky is the younger brother of Virginia Giuffre. He explains that Virginia was only 16 years old who had just finished 10th grade when her sex trafficking by Epstein began. Her abuse began just down the street from this hearing.

The world seems diminished with your passing but you made us and it better for having been here. Peace to my friend Ursula Roma. ursularomametalworks.com

Broken people working on world changing tech, what could go wrong?

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There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

I'm disappointed that the Antichrist we got is an obese, incontinent, psychopathic, stupid and sundowning child molester rather than the attractive, charismatic, intelligent and physically fit false Messiah we were warned to watch out for.

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

I could not have said it better!!!❤️💯

Labour has mutiliated itself to make fascism inevitable in the UK. And verily, that's exactly what centrists in America are advising we do, pretending we haven't already tried that!

Mayor Karen Bass

Okay, time to tell the story of how I accidentally taught my daughter about the birds and the bees. Strap in, because it gets a little weird. 1/n

Big tech companies are building massive, energy-guzzling data centers to power their AI models. And rather than paying for the cost of new infrastructure to accommodate those data centers, some of the richest companies are passing those costs onto you. You shouldn't be subsidizing AI data centers.

30 percent of Americans are against [squints at notes] the Pope urging peace

#goodmorning #ADK #adirondacks #flowers #trillium #troutlilly #jackinthepulpit #largefloweredbellwort

We have truly gone back in time to the McCarthy era. This is such an obvious retaliation against Louise Lucas for her important leadership during Virginia’s redistricting fight. Punish your political enemies, smear dissent, weaponize government power.

New Yorkers always respond well to shit like this.

Red states didn’t wait. The second SCOTUS butchered the Voting Rights Act, they went all in. Louisiana: Roughly one-third Black, and now they’re pushing maps that could leave the state with zero Black representation in Congress. The solution: Blue states need to match the urgency.

Apologies to the source. I forgot to note it when I first reposted but here it is. This was a serious, ‘Now why didn’t I think of that?’ moment for me.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin — the third-richest man on the planet — is reportedly spending $57M to defeat California's proposed billionaire's tax. So he and his fellow oligarchs can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections? See the problem...

#ADK #MayDay #trillium #beaver #boquetriver #shoeboxfalls #lilypond

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

My Threads feed is full of Black folks absolutely gutted and despairing over today’s Voting Rights Act ruling. I love Bluesky for so much, but today is one of those historical moments where it is stark that we really live in two different Americas.

Back in my college days this nerd had a collection of tapes of famous SC arguments. Some Justices were serious people.

April 29, 2026

Blood and Soil speech from his Orangeness. My Irish ancestors are spinning in their graves.

Penguins’ Kris Letang banks improbable game-winning goal off glass vs. Flyers https://www.europesays.com/us/758704/ PITTSBURGH — Penguins defenseman Kris Letang scored one of the Stanley Cup playoffs’ more peculiar goals in Pittsburgh’s…#us #news #usnews

The Penguins needed Sidney Crosby to do Sidney Crosby things against Philly. The captain delivered https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/561493/ Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby, right, is defended by Philadelphia Flyers’ Luke Glendening (41) during the third period of…

Just putting these out for no particular reason:

April 26, 2026

An exhausting week of moving followed by great weekend in the North Country! #ADK #bywatercall #PB&J #mtb

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Am I understanding this correctly? The President, the Vice-President, the Speaker of the House AND the Secretary of Stare were all at the White House Correspondent's Dinner together and security was so laxed that a guy ran through security with a long gun? I call bullshit.

www.commondreams.org/news/no-king... NO KINGS!!!

Turns out billionaire is a mental illness.

just have to note these hangers on wiped out a generation of potential legislators

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

For those attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend, a small question: When you're sitting there at your table, do you think it'll cross your mind that the guest of honor is actively covering up his role in a massive child sex trafficking operation?

Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%

Wow missed this. “Norway reached 117% renewable electricity use in 2023, producing more than it consumes and exporting the surplus. “