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We Ride at Dawn

While reading the news from Budapest, take a moment to look at this photo of Hungarian-American Bela Lugosi at an antifascist rally in Los Angeles during the war.

Let’s settle this, is Nigel Farage a racist? Like if he is. RT if he is a traitor.

On this day in 1880, Frances Perkins was born. As FDR’s Secretary of Labor, she played a vital role in the enactment of Social Security & the minimum wage. Through it all, she kept a file labeled “Notes on the Male Mind,” with strategies for dealing with sexism. #WeTheMen www.npr.org/2009/04/16/1...

Now that's a beautiful sight

A stunning display of nature: a Cumulonimbus cloud adorned by a mesmerizing Lenticular Cloud. Witness the beauty of the sky like never before.

It's not surprising that the MAGA coalition is fighting and fracturing. MAGA was always primarily a personality cult, and Trump is so undeniably weak and fading that he's no longer able to hold the cult together. Back before he took office, I predicted this would happen rather quickly, and, well...

cat making delicious vegetable soup

So ya "Trump ended Netanyahu's war on Iran, unlike Kamala who would have nuked Tehran." is absolutely a take you're gonna see this week and you're gonna get called an idiot to not seeing how obviously true it is.

Monarch butterflies have long survived the winter through a spectacular feat of cross-continental migration. But they need our help. https://reasonstobecheerful.world/monarch-butterflies-survival-conservation/

Artemis II is the best of us at a time when we're experiencing far too much of the worst of us.

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

And the first biracial kiss shown on TV.

Here here. "If you're watching, you are buying in. Harry Potter is now a byword for the industrial-scale erosion of the limited rights trans people had managed to win, and the equally galling mass indifference to that erosion. She has ruined it utterly. "

Omfg - the Wolverbean

Jfc they gotta stop doing crap like this When I used to consult for oil&gas people cant tell you the amount of maps I saw with pipelines and ports planned to just be dropped into the middle of the great barrier reef (queensland's got some of that gassy gold) like they didnt give a fuck

Everything they are doing is straight out of P2025. This was always the plan. And they are halfway through implementing it in a little over a year. www.project2025.observer

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

You can use our new database to explore the financial disclosures — and potential conflicts of interest — of President Donald Trump and more than 1,500 of his appointees. Here's what Trump budget chief Russell Vought has disclosed:

Historians: The Trump administration wants to issue oil and gas leases across the greater Chaco landscape. They've given the public ONE WEEK (till 4/7) to weigh in on the future of this immensely important place. Please tell them what you think: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-...

Friday

they don't call him jesus cluckin' christ for nothing

in this dog house, we believe

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock. straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

Donald Trump is a convicted criminal. His administration is a criminal enterprise www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Pedolf & Miller : War Porn Addiction & Neo-Nazi Sadism

Well done. #NoKings

Peace envoy by day & Billionaire fundraiser by night Kushner is doing both — Seeking $5B for his private fund while negotiating on behalf of the US govt w/ the same Gulf countries We @democracydefendersfund.org filed a legal complaint sounding the alarm @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social👇 -TN

but would we read "Flamefart Fuckchop's Big Day Out 🐉"? I'd at least flip it over to read the back

Today, I'm introducing my wealth tax — and more than 50 members of Congress are joining me. It’s time for the government to start working for American families, not just the ultra-rich.

The funniest thing about Harry Potter is that it is objectively complete and utter shit. Some of the worst writing of the century. Like, just about the easiest thing to bin even if the author wasn't a steaming clump of crap.

The capitalist ghouls who refer to what was once art as "IP" and "content" want nothing more than for you to convert from Producer to Consumer. Producers are competition. Consumers are profit.

housing is more expensive now, but also a lot safer. this kind of home was considered cream of the crop in the 1980s

Trump continues to punish Colorado

I remember when Gallup wasn’t so frightened of an increasingly unpopular and erratic president that it would actually do presidential tracking polls. www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/p...

I have worn the baby shoes which were in the shoebox and which you were probably saving to return Forgive me they were ill-fitting so baby and so shoes

Apologies, but it seemed to fit the theme

The Trump administration has been strangling a 60-year-old program that provides birth control, cancer screenings, and STI testing to millions of Americans: Title X. Championed by George H.W. Bush, signed into law by Nixon in 1970, passing the Senate unanimously. It was uncontroversial, until now.

I have lived in Los Angeles for nearly two decades and I have never experienced the kind of yellow smog that used to define this city why? because we cleaned that shit up none of this is beyond salvation

The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, Washington DC

Nate Cavanaugh has gone viral recently for his taped deposition about DOGE eliminating "DEI" grants. He's also a key figure in our story from last year. We found that he helped expose a sensitive Afghanistan program, leading to a brutal Taliban crackdown.

Same! That's why I needle felted this! Stabbity stab stab!! Pins included!

Chapter 1: The end.