Inspiring and informative. *Gift article* #Gardening #Plants #Environment #Ecology "(W)e are neither above nor apart from the multitudes of other living beings all around us; that our fates are intertwined; that we will only thrive together."

I don't know, man, I think if Joe Biden had kept confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and Iran with Japan, the media might have made a pretty big deal about it?

Under Trump: -An ExxonMobil lawyer runs DOJ's Environment division -An Amazon executive runs OSHA -A crypto and prediction markets lawyer runs the CFTC -A private prison executive runs ICE The list goes on... The revolving door is spinning out of control.

“I did believe the election was stolen and the rioters were patriots - until I turned off Fox News.”

Strange. I rarely hear the news talking about fascism or kleptocracy, the real threats we’re currently facing.

Yes. Respect.

#Racism #PatriotFront

Okay, we’ve now gone through the bitter-sweet 250th anniversary. Now let’s get to work. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-rectifying

The owner of X is embracing an explicitly fascist ideology which is opposed to liberalism, universal suffrage, and racial equality—and yet every Democrat in Congress and most journalists still use his website every day. It’s absolutely disgusting.

Turkish activists have hung a huge banner on Istanbul's Haliç Bridge saying “Hide your children—Trump is coming” ahead of his attendance at the NATO summit in Ankara Tuesday.

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

😳😳😳

It’s a beautiful evening, the National Mall is open and people are having a wonderful time.

Maybe they'll learn something while they're there? Maybe?

10/10

Good to see.

#Homelessness #Unhoused #WealthInequality

#Corruption #CitizensUnited

#CampaignSpending #CitizensUnited

A few days after Donald Trump renovated the Statue of Liberty:

Damn. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This admin keeps thinking that they can erase reality.

NEW evidence shows executives from 3 egg companies plotted to raise your prices. Price fixing is ILLEGAL. But Trump’s Justice Department is giving them a mere slap on the wrist. How small? The largest egg company only has to cough up 0.001% of its profit last year. Shameful.

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 26%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Trump: widening inequality and the unchecked power of billionaires. There's no "center" anymore between a takeover of the government by oligarchs and true freedom. Dems need to learn this.

Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich — not the poor or immigrants or any other group of people vilified as scapegoats. The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has yacht and private jet tax deductions. Hello?

Sci-fi come to life. We live in scary times.

#PFAS #Pesticides #ForeverChemicals

Gotta love Jeff Tiedrich.😄

#GunSafety #SCOTUS

The FTC's for-cause removal structure was a deliberate effort by Congress to diffuse power in government, in an agency designed to diffuse power in the economy. It mirrored the separation of powers in the Constitution. Attorney Sean Flaim explains how form followed function, & what SCOTUS destroyed.

FYI. Another fight to fight.

By Kate Shaw. *Gift article* "When Mr. Trump’s second term ends, Congress should have at the ready a list of reforms intended to rein in an out-of-control executive branch, and to reassert legislative primacy where this president has usurped congressional power." #SCOTUS

I need to try this.

#Oceans #SouthPacific #MarineLife

#UniversalHealthcare #NationalBillionairesTax

A fascinating brief overview of the evolution of "American food". *Gift article* #Food

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

NEW: Justice Sonia Sotomayor denounced SCOTUS for granting Trump power “over broad swaths of American life” by upholding his arbitrary dismissal of the last Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission. “The result is a President who emerges with far greater power than ever before,” she wrote.