Trumpy Government at work. No Kings here either, MoFos! White House and Government Agencies Join Bluesky, Then Attack Democrats www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Here’s a Democrat who’s not afraid to run in the redrawn Congressional District 35 (Bexar, Guadalupe, Karnes, and Wilson Counties): Marine combat veteran and recent senior presidential advisor on Americorps, John Lira! Find out more at LiraforCongress.com

My sense of humor fairly rails.

This lays out the GOP opening move to destroy the Voting Rights Act starting in Texas this summer. Four Congressional seats targeted: Garcia’s, Green’s, Veasey’s, and the late Sylvester Turner’s.

Cooper's Hawk on Odyssey #birds

Anatomy of a tragedy.

Jealous of cousin Jack Schlossberg's appearance on the TV series "Blue Bloods," Bobby Jr. again proves he's the Kennedy clan's king of one-upmanship.

“What’s important for the journalist is not how close you are to power but how close you are to reality.” — Bill Moyers His speech, "Journalism Matters," March 30, 2000

“In the Post, Dana Milbank took in Trump’s pleasure at some sycophantic Republicans’ suggestion that the D.C. Metro be renamed the “Trump Train”:

Happy birthday, Berke Brethed. You were antiracist from the beginning.

Be prepared to help maintain the peace. Above all, be safe. This isn’t a “who’s angrier?” contest. It’s a test of our dedication to the rule of law and right to protest peacefully. Carry on.

Currently reading. #booksky The intro concerning 14-year-old Moses Mendelssohn entering Berlin through the gate reserved for "cattle and Jews" grabbed me immediately. As Jews integrated themselves into German society, it flourished. Cultures disdaining diversity inevitably fail.

I cued this link to begin at a 1952 anti-prejudice TV spot:

As the grandson of Anthony Mazzalin, a Croatian immigrant who arrived in 1902 hoping to follow in his countryman Nikola Tesla’s footsteps, I read this article with a heavy heart.

Northern Bobwhite ♀ Nantucket, MA. #birds

I'm glad to see David Brooks good and pissed off about Trumpism. Lord knows, he's had that effect on me often enough. Kathy and I are both children of WW II vets, and, yeah, we know damn well that our dads were in the Pacific out of love for their country. Damn straight.

“It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you free to desist from it.” — Rabbi Tarfon, Pirkei Avot 2:16, c. 100 CE

Nixon tried to cover up secret campaign cash. Trump is openly auctioning off face time in the White House for crypto purchased by foreigners. Nixon resigned in disgrace. Trump revels in it.

Donny Two Dolls H/T Lawrence O'Donnell Seems to be catching on.

In response to this devastating New York Times piece about ICE detention in Louisiana, I’ll be donating to ISLA (Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy). They’re on the front lines, providing legal help to people trapped in these American gulags and fighting to shut them down.

Ya think?

Lubbock or leave it. … or both.

Looks like January 20 was the heil point.

Hint to natalists: Want more babies? Try offering a less bleak future. Start by lifting the burden of non-dischargeable student debt from young workers. Guarantee healthcare for all, so no one hesitates to have children for fear of medical bankruptcy.

Happy Patriots' Day to those who celebrate. (Official in CT, ME, MA, & ND but available wherever due process is defended.)

Published in 1998 and even more relevant today! After he lost to Andrew Jackson, former President John Quincy Adams returned to Congress, where he took issue with the "gag rule" that prevented citizens' petitions against slavery from being "taken up" in the House.

StarLink is now TsarLink.

Saturday morning marks the quarter-millennial of "the shot heard round the world." Take a stand for our imperfect union at a Capitol near you. May we ever strive for our nation's perfection, free from tyrants, foreign and domestic.

“Now is the time to establish a red line—the Constitution itself.” — Senator Angus King (I-ME)

They called it “deportation.” The trains went to Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek.

"[The President] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." — U.S. Constitution, Article 2, Section 3

“It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness.” — Judge James Harvie Wilkinson, III, Appellate decision in Abrego Garcia v. Noem

Solid overview of “lack of empathy.” Might be useful as more and more jump on the “toxic empathy” bandwagon.

I have identified dark matter and dark energy in the person of Elon Musk—dibs on the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Godspeed, Senator. @vanhollen.senate.gov

The Trump Administration is throwing human beings into a "judicial black hole." Learn about El Salvador's CECOT prison from Noah Bullock of Cristosal Centroamérica, a Salvadoran Human Rights organization.

Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen will travel to El Salvador this week to seek Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release. May both he and Sr. Abrego Garcia return in peace and safety in the spirit of Tefilat HaDerech and Acheinu.

Hot mic: "Home-growns are next." 0:15

USA: the Universal Surveillance of America.

Cory Booker: clear, compelling, forceful.

Trump gutted the labs with a grin, Deported the scholars within. While China advanced, He ranted and danced— And proudly declared it a win. 🧪

More than 500 military kids walked out of Defense Department schools on bases around the globe on Thursday. Signs they carried include: "Hands Off Our Library" Academic Freedom = American Freedom" "Unity In Diversity,"

100 days between the Nazis taking power and the book burning at the University of Berlin. 70 days from the inauguration to purging anti-racist classics from the Naval Academy's library. Books too patriotic for the new Pentagon. The caged bird sings—but not at the Nimitz Library.

I've cued this up so you can go straight to the Ted Cruz jokes. You're welcome.

How’s the ostrich?

"I just want to say one word to you... just one word... are you listening? … Plastics," — "The Graduate,"1967 We should have been listening.

🎵 I Play a Little Part (Kristi Noem Parody) to the tune of "I Say a Little Prayer" The moment I wake up Before I cake up my makeup I play a little part for you… (@POTUS) While teasing my hair, now, And zipping my vest with flair, now I play a little part for you…