I still think it’s backwards that every mass shooter owning an AR-15 is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

Absolutely stunning and just imagine the hard work and dedication that goes into these people being the perfect athletes and artists 🥰

It was good for me to come here this week. I think, living in New York, with a relatively reasonable governor, I’m constantly like “fight fight fight.” Here, connecting with a bunch of black folks from red states in different situations, the message is “survive, survive, survive.”

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Bin Laden didn’t fly the planes himself. But he was responsible. Manson didn’t kill anyone himself. But he was responsible. Hitler didn’t operate the gas chambers himself. But he was responsible. Trump didn’t storm the Capitol himself. But he was responsible. Justice matters.

Looking forward to an unsigned 6-3 decision to crash the economy with a “powerful dissent” and a concurrence that’s like “the thing about the president is that one of his specifically enumerated constitutional powers is economy crashing”

If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency needs to end.

going back to the founders it would have been recognized as an act of gratitude and patriotism to dedicate one's life to service of their adopted country, but Vance rejects the fundamental ideal of America in favor of crude blood-and-soil Nazism that he learned on the internet five years ago

Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.

RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC

someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

We’re watching an entire political party actively protect the single most infamous sex-trafficking operation of our time. This isn’t just silence—it’s complicity at the highest level.

"Night Guest" - my oil painting

ICE are bounty hunters, paid by the head, so what do they care. Grab whoever and make $5K (no doubt paid in part by the people who build prisons). They have no soul or moral compass, but wait. Just wait. Karma will come calling. And I hope she’s a real mean bitch

Newsom is missing a shoe because it’s in Trump’s ass.

"The largest institutions in our country are the most guilty of doing the least when they are available to do the most." Marc Elias

What other country deliberately destroys its people's own healthcare?

He doesn’t care about average Americans. Could it be any plainer?

“Wisdom is hard won -many times it comes from observing nature and learning to live in the moment; in the awareness that exists beyond the mind, past the ego and all of its self-centered suffering. It requires both alchemy and acceptance.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...

I give CBS the weekend before they announce that they'll be replacing Colbert with just an hour of Don Jr. getting increasingly fucked up on every drug imaginable and firing a gun every time someone says the word "woke"

What CBS' disgraceful termination of Stephen Colbert illustrates is how quickly a Republic can fall when the media chooses cowardice instead of courage.

"But I John Roberts worked for the great Reagan and he was stopped from doing whatever he/I wanted so now I am going to impose MY WILL on the country because I am GOD! SCREW THE LAW AND THE CONSTITUTION." John Roberts is more personally responsible for the destruction of democracy than Trump.

Americans rely on public radio for severe weather alerts and more. Senate Republicans want to gut public broadcasting to make room for their billionaire tax cuts, and the consequences could be deadly — especially in rural America.   We must stop this bill.

When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot.

The most Los Angeles sign ever. And it’s true.

In Trump's first 100 days, he alienated us from our allies, crashed the stock market, decimated U.S. cancer research, expelled American toddlers, lost the Canadian election by proxy, and threatened your Social Security checks. But at least he focused on the important stuff.

A red wing blackbird landing on a lillypad. #nature #birds #wildlife #photography

I have a lot of experience using words like "oligarchy" or "kleptocracy" to massive crowds -- and not only do folks not mind, they love learning the etymology. Kleptocracy = rule by/power of thieves. Democracy = rule by/power of the people. That "krat" ending helps folks contemplate a lot of words!

Crimson-collared Tanager (Ramphocelus sanguinolentus) at Tapir Valley. Photo by @waxwingeco

Can we please all agree that this experiment of putting a man who bankrupted a casino in charge of America’s economy is not going well at all?

Loon #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography

Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity.

The fact that the Trump/Musk DOJ — without due process & in defiance of federal courts — snatches people up, puts them on planes, and deports them to an authoritarian country where those people will be forced into slave labor in an inhumane prison should be a much bigger story.

Let’s see your best Monday Birb… #MagnoliaWarbler

"If the GOP could pull Trump’s dick out of their mouths long enough for the oxygen to return to their brains, they might see how batshit crazy it is to run a govt like this... But that would require a spine and these Republicans have the collective courage of a baby deer caught in a 6-lane highway."

Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.

RFK Jr isn’t a kook. He’s a liar, an opportunist, and, in the words of his own kin, a predator. His actions aren’t crazy. They are evil.

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

Call me old fashioned, but being Russia’s KGB agent “Krasnov” since 1987 should disqualify Trump from being President of the United States. Retroactively, immediately, and forever.

A Wren in the Park on a cold Sunday morning 2 years ago 🪶 #birds #Wrensday