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Leaves turning. White Mountains, NH

‘The Twilight Zone’ creator ROD SERLING was an early and outspoken critic of censorship. Here he is in 1959 talking powerfully about the insidious practice of “pre-censorship” and its ultimate cause.

Read a book!

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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

crazy as it sounds, we know that certain pesticides and human hormone drugs can act as “endocrine disrupters” and lead to skewed sex ratios in frogs news.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/f...

Three cheers for Peter!

The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.

JAYNE MANSFIELD had an IQ of 163, spoke 5 languages, and was a more than proficient Violinist, as evidenced here playing Vivaldi's Concerto No. 6 in A minor on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1957.

Everyday. Everyday one of these planes turns around, and we rarely ever figure out why. ICE doesn’t think it owes taxpayers or even the people onboard an explanation.

When history rhymes.

Jerry Donald is a great choice for delegate!

Chuck Borges is a great choice for Southern Maryland!

Vote early whether you're in Maryland or anywhere else!

Lara is a great fit for Frederick County!

Volunteering with Third Act on environmental and democracy issues is fun! @thirdactorg.bsky.social

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. Big Tech buys off Congress. No action on AI safety. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Rolling to Remember on the DC beltway in Silver Spring, MD.

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With Sherrill’s signature, New Jersey has established some of the nation’s strongest legal protections for reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare access.

This cartoon was created by Pulitzer Prize winning artist Adam Zyglis for The Buffalo News in November, 2024. It hits even harder now.

The day in 1979 The Muppets invaded the set of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’. #FrankOz #JimHenson #MarkHamill

Carrie Fisher asleep on the set of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ in 1979.

Who are the 38 most influential Bluesky posters of 2026? You get 10 votes, anyone with a Bluesky account can be voted for. The 38 with the most votes make the list. 🗳️ Voting ends the 21st night of September. 🌎 🌬️🔥 Cast your ballot: bsky38.com

Vote early. A warm up to the March on Washington. #volunteerblue

Russell Vought has been deleting some of your comments on the proposed OMB rule to politicize grantmaking. Particularly ones that mention him by name and that his daughter was treated for CF with an NIH-funded therapeutic.

🚨BREAKING: 4th Circuit rules that Lowest Unit Charge "requirement and pertinent campaign finance statutes are clear that neither political parties nor joint fundraising committees with non-candidate members can be entitled to the LUC." A huge victory for Democrats and defeat for the GOP.

if only mitch mcconnell was alive to respond

Bottom line: Americans unwittingly became decoys because President Trump wanted to use his new toy in a way it wasn’t meant to be used. Taking the Qatari plane, which hasn’t been equipped for self-defense, to a country that borders Iran was careless and dangerous both to himself and others.

9/ NMAG Torrez announced that his office is suing the US DOJ for access to the unredacted files. He said Zorro Ranch appears nearly 13,000 times in the federal material and that his office has asked for the records ten times... ...Seven years later, New Mexico is still waiting. 🔚

SAMMY DAVIS JR. tearing it up on the Drums and Vibraphone in 1963. He was quite simply, a phenomenon.

Yesterday’s beltway bridge message ❤️❤️

Today’s Beltway message

DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

I'm so glad the Capital Weather folks are available here on Bluesky now that they've separated from the local paper.

Call em whatever you like, anyone still supporting Trump at this point does not get a pass.

Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

Who wants to tell him?

John Lewis Day message over the DC Beltway

Today on the DC beltway "ICE murdered Lorenzo Salgado."

Whether they literally kill them in cold blood, or kill them by forcing them into the inhuman conditions of their detention centers...it's all murder. They must be held accountable.

Yep.

This is a fantastic interview about independent media, reporting on the hill, and where the country might be headed.

Hey so, if you use Waymo driverless car services, you are aiding and abetting fascism. Waymo helps ICE agents locate people to terrorize and abduct. The company willingly shares all facial recognition, license plate and GPS data with ICE and other law enforcement agencies—no subpoena required.

Jan 6: 1/5/21 Gen. Mike Flynn inciting radicalized followers through Alex Jones & Infowars. Day before the Jan 6 Insurrection. Full show 1HR, banned from Youtube, etc.