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🔥MUST-WATCH: “People on the right use the term ‘WOKE-ISM’ to deflect and distract from class politics. DOGE was a perfect example.” @evanjmez.bsky.social takes piers to school on jubilee. Every word of this. Worth the 90 seconds of your time.

Night Sky on Mars #nasadailyupdates

There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.

Lindsey is just a big baby, so there’s that as well.

#Iowa It's what makes #Miller-Meeks into a speedwalker

Angie Craig: "I have no idea why we think it's a good idea to repeal a tax on silencers when we are going to feed fewer children in our country as a result of this. It's a moral damn failure is what it is."

Republicans are sneaking votes in the middle of the night to slash Medicaid for nearly 14 million Americans. Democrats are standing in solidarity with veterans and people with disabilities and chronic illnesses. Big difference. #HandsOffMedicaid @whipkclark.bsky.social

Tonight, Rep. Katherine Clark got straight to the point on the Capitol steps: Republicans are breaking Medicaid so they can rob it. @whipkclark.bsky.social #HandsOffMedicaid

EXCLUSIVE: We dug up a video of Donald Trump trashing Qatar in 2017 calling them “funders of terrorism.” I’m sure he would hate if this clip changed their mind to give him a $400 million plane - so definitely don’t repost it.

Christopher Hitchens on Christianity.

Stephen Fry's argument against God and His morals.

I have just finished The Dawn Of Everything and I highly recommend it if you're interested in the structure of society or how we look at history. It's a commitment (525 pages and reasonably dense) but it's eye-opening. And gives you hope for the future - there are *other* ways of doing things.

The Hubble Space Telescope turns 35 this week. To celebrate, here's one of its most iconic photographs: the Pillars of Creation. These pillars are actually star-forming regions of gas and dust, and from top to bottom are more than FIVE LIGHTYEARS tall—farther than the distance to our nearest star.

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

Trump claims: “Nobody has done more for Christianity, no one has done more for religion of all types than me.”

Owning the libs.

WATCH: “I’m here because I will not be bullied.” A pardon attorney fired by Trump says Trump’s DOJ sent armed U.S. marshals to deliver a letter warning her not to testify before Congress about Trump’s DOJ’s abuse of power. Context: www.yahoo.com/news/us-just...

Brian Kilmeade blamed USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada-Agreement) for unfair trade practices. Donald J. Trump proudly replaced NAFTA with USMCA in Oct. 2018. The agreement went into effect in July 2020. I provide receipts. USMCA is Trump's trade deal.

🚨MUST-WATCH: “Something very fishy is happening.” @mrglobaltoo.bsky.social deep dives on Strategic Storage Partners, the shady self-storage real estate company Trump’s Secretary of Energy just awarded $1.4 BILLION to manage our strategic petroleum reserve🤔 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DIAXDvj...

Um — Trump just turned over management of our 🇺🇸 strategic petroleum reserve to a mystery company, who will get $1.4 billion to run it? 🤔 www.devdiscourse.com/article/head...

America, you f**ked up! She warned us. She had a plan that would have benefited everyday Americans. But too many ignored her—because it was never really about the economy. Now folks are scared, struggling—and we’re cooked.

@gtconway.bsky.social is not backing down. If he has any fear of retribution, he’s not allowing it to shape his decisions or what he says. That’s incredibly important at this critical moment in history. Paul Weiss isn’t made of the same stuff. youtu.be/bi25VIQcbN8

I could write up why there’s no constitutional problem with the President using an auto-pen to sign official documents—or I could just post the 30-page 2005 opinion by George W. Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel that explains why in lots of detail. I choose the latter: www.justice.gov/file/494411/...

Republican Former Lt. Governor of Georgia 👇🏽

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

Rep. Jim Himes: Zelenskyy is watching 70,000 dead Ukrainians. Missiles are slamming into hospitals. This is what he’s seeing, and he comes to the Oval Office, and a reporter asks him why he’s not wearing a suit. And the effing VP wants him to say thank you…

While watching that horrifying, globe-shifting exchange with Zelenkskyy, I couldn't help but think about what a deliberately staged reality-TV moment it was, with two people ganging up on one and screaming a classic, totally petulant reality-TV accusation: They hadn't been thanked enough.

🚨 DOGE is taking a chainsaw to cancer research. 🚨 Kyle—a Veteran, father, and cancer thriver—got a second chance thanks to NIH-funded treatment. Now, DOGE cuts are putting his life and millions of others at risk. Share this. Call your reps. Show up. Lives depend on it.

Trump just laughing it up with his reprehensible Commerce Secretary about selling US citizenship to Russian oligarchs for $5 million. Disgusting. bsky.app/profile/atru...

UPDATE: The charges against her have been dropped “in the interest of justice” (she bit one of the brownshirts that assaulted her) and the private security firm has lost their license to operate. I hope she sues them into oblivion.

@kirstenaj.bsky.social

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I think it is increasingly clear to most, that beneath all the cosmetic changes, this is who’s still there.

CNN plays a clip of Russian state TV praising Trump for being "in total alignment" with Putin

🔥WATCH: “My people used to write country songs about this and march with coal miners. Now look at us— singing the boss man’s praises, marching straight towards the cliff’s edge with smiles on.” TN’s own trae crowder on Trump & Elon’s DOGE rampage. FULL: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2P77fEy/

CALIFORNIA — ex NFL punter Chris Kluwe arrested for civil disobedience protesting at the city council in Huntington Beach, where the council planned a “MAGA” display on a plaque at the library. Context: www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

I don’t often feel rage. That said, I’ve been getting pretty damn close, watching one of the few truly warrior like heroes in the world of leadership…Zelensky…being rat fucked by two of the biggest pieces of shit on the planet.

I am one of more than 750 political scientists who signed this statement "express[ing] our urgent concern about threats to the basic design of American government and democracy" drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...

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Hard to imagine Putin could’ve dreamed up a headline better than this. www.lbc.co.uk/usa/politics...