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I am so tired of paywalls! I've long defended the rights of news organizations to charge for their services but it is becoming absurd. Why should I sign up to some piddling little rag to read one story and then never go there again? Most stories on Bluesky are now behind a paywall and inaccessible

Today is International Cat Day. Hurrah!

Trump & MAGA lost their minds when Doug Ford put this commercial last spring using Ronald Reagan's own words in 1987 about tariffs. Well, I’m bringing that back for those who want to cry & whine some more over it, so Americans know who is really paying the tariffs. You’re welcome 😏😂

So the brain-dead syphilitic man-child in the White House has imposed new tariffs on Canada because, er, it’s a bit smoky! When are you Americans going to do something about your moronic president before he decides to nuke Ottawa?

All is not lost! Hegseth is planning to screen the military for testosterone levels. It would be so much simpler if the moron hadn’t banned beards.

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

#RAPIST#PEDOPHILE #RACIST#WARMONGER #CORRUPT-CRIME-FAMILY #POOL-CLEANER #USA’S-LEAST-FAVOURITE-PRESIDENT

What's so depressing are the relentless attacks of Donald Trump and his hate-filled Supreme Court but that it's all just bluster! Nothing gets done and every day Democrats and decent Americans allow the US to slip deeper into the mire. For Christ's sake, get your fingers out of your arses

Michelle Obama appreciation post, our forever First Lady. 💙

TOMORROW!!! #NoKingsDay 🇺🇸

Why in God's name did Kaitlin Collins simply stand there while Trump slandered her. If calling a reporter "corrupt" on public TV isn't grounds to sue then nothing is! When will this White House corp of simpering enablers finally find their backbones?

No, but you allowed this..

NBC News: “Vomiting bug sweeping across US”. Can’t imagine why …

Note that there's been no threat to sue over this statement. I know I would be suing for tens of millions if I was innocent.

Y'all know what to do with this one...😎

Those crazy foreigners! Recent survey of readers of the prestigious London Times showed 98 percent of them think Trump is unfit for office because of his mental illness.

In a nutshell. 😊

When will the media stop treating and reporting Trump as though he is not a lying, cheating moron who has no place in the White House? The Times today: "Trump brokers Lebanon-Israel truce” No, he didn't! Netanyahu wanted one and told Trump! It's lazy journalism that prolongs America's misery.

So Trump says he ended the Lebanese war by talking to the leaders of both sides! Really? Netanyahu and, er , who precisely?

When will CNN stop treating Trump as a legitimate president and not a dangerous lunatic? I’ve read two “learned” essays so far this morning from their so-called experts in which they sanitize his options as if he weren’t a totally out-of-control nutjob. It’s nauseating!

Did you know that when bees grow old…they spend their last night resting gently on a flower beneath the stars. If they see another sunrise, they’ll gather one last bit of pollen…So when you see a little bee resting on a flower at dusk…pause & thank her. She’s more precious than gold. ~ GardeningSoul

Forgive me for asking. But how can a nation so monumentally stupid as to elect Donald Trump twice have the smarts to send men and women to the moon and beyond? Who's doing it for you?

Marco Rubio declared that under the Constitution being born in the USA does not make you a citizen unless your parents are citizens. Marco Rubio's parents were Cuban immigrants who were NOT citizens at the time of his birth. Do you think Marco will now self-deport?

Washington Post: “To tilt Hungarian election, Russians proposed staging assassination attempt.” Why does this sound familiar?

So the Japanese PM abases herself in front of Trump (“ Only you can save the world, Donald.”) after which your president makes a “joke” about Pearl Harbour. I suppose we should be grateful it wasn’t about Hiroshima.

Thank God Trump is a Russian asset. The last time the US and Russia faced off over Cuba the world came within minutes of a nuclear war. And that was with a sane president in the Oval Office…

Isn’t it wonderful to see all the self-engrossed luvvies celebrating themselves while the world is imploding! The only award that makes any sense is the anti-Putin documentary and that courageous young teacher will likely accidentally fall from a window soon. The rest can go fuck themselves.

Ha ha! I’ve beaten the gas price horror by storing 200 gallons in my bathroom. And to save electricity I’m also lighting the room by candle …

Lyndsey Graham: "We're going to blow the hell out as these guys!" We?Yeah, that flabby pansy, his draft-dodging boss and three vile sons will be on the golf course while Netanyahu gets another crack at genocide.

I’m so tired of media pundits describing Trump as “mercurial”. He’s not, he’s a moron who has no fucking idea what he’s doing.

Who needs a war … three soldiers die in the Middle East, three drinkers die in Texas pub shooting. Way to go, America.

The former Prince Andrew has been arrested in the UK. A former president of South Korea has been jailed for life. A former French president has been jailed. Wake up America! You have the most corrupt government since Caligula and all you do is whine or pontificate.

Dear Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: You may not be aware of this, but it actually matters to the American public whether Donald Trump (1) has the intellect and temperament of a five-year old, (b) is a racist cretin, or (c) as seems most likely, both. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Democracy doesn’t just die in darkness. It dies when avarice and sycophantic rot hollow out the institutions meant to defend it.

Just read an essay by Andrew Day in something called The American Conservative and now I feel I need fumigation. It’s a fascist polemic on why the ICE murders don’t matter because morality is an obstacle to overcome. I’m no moralist, so I could quite cheerfully take a baseball bat to his head.

Sorta seems bad when you put it that way.

Help! I have accidentally signed up for something call The Epoch Times and now find myself in a rats’ nest of raddled Canadian fascists! I thought it was a genuine news site until I discovered Conrad Black is a regular contributor. I hadn't realized Canada had so many deeply unpleasant nutjobs!

Polio vaccine becomes an “option” in the US. Welcome back …

Paywalls will be the death of bluesky! I understand the need for the media to moneterise their work, but now just about everything demands a subscription to read a single story from a news source you will likely never read again. It's incredibly frustrating.

The Week in Cartoons Jan. 12-16: ICE Shooting, Iran Conflict, Healthcare https://bit.ly/4bcUyVS

Paywalls will be the death of bluesky. As a retired journalist, I understand the need to monetarize journalism but I fail to see why I should pay for a full subscription to read a one-off story from newspaper I will probably never read again.