@wizardlyone.bsky.social
As you can see I've bonded with the local Buddha. He was the first person to tell me that they're not eating the dogs. No words were necessary. Have you ever seen Buddha roll his eyes?
I know a lot of people don't care about our country's history, but in history class they probably heard about "taxation without representation." Trump is doing that now, raising our prices without giving Congress any say.
TARIFFS ARE TAXES ON AMERICAN CONSUMERS!
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!
Next month’s job numbers are the street you grew up on and the last thing you ate.
02.08.2025 22:43 — 👍 9111 🔁 1531 💬 928 📌 117Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
28.06.2025 02:15 — 👍 32057 🔁 13618 💬 1303 📌 1377A poll-driven view of politics [and as a Data Person I often fall in that trap] can blind you to the basic human (*and* strategic) fact that the assertion of strength can *increase* strength.
The 2nd paragraph is IMHO the perfect tone for organizational messaging today.
via @aaronsojourner.org
We always knew Piss-frosted Pumpkin Tits wasn't right, but man oh man Edolf is one damaged nazi.
06.06.2025 00:36 — 👍 297 🔁 29 💬 11 📌 1staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
🧢 @trumpfile.org
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
“Detroit Opera says it is prepared for what might be looming, that it confirmed the backing of board members, alerted donors, considered the risks and took stock of its core mission.
“This piece is so worth telling,” said Yuval Sharon, the company’s artistic director”
The richest 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth.
The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.
Read that back.
Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
What would encourage you to add to the baby supply?
25.04.2025 21:09 — 👍 6736 🔁 1795 💬 258 📌 144Omg. This makes so much sense.
20.04.2025 18:18 — 👍 3975 🔁 1200 💬 166 📌 201Albert Einstein died on this day, April 18, 1955.
It is incredible to hear Albert Einstein explain his famous formula, E=mc².
The Executive possesses enormous powers to prosecute and to deport, but with powers come restraints. If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?* And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies? The threat, even if not the actuality, would always be present, and the Executive's obligation to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" would lose its meaning. U.S. CONST. art. II, § 3; see also id. art. II, § 1, cl. 8. Today, both the United States and the El Salvadoran governments disclaim any authority and/or responsibility to return Abrego Garcia. See President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of El Salvador, WHITE HOUSE (Apr. 14, 2025). We are told that neither government has the power to act. The result will be to leave matters generally and Abrego Garcia specifically in an interminable limbo without recourse to law of any sort. The basic differences between the branches mandate a serious effort at mutual respect. The respect that courts must accord the Executive must be reciprocated by the Executive's respect for the courts. Too often today this has not been the case, as calls for impeachment of judges for decisions the Executive disfavors and exhortations to disregard court orders sadly illustrate. * See, e.g., Michelle Stoddart, 'Homegrowns
The opinion by Wilkinson—a Reagan appointee—is a scorcher.
“If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?”
Now the branches come too close to grinding irrevocably against one another in a conflict that promises to diminish both. This is a losing proposition all around. The Judiciary will lose much from the constant intimations of its illegitimacy, to which by dent of custom and detachment we can only sparingly reply. The Executive will lose much from a public perception of its lawlessness and all of its attendant contagions. The Executive may succeed for a time in weakening the courts, but over time history will script the tragic gap between what was and all that might have been, and law in time will sign its epitaph. It is, as we have noted, all too possible to see in this case an incipient crisis, but it may present an opportunity as well. We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos. This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the best that is within us while there is still time. In sum, and for the reasons foregoing, we deny the motion for the stay pending appeal and the writ of mandamus in this case. It is so ordered. For the Court Is/ Nwamaka Anowi, Clerk
Damn, this conclusion:
“We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital... This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the best that is within us while there is still time.”
There’s something rich about putting women in space as a stunt while removing women from STEM as a practice.
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“Any Democratic politician who doesn’t understand this and say as much publicly should have no future in elected office.” talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bukel...
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Our federal judiciary remains a vital check on tyrannical threats to liberty. Join the April 15 nationwide rally for justice
speakupforjustice.law
Ignominious bastards on full display.
Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorial
The word stupid doesn’t really suffice for the full level of idiocy we’ve now reached.
— Ian Dunt
A+ community note.
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Hahahaha! Love this!
@maddow.msnbc.com
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