Mark Tapley

The sun reflects in a window on my back porch, casting shadows and generally a golden light.

Morning happiness. #fensterfreitag

6/10
Alabama: record-setting poverty, awful healthcare outcomes, deeply unequal schools. But hey, they’re top-tier in book banning, criminalizing pregnancy, & attacking teachers. Who needs functioning policy when you’ve got culture war red meat? It’s not the trans kid who’s got you living in poverty

Remember, you're under no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you choose to spend the entire weekend reading a riveting novel, drinking multiple kettles of tea, and indulging in a scandalous amount of croissants.

Big Food just got a pass jail free card. The Justice Department unit that handles criminal and civil enforcement of US food and drug safety is being dismantled. It's still against the law to sell or distribute adulterated or misbranded food or drugs. But who cares?
#MedSky
#HealthSky
#FitnessSky

THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS

Trump isn't even negotiating. He's sending letters

90 Deals in 90 Days FAILED

Evergreen

I’m so confused by the folks who said that raising the minimum wage would increase the price of every day goods while also being okay with tariffs raising the price of every day goods…

I reckon they are okay paying higher prices as long as it doesn’t help anyone making a minimum wage.

Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…

Scientists issue urgent warning after alarming collapse of bird populations across the US: 'We have a full-on emergency' A report from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology shows that bird populations across every U.S. habitat are plummeting, with 229 species in urgent need of help.

Scientists issue urgent warning after alarming collapse of bird populations across the US: 'We have a full-on emergency'

🚨 #MomSky
www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/dec...

YouTube video by Kyle Whitmire As part of Donald Trump’s DEI purge, UAB has killed a scholarship program for Black med students.

This whole anti-DEI witch hunt has run-of-the-mill racists claiming to be constitutional scholars and MLK devotees.

When it serves.

It’s convenient to see the world in a vacuum. But it’s BS.

And speaking of such…

youtube.com/shorts/sr6eS...

Registries for pregnant women and children with autism, but no registry for guns?

The notion that any utility exec is doing anything worth 23 million f'ing dollars a year is just hilarious.

🔥 WATCH: @jrclemmons.bsky.social rips @RepChrisTodd & Tennessee Republicans for criminalizing churches and charities that help immigrants by making them liable if someone they help commits a crime

China asks Korea not to export products using rare earths to US defense firms, paper reports Beijing recently asked South Korean companies not to export products containing China's rare earth minerals to U.S. defense firms, the Korea Economic Daily reported on Tuesday, citing government and company sources.

While Trump flip flops again on China tariffs, says he will lower/end tariffs on China, China is not backing down, is negotiating with South Korea to stop Korea’s exports of China’s rare earth materials to the USA. Trump did this 👇

www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out

I don't think it gets more Second Gilded Age than this.

Everything you need to know about "pronatalism" in one tweet.

Why Texas is seeing eye-popping insurance hikes Worsening storms fueled by climate change, coupled with inflation, are driving some of the highest home insurance costs in the country.

You can ignore climate change. But it doesn’t ignore you. These insurance spikes were not only foreseeable, but foreseen. States didn’t act, and now the cost is being borne by the most vulnerable. It will get much worse. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

PEPFAR was providing HIV meds to 20 million people around the world. Without warning, Trump/Musk shut it down.
Now 20 million people are not getting their HIV meds.
It is onTrump that within 5 years, an estimated 5 million people will die of AIDS.
Welcome to the return of the AIDS epidemic.

Just finished this very interesting book, @chrislhayes.bsky.social . Thank you for drawing my attention to attention. And for the great notes and bibliography!

sirenscallbook.com

The Stoics said that hubris—ego by its other name—was the ultimate enemy. That “it can ruin your life,” Marcus would say, because “it ruins your character.”

Say it with us: Constitutional crisis

Joe Biden wanted to end cancer.

The fElon is ending cancer treatment.

But Joe was so oooold.

If Trump refuses to listen to SCOTUS and thinks they are irrelevant, does that mean we can ignore the immunity they gave him?

Can we arrest this satanic schmuck and send him to El Salvador?

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Voices4Victory

The United States sent possibly innocent men to a foreign prison without a hearing ... and put a convicted felon who led a violent coup against the Constitution in the White House.

Archibald: In Lowndes County, DEI has a more sinister meaning Apparently Americans don't do irony anymore.

Trump's DOJ has turned Lowndes Co. Ala. into a poster child for DEI. Seems helping one of the poorest counties in America dispose of sewage robs people of "dignity and respect."

Let me tell you a little bit about "dignity and respect." Let me tell you about this place.

www.al.com/news/2025/04...

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him.

He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.

He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.

He’s defying the Supreme Court.

Don’t you see what’s happening here?

Trump's obsession with DEI has gotten publicly ridiculous

Raw sewage is fine for neighborhoods of color

Of course he won't stop protections for "his" people

Everyone who voted for him needs to see this

Some of them may not be racist