David Rosenfield

Douglas sitting on me.

Douglas
#orangecat #catsky

For reference, I'm 6'2".

Douglas and me

Douglas and me

Douglas and me

THIS. CAT. IS. HUGE.

#cat #orangecat #catsky

The rich know this. The rich know that either they fall in line behind the fascists and serve them, or end up on the outside looking in. It's always been the rich who served the fascists, who took their marching orders from the fascists. Not the other way around.

Fascism is destructive at its core.

The point of #fascism is not to "serve the rich." The point is to amass all power, political and economic, in the hands of the fascist elite. If the fascist regime can only control 40% of the economy, and they destroy 50% of the economy they don't control, they then control 70% of the economy.

Netanyahu's referring to Israel as "the Jewish state" and the denial of spousal rights of non-Israeli Palestinians married to Israeli Palestinians, signals to me that the multicultural character of Israel may come to an end. Especially amid the democratic backsliding.

Heartbreaking.

Minor point to make that there are Arabs and Palestinians who are Israeli citizens with full equal rights and representation in government, and the Arab language and Islam have a privileged position *within* the pre-1967 borders.

But their campaign of vengeance and terror in Gaza is inexcusable.

In no way did I intend to apologize for Israel. I don't think that's how you took that, but I apologize if you did.

My Jewish grandmother, born in Berlin, fled Germany in 1937 as a teen. Since she was officially Polish by descent, she could emigrate to the US, which saved her life.

She died a few years ago, age 98.

The survivors and refugees live as long as possible in defiance of those who wanted them dead.

Alice, tabby kitten, with Ricky, Akita mix

Alice, tabby kitten, with Ricky, Akita mix

Alice, tabby kitten, with Ricky, Akita mix

Alice, tabby kitten, with Ricky, Akita mix

Love knows no boundaries 😻🐶
#caturday #cats #kittens #dogs #catsanddogs #akita #husky #malamute

Alice, a five month old silver tabby kitten

Alice, a five month old silver tabby kitten

Alice, a five month old silver tabby kitten

Alice, a five month old silver tabby kitten

Happy #caturday! Say hi to Alice

#cat #kitty #kitten #catsofbluesky #catsky

#ButHerEmails

AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

"No, you can't deny the Associated Press access to the Oval Office just because they insist on using the name 'Gulf of Mexico'," says obstructionist activist radical leftist judge appointed by... (checks notes) Donald Trump.

#trump @ap #ap #associatedpress #gulfofmexico

apnews.com/article/trum...

Ned Stark: Brace yourselves: Dire Wolf de-extinction hype is coming

No, the #direwolf has not been brought back from #extinction. By #de-extinction they mean, "we took gray #wolves and edited a couple of genes."

www.newscientist.com/article/2475...

#Republicans are trying to find a way for their morbidly obese 78-year-old president to stay in office until he's 86 years old. He's all they have?! And they say everyone else has "Trump Derangement Syndrome?"

You shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket, especially at today's prices!

#TDS

Campeões Paulistas!!! #timão

And woke. Don't forget the woke. Whatever the hell that means.

It's hard to tell a #tortie no. #catsofbluesky #catsky

It's both hilarious and tragic that the Trumps are just using these delusional souls to advance their own power.

The only person who seemed to learn anything was Roger Ailes (may he rot in hell), who realized a "Republican TV" channel could sway public opinion in favor of a future criminal.

The ONLY #Constitutional protection we have against a President hijacking the Justice Department so he can never be prosecuted and so he can ignore court orders, is IMPEACHMENT.

Watergate taught us nothing. NOTHING.

Had #Republicans not threatened #impeachment, Nixon would have gotten away with it

It will take radical reform - proportional representation, expanding the House, killing the Senate - to fix the structural problems that leave us with binary choices. But we don't have time. Best we can do is invade the Democratic Party at the primary level.

We can primary all of their asses and nominate candidates who have gonads and are willing to offer struggling Americans a genuine alternative that beats MAGA at their own populist game. But unfortunately, that's gonna have to happen within the Democratic Party.

Right now we don't have another opposition party, and we don't have time to establish one. Democrats are cancer, but MAGA is a heart attack, and we can't treat the cancer until we stabilize the patient. As long as we have winner-take-all elections, we will have two parties. This is political reality

I am by no means "defending" the Democrats. I am furious with the Democrats, arrogant idiots who provide nothing of substance and believe urban demographics, Hollywood, and educated suburbanites will save them because Orange Man Bad. I wouldn't shed a tear if the party were dismantled. However...

This is BlueAnon conspiracy mongering. Even *if Schumer is bought and sold. The Democrats are chicken-shit career politicians who are afraid that if they make a stand and shut down the government, they will come across as obstructionist crybabies. It's really not complicated.

Or deny passports to trans people. Or use presidential authority to ban trans athletes from other countries entering our country. Or threaten to take Greenland and the Panama Canal by force. Or try to annex Canada. Or enact punitive tariffs on a whim. Democrats have nothing to do with any of that.

Or attempt to end birthright citizenship. Or terrorize people with ICE raids. Or make unhinged addresses about ending "woke." Or abandon our allies facing an existential threat. Or appoint a cuckoo science denier to head HHS. Or defund scientific research and kill the Department of Education...

I'm not going to engage in both-sides-ism here. For all their faults, Democrats wouldn't deport green card holders for freely protesting. Or smash the fed gov to pieces. Or try to rule autonomously without regard to law. Or threaten to impeach judges who rule against them...

I think Star Wars has the best allegory: The Democrats are like the Old Republic Senate, concerned with maintaining position and privilege, dying under the weight of its own establishment. They lived in denial until it was too late.