John Cole
05.05.2025 11:28 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0@jkenevan.bsky.social
John Cole
05.05.2025 11:28 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0With no food entering Gaza for 64 days under Israelβs total blockade, hospitals are seeing a rise in Palestinians suffering from severe malnutrition.
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β‘οΈRepublican US Congressman Fitzpatrick visits Ukraineβs front line, signs a shell for Putin.
"I encourage all my colleagues in Congress to come here," U.S. Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick, a pro-Ukraine Republican representing Pennsylvania, said during his visit to the front line.
A photo of Bostonβs old North Church last night. Projection on the building says βLet the warning ride forth once more: tyranny is at our door.β
19.04.2025 10:28 β π 838 π 206 π¬ 15 π 10I don't want Canada or Greenlandβ¦
I want PBS, Social Security, and The Smithsonian.
CAN YOU SAY THE SAME?! π€
βFor Godβs Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trumpβ
By the senior partners at law firm Keker, Van Nest & Peters.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...
"It is the Republican presidentβs latest salvo against pillars of society" is right.
28.03.2025 01:48 β π 696 π 171 π¬ 22 π 6President Donald Trump ordered that βimproper, divisive or anti-American ideologyβ be removed from the Smithsonian Institution, the vast museum and research complex that is a premier exhibition space for US history and culture reut.rs/43YvQEY
28.03.2025 02:25 β π 276 π 167 π¬ 75 π 54Plane pulling banner that says "go home Elon. Vote Susan"
Flying over Milwaukee
27.03.2025 23:38 β π 6097 π 1056 π¬ 74 π 30Just so you know, recreation and tourism brings in $14b to Utah
βDrill, baby, drillββoil, coal, natural gas brings in $3b
But Republican legislators are wholly-owned by polluters and their rich donor buddies
Corrupt as hell
Making this even better is that Pritzker gave this speech in California.
24.03.2025 20:04 β π 3487 π 609 π¬ 47 π 17βThe Postal Service is American. Itβs a public good. Itβs not here to make a profit and we all depend on it.β
20.03.2025 22:50 β π 1893 π 604 π¬ 97 π 14NEW: AOC in Vegas.
Major challenge to Dem leadershipπ₯
βIf youβre willing to fight for someone you donβt know, youβre welcome here. But I will say this: Those leaders on either side of aisle willing to put their fellow Americans down so they can get ahead; they may best find a home somewhere else.β
John Fetterman is in Israel at the moment.
He met with Prime Minister Netanyahu, who gifted him a silver beeper.
The beeper was inspired by the covert operation against Hezbollah last year, which led to thousands of Hezbollah pagers exploding at the same time after Israeli intelligence rigged them
Casey: Thereβs this whole mentality that MAGA has paintedβlike youβre either MAGA or youβre, you know, drinking soy lattes or whatever.
But there are a lot of people who are just like, βWeβre just regular peopleβwe donβt want a dictator, we donβt want to see peopleβs benefits ripped away..β
EXCLUSIVE: This just happened onstage in front of 6,000 Bostonians at the Dropkick Murphys concert. "This is America, no kings here!" @dropkickmurphys.com nails it again!!
16.03.2025 06:04 β π 46193 π 11178 π¬ 1073 π 1172Pete Hegseth's white nationalist tattoos.
Would like to report some gang tattoos.
18.03.2025 21:49 β π 37111 π 7699 π¬ 90 π 578"If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data," said Staffan Lindberg, head of the Varieties of Democracy project, run out of Sweden's University of Gothenburg. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
18.03.2025 21:19 β π 1506 π 711 π¬ 49 π 49Social Security Administration moves forward with changes that could force thousands to file claims in person The agency announced Tuesday it was putting in place a new anti-fraud step for claims that would require Americans who start their claims by phone to verify their identity using the online system or provide documentation in person at a field office. The change, driven by Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service, could cause particular hardships for the elderly and disabled Americans who have limited mobility
This is not cutting waste, fraud and abuse. This is chaos and anarchy.
18.03.2025 22:45 β π 538 π 182 π¬ 36 π 10I know I say this a lot, but I hope we are doneβfinally doneβwith accepting the GOPβs efforts to equate its βtough on crimeβ stance as meaning it actually want to ensure that laws are obeyed.
Itβs about social controlβenforcement as a means of regulating disliked out groups.
So heartbreaking and infuriating
18.03.2025 11:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Wikipedia image of Major General (Ret.) Charles C. Rogers
Defense.gov google return: Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers
Defense.gov 404 - Page Not Found
https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Wow.
Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC.
βIβm a veteran & you donβt give a fuck about me. You donβt get to do this to us!β
Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out.
Weβre approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.
Actor Debra Winger was among the protesters and told the Associated Press, "I'm standing up for my rights, and I'm standing up for Mahmoud Khalil, who has been illegally abducted and taken to an undisclosed location."
"Does that sound like America to you?" added Winger, who was not arrested.
NEW: Nearly 100 people were arrested after protesters gathered at Trump Tower in Manhattan to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and Columbia University alumnus who was detained by immigration authorities on Saturday.
13.03.2025 19:35 β π 429 π 121 π¬ 33 π 12Chris Murphy: "It is absolutely shameful what's happening right now. The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin."
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