Daniel O. 🖖🏳️‍🌈

We know. Unfortunately most of us aren’t in a position to do much about it. Someone who was a US Senator, on the other hand …

“A walking conflict of interest… $20 Billion in 🇺🇸 government contracts…” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is an ominous precedent to set.

Huh. Wonder if this has anything to do with vaccines?

Human Shield is such a unique name for a little boy. Is it from Afrikaans?

ya know, there used to be plenty of Republicans who I certainly disagreed with on a lot of things but who I at least believed had some personal integrity. Thinking of Bob & Elizabeth Dole, Lamar Alexander, John McCain, Olympia Snowe, etc. … are there any still around?

Yeats has this pinned to the wall...

For how can you compete,
Being honour bred, with one
Who were it proved he lies
Were neither shamed in his own
Nor in his neighbours’ eyes;

PROGRESSIVES AGAINST KAMALA HARRIS IN 2024: "Don't vote for her!!!! She isn't good for Palestine!!!!"

DONALD TRUMP IN 2025: "We should ethnic cleanse the Palestinians from Gaza so I can build some Mediterranean-view condos."

I used to get a couple of those pop up occasionally after I’d watch something by a trans creator, but luckily they’ve been overpowered by all the Drag Race content and Heartstopper reaction videos.

Their democracy died. They have lessons for America about Trump’s power grab. Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late.

Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 authoritarian power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late.

Just like Justice Thomas

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“The AFL-CIO has launched the Department of People Who Work for a Living (DPWL), a new campaign to hold Elon Musk's Dept of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, accountable & make sure the federal government is responsive to working people & not just to the whims of an unelected CEO like Musk.”

Will I be able to emigrate there from West Virginia?

It’s definitely time to just let the dinosaurs win.

For certain definitions of “okay,” I guess. But it’s not getting any easier.

Keep fighting the good fight, sir.

My solution for here on BlueSky was to use the list function and put together all the authors, sciency people, and other mostly non-political posters I follow. So I can just go there for a dose of relative normalcy.

We had such good luck with long-term occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, surely nothing could go awry, amirite?

Fant4stic’s Thing is just a disgrace.

When are you going to stop using cute euphemisms and call this what it is?

I can think of worse outcomes.

Crockett: “I’m tired of the white tears. If you’re competent you’re not concerned. When you compare me to Greene/Boebert there’s no comparison… The only ppl crying are mediocre white boys beaten out by people that had to work much harder.”

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFp8K0M...

We're not fighting culture "wars" so much as enduring the right's cultural assault on the basic premises that:
1) people should be left alone to live their own lives when they're not hurting anyone *and*
2) that public systems should aim at fair treatment of all people.

The Trashing of Science by Robert F Kennedy Jr | Science-Based Medicine If confirmed, Kennedy will keep trashing science and will continue exploiting the trashed science he helps create for his own benefit.

"Kennedy...repeatedly refused to acknowledge the vast amount of valid, peer-reviewed research showing vaccines are not associated with autism...he straight up cited invalid science as valid to Dr. Cassidy. If confirmed, Kennedy will keep trashing science."
sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-trashing...

Even hellsite's severely limited and compromised fact-checking system won't abide a lie this blatant:

It’s weird to think that when I first joined BlueSky, I was mainly planning to use it to follow people who post about science fiction, fantasy, and comic books.

“You see, the President of the US is like a mob boss in that …”

“Aggressive Incursion”
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Transparency? What’s that? 🤷🏻‍♂️