D Frutkoff

@indivisible.org

My little town of Saugerties, NY, had a decent showing at #NoKings — about 500 good demonstrators and half a dozen friendly cops. Nearly everyone who drove by honked in support.
One quite elderly white haired lady gave us the finger, which I also count as success.

Proud to call this persistent feminist my friend

(@pattylyons.bsky.social — reposting for you)

A pair of guys with limited perception trying to prove which one is dimmer.
B+ for entertainment value. D+ for everything else.

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

The gang that couldn’t shoot straight strikes again. It’d be funny if it weren’t so damn serious. Un-f’ing-believable www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

True. If only enough people in Congress would get off their asses, find a spine, and remember their role in the concept of checks and balances.
But that’s not going to happen. They’re hypocrites. Imagine if a Democratic president tried even 10% of this crap.

Bluesky needs something besides the heart “like” for this kind of post.
I nominate “Grrrr.”

It’s not many people. It’s the current US administration, which is deporting legal residents, gutting essential offices in the government, turning back efforts at equality, defunding scientific research, and so on.

Good on Harvard. The No-nothing MAGAts want to hamstring research and academia in general. Time to fight back. Hope the public realizes this is fundamental to freedom of speech

Not so sure. A lot—like, a LOT—of professors and alums have been exerting pressure. This is pretty fundamental, and I think Harvard is figuring “we can stick it out for three or four years if we have to.”

Agreed. But “should be” is working hard in that sentence. Besides Columbia, we’ve seen billion-dollar law firms cave. Turns out having a spine isn’t easy.
Welcome to 2025 America.

Beautiful. Thank you so much for posting.
Looking forward to the album release!

Well damn. Who knew China was #1 in burns?

I’m not there either, anymore.
I’m thinking that holding my breath for that post is a bad bet.

My pics are off signs I liked. And I saw this here bsky.app/profile/krem...

Daley Plaza in Chicago was packed. Overflow filled several blocks. Had to be well over 5 to 6 thousand, maybe many more

Really need an angry reaction emoji.
Yet another example proving that whenever this president makes an accusation ("Fraud and abuse!") he's showing us exactly what he's guilty of.

Damn. 100%

White House Seeks to Contain Damage From Personal Data in Kennedy Files (Gift Article) Social Security numbers, including for some people still living, were included in the 64,000 pages of documents that the Trump administration released this week.

This is a classic Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight story. Unbelievable (except: entirely believable today). This is what happens when the boss has a new whim: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

And this: “Trump does not get that Putin is merely manipulating him to score Putin’s principal goal: diminish the U.S. international position, destroy its network of security alliances — most importantly in Europe — and destabilize the U.S. internally, thus making the world safe for Putin and Xi.”

Lovely, but please don’t waste our out your time on it. I remember when he was shot (yeah, I’m old), but I’d rather know what’s happening in our govt now

Good for you. Resist when and where you can!

Too good not to share.

Kid Rock playing for six months?
Yeah, I imagine he’ll find people to kiss up to him.

All I could think was, is his penis *really* that small?

Not even then.

The annoying toddler now in the White House has, according to the NYT, dismissed the board of the Kennedy Center and plans to install himself as board chair.
The Kennedy Center.
This is just absurd insanity.

Yeah... having someone as president who acts like they're not even 10 years old has really been working out great.
Let's do it for 4 years.

The Middle East? Yugoslavia? Seems they worked out very well.
Oh. Wait.