The warm and sunny sunflower

YouTube video by Senator Kaine Ahead of Vote, Kaine Speaks on Senate Floor on Dangers of Confirming Pete Hegseth for Sec of Defense

There is no anonymous smear campaign against Pete Hegseth. All senators have had access to documents—with names attached—that verify his abusive behavior. This nominee doesn’t have the qualifications or character to lead the Department of Defense. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX4_...

Gaslighting is the entire GOP playbook. From ‘biggest crowd ever’ to ‘normal tourist visit,’ they’re betting you’ll ignore reality. If we allow them to keep rewriting history, they’ll keep burning the truth to the ground.

Revisiting January 6th: The Truth in Motion (Videos Of Pardoned Criminals) Uncovering the Lies, Confronting the Violence, and Standing Firm for Democracy

The truth of January 6th can't be erased. Watch the pardoned criminals brutally attacking police inside the Capitol and see what some call 'patriotism.' No spin, just facts.

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The dangerous combination fueling the L.A. fires: Exceptional dryness and strong winds With climate change altering rainfall patterns and making droughts more likely and intense, such destructive wildfires will continue to pose threats.

With climate change altering rainfall patterns and making droughts more likely and intense, such destructive wildfires will continue to pose threats.

Los Angeles under siege as wind-driven wildfires upend city The fires, which burned more than 26,000 acres by Wednesday afternoon, has upended life in America’s second-largest city.

Los Angeles plunged into its worst natural disaster in decades as wildfires killed at least two people and forced more than 100,000 residents to flee.

Trump shares inflammatory video with crude reference to Netanyahu President-elect’s post featuring economist Jeffrey Sachs comes weeks after Israeli PM claims two had a ‘warm’ chat Donald Trump has shared inflammatory video content calling Benjamin Netanyahu a “deep, dark son of a bitch” just weeks after the Israeli…

Trump shares inflammatory video with crude reference to Netanyahu

To be honest, it’s just vanity at play. In my view, whether in interactions or conversations, we should approach each other with a sense of equality. Only then can we share more openly and make our communication more natural and sincere.

Can I interview you about how you feel when people call you buddy?

I wish everyone everything goes well in the new year!🤗

Yes, you can tell from your facial expressions.

happiness

Wishing everyone a joyful Christmas day spent with family, enjoying happy moments together.🥰

The Christmas Tree in Space...

A nebula with stars. Dense clouds of dust and gas cover the left-hand side and a filament crosses the centre horizontally. Billowing streams of gas and dust in various colours emerge from around the centre. The very centre of the image is permeated with glowing orange regions. Many blue stars with cross-shaped spikes lie in the foreground, and small point-like stars are visible beyond the clouds

thinking about this hubble image again it’s so beautiful

image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Fedriani, J. Tan

NASA: La sonda Solar Parker "tocará" el Sol en Noche Buena. "Ningún objeto creado por el hombre ha pasado nunca tan cerca". www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/cie...

Now he wants Greenland too.

So Annex Greenland & Canada… Invade Mexico… Steal the Panama Canal...

Imagine the reaction if any other world leader was regularly saying belligerent stuff like this.

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I hope everyone had a wonderful and enjoyable weekend!

beautiful

It looks cool.

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Have a great weekend everyone!

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beautiful

I do astronomy for a living, and images like this *still* take my breath away. What a beautiful universe we live in. Even in the midst of trouble, grief, & anything you might be struggling with (like we all are) - try to seek out the beauty. It helps ❤️

YouTube video by Texas Paul Texas Paul crushes the MAGA billionaire disinformation bubble nonsense!

Right wing MAGA millionaires and their corporate media minions are losing their damned minds over the shooting of one CEO. They say we live in a bubble. I dispatch that nonsense here. It's worth a couple minutes of your time. youtu.be/JH5YE9Cibt0?...

Lady Liberty and Lady Justice say together, “Not resigning”

Dear America,
I want more of this.
Thanks.

(Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social)

Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since Stalin. era.

NEW

Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was held in a Russian prison for 478 days on sham charges, is back at the Wall Street Journal with a major story on the spy unit which is overseeing the worst repression of Russians since Stalin.

Russia-Ukraine war latest: Nato chief calls for wartime mindset Putin ‘is trying to crush our freedom and way of life’, Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte says

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Nato chief calls for wartime mindset as Trump criticises ‘crazy’ Biden policy move
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