Betsy Barton

So.... You should be able to force someone to remain married against their will?

thehill.com/opinion/camp...

New York Times: Scott Perry Says Democrats ‘Hate the Military,’ Echoing Trump’s attacks. The remarks by the Republican House member from Pennsylvania align with efforts by the president and G.O.P. leaders to portray the political left as un-American.

If given the chance, I'd lose my legs all over again to serve in our great military.

The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history.

Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.

"Democratic operatives and candidates need to stop being scared of their own shadows and internalize the notion that attention is good, that even negative attention might redound to their benefit and that the public is so easily distracted...."

Opinion | Chris Hayes: The Democrats’ Main Problem Isn’t Their Message

This is the most relevant article I've ever read on the topic of where the Democrats have gone wrong. IMHO, anyone interested in political strategy needs to read it and ingest every sentence.

Love it or hate it, ATTENTION is the new currency.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...

I don’t do this often, but: imagine if Obama had summoned the generals and announced we should use red areas of the country as a training ground for war

Trump Administration Live Updates: Johnson Shutting Down House Until September to Block Epstein Vote

They are shutting down their own Congress rather than releasing these files? Is the stuff in there about Trump worse than we even thought?!?

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

Sigh

If you’re feeling exhausted from all the ICE news, you’re not alone. That’s the point of authoritarianism and fascism.

But you better fucking believe I’ll have a video tomorrow on this. Everyone, media and otherwise, needs to be loud as hell about what’s happening right now.

Elon Musk threatened to decommission Dragon spacecraft. Here's what that would mean for NASA Space science experts told ABC News SpaceX has been essential to NASA’s missions and the breakdown of a relationship would leave a hole that would be hard to fill.

I've never seen a better argument that we can't trust this to a childish billionaire! NASA needs to have full control of, for example, the means of transporting astronauts.

abcnews.go.com/Technology/e...

Musk says he’s ‘disappointed’ with Trump-backed megabill The billionaire’s criticism could influence the megabill’s prospects in the Senate.

Mild critisism and stating the very obvious about the deficit is not exactly political courage and is no commitment to cost-cutting, especially given the needless havoc he has caused across the world www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

State Department Halts Interviews for Student and Exchange Visas

It's chilling even when you see it coming

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

Immigrant arrests at courthouses signal new tactic in Trump’s deportation push U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been instructed to arrest people immediately after a judge has ordered them to be deported or after prosecutors move to drop their case.

The masks warn by these agents are very telling. These people KNOW that they are on the wrong side of history. They're completely open about that fact, and nowhere near courageous enough to face accountability

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

When the history books write about this time, surely most of the effort will be spent analyzing *why* people went along with his insane demands. I wish decision makers would consider that before they act!!!

Hubble’s 35th anniversary with stunning images across space: Upper left: Frosty Mars with thin water-ice clouds. Upper right: NGC 2899, a moth-shaped planetary nebula. Lower left: Dark gas clouds in the Rosette Nebula. Lower right: NGC 5335, a flocculent spiral galaxy with bright star-forming arms and a central bar. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI

Hubble’s 35th anniversary with stunning images across space:

Upper left: Frosty Mars with thin water-ice clouds.
Upper right: NGC 2899, a moth-shaped planetary nebula. Lower left: Dark gas clouds in the Rosette Nebula.
Lower right: NGC 5335, a flocculent spiral galaxy.

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI

Hi Bluesky!

Kyndr is a place for:
✨Kind Humans
✨Tired Souls
✨People seeking community
✨Those looking to move off of a billionaire owned platform
✨People looking to make a difference

(No racists, bigots, or big meanies allowed)

So "honoring and glorifying DJT's personal economic philosophy" doesn't count as a reason?

DOGE claims to have saved $115 billion, but we can confirm this figure is overstated by 77.3%, meaning the actual savings amount to only $26.05 billion. To verify this, we had to rely on internal connections, as Musk has obscured details of these claims on DOGE despite promises of transparency.

Elon Musk Shared, Then Deleted X Post Absolving Hitler, Stalin and Mao of Genocide The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the murders of millions of people, but rather public sector workers were.

This is who he really is:

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t...

Deeply disappointed and feeling betrayed, not gonna lie

Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

I worked with a narcissistic bully once and the thing is… you can try to appease them for a while and be friendly and nice to try to get them to come along… But it will never be enough for them. It’s always better to just do what’s right despite them.

Glad it's happening somewhere on the right

I would also have expected it to be easier to find legitimate issues. But people have looked before.

Musk and his team have obviously dramatically underestimated the difficulty of replacing people with AI. It takes time and testing. So when they fall on their faces it is going to be a mess.

Donald Trump has 'obligations' to those who brought him to power—Putin ally Vladimir Putin's aide and former Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev has commented on Donald Trump's election victory.

Thr president has 'obligations' to Russia and is ending our cyber security precautions.

www.newsweek.com/vladimir-put...

It's just insane. Running out of adjectives quickly

Musk's businesses have been boosted by $38 Billion in government funding. He happily took advantage of it and is now making sure that others can't.

EPA tells White House to strike down landmark climate finding The Trump administration is weighing whether to repeal the “endangerment finding,” which states that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare.

I'm just speechless. The head of the EPA:

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

We don't want him on Long Island!

Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts The Constitution, federal law and court decisions make it clear: President Donald Trump's order to pause federal funding is against the law, legal experts tell ABC News.

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives