Prior to 2015, if any candidate for elected office had begun a public statement or tweet with this sentence, he or she would have been laughed out of public life.

Now, Americans re-elect them as commander-in-chief. I will never allow myself to become numb to his insanity.

Judge Cannon permanently blocks release of Jack Smith report The Trump-appointed judge said releasing the classified docs report now would “contravene basic notions of fairness and justice.”

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon permanently barred the Justice Department from releasing special counsel Jack Smith’s final report describing Trump’s stockpiling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and allegations that he obstructed efforts to reclaim them.

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I just want to live in a country where the leader can’t enrich themselves with our tax dollars, the government does what the people want, and the wealthy have to follow the laws.

You know, like a democracy.

Here’s an ugly truth. When a President sends men and women to war, they have decided to spend American lives to buy things; to buy objectives, outcomes, results. This president will be willing to trade the currency of human life…for something as worthless as his ego. We will see that soon.

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he going to sign an EO doing a global 10% tariff and investigate people and going to do what he wants.

Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators

my new painting 🎨
acrylic on canvas 16x12”

Bridge Owner Donated $1 Million to MAGA Group Before Trump Blasted Competitor

Less than 1 month before Trump came out against a new bridge connecting Michigan with 🇨🇦 Canada, the billionaire owner of an existing bridge donated $1M to the Trump-backed super PAC MAGA | NY Times 🎁

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

A greyscale image of two galaxies. The upper galaxy is large and faint. It has a central bar and a loose, patchy ring of star clusters. The bottom galaxy is smaller and brighter. It has two well-defined spiral arms, which spiral clockwise from a bright central point. The arms are dotted with bright star clusters and outlined by dark dust lanes. The outer arms feature a less well defined haze of stars.

Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 4.

This image contains two galaxies, a larger irregular galaxy, Arp 4, and a small spiral galaxy PGC 6629.

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Julianne Dalcanton, Meli thev, Wikimedia Commons
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On this one I am totally with Kristi. The agents need to go to the Zegna boutique in Rapid City. Perhaps she and Corey can fly them there for a shopping spree in their luxuriously-appointed, DHS-rented Boeing 737 MAX 8

Any Democrat not promising long prison sentences for Trump officials is one who will accommodate Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg, crypto bros, the gambling companies and every other billionaire. And they'll legitimize it under the Democratic brand, with the power of incumbency.

This is my litmus test.

‘Hell-heron’ dinosaur discovered in the central Sahara A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist

‘Hell-heron’ dinosaur discovered in the central Sahara

A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist
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Nearly 80-year-old Donald Trump jolts awake after snoozing at the ‘Board of Peace’ inaugural meeting.

Days without embarrassing the United States: 0

YouTube video by WillieNelsonVEVO Willie Nelson - Heart Of America (From The Gray House Original Soundtrack)

youtu.be/0bhcO4Yphuo.
Some of our best artist are singing, new anthems!
We can use as many folk songs as we can get right now! Willie is up with the greatest! Love the words

On Thursday, DOJ posted a huge image of Trump on a banner with the words “Make America Safe Again.” I know an easy way to do just that- ARREST THE CRIMINAL on the banner!

I didn’t follow his work as an actor, but I became a fan of his bravery over the last year fighting ALS in public to raise awareness about that horrible disease. Rest in peace Eric Dane.

The first Tesla Cybercab just rolled off the assembly line. I expect that Cybercab will remain a catalyst for $TSLA until they attempt volume production. And I don't expect that any time soon.

Mercury was only 50 arcminutes (0.8°) above a very young waxing crescent Moon this evening. KAS member Pete Mumbower captured this image from his home in Vicksburg, MI.

serious (if not unbiased) question: Can you name an artist, in any medium, with a body of work equivalent Frederick Wiseman's? 47 films over nearly 60 years, some of the best right at the end, a cumulative portrait of staggering breadth and insight. In movies? Only Scorsese comes close.

Main gallery hall ceiling with iron bracing stone work archways carved columns

The Natural History Museum London SW7

Main gallery hall ceiling with iron bracing stone work archways carved columns

#reference #materialreference #buildingreference

A grainy, black-and-white image of a two side-by-side galaxies. The left galaxy is a bright spiral galaxy with star clusters, crossed by dark dust lanes.. The right galaxy is a lenticular galaxy. It bright white center that gradually becomes more transparent near the edges, emitting a hazy glow. A few white dots, which are stars, are seen on the black background.

Image of Arp 140, also known as NGC 274 and NGC 275, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966).

In the original catalog it was in the category: Elliptical galaxies - Emanating material. The pair is a barred spiral and lenticular galaxy.
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Promotional graphic for the Criterion Channel titled "MARCH ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL." The top half features a large image of Sarah Michelle Gellar from 'Cruel Intentions' holding a finger to her lips in a "shushing" gesture.

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#Canada #Ukraine

Finland's president, Alexander Stubb, is always worth listening to. Here he explains why he thinks that Russia is not, in fact, winning the war (as some say).

[panel at the Munich Security Conference]

#Ukraine

But you see, if an Abrams is doing this in Ukraine, it’s a waste of taxpayer dollars…or escalation…or something

Photo of my bike before sunrise on a cloudy day on the Chicago lakefront trail near north Avenue facing the skyline south

Good morning Chicago

“.. We could spend the whole day reacting to every buffoonish spectacle coming out of the White House, but that's exactly what they want: for us to lose focus …
Don't be distracted by the noise; watch what they are doing to your rights while you stare at the screen.”

We are proud to see our city setting the standard for the rest of our state. Our community relies not just on roads, but pedestrian & cycling infrastructure to reach their jobs & schools safely.

That's why we believe the East Bay Bike Path should be managed as essential transit infrastructure. 1/2