I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party.

We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

Master Flatz (@flatzmaster) I do not think many of those 35% who are MAGA will ever vote for a Democrat. Our best hope would be for them to just stay home.

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One thing that's sadly amusing about the TikTok takeover by Fart-associated folk: the "influencers"who used to make incredible amounts of money off their videos, are now going broke. One went from making $300,000 a month to making maybe $30 a month. We all know where the rest of the money

Either Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is in his Joe Dirt era or we picked a bad camera angle.

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

Analysis of crash data shows that you're 17 times more likely to die in a vehicle fire if you buy Elon Musk's Tesla Cyber truck than if you had bought a Ford Pinto, the 1970s era car infamous for gas tank explosions in rear end collisions.

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carved ivory salt-cellar

16th century,
Benin City, Nigeria.
-National Museum of Denmark
#randomxt

February thaw burner of a sunset tonight.

Middlefield, CT. USA

Coming home to my frogs running about and having their snacks…I’ll never tire of it. My little amphibian children. 💚💚

After DEMANDING that Hillary Clinton's testimony on the Epstein scandal be held behind closed doors, and even threatening her with contempt for her insistence that reporters be allowed in, the GOP has been sending out photos and info to far-right influencers.

Hypocrisy is the GOP brand.

I am elderly. I stopped being on TV more than 25 years ago. At the same time I decided not to watch TV at all. I don’t have a TV. I have a computer. Way more fun! Unplug your TV and let the advertisers know. Hit them in their pocketbooks. Money talks.

the elisons are going to destroy all my favorite pieces of media and cartoons and i know it seems ridiculous with everything that's happening in the world, but the prospect that these ghouls will be taking away peoples escape from the hellscape that is the current real world is making me despondent.

Amazing. Trump is resuming nuclear peace talks with Iran after threatening war because Trump ripped up the previous nuclear deal. If successful talks occur, he’ll take credit for solving a problem he created. I’m so tired.

If when your party is out of power, spending on fighting elsewhere is evidence of not being America First. But when you’re in power, doing even more of this (w/ off-the-charts belligerence) now equals America First, the code’s cracked:

“America First” is a bunch of vowels & consonants w/ no meaning

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of deporting immigrants to “third countries” to which they have no ties is unlawful.

I miss having a president who treated people with basic human decency and could communicate clearly and coherently.

the fact the president of the united states is even thinking about asserting emergency powers to disrupt an election - just a few years after he incited an armed coup attempt - should be the top issue. but the media mostly shrugs and the opposition doesnt focus on it.

Release the damn Epstein files TODAY!!

in 90s Russia, after the right wing party won parliament in their first democratic elections, they caused such misery that next election, the Communists swept the parliament and were back in legislative power

Yeltsin and the oligarchs' response to this was to fire artillery on the Duma

Tiny hazel flower and the top of catkins

Day 1336 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and I shared these hazel catkin flowers the other week, but this is a contorted hazel so sort of different
Top mindfulness and observation skills again today, these are tiny things 🤗 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild

Back to the future? 🤔

Today’s #ThrowbackThursday takes us back to 1994, when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was approved for construction.

In these images, we see parts of ramp converters used for testing the superconducting #LHC magnets.

If standing for children means preventing trauma and abuse, then we should also talk about family separation, documented detention abuse, and U.S. citizens wrongly detained under ICE. Protecting Americans requires facts, not fear-based generalizations. So fuck off temu himmler

Hillary Clinton: "It then got quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and Pizzagate"

The Devil Wind Murders-Book cover available everywhere.

I wrote a mystery at 50. It's a comedy. I wrote it for people who need a good laugh at aging. ❤️ You know who you are. #booksky #comedy #mystery

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Chances are some of that crowd are involved in Child trafficking or worse. Think Missouri.

THEY’RE GOING TO STEAL THE ELECTION. In case you didn’t know already.

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

Uh oh, based on testimony and recently released documents (as of February 2026), Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is accused of lying to and misleading Congress regarding the extent of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Rowley's Mansion, Shrewsbury. This plein-air painting taught me a valuable lesson: always wear warmer clothing than you think you’ll need. This painting is currently can be seen at the Housmans Restaurant in Church Stretton.
#bakumaart #pleinair #artlesson #Shrewsbury #shropshire #watercolor

I know I sound like a broken record, but is our military paying attention?

Do the generals and admirals get it yet? They’ll be slaughtering people in foreign lands while the American people are sick and dying or dying in concentration camps at home.

You won’t be fighting for anything worthwhile.

A watercolour painting of a dunnock

This is a watercolour painting of a Dunnock (previously know as hedge sparrows). Small little ground feeders with a beautiful song 🎶

#watercolours #birdart 🪶