ICE Barbie Gives Giant Border Contract to Accused People Smugglers The company is alleged to have illegally employed Mexicans... and is now building a wall to keep them out.

EXCLUSIVE | Kristi Noem awarded $1 billion in contracts to build the Mexican border wall to a company accused of smuggling illegal immigrants into the country, giving them guns, and allowing them to take part in a wild shootout.

Scott Bessent Interview CUT SHORT By Trump... Comes Back STRANGE YouTube video by WatchlistTYT

Scott Bessent’s interview gets suddenly cut short after Trump urgently calls him to the Situation Room, and when he returns with strange talking points about the Iran war and military loyalty, it exposes an administration obsessed with optics and propaganda.

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A clear view of Jupiter and its 4 big moons this evening. L to R (Callisto, Io, Mother, Europa, Ganymede)
#astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."

-- Susan B. Anthony, who died #OTD 1906

This is another insane violation of the Emoluments Clause.

Today's frog is the giant burrowing frog.

Happy Friday. Enjoy Maximum Dog barking at his own reflection. Missy is unimpressed.

it’s almost friday

Republican farm bill criticized as agribusiness giveaway: ‘Pesticide industry wishlist’ Advocates say the bill weakens safety reviews, boosts industry influence and shields pesticide makers from legal liability

Poisoning us all.

Trump: "They're going out and shooting protesters for just literally standing -- not for doing anything -- for standing in the street. They're killing people."

One of the World's Rarest Turtles Washes Up in Texas, Covered in Living Organisms and in Desperate Need of Help A critically endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle was rescued in Texas after being found covered in organisms. The turtle is now receiving care from the Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research and veterina...

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The Dumpster's USA as a clear Russian puppet 🙄

Why do progressives and justice advocates seem to not care about COVID? It’s still important to warn people about the dangers of COVID and make schools and workplaces safe, Andrew Wilkin says.

"On March 15, supporters of people with long COVID, along with those raising awareness, will gather at Queen’s Park at 2 p.m., showing it’s never too late to care about COVID." @teachrprecarity.bsky.social

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ICE DETAINING CHILDREN FOR DAYS WITHOUT CARE IS STATE-SANCTIONED CRUELTY. NO CHILD SHOULD BE RIPPED FROM THEIR FAMILY OR TORTURED IN OUR NAME. ABOLISH ICE. HUMANITY AND JUSTICE FOR IMMIGRANTS NOW.

Colorado lawmakers reject bill to evaluate effective teachers every 3 years instead of every year Lawmakers said Colorado’s teacher evaluation system may be flawed, but this was the wrong way to fix it.

I don’t have the right words to express my disappointment.

Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 was awarded to Toni Morrison "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"

"there will be more of the language of surveillance disguised as research; of politics and history calculated to render the suffering of millions mute; arrogant pseudo-empirical language crafted to lock creative people into cages of inferiority and hopelessness"

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Talarico on Trumpworld's "short term pain" talking point: "I'd like them to tell that to the parents of the American troops who have lost their lives. That is not short term pain. That is pain that will last forever ... no one asked for this."

3/13/1906 — Susan B. Anthony, early American #womensrights leader and abolitionist, dies at 86 in Rochester, NY — 14 years prior to the passage of the 19th Amendment (1920). She bequeathed her entire estate of $10,000 to the cause of woman suffrage #WomensHistoryMonth #gov #law #LawSky #PolSky #WHM

Hegseth this morning, now this rant from Jeanine. These people come unglued when you point out their obvious incompetence and demonstrable failures. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

#BeanPosting

beholde my childe

Bonus pic: Maximum Dog sprawled.

"Glamour has nothing to do with age. I do not consider that a woman in her forties is old. Dame Sybil Thorndike is well over seventy and she is about the youngest person I've ever met in vitality. I do not worry about my looks, because beauty is not a thing of age, but of spirit."
-Vivien Leigh
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3/13/1813 — b. Jane Elizabeth Jones, American abolitionist, suffragist, author, orator. Co-editor, "Anti-Slavery Bugle" (1845-49); wrote "The Young Abolitionists" (1848) for children. Speaker at the national #womensrights conventions (1852, 1856 & 1860) #WomensHistoryMonth #WriterSky #PolSky #KidLit

“To the "I didn't vote for this" folks. You voted for a convicted felon. A twice-impeached president. A man found liable for sexual abuse. A man who tried to overthrow an election.

And now gas prices are surging, we're at war, and soldiers are coming home in coffins. This is what you voted for…” 🖕

Unicef statement :
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Election fraud isn’t really a big thing in the US.
The Heritage Foundation Database found a total 488 cases of election fraud occurred over the last 10 years

( out of an annual 25.5 million votes)

“We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.” - Michael Moore

Federal Judge blocks subpoenas against Fed Chair citing “ zero evidence”
“The Government has produced ​essentially zero ​evidence to ⁠suspect Chair Powell of a crime; indeed, its ​justifications are so thin ​and ⁠unsubstantiated that the Court can only conclude that they are pretextual," ⁠

Angus King: “There is a clear winner in this war, Vladimir Putin & Russia — estimates released a few hours ago are that Russia has reaped $6 billion — about $400 million a day from the increase in oil prices & the easing of sanctions — I think the record should show the real winner so far is Putin”