Batshit crazy, howling at the moon lunacy

worth every second

As his approval rating sinks, Trump wants investigations into pollsters Instead of dealing with the failures that have led to his drop in support, the president is blaming pollsters and news organizations.

hahahahahahahaha

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Well, this isn't good at all.

Dear Canada, we Americans have no business lecturing you on elections, but I hope you learn from our mistake.

Going well then

Trump’s controversial meme coin ‘contest’ proves predictably profitable for the president “This isn’t Trump just being Trump,” a Democratic senator said. “The Trump coin scam is the most brazenly corrupt thing a president has ever done.”

"What's to stop a foreign government, eager to bribe the American president, from quietly dumping money into Trump’s crypto project, effectively making direct payments to the president without public disclosure? Nothing."
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IT’S ELECTION DAY IN CANADA 🇨🇦

Voting isn’t just a right, but a responsibility, so go out and do your part! I just did mine 💯

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More than 75% of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of the economy, new poll finds A recent survey by the New York Times and Siena College Research suggests most Americans consider President Trump's second term "chaotic."

"Though confidence in Trump's ability to manage the economy was a key selling point to many voters in the November election, 76% of participants said they disapprove of how he's handling it, the survey said..."

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“Love our neighbors - Welcome the stranger - Care for the most vulnerable among us - Speak the truth - Work for justice…”

Back from Rome and Melania couldn’t get away fast enough. Separate motorcades.

Exclusive | Elite Universities Form Private Collective to Resist Trump Administration Separate from the public dissent, a group of school leaders are strategizing behind the scenes about how to respond and push back against the White House.

Yes! Exactly. Exactly, exactly.

"The Trump administration has been worried schools would team up in resistance, because it is harder to negotiate with a united front..."

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DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.

"Access to both networks would normally require a "Q" clearance, the highest level of security clearance at the Department of Energy..."
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Recently, I hosted a press conference on cuts to Social Security services & programs. Staffing cuts hurt real people. @housedemocrats.bsky.social continue to fight for people that are drastically impacted by the cuts to Social Security.

This Week in Democracy – Week 14: Trump Escalates His War on Judges Zeteo's project to document the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in the Trump second term.

"This Week in Democracy – Week 14: Trump Escalates His War on Judges"

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A brief message from our own @marionicolais.bsky.social:

I tend to commute in around rush hour, so usually Manhattan streets are absolutely snarled with traffic w/ huge grid lock in key intersections and even though I'm mostly in a bike lane, tons of cars everywhere you turn. This time, I'd say, like half as many cars? No gridlock. Way smoother/safer.

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"Al Gore is pissed off and I’m here for it"
- A Bluesky guy

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False color image of the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) in Cassiopeia.A ghostly blue bubble sits among golden orange clouds of gas, punctuated by sharp violet pinpricks – young stars.

Spiral galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 –– the Antennae Galaxies. White, blue, and red swirls of stars from two disrupted spiral galaxies captured mid-collision, with messy lanes of dark gas and dust stretching between their bright yellow cores.

The globular cluster NGC 1866 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. A jewel box of tightly clustered white, blue, and red stars.

False color image of the Lagoon Nebula captured by Hubble for its 28th anniversary in 2018. Red, purple, blue, green, yellow, and orange clouds surround a region of active star formation, with our view obscured by dark molecular clouds.

Happy birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope, launched from the Kennedy Space Center #OTD in 1990. Here's to a remarkable 35 years of imaging the Cosmos. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

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We'll be covering this on the show tonight.

Great Gray Owl.

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Prominent role of Pete Hegseth’s wife at Pentagon draws scrutiny | CNN Politics News over the weekend that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s wife Jennifer was included in a second group chat where he shared sensitive military operations details has focused attention on the promine...

"Multiple sources told CNN that as Hegseth has grown increasingly paranoid about the potential of leaks to the media within the Pentagon and has begun largely depending on a small circle for counsel, including his wife..."

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