Folks β this is not a normal government shutdown.
Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.
@larsky.bsky.social
Mid-century antique. Progressive American. Humanist. Physician (MD). Critical thinker. Traveler.
Folks β this is not a normal government shutdown.
Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.
Amy Coney Barrett choosing to kick off her book tour with an anti-woke blogger is really all you need to know about where Amy Coney Barrett's head is at these days
08.09.2025 15:26 β π 76 π 17 π¬ 3 π 2Looks like Rachel is covering it.
26.08.2025 01:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As a former Navy physician who served with the Marines, I am familiar with the kind of tissue damage a small caliber, high velocity rifle round can do to living tissue. This ear was never hit. What a shock!
01.07.2025 01:24 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Too little, too late, Mike. Hereβs a solution: Apologize, then resign, then repent. What an embarrassment to many of us from Utah. With hopes for your enlightenment, Lars
17.06.2025 21:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ah, I love the smell of Christian Nationalism in the morningβ¦ (with apologies to Apocalypse Now).
14.04.2025 02:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Indeed. Iβm surprised so many of our current leaders donβt seem to see the obvious.
07.03.2025 04:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβve been increasingly frustrated with the lack of response and involvement by our past presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden regarding the crimes of the Trump regime to dateβ¦ but silence today when Trump and Vance ambushed a greater statesman, Ukraineβs Zelensky? Speak up, former presidents!
28.02.2025 22:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If you feel this way, you're not along. And together, we're going to keep the Republic. Pass it on.
25.02.2025 14:55 β π 28976 π 8680 π¬ 725 π 333Sorry, Ken, but youβve lost me, and lots of other progressives. Weβre in a war for the survival of freedom and democracy, and we need progressive democrats who recognize the problem, and have the cajones to notch their efforts up several levels.
19.02.2025 18:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So, doge.gov is publishing something more than a title page now. Oh, itβs just @DOGE posts on X, and what links there are take you to X. Yeah, thatβs really transparent for those of us who do not use and support X, but who expect our government to be directly responsive to us.
13.02.2025 16:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A coup d'etat by Musk with the acquiescence of Trump. Who would have thought!
31.01.2025 20:47 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is a reason our institutions are failing: our GenX and Millennial politicians are living in fantasy and computer game worlds, it seems, without the benefit of any real experience.
21.01.2025 17:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Absolutely.
09.01.2025 00:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Democrats/Progressives, youβre the new Red Coats. To paraphrase Pogo, βwe have met the enemy, and it is us.β
03.12.2024 17:37 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Remember when your civics teacher in high school said that the Red Coats lost to the American Revolutionaries because they could not adapt to changing tactics, and kept lining up in neat rows and columns only to be shot by the Patriots that hid behind trees and used asymmetric tactics?
03.12.2024 17:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pied Currawong and Sulfur-crested Cockatoo on Hamilton Island, Queensland, Australia. Good morning, mate. Nice to be on Bluesky.
13.11.2024 16:12 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Good morning, Bluesky! Do my feet match your sky? At Bahia Tortuga, Isla Santa Cruz, Galapagos, Ecuador on October 10th, 2024
12.11.2024 16:45 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0