Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

One of the woodlands at the back of my house has a path that brings you out into a nature reserve with a glorious pond. Full of dragon fly, butterflies and plentiful bees. The reeds and the Lilly pads sitting gentle in the water. 😊

#nature #trees #pond #sky #life #calm #peace #walk #photography

“Superman is too woke!”

Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:

This is about racism.

Recovering the Dead in Texas’s Flash-Flood Alley In the wake of disaster, people are relying on the volunteer fire department, the backbone of the Hill Country.

In a disaster like the one in Texas, FEMA typically deploys hundreds of people; by Monday evening, the embattled agency had reportedly sent only 86, in part owing to cost-cutting processes put in place by Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security.

SCOTUS to Get Yet Another Chance to Weaken VRA with North Dakota Case Read more here.

If the Supreme Court agrees with the 8th Circuit’s ruling, it could end voters and private groups’ ability to file Section 2 lawsuits, leaving only the U.S. Department of Justice with power to enforce one of the most important protections in federal civil rights law.

Breaking: per FEMA sources Kristi Noem was responsible for THREE DAY DELAY in deploying search-and-rescue in Texas

Fire her. Blood on her hands.

CNN is reporting the FEMA response was delayed 3 days because of Noem’s cost controls, and FEMA officials were “taken aback” by how limited the agency’s response was.

I keep thinking about how Gov Abbott had plenty of funds to fly and bus migrants all across the country but couldn't come up with a million for a flood warning system.

Sen. Ted Cruz stripped weather forecasting funds from Trump's megabill. Then the floods came. Among other things, he removed $150 million slated to improve modeling, predictions, and public communications.

Ted Cruz cut $200M in funding for NOAA weather forecasting before deadly Texas floods.

“More than 600 employees have exited the NWS amid a Trump administration push to shrink the government workforce, leaving many offices short-staffed of meteorologists and other support workers.”

Nobody forces anyone to be an ICE agent. These thugs have all willingly chosen to do that job. They could quit any time they want.

Remember that.

I encourage everyone to read this letter.

Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.

What could possibly go wrong here?

In Texas flood response, FEMA slowed by Noem’s cost controls | CNN Politics As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency leapt into action, preparing to deploy critical search and rescue teams and li...

“Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN.”

Every day, a new reason to despise this pig

Texas priorities.

While Trump played golf, Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum sent firefighters and rescue personnel to help search for Texas flood victims.

It's hard to watch Trump & GOP's continued disregard for human life.💔
#ProudBlue #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpHatesAmerica

We live in a world where the same people who believe a man built a boat big enough for every animal don't believe in climate science because it’s “unproven.”

FEMA will no longer to door-to-door to assist you in a disaster, but ICE will go door-to-door to kidnap you and turn your life into a disaster. America has its priorities, y'all!

BREAKING: Karoline Leavitt just said Texas had too many weather workers during historic floods.

Families are pulling bodies from the wreckage—and she’s out here gaslighting the country like it’s a game.

You can’t fix this level of soulless.

The DOJ says there’s no client list and Epstein wasn’t murdered, which means there’s DEFINITELY a client list and Epstein was murdered.

ICE just got a 265% detention funding boost.

Palantir software is being used to create the federal government’s first national citizenship data bank.

The Trump regime is attacking naturalized citizens and birthright citizenship.

Be warned — Trump’s police state is here.

Q: Was there any discussion to evacuate before it was too late?

RICE: What we don't want to do is cry wolf

Do Not Put This On God None of this was God's plan.

"Don’t put this on God. You had plenty of warnings this might happen, and you chose to ignore them. You chose to leave the people you’re sworn to serve in the most vulnerable circumstances. You chose to risk danger befalling them."

charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/do-not-put...

When the Hell Did Empathy Become a Flaw, America? How in the hell did we get here?

I want to know how the people around me lost the ability to care about the suffering of others, and worse, how that ability became a character flaw.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/when-the-h...

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

$1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy...

"That's just how it is."