Daniel Dune

Indiana, Ohio, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Iowa. Wow, we see you 💚! Huge thanks to local law enforcement for helping keep everyone safe. With their support, four MAGA individuals have already been arrested for assault.

Hard not to be a "PANICAN" when led by someone suffering from severe mental illness

The Supreme Court, in its first ruling on President Trump’s use of executive power during his second term, decided that he cannot, for now, dismiss the government lawyer leading the watchdog agency responsible for protecting whistle-blowers.

Trying to see what they can get away with. Kinda pathetic.

In Breaking USAID, the Trump Administration May Have Broken the Law ProPublica’s reporting provides new details about what legal risk officials were prepared to take and what laws they may have violated on their way to creating a “constitutional crisis.”

“I am a combat veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and not a deranged Marxist as Elon is shouting.”

“I don’t think Americans seem to understand what’s at stake here. This is a heist. It’s a hostile takeover by malicious actors of our entire government.”

www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Dementia takes so many forms.

An excellent piece by @timothysnyder.bsky.social and recommended strongly by @hcrichardson.bsky.social - Please read and spread the word!

Quintessential Trump

Come across a problem you don’t comprehend

Propose a “solution” with all the nuance of a 6 year old

Which solves nothing and-worse-merely creates additional problems

Try to convince everyone that it works and then claim “victory”

While everyone is worse for the wear

Decision to dump water from Tulare County lakes altered after sending locals into a mad scramble – SJV Water Water managers were relieved Thursday evening after the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to back off of a sudden decision earlier in the day to dump massive

The carefully managed water systems in California's Central Valley saw a sudden deluge after the Army Corps of Engineers unexpectedly released reservoir water.

“In 25 years, I’ve never seen anything like this. I was given no explanation at all.”

It’s spelled “Colombia”

Not normally. I think it's annoying to others, and it exposes my conversation partner's half of our chat needlessly.

Howdy, all. Hope that you're enjoying the platform so far! Nice to find so many lovely folks here, and joining daily.
-Danny

Note: The person giving the sermon in question is Bishop Mariann Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington.

Rep. Collins is suggesting deporting a U.S. citizen and bishop for delivering a sermon in a house of worship in accordance with her faith.

SomaFM Over 30 unique channels of commercial-free, listener-supported radio. All music hand-picked by SomaFM's award-winning DJs and music directors.

None. There is no supportive ecosystem in any of them for musicians. I buy from Apple and Bandcamp because they pay better than most others.
I know it's here, but this is my choice right now.
Oh, sometimes soma.fm if I'm feeling spicy...

If she can do it, we can all do it.

Looking for the facepalm emoji.

Thinking of all of you out there. Glad you're safe.

Anyone else finding that they have to block a bunch of clearly scammy accounts right off the bat?
Just me?

Oops. Well, that's at least one person's nightmare come true (and pretty much everyone under 7).

Amen to that.

The Only Surviving Painting From New York World’s Fair Is Up for Grabs Bernard Goldberg Fine Art brings a rare, long-lost Rockwell Kent mural from the 1939 World's Fair to New York's Salon Art + Design fair.

“Power,” a long-lost Rockwell Kent painting from the 1939 World’s Fair, has resurfaced.

I love Rockwell Kent’s art and I wish I had a copy of Moby Dick with his iconic illustrations. This piece, with its retro-futurist vibe, is probably as close as he ever came to science fiction.

Hey @astrofern46.bsky.social ! How are you doing?

This is a new post. The first one, in fact. None other will be quite like it.