Much love from Australia. We wish you all the best with peaceful resolution to the cash/clowns takeover ❤️‍🩹

He told 33,000+ lies in his first term.

Since math is not my strongest subject, can someone more capable please figure how many lies-per-day that averages?

🙏 Thanking you in advance, Mar🐫

RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’ “The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News.

I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my friends into iron lungs.

We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.

RFK Jr leading HHS is a disgrace.

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

Sebastian Stan on the importance of empathy and curiosity:

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We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

The fentanyl/border narrative so frustrating, not just because of the fascist border policies, but also because it supports the continuation of the drug war and totally ignores the proven value of harm reduction policies. Sadly a massive propaganda win for the drug warriors cuz ppl are eating it up

Here's how Trump's vengeance machine works He's the mob boss who keeps his hands clean while others do his dirty work.

Trump’s vengeance machine is even more dangerous than it was before. He's effectively the mob boss who keeps his hands clean while others do his dirty work.

Some thoughts.

Also allowing revegetation of coastal habitat and community access to the coast rather than private ownership would be such a precious opportunity - for climate mitigation and liveability in LA ❤️

Are the Chat GPT queries really worth it?

We don’t care how many times we have to say it.

Elon Musk can completely rebuild Los Angeles and still be the richest person in the world. If he doesn’t want to do that, we should make him.

Elon Musk donated some cyber trucks and WiFi to LA for the fire recovery. If you think that’s in any way good or helpful, you should know that Elon Musk could afford to rebuild Los Angeles by himself and still be the richest man alive.

A thickly-forested canyon with worn dark sandstone cliffs extends right to the horizon. There is a lighter coloured bush in the foreground. The sky is cloudy with distant patches of blue and the far clouds are tinged with orange sunrise.

View from Govett's Leap lookout this morning, over the Grose Valley, Blue Mountains.

NYT headline: "How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations has already turned up in the West." Photo of a woman with a cane: "Carol Paulk of Dallas contracted polio in 1943, when she was just 3 Her right leg never recovered.."

This is why RFK Jr. can not become HHS Secretary.

Discouraging vaccines will allow polio to creep back.

"Vaccination has scrubbed the virus from most of the planet, slashing the number of cases by more than 99.9 percent and preventing an estimated 20 million cases of paralysis."

Chalmers campaigns with facts against Coalition fictions With the election not yet announced but expected to be in May, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has made a series of updates in recent days. Together they lay the basis for the inevitable economics debate that ...

Chalmers campaigns with facts against Coalition fictions www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Informed analysis almost impossible to find elsewhere on the MSM

If you’re ever wondering why wildfire smoke is so bad for you it’s because it includes things like “an entire bicycle”

If I could super follow, I would 😊💐❤️

Last year I promised myself I would buy no more than five new items of clothing, socks and underwear excepted. I managed that easily, only buying 3 things.
I'm sticking to same 5 item limit this year.
It does make me the scruffiest Peer, in my still usable but ageing outfits, but who cares?

Make sure 'to' :)

Shareholders urge UnitedHealth to analyze impact of healthcare denials UnitedHealth Group shareholders on Wednesday said they requested the company prepare a report on the costs and public health impact related to its "practices that limit or delay access to healthcare."

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The best thing you can do is starve Meta for revenue. Never click on or buy anything through their ads. Never pay for an ad to sell a product or advertise an event. Never do anything again that will put one cent in Mark Zuckerberg's pocket!

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

Dozens of lawmakers beat stock market in 2024: Report The stock portfolios of more than two dozen lawmakers once again outperformed the market as bans on congressional stock trading stalled, according to a new report from the trading trackers at Unusu…

The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024.

This isn't due to luck or skill. Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.

Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.

A family of bright orange and slippery shiny enoki mushrooms grow on the side of a moss topped log in a bare winter forest

Here are some nice mushrooms

A single 1” tall splitgill mushroom grows off the end of a broken branch, upturned so it’s underside can be viewed against a brown forest background All photos by me

Here is a nice mushroom

Happy new year.

May it bring peace and prosperity to you all.

And freedom to all oppressed peoples.