@thomparker.bsky.social
Southpaw, autograph collector, James Madison Fellow 1995 MI, retired teacher, history nerd, Notre Dame fan, feelin’ the zeel!
Trump admin going after special education with a hatchet in the dark of night seems like an issue the Dems could run with
11.10.2025 22:01 — 👍 38 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 2Bill Huizenga says the quiet part out loud on ACA tax credits: "The problem is, is what caused the need for the subsidies. And that was honestly the passing of Obamacare." #MI04
Repealing the ACA has always been the GOP's plan.
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
09.10.2025 20:23 — 👍 55520 🔁 22602 💬 1868 📌 2145
A cartoon from the early 1830s mocking Andrew Jackson as a king.
Want to hear re: a president who wanted his opponents physically beaten & was accused of wanting to be king?
My lecture on Andrew Jackson
In this cartoon from his presidency, he’s standing on a shredded Constitution w/a book titled “Judiciary of the US” at his feet
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vri7...
Jane Goodall: “You must vote for the person, the candidate who you feel has a better chance of promoting protection for our planet.”
01.10.2025 20:13 — 👍 1495 🔁 373 💬 24 📌 21
Democrats are fighting to preserve an Obamacare tax credit. Without it, a 55-year-old couple making $85K would see their premiums more than triple to $24,535.
01.10.2025 20:42 — 👍 157 🔁 118 💬 6 📌 21The #TrumpShutdown proves once again Republicans are more afraid of a mean tweet than you dying without health coverage.
01.10.2025 12:30 — 👍 388 🔁 94 💬 12 📌 3So “America First” is a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, US economic development of Gaza, and NATO-equivalent security guarantees for Qatar. Got it.
01.10.2025 13:22 — 👍 2961 🔁 1074 💬 143 📌 36
can’t report on how few americans have jobs if you fire the person who runs job-counting and furlough all the job-counters
01.10.2025 11:25 — 👍 484 🔁 88 💬 10 📌 1
Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.
01.10.2025 00:59 — 👍 12788 🔁 2741 💬 682 📌 209🤦🏼♂️🤦♀️
26.09.2025 00:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Aug. 26: Stephen Miller says "the Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization."
Sept. 25: Miller put in charge of coordinating a federal campaign to prosecute "domestic terrorist organizations."
Trump’s hated for Comey is so bizarre when you think about the fact that without Comey’s October 2016 intervention, Trump probably wouldn’t have won the 2016 election and wouldn’t be president today.
25.09.2025 23:59 — 👍 3707 🔁 558 💬 213 📌 42
Much improved over January 6th
23.09.2025 18:13 — 👍 270 🔁 15 💬 28 📌 1
LOL, MTG voted yes
23.09.2025 18:14 — 👍 379 🔁 75 💬 20 📌 4
Officials in Ottawa County are bracing for uncertainty for some key local programs as a state budget battle threatens to slash billions of dollars from the public health programs on which residents rely.
www.ottawanewsnetwork.org/budget-battl...
🤦🏼♂️🤦♀️
21.09.2025 22:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats on the new role, but yeah, how’s that going to work in practice?
19.09.2025 19:46 — 👍 2996 🔁 475 💬 335 📌 51
RFK Jr putting farmers out of business. Then add Trump’s tariffs killing exports, USAID dismantling, fertilizer & tractor tariffs, etc etc
This is the most anti-farmer admin in US history and the vast majority of them voted for it. Please don’t ask for a taxpayer bailout. Again.
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
18.09.2025 23:19 — 👍 36132 🔁 12778 💬 861 📌 651Honestly folks.
The bluster & bullying & “how dare they say that?,” & silencing, & censoring?
It’s weakness x 10.
If you’re really strong, jokes don’t matter.
Only if you’re banking on fear to give you power do jokes matter.
That’s why authoritarians HATE being poked fun at.
No fear=no power.
Don't Obey in Advance. Stay Strong.
18.09.2025 01:57 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
There is no more unctous a toady in the Trump administration than fussy speech police officer Brendan Carr and it is a high bar. But this thirsty factotum manages to clear the bar easily.
18.09.2025 02:17 — 👍 1082 🔁 193 💬 40 📌 6
Hey folks:
I've spent the last 2 days talking about political violence & what it says re: the here & now.
Some links:
My Friday AM podcast (w/a little Rosie peep at the start):
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
My conversation w/@hcrichardson.bsky.social this AM:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFXE...
Stack of vintage luggage and baskets, each labeled with names and numbers, displayed behind a glass at the Auschwitz Memorial
A vast collection of worn shoes, representing victims, displayed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum.
A display of numerous assorted pans and pots viewed through a glass case. A metal jar with a blue lid sits prominently in the foreground.
📷 Suitcases, shoes, and kitchenware items stolen from the victims of Auschwitz. While the Germans at some point confiscated possession that belonged to all groups of prisoners, in the case of the extermination of Jews, plunder became part of the deceitful strategy.
Photos: instagram.com/u_key.yuki
A bite-size News Eye explainer on how Nepal made history this week.
Inspiration for Gen Z everywhere?
Online here: 👇
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