Just because it’s not online doesn’t mean it’s no longer the law of the lands!

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

Then he needs to resign.

"We don't have kings in America": Pritzker goes after Trump while unveiling budget The budget calls for spending cuts, but stops short of raising taxes.

Really impressed with how JB Pritzker is taking on Trump. This is the way.

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

Feels like we all need to add as much pro-social, Mr Rogers like activity as possible just as a homeostatic response to all the ambient evil floating around right now.

Anyway I just signed up to read with little kids on Wednesday mornings before work.

Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

If this isn't enough to freak everybody the fuck out, I do not know what else will.

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 12 January 31, 2025

“We must sound the alarm on why Elon Musk, a private citizen, wields such access to all our critical data. This is yet another wake-up call that Trump and Musk are rapidly dismantling U.S. institutions—a step ever closer to authoritarian control.”

trumptyrannytracker.substack.com/p/trump-tyra...

U.S. agencies are being bulldozed tonight and media is not covering this dangerous authoritarian shit. I understand there was another plane crash and am praying for everyone but please make time for the overthrow of our institutions

Adagio for Strings by the great American composer Samuel Barber 🇺🇸 The music on my mind this week looking towards the USA from the west coast of Ireland. What a week...

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King

Trump‘s inauguration is a joke. Donald Trump is a twice impeached, adjudicated rapist, convicted felon, & insurrectionist. This is unlike anything in American history. This election is far from normal, & I refuse to normalize his presidency. I also judge those who choose to support or vote for him

@rindieca.bsky.social

$1,131,794,901

That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.

Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.

I saw the stunning Colorado sunset tonight as well and thought the same thing. “Red sky at night, sailors delight,” in honor of Lt. James Earl Carter.

This time between Christmas and the inauguration feels like the part in the horror movie when the main character runs into the house because that’s where they feel safe, but the bad guy is also upstairs lying in wait.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

This is why the next administration plans to get rid of NOAA. So we don’t know how broken things are and we don’t demand change. #sick

Now Is the Time for Courage From Marc | I started Democracy Docket to be fearlessly independent and unapologetically pro-democracy.

Now Is the Time for Courage.

"So many who were so loud in warning about the dangers of Trump now speak only in whispers if at all. Media figures who claimed to be the bastion of protection for our democracy now make pilgrimages to temper Trump’s anger." www.democracydocket.com/opinion/now-...

Reminder: A 24 page police report details a woman’s horrifying account of being drugged and raped by Pete Hegseth. (Currently, Hegseth is Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Defense.)

In 2017, a woman said she was the victim of a sexual assault perpetrated by Hegseth at a GOP women’s…

We don't need more remakes of old movies. We need more MUPPETS remakes of old movies.