For this week's #PoemsAbout #consent I found myself thinking about whose running things.
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Trying to use less plastic?
Big Oil and the plastics industry are spending billions to make sure everyone else uses more.
“I think what stood out most is the deliberateness and intentionality over the years of pushing plastic into our lives,” said @bethgardiner.bsky.social. “It was such a shock."
BREAKING: The usually snarky White House account has not responded to Iran’s attacks on social media! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.
Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com/article/2518...
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
There Is Nothing Inevitable About a Russian Victory in Ukraine www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...
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🇭🇺 Several Hungarian opposition parties have withdrawn from the April elections to avoid splitting the vote and boost Magyar’s Tisza party, which is currently leading Orbán’s Fidesz in the polls, - FT
Elias Law Group is litigating 85 voting and election cases in 40 states. This is the largest litigation docket we have ever carried as a firm and I expect new cases to be filed this week.
We are not done fighting and we are not done winning.⚖️🗳️🥊
Thank you to Greenland for providing emergency medical care to a US sailor on board the submarine, since we did not have adequate resources in the area to treat him. I’m sorry that our president felt the need to cover up our shortcomings with a deranged ghost hospital ship post.
"Always, always, always concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. These people that are getting rounded up because whoever’s in power wants to do something that they can’t do using the letter of the law..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...
Bezos is the enemy. #NoAmazon #NoWholeFoods #NoAmazonFresh #TaxtheOligarchs
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Hope is not a promise. It is not a guarantee of success. It is the courage to act in the face of uncertainty. And right now, in this fragile moment for our democracy, it is the most important responsibility we share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
Another great sad cartoon from @deadder.bsky.social
never in a million years could i have predicted that a country with an actual king would arrest prince andrew for a crime all whilst america lets its current leader reign freely after committing the exact same crimes with the exact same criminals
LOCK HIM UP
So....the Fourth Reich?
I’m begging you, with tears in my eyes.
Please stop using AI to write your tweets.
We see the AI cadence. It’s not fooling anyone.
Say it with me: AI is for research, not for becoming your entire personality.
Internet is working fine today......👍
Americans are campaigning for European right wing Russian supporters. Russian media is loving every minute.
Massie not backing down.
💯 @mackaycartoons.bsky.social once again making us laugh whilst trying not to cry... Thank you!
All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
