Rick Carter (alias RKC, aka Richard Kenneth Carter)

Mohammed & Family's Campaign for Survival Mohammed Abu Jaber is a kind, caring person living in Gaza trying to support his family through unimaginable circumstances. He had a successful business before October 2023; that has all been lost. No...

Mohammed & Family's Campaign for Survival chuffed.org/project/1193...

DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes The figures from Elon Musk’s team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are also full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations.

DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

Really good advice about the need to do something in these times ...

Hell yeah lawyers

So Palestinians are gonna be even worse off, and Americans now will be too, but you're winning because you can feel smug about your choice. Gotcha.

You all forgot about Trump's support for Palestinian genocide in his first term, and now he wants to literally level Gaza and build resorts.

Protect Trans Kids On January 29th, Donald Trump signed an illegal executive order that attempts to ban gender affirming care for youth under the age of 19, an attempt to detransition all trans children in the US. Despi...

at a very packed-seeming (like can’t move in the crowd packed) rally for trans kids because NYU-Langone is still apparently complying with Trump’s exec order trying to ban gender-affirming care. it’s also very quiet, sound wise. that’s my scene report til I get good photos. details/organizers:

Oh great question! I’m not 💜

"The men appear to have barricaded the entrance to the bank, spray painted the security cameras, and ordered the employees to lie on the floor. We're watching now to see if they do anything wrong."

NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev

The National Sheriffs Association Reveals Fealty to Trump, Not the Law Opinion | It seems clear that sheriffs across the country foresee themselves as having more political power during the Trump administration.

"By currying favor with the new administration, the [National Sheriffs Association] is showing that it is a political organization willing to ignore the violation of democratic and legal norms and not at all interested in the public welfare."

I'd also add @marisakabas.bsky.social's The Handbasket to the nice list at the end there. Vital reporting. A good profile here:

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Note to SCal friends: mask up, the air is poison

This is Theo. He's always looking out for his older sister Mia. Sometimes that means simply making sure she gets enough pets at day care. 13/10 for both

:( I'm sorry she's gone. Maybe we'll be grateful to join her depending on what's really coming.

This is how many US conservatives will respond to the climate crisis - deflect responsibility, demonize ppl they see as the out-group, and undermine mechanisms for and ideas of solidarity .

I always want to reply, "well, more or less..."

i love how cats just slap everything they don't understand

Y’all ever watch a movie or something miss a part and rewind the part and miss it tf again ?! 😩

stop immigration so we can take care of our own im starving. fuck off.

AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride.

"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."

Post from Adam If Matt Gaetz DIDNT rape a minor, the GOP would have released the report. Just fyi

Raw unvarnished truth here.

It's not working for me on most posts here even ones with hundreds of replies, I just get the ability to add a new comment.

Protecting another rapist.

Difficult to have a freewheeling discussion here when you can't see others' replies to a post you're interacting with. That's one reason I enjoy Facebook.