Paul Guerin

Trump’s Mar-a-White House The president is desecrating a symbol of liberal democracy and replacing it with a tacky, bloated eyesore.

"No, destroying the White House is not as bad as blowing up boats carrying possibly innocent people. It’s not as bad as corrupting the Justice Department. It’s not as menacing as sending troops into American cities. And yet, this hurt is sharp."

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He’s taking healthcare away from 15 million Americans and making it unaffordable for 22 million more

And using the shutdown as an excuse to deprive up to 42 million citizens-including children-of SNAP benefits

Yet is on the verge of directing the DOJ to pay him $230 million

It’s just so lawless

Trump has launched seven deadly strikes in the Caribbean Sea.

Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.

He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.

Homes flooded in Kipnuk

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Trump is threatening to withhold back pay for federal workers furloughed during the shutdown — which goes against a law he signed in 2019, by the way.

This should come as no surprise: Trump and his businesses have been accused of stiffing hundreds of their own workers out of pay over the years.

"Ignoring the tax extensions by saying they're simply a continuation of policies already in place, the Senate claims the bill will cost $442B, a tenth of what the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office calculates"

Seriously? Who do they think they're fooling with this grade school gimmick? Dicks.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.

The results tell us a lot!

Extracts below... 🧵

Perfect @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social as usual

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests.

So, best we share all the footage we can here!

This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu.

🇹🇷 #Turkey

State of things from my feed.

Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social

Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025

A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.

GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS

PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.

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Gorgeous

Monday morning we are entering a new chapter in this country's history and we are entering it together, with our friends and principles held close and our eyes wide open.

Is it radioactive?

Further.

But there's Senator Elizabeth Warren chugging along working on valuable structural change. And being ignored, so far as I can tell.

Chavo has excellent paw-writing, good boy!

Due to a posting error (still new to bsky), in the third photo let's just say that I am doing a handstand out of sight, behind a tree. Pity, it was my best one yet.

(Amateur) handstands across North America