Gun Violence is an American Public Health Crisis

Okay. This took my mind off Donald Trump for a few seconds.

Gun violence erupts every damned day in an America saturated with guns and fury.

A House of Dynamite: Bigelow’s latest thriller shows why nuclear bombs are only part of the danger Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, examines how the US government would respond to a nuclear attack in real-time.

"All of the events portrayed in A House of Dynamite could happen at any moment—today, even. And that's the point," writes @erik-english.bsky.social in his new review of "A House of Dynamite." ⬇️

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and this:

During an impassioned USC Academic Senate meeting on Monday, faculty members strongly denounced and rejected the Trump administration offer to give the university funding preference in exchange for abiding by conservative education goals.

Love Dolly always and forever.
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You've certainly named two of the very best.

Josh Hawley and Yale Law School, ladies and gentlemen.

Josh Hawley and Lindsey Graham love to say they “work for the people,” but when it’s time to protect healthcare for their constituents, they side with Trump and support deep cuts.

We can’t let their lies stand — speak up, organize, and hold them to account.

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.” Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg provides the perspective that most western media will not:

It’s not about a few hundred foreign nationals being mistreated by Israel for a few days.

It’s about the #GazaGenocide, deliberate denial of aid, and Israel’s flagrant breaches of international law.

Israel is facing accusations of mistreating international activists who were detained when Israeli forces raided a flotilla of Gaza-bound aid boats, detaining over 435 passengers. Several deported activists say they witnessed Israeli officers mistreating the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.

Sweden Says Alleged Mistreatment of Greta Thunberg by Israeli Forces 'Very Serious' Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard has stated that the reports claiming climate activist Greta Thunberg was mistreated are very serious

Sweden Says Alleged Mistreatment of Greta Thunberg by Israeli Forces 'Very Serious' en.tempo.co/read/2054726...

Kafkaesque

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

Peter Hassall, Maurice Gould, and Denis Audrain.

“If you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.” The Commander and Chief giving a pep talk to the troops.

President Trump is testing the strength of the walls set up to protect the Constitution. So far, the word "porous" comes to mind.

Opinion | Trump’s Shutdown Glee Could Come Back to Bite Him Republicans’ exploitation of government’s closure is the tell that they prefer it this way.

Republicans’ exploitation of government’s closure is the tell that they prefer it this way.

1.8 million-year-old human jawbone unearthed in Georgia reveals earliest Homo erectus migration to Eurasia

A recent discovery in the Republic of Georgia is giving a new glimpse into the earliest humans to settle beyond Africa...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/09/1-8-...

I really, really dislike this guy.

Georgia is fighting for its future — and Russia is terrified.

If Moscow loses Tbilisi, it loses far more than a former Soviet republic. It loses its grip on the Black Sea, the Caucasus, and the dream of empire.

Senator @jeffyarbro.bsky.social on Trump’s invasion of Chicago & Portland…

FFS!!

The President of the United States of America lives in his own fantasy world, and it's a very scary world, indeed.

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Congratulations on baby. Let's all work to make its future better than what we're experiencing now.

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

Remember these people and vote accordingly.