PJS Martin

“hope is a discipline” in styled lettering. Quote attributed to Mariame Kaba.

Seems appropriate for tonight ❤️

(I think I’m gonna make this one a linocut)

🗃️

Democratic voters want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani "It's so ugly, it's so cowardly, it's so stupid."

“It’s so ugly, it’s so cowardly, it’s so stupid.”

An image titled "rebrand of the week:" On the left is the blue rectangular CDC logo with white lines radiating form the bottom left corer and "CDC" in white font" Under the image it says in blue font "U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention". Then there is a hand written black arrow from that image to another image mimicking the cracker barrel logo: a yellow rectangular shape with "CD" in brown font and underneath it says "Center for Disease"

Would you like that outbreak with biscuits or cornbread? 🦠 💀

#backlashthis

Stop screaming into a pillow and start screaming in the streets 😱📢Find a protest near you on Labor Day, September 1st.

maydaystrong.org

The biggest part of this fight is not giving up the fight 💪✊

Trump's military occupation of DC crashes into reality—literally Armored vehicles running red lights, feds busting residents for pot. All coming to a city near you.

Trump deployed the National Guard and mine-resistant vehicles to clean up DC crime. Now one crashed into a civilian's SUV. The metaphor writes itself. Our latest on the militarized occupation of Washington:

Another shakedown, the more you cave to the autocrat the more empowered he feels.

Pentagon Fires the Defense Intelligence Agency Chief

Things delusional authoritarians do. They create the self-serving reality they need for their ego. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...

Sen. Ted Cruz stripped weather forecasting funds from Trump's megabill. Then the floods came. Among other things, he removed $150 million slated to improve modeling, predictions, and public communications.

Sen. Ted Cruz stripped weather forecasting funds from Trump's megabill. Then the floods came.

'This is not Constitutional': GOP congressman stands up to Trump on Iran strike U.S. Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY) declared Saturday evening that his party's leader, the president of the United States, made an unconstitutional move.Trump over the weekend announced his administration had dropped a "full payload of bombs" on Iran."We have completed our very successful attack on the th...

U.S. Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY) declared Saturday evening that his party's leader, the president of the United States, made an unconstitutional move.

From the piece: "I believe ardently that nonviolent resistance is in the big picture and the long term the most effective strategy, but that doesn't mean it must be polite, placid, or please our opponents, not least because nothing ever will and they'll lie and distort no matter what."

Terry Moran worked at ABC for 28 years. Now, for calling Stephen Miller “hateful,” (which he 💯 is per his own family), ABC fired him to appease an authoritarian hypocrite who ran on “free speech.” This will have a chilling effect on all journalists. Fourth Estate fails. Authoritarianism advances.

Dramatic HHS cuts leave US ‘weaker as a nation,’ says top FDA vaccine official forced out under Kennedy | CNN Sweeping job cuts and reorganizations taking place at the US Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leave the United States “weaker as a nation,” Dr. Peter Marks...

Sweeping job cuts and reorganizations taking place at the US Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leave the United States “weaker as a nation,” Dr. Peter Marks told CNN.

Welcome to the first Storyknife writers of 2025! They arrive today, and this is what they’ll see. April 1st also marks the first day of our month-long Founder’s Match. Yes, that means exactly what it says it does–if you donate $…

April 1st means the writers start showing up at Storyknife Writers Retreat! No fooling 😊 blog.stabenow.com/2025/04/01/w...

New Jersey Sen. @corybooker.com is on the Senate floor, saying, "I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able" to protest President Trump and Elon Musk.

Watch live: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

A Pentagon-wide email recently went out warning about Signal's vulnerability A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.

A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.

This family sent out over 100 postcards, mailed on March 15.

One of these things is not like the others

More of this please!!!

On Mar.15, people will mail a postcard to Trump. We can break the WH record, with an officially-verifiable flood of fury. #TheIdesOfTrump

Post a pic of your postcard(s) on social media just before mailing.

President (for now) Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

if you buy used books and want to avoid amazon where possible, check out bookfinder.com

you can search essentially every marketplace in one go

so you can, e.g., find the same used copy for sale, from the same seller, on biblio.com or ebay instead of amazon or abe (owned by amazon)

YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History

It boggles the mind

Scientists brought to tears by huge loss of U.S. butterflies | CBC News Scientists calculated just how much U.S. butterfly populations have declined in the past 20 years. The results brought some scientists to tears, and have them warning about dire implications for other...

Butterflies take major hit
“"This is really the biggest and most comprehensive study of insects in certainly in the U.S., arguably in North America that we've done," said Edwards…I think it really should be a bit of a wake-up call."
#Butterflies #Insects #Nature
www.cbc.ca/news/science...

A sad day for America—Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University activist, has been arrested by ICE, not for any crime, but for his political activism. The Trump administration claims he was involved in “pro-terrorist” activities, yet no formal charges have been filed.

Time to wake up and smell the Java. It’s not Ukraine, it’s not vets, it’s not tariffs, it’s not tax cuts. He’s confirming Khrushchev’s prediction. He’s destroying the USA from within

We simply cannot normalize the conflicts of interest we're already seeing in Trump's second administration.

It is unethical for government officials like Donald Trump to use their positions to enrich themselves—or their donors. Full stop.

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

YouTube video by Tod Lessons from Star Wars: Why America’s Food Supply Hinges on Canadian Salt #tradewar #tarrifs

Lessons from Star Wars:
Why America’s Food Supply Hinges on Canadian Salt
#tarrifs #tradewar #cdnpoli

youtube.com/shorts/qBWLA...

YouTube video by Tod Maffin Pork, Peas, and Payback: China to Hit Canada with 100% Tariffs #tradewar #tariffs

B R E A K I N G :
Pork, Peas, and Payback
China announces 100% tariffs on Canada.
I'll break down the what and why.
www.youtube.com/shorts/UPoIH...

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As Canadians cancel trips due to Trump, the U.S. tourism industry could lose billions The Trump administration's attacks on its northern neighbor have been met with confusion and anger by some Canadians who are now cancelling their trips to the U.S. in protest.

The Trump administration's attacks on its northern neighbor have been met with confusion and anger by some Canadians who are now cancelling their trips to the U.S. in protest.

Layoffs Hit Unbelievable High Thanks to Trump and Musk Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal government have caused a record-breaking surge in layoffs.

BREAKING: Job losses spiked a whopping 245% in February.

This is higher than any month since July 2020 (the middle of pandemic) and the highest in any February since the Great Recession of 2009.