Trump hunched over the Resolute Desk while Elon Musk holds forth, standing, to the press.

Trump hunched over next to a straight-backed and triumphant Vladimir Putin, following their meeting in Helsinki in 2018.

Well, well...look who's once again hunched over in a posture of primate subservience.

Under oath, Kash Patel said he was unaware of plans to dismiss FBI agents before he was confirmed.

Today, whistleblowers revealed Patel was reportedly directing those dismissals. Covertly.

Yet another reason he must be rejected.

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.

Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

Stop purchasing from the oligarchs

James Harvey III, Tuskegee airman, leader of the team that won the US military's first aerial gunnery competition for combat aviators. AKA, Top Gun. James Harvey is a handsome Black man in WW2 uniform with an indomitableble look of calm confidence.

Tom Cruise in an aviation suit and Rayban aviator sunglasses from Top Gun.

Hey, while we're talking about erasing history:

In 1949 the US military held its first Aeriel Gunnery Competition, later known as "Top Gun."

The best of the best competed in dogfighting and other skills. The team that won, was the 332nd: The Tuskegee airmen.

So they refused to announce a winner🤡

ACCURATE.

I’m not calling it the Gulf of America

Me, neither.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

DC hotels still have capacity. Top restaurants are still taking reservations. Popular bars aren’t extending their hours.

Yeah… starting to think cold wasn’t the reason why they moved the inauguration inside lol

"We need to call privatization what it is: adding a profit tax onto a public good. A public post office puts all its resources toward delivering mail. A privatized post office will divert a large chunk of its income to shareholders. In what universe is that better?"
@snmrrw.bsky.social

On the call with staff Friday, Litwin apologized for the lack of communication. “We recognize the flow of communication has not been how we typically handle sensitive matters like this,” Litwin said. Detailing corporate employees’ benefits and severance, Party City’s Chief Human Resources Officer Karen McGowan broke down in tears several times on the short video conference call. “I certainly know this is a lot to take in,” McGowan said before she paused and teared up. “My apologies.”

it's weird that people are homicidally angry at corporate America when a CEO hired four months ago fires the entire workforce of a 40-year-old company five days before Christmas with no severance and no benefits www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/b...

Screenshot of Rolling Stone, headline Republicans Cut Child Cancer Research From Funding Bill After Musk’s Meddling. Photo of speaker Mike Johnson pursuing his lips.

Mad yet?

Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81 The poet and activist was a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni was working on her upcoming book of poetry, set to publish in the fall.

"We will forever be grateful for the unconditional time she gave to us, to all her literary children across the writerly world," said Kwame Alexander in the statement on the renowned Nikki Giovanni’s death

Gdp chart comparing US GDP @ 27.36T to China @ 17.79T

The United States has the highest GDP in the world by *ten trillion dollars*. It's not even close. Americans should retire at 60 w/ full pension. We should have free universal healthcare. We should have free PreK-PhD education. This belt-tightening ideology is a neurotoxin limiting our potential.

Why don’t journalists ever respond to Trump by saying, “What you just said is nonsense. You don’t have any idea what you’re talking about.”

What he said about birthright citizenship today was garbage but it seems like Welker was trying to feed him answers instead of confronting his ignorance.

i have plenty of thoughts on why it matters that this is an illegal order but here i’ll just comment that i think liberals who throw their hands up and say “it doesn’t matter” have self lobotomized themselves into thinking that trump is god king of america

Saw this at The Guthrie last month - and afterwards, rewatched Schmigadoon Season 2 just for the pleasure of seeing him again.

No, I was looking for her, too, but no luck yet.

Fourteen Days. Really enjoying it.

A former boyfriend introduced me to Home For The Holidays. I’m no longer with that toxic dude but still love the movie.

Non-profit creates opt out forms against State Superintendent Ryan Walters A non-profit called Defense of Democracy has created opt-out forms for parents who want their child to have no interaction with Ryan Walters in any capacity, which includes the recent prayer video.

If you are in Oklahoma or know others that are with school age children, please pass this along to them. Defense of Democracy created opt-out forms for Ryan Walter’s forced bible instruction. Let’s keep getting in good trouble!
#EduSky #Resist
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Former Florida AG Pam Bondi received a $25,000 donation from the Donald J. Trump Foundation and four days later, she announced that the state of Florida wouldn’t pursue a legal case about Trump University.

And that’s who Trump wants for our AG now. Fucking delightful.

I watched it for the first time in 2017 or 2018. It helped. I was just thinking the other day about restarting it.

It is worth noting that Matt Gaetz pulled out of AG consideration, not because fellow Republicans told him they couldn't support someone who raped and gave drugs to underage girls, but because CNN told him that more accusations were forthcoming.

Trump's education secretary nominee once said she had an education degree. She doesn't. A questionnaire McMahon filled out to serve on a state board falsely said she had an education degree, according to a copy reviewed by USA TODAY.

Trump's education secretary nominee once said she had an education degree. She doesn't.

You cannot make this junk up. Trump's cabinet will be filled with liars, sexual assaulters, puppy killers, Russian assets, and a man who claims a worm ate his brain.

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I’m new here. What does the pin do? (I assume it pins/saves/favorites the post, but where?)

@bknyman.bsky.social I was just looking for you on here!

UPDATE: U.S. schools banned over 4,200 book titles last school year The latest education news updates from EdSource.

Florida and Iowa recorded the highest number of book bans during the 2023-24 school year, with over 4,500 book bans in Florida and over 3,600 in Iowa.

No matter what happens, he's STILL a convicted felon.

FOREVER.