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As governor of Illinois, I’ve made it my mission to make our state the best to call home including for our LGBTQ+ community.

No matter who you are or who you love, everyone deserves dignity and equality.

Hate has no home here.

The struggle is real.

Yes!

Opinion | Jimmy Carter Deserved Our Thanks and Respect, Not Our Sneers We in the media and chattering class jeered at a man who probably improved more lives over a longer period than any recent president.

"when his church refused to integrate, he left to help found a new one that welcomed everyone"
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/o... many lovely factoids I didn't know about Carter, in this eulogy from @nickkristof.bsky.social

“Well done, my good and faithful servant”… are the first words that came to my mind when hearing of the passing of President Carter. He & his bride committed their lives to service in the most selfless way.

Let us all honor his legacy by doing our part to serve our country & our community.

Russia-linked cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland ‘was loaded with spying equipment’ <em>Eagle S</em>, the Russia-linked tanker suspected of damaging an underwater electricity cable on Christmas Day, was kitted out with special transmitting and receiving devices that were used to monitor naval activity, according to a source with direct involvement in the ship, which has since been detained by Finnish police

Shocking. Nobody (except for Finland) reacts to Russian war against the west, and they take it as a signal to continue.

www.lloydslist.com/LL1151955/Ru...

Keith Richards strikes an energetic pose, standing with legs apart while playing a black guitar. He wears a black suit jacket, a loose black shirt, and has a gray scarf tied around his head. The background is a smooth gray, enhancing his lively stance and expression.

#81 for Keith Richards today...

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It’s the time of year for mentioning one of my favourite ‘untranslatables’.

‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.

I do not have any coping mechanisms for the next four years. I am all tapped out.

Can’t sleep. Obsessed w/ idea that 1st 15 years of my life- ‘65 to’80- seemed to take forever. But 3 different 15 year segments since feel like they whizzed by. I doubt this is the theory of relativity Einstein wrote about. But how can Sgt Pepper’s to Born to Run be same distance as Damn is to now?

On This Day in 1978:

I married my dental hygienist, Marilou York.

She cleaned my teeth & the rest... is history.

#HappyAnniversary2TheLoveOfMyLife. ❤️ 🎆 🙏

pete hegseth doesn't want women to serve in combat roles yet he has his mother out here fighting his battles....

Did the Haitians in Ohio stop eating people’s dogs? Suddenly that issue seems to have gone away.

Joe's pardon of Hunter makes me think POTUS is aware of the coming danger. Hopefully, this is the beginning of the pardons and not the end.

Quite the sunset in Seattle tonight.

I feel seen

I wish these were the only Presidential issues we had to worry about.

Vegetables, not psychopaths.

“Jimmy doesn't especially like green peas.”

“French green beans (but not the frozen ones)”

I hate when they take away things you were just starting to really enjoy, like your favorite TV show or democracy.

Sarah McBride: "It is an attempt to distract ... Every single time we hear them say the word 'trans,' look what they're doing with their right hand. Look at what they're doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing Social Security and Medicare."

Three week since the election and I still have not watched one single network news broadcast.

Easiest thing I've ever done.

An AG that can be bought for $25,000. That's a real deal compared to a $150,000 paid-off porn star.

@lolgop.bsky.social and I have the funniest process for our Ball of Threads podcast. I blather on for an hour saying, "here's what happened," thinking it's just my analysis saying so.

Then he goes off to MAGAworld and finds them admitting it explicitly, each time with a crazier example.

One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.

Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control

When all the undocumented immigrants are in concentration camps or deported, what then?
Will construction project go un finished? Will crops rot in the fields? Will prices rise. Will families be separated? Will students be notified that their parents won’t be picking them up after school?

There’s a narrative that Gaetz was a deliberate head-fake — a distraction to boost the real candidate — but I am always suspicious of narratives that attribute four-dimensional chess to trump as opposed to knocking over the table and eating the checkers.

I think Bondi will be confirmed but she provides the perfect vehicle to expose her and Trump:

1) Foreclosure fraud
2) Payoff re Trump U
3) Impeachment 1
4) Big Lie
5) Qatar and other influence peddling

I'm missing a few.

Anyway, a good vehicle to make it clear what the Republican party is.

Is the predictable "creepy Gaetz" scandal distracting the news cycle from absentee ballot discrepancies in many states, or no?