kapowie, right in the kisser!

KIMMEL: “That sonofabitch… I never imagined we’d have a president like this, and I hope we never have another president like this again… celebrating hundreds of Americans losing their jobs - he took pleasure in that. The opposite of what a leader is supposed to be.”

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When I got a PhD in nineteenth-century political history, I really, truly never imagined I would have to find a way to explain to readers what an eggplant emoji means. (Wired reported more Signalgate Venmo accounts.) I yearn for the day when I can write about good, clean fun like tax policy again.

suddenly you're in a Signal chat you never asked to be in

A group of six nature valentines. A picture of a bog with pitcher plants, with text saying "Our love is like a bog. Built up over time, resistant to decay, deeply interesting to just a small number of people." A yellow slime mold stretching out and exploring. "our love is like a slime mold. Collaborative, complex, at times unnerving to behold." A piece of limestone with a small trilobite in the corner. "Our love is like limestone. Layered, useful for many purposes, shaped by the friends we met along the way." A ring-billed gull with a french fry on a beach. "Our love is like a ring-billed gull. Abundant, found in North America, sometimes sustained by french fries." An Atlantic horseshoe crab walking on the sand. "Our love is like a horseshoe crab. Tough, timeless, unrelated to true crabs." A drawing of the phosphorus cycle, with arrows connecting various parts of a scene, including algae and fish and a farm and a river and a forest. "Our love is like the phosphorus cycle. Important, really hard to draw."

Nature valentines.
Thanks to my Patrons for keeping me drawing www.patreon.com/birdandmoon

California Legislature Approves $50 Million to Fight Trump Administration in Court | KQED Two bills head to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk after a debate sparked rhetorical fireworks on the floor of the state Assembly.

Two bills head to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk after a debate sparked rhetorical fireworks on the floor of the state Assembly. via @kqednews.kqed.org

February 5, 2025 Five years ago, on February 5, 2020, Republican senators acquitted then-president Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial.

February 5, 2025:

If the not so evil oligarchs band together and find the new digital government maybe we can starve the fascist if power… Maybe this all silly and stupid. But… maybe.

Just declare a new republic in place of the one they took over. Set up a new digital capital. Just pay Medicare, Medicaid, ssn from there. Take a page out of their book and say, we’re in charge now, and give citizens the things stolen from them. (2)

I’m not very confident about anyone’s ability to stop fascist Musk and Trump and all their bribed lackeys from destroying the financial infrastructure of the country. We waited too long. This is certainly ignorant and naive of me, but maybe there’s a way to undercut them via the states? (1)

All The Federal Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Executive Orders We put them all in one place.

www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r...

I’m a Federal Worker. People Don’t Understand the Level of Heist Elon Musk Is Perpetrating. Things are bleak.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

Rock Phacelia (Phacelia californica)

The most ludicrous part of this tariff fiasco is that trade with Canada and Mexico was taking place under the USMCA trade agreement, negotiated and signed by Donald Trump 5 years ago.

Did the "Art of the Deal" guy sign a bad deal?

If so, why should he be trusted to sign a good deal in the future?

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

The Logic of Destruction

Let’s just hope they attain sentience and turn on him asap 👍

Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just opened up two California dams. A spokesperson says the flows are 'controlled' and being coordinated with local officials.

Dear California farmers and Congressional representatives:
Trump has just literally thrown millions of gallons of #water away that farmers were counting on this summer, purely to brag that he could.
That #cawater cannot be captured or used now by anyone.

www.latimes.com/environment/...

Completely idiotic.

Estimated preventable COVID-19-associated deaths due to non-vaccination in the United States - PubMed While some studies have previously estimated lives saved by COVID-19 vaccination, we estimate how many deaths could have been averted by vaccination in the US but were not because of a failure to vacc...

If the new government takes down scientific studies and papers from govt websites, here's one showing the anti-vaxx movement and the rejection of COVID vaccines caused the preventable deaths of an estimated 232,000 Americans.
RFKJr is a leader of this movement.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37093505/

January 30, 2025 Last night, just before 9:00 Eastern time, an American Airlines jet originating in Wichita, Kansas, carrying 64 people and a U.S.

January 30, 2025

Musk and his team have hostilely taken over OPM. Tonight’s email to fed employees mirrors the “Fork in the Road” message sent to Twitter (now X) staff after Musk’s 2022 takeover. He is working with the Trump administration to build profiles on federal workers based on loyalty (political standing).

MUST. RETRIEVE. STICK.

@jimacosta.bsky.social

Don’t GIVE IN TO THE FEAR!

Don’t GIVE IN TO THE LIES!

Don’t GIVE IN TO THE HATE!

KEEP THE HOPE!

Trump's Colombia tariffs will raise the price of a cup of coffee 20% of U.S. coffee bean imports come from Colombia.

Do you like coffee? Better speak up about Trump's idiotic and costly Colombia gambit!

Sunset…

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I voted for Trump. But when he said he was going to destroy the NIH, I didn’t know that he would end research into curing the cancer that will kill me within a few years.

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