Michelle Roshto aka Cat

"To give himself the power democracy has won for this nation, he’s trying to convince America and the world that representational government lacks the vigor of the kind of regimes he salutes with his straight arm."

Macron:

“But we must not forget one point—if anyone is playing the Third World War, it is Vladimir Putin. He was the one who started the war three years ago, and he brought 10,000 North Korean soldiers to European soil.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system late on Friday, according to three people familiar with the change, handing Elon Musk and the team he is leading a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending. The new authority follows a standoff this week with a top Treasury official who had resisted allowing Mr. Musk’s lieutenants into the department’s payment system, which sends out money on behalf of the entire federal government. The official, a career civil servant named David Lebryk, was put on leave and then suddenly retired on Friday after the dispute, according to people familiar with his exit.

Musk and his allies are ransacking the federal treasury, gaining access to closely guarded payment systems that disburse trillions of dollars and hold massive amounts of incredibly sensitive information—including Social Security numbers. Just a terrifying development. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.

“Many of those interviewed broke down in tears as they described the rapid destruction of decades of work.
The programs that have frozen or folded over the past six days supported frontline care for infectious disease, providing treatments and preventive measures that help avert millions of deaths”

Someone tell that sanctimonious pixie Speaker Mike Johnson that if he places conditions on California's ability to rebuild, his state, Louisiana, the Welfare Queen of Federalism, won't be able to fix any of its roads because that money comes from the far more successful economy of California.

They are “fixed” only as Louisiana can “fix” a road. It’s a never ending process. 😭😒

They always seem to be ‘dancing’ out windows in Russia.

True. ☑️

While the people who voted for Trump insist he had nothing to do with P 25, or insist that it isn’t real.

Absolutely. They can’t count on us. My grandfathers are rolling in their graves.

I mean, he’s right. It’s not much different here. I could go into some of where this comes from but suffice 2 say this is how it works here. They’ll b ostracized by their own party if they decide they have a backbone. They wanted to hang Pence, rmmbr? Also why I’ll be at home during Thanksgiving. :(

Well. Every day. It gets weirder.

That makes sense. They screamed for us to get out of NATO the last time around. That wheel is slowly grinding out its horrid flour.

You are 100% correct. It makes for an angry inner voice, and it bathes the spirit in constant hot and cold. It killed something inside me.

A photo showing the operating theatre with wooden handrails encircling each riser. In the middle is a wooden table where the dissections would take place.

Oldest-surviving anatomical theatre, located in Padua and built in 1594. Over the entrance is the Latin inscription: “hic est locus ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitam.” Roughly: “this is the place where death delights to help life (or the living).”

Photo: Rolando Paolo Guerzoni. #histmed #skystorians

My own content. My own content… that might be a problem. I started with fighting a creative block in 2008, after hurricane Gustav, and I’ve slowly wound down over time. What was left was whittled away in debate groups the last time this fckr was in office.
I’m tired.

Most people's advice to Democrats boils down to "they should do more to appeal to me, personally."

So when someone says, for example, that Dems should throw trans people under the bus, they're telling you what they truly believe.

Good morning.

Meanwhile, we will be exhausted and distracted by the three ring circus of our newest administration. And if our people get sent to war, it’s questionable which side we will end up on.

India has the greatest units the rest of the world doesnt hear enough about. Nilgai is nice, but the great grand daddy of the genre is the scariest cow on the planet.

meet the Gaur. It rhymes with power and it rhymes with sour.

Yes that is a full sized tourist bus.

I aspire to some day be as petty and vindictive (positive) as Derek Guy

Make America Smart Again

Let’s work on building the Resistance in here — if you’re anti-tRump, I’m excited to follow each one of you. 🦋

Repost this, so I can see to follow you! It’s definitely easier than scrolling through the follower list.

Others can follow you too!!! 😊

#MakeAmericaSmartAgain

Well I'd love to see ol donny Trump wriggle out of this jam. Trump wiggles his way out easily ah well nevertheless

There have been tens of thousands of news reports and opinion pieces written about Trump but you could just put this tweet in a history book and it would cover the last 8 years

Read this thread. Because this is exactly right.

UK troops have been teaching Ukrainian soldiers how to disable landmines, munitions and other explosive devices. It’s part of Operation Interflex, a UK-led initiative involving 12 other NATO Allies and partners.

Remember, Trump fills his cabinet with people he thinks will make his enemies cry. He doesn’t care if they’re qualified. The CRUELTY is the POINT.

Along these same lines, I don’t think court martial of military personnel would stop at just those high ranking people who were part of the pull out in Afghanistan.

Can't unsee it now!😂