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Ever hopeful, even in times of adversity. She/her🏳️🌈, ally:🏳️⚧️ SoCal native Supporter of the environment, wildlife, humanity, science, choice, vaccines, education, the arts, democracy, equality, BLM, unions, immigrants, freedom, free speech, peace 🪶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇪🇺 🚫DM
The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them.
It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.
JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked ICE from constructing an immigration detention facility in Hagerstown, MD after the state sued over the lack of a mandated environmental impact review. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72362...
Trump should have figured out why he wanted to go to war with Iran and then explained his reasoning to the American people BEFORE attacking, not after: open.substack.com/pub/michaelmcfaul/p/a-war-still-in-search-of-a-mission?r=17z4l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
When the President decides photojournalists can’t take pictures at Sec’y Hegseth’s Iran briefings, it’s not a small thing. We’re connecting the dots to the larger efforts to erode our 1st Amendment rights, just when we need them the most. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
WATCH: “Amid all the chaos and death, how did our wartime president spend the afternoon? By palling around with internet personality and aspiring boxer Jake Paul in Kentucky—and of course, dancing to the YMCA,” says Chris Hayes.
Many thanks @hopeful66.bsky.social for the mention, and thanks to all you lovely blue resisters for being who you are; together we're stronger. ♡
ICE is still acting like ICE. Abolish ICE.
Feel better, Beth! Sending you good vibes!
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📉 Stocks are down
📉 401(k)s are down
🏥 Millions lose healthcare
🏠 Rent is up
💡 Utilities are up
🛒 Groceries are up
🏡 Housing costs are up
👶 Childcare is up
📋 Insurance is up
🚜 Farm bankruptcies are up
💼 Unemployment is up
Extremist Tommy Robinson, previously jailed for assault and once denied entry to the country, is now inside the U.S. and appearing with Trump-aligned figures. The former English Defence League leader has long promoted rhetoric cited in extremist violence, now amplifying it from the United States.
A mother and daughter in Kentucky have rejected multimillion-dollar offers for their land, offers made by an anonymous tech company trying to build a data center.
Ida Huddleston has turned down $4,260,000.
Her daughter turned down $22,224,000.
www.lex18.com/news/coverin...
Trump ended the IRS Direct File program that allowed millions of taxpayers to file taxes for free.
That happened after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government to block the IRS from launching its own program.
Intuit also donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.
See how this works?
Putin has lied his entire career. Yet Witkoff says we can take Russia “at their word” that they’re not sharing intelligence with Iran.
Taking the Kremlin at face value while U.S. intelligence reportedly says otherwise is utterly incomprehensible and mind-boggling naive.
A federal tool to identify noncitizens on voter rolls keeps making mistakes.
“This is not ready for prime time,” a county clerk in Missouri said. “And I’m not going to risk the security and the constitutional rights of my voters for bad data.”
With @texastribune.org
Kohm Yah-may-nee Visitor Center, Lassen Volcanic National Park
Kohm Yah-may-nee Visitor Center, Lassen Volcanic National Park
#NPS #NationalParkService #LassenVolcanicNationalPark
A black-and-white photograph of Dr. Hilde Bruch, the pioneering psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1904–1984), seated in what appears to be her office or study in front of a tall bookshelf filled with medical and psychiatric volumes. She is an older woman, with short, neatly styled gray hair, wearing round-framed eyeglasses and a warm, gentle smile as she looks directly at the camera. She is dressed in a patterned houndstooth-check dress or jacket with a coordinating blouse. Dr. Bruch holds up her seminal book Eating Disorders: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Person Within (1973) with both hands, displaying the cover prominently toward the viewer. The bookshelf behind her contains rows of hardcover books on topics such as psychoanalysis, obesity, eating disorders, and related fields, underscoring her lifelong contributions to understanding and treating anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders. The setting conveys scholarly authority, warmth, and quiet pride in her groundbreaking work that transformed the field of psychiatry.
Psychiatrist Dr. Hilde Bruch (b. #OTD in 1904) revolutionized the medical & public understanding of eating disorders. Called the "Grande Dame" of her field, she transformed anorexia nervosa from an obscure medical curiosity into a recognized psychological disorder.
#WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth
"I don't want the president of the United States to have a cognitive deficiency."
Too late.
A talking filibuster is when you make the OTHER PARTY talk and talk. Republicans are so dumb, they are now planning a filibuster of their own bill! www.politico.com/live-updates...
This one is kinda amazing.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
According to the RNC's new legal theory aimed at throwing out mail-in ballots, In 2000, Gore won! 👀
www.democracydocket.com/cases/missis...
When he’s right, he’s right.
Russia is literally teaching Iran how to kill Americans — and Donald Trump’s refusal to even acknowledge it isn’t just failed leadership, it’s an obscene betrayal of the very people he’s sworn to protect.
Donald Trump's reckless war with Iran put Americans in danger and spiked our gas prices.
Trump's global energy shock and weakening of sanctions also hands a windfall to Putin's war machine.
"The first 2 days of this war cost $5.6 billion. I seem to remember a president coming into office on the pretext he would focus on America First. And yet he's cut healthcare, cut food assistance, sent the cost of everything higher, but we have plenty of money for war."
Another word you might use for it is "looting".
"This appears to be the first administration to take such widespread advantage of taxpayer-funded military housing to accommodate political appointees who do not have a direct connection to the military..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
The broader pattern is brutal:
Republicans are tied to an unpopular president; a growing number of GOP members are retiring; key elements of the the party's agenda are facing an intensifying public backlash; *and* they keep losing special elections, including in contests they expected to win.
"He told a colleague, who refused to help him upload the data because of legal concerns, that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
March 2026 Last Quarter Moon
Tonight's 'Last Quarter' Moon (March 11th). As seen from Co. Galway, Ireland. #Moon #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #MoonShot #Luna #SkyAtNight #Ireland #Scape #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #SkyScape #Photography
The FBI warned California law enforcement in recent days that Iran could seek to retaliate for U.S. strikes by launching drones at the West Coast, according to an alert reviewed by ABC News.
ground.news/article/fbi-...
