This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
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Great quotes in military history.
@atrupar.com
When you assumed the man who almost single handedly crashed a G7 economy had already hit rock bottom.
Farage wonders what he’s going to say, having bigged up flying 4,500 miles out to Mar-A-Lago for “diner with Trump” to discuss the Chagos Islands with his “friend”
But Trump does a no show, instead staying somewhere else, totally ignoring Farage 🤭🤣🤣😂
#NigelNoMates 🤭
UK press tell us that Starmer has killed the "special relationship" but guess who got to chat with Trump this weekend and who didn't?
A Robin became a frequent visitor to our log cabin in the Forest. Each morning, it would arrive and make self known through song. This is a side profile of the Robin, looking with one eye towards the kitchen window.
Are birds still a thing on #BlueSky? Oh, so they are...!
My contribution to #BirdOfTheDay is the #SideProfiles of the alt theme a #Robin. Two in one
#UKWildlife #Birds #BirdPhotography #Nature #Photography #PhotographersofBluesky
Yeah, this about sums it up.
⭐ Fully-Funded ESRC PhD Opportunity ⭐ @katiecebula.bsky.social is recruiting for a PhD studentship: quant analysis of admin data to explore the social inequality & child/family factors which might be associated over time with neurodivergent young people’s school attendance. Deadline: 24th March
Republican Christian nationalists who call themselves “pro-life” fall strangely silent while American service members die, schoolchildren are bombed in Iran, and thousands of civilians across the Middle East are killed. Apparently the commandment is: “Thou shalt ignore inconvenient deaths.”
www.mediaite.com/media/news/d... #ProudBlue #USDemocracy Tennessee’s most ignorant racist Congressman Andy Ogles has put his ignorant foot in his even more ignorant mouth by calling for a complete ban of Muslims in the US. Poor Andy, still proving he is the most ignorant Republican in the GOP.
See?? Another REPUBLICAN sexual abuser! You can't make this shit up! You don't have to! 🧐
In a stunning upset, Democrats Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard unseated Republican incumbents Tim Echols and Fitz Johnson by record margins — installing Democrats on Georgia’s Public Service Commission for the first time in more than 20 years.
Nearly 6 hours since a GOP congressman said “Muslims don’t belong in American society,” not a single member of Republican leadership in the House will weigh in.
Shiny purple chalcedony, also known as grape agate.
A striking botryoidal specimen from Indonesia.
Video: Bobby_nature_minerals
Anti-war protests 🌎
(From paddystinian)
Anthropic just sued the Trump administration for its retaliatory designation of the company as a supply chain risk. I wrote about the larger ethical values at stake asharangappa.substack.com/p/anthropic-...
Pictures of ICE agents in Minnesota in Iran, he should deploy these guys. They've spent months in.American cities cosplaying elite military forces. Let's see how brave and courageous they really are. They can even wear their masks! Now is the time.
Send ICE to Iran.
Oh yes! Different country, same responses.
youtu.be/-7Y0ekr-3So?...
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RIP Country Joe! Nearly sixty years ago, look how far mankind has progressed!🤷♂️🤬🤬
Stephen Miller is a fascist promoting a dictatorship. He's an offputting creep, too – the GOP's Dr. Evil. Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says he's a “big problem” for Trump. But that's true only if Democrats take advantage and tie Miller to Republicans in the midterms.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Trump posted on Truth Social that a gain in “short term oil prices” was a “very small price to pay” for destroying Iran’s nuclear threat.
“Only fools would think differently!” Trump added.
The president hit the links as people continue to die in a war he started.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Absentee landlords flipping estates for a profit (Oxygen Conservation will do this with Kinrara), zero visibility of pricing and contract terms (a problem across the market). Is it any wonder the natural capital market looks like a racket. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Indeed.
Another diversionary tactic.
I'm cynical enough to believe posts saying it's to divert attention away from The Epstein files.
Truly dreadful.
Your occasional friendly reminder that regardless of perhaps more 'immediate' concerns surrounding economic difficulties, political intrigue, regional conflicts, etc., the grim physics of global warming carries on remorselessly...
youtu.be/e2paRMQ1k6k?...
