Merlie

a cartoon smiley face is laughing and holding a small smiley face in his hand . Alt: a cartoon smiley face is laughing and holding a small smiley face in his hand .

I am one of those weirdos who can't stand that movie. I saw it in the theatre (!) and was rooting for the lifeboat . . . or something like this pic. lol

Wall YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

New video out from @lincolnproject.us, y'all.

"Which side of the wall are you on?"
youtu.be/avvKHJdv_CY

@endthecaste.bsky.social, you should check out this article from @thebulwark.bsky.social:

Essentially, the article explains why, "Liberal democracy has never put down deep roots in the South in the way it did across the rest of the country."

www.thebulwark.com/p/liberal-de...

While not all of us can say that we put our life on the line, many of us *can* say, "I did not give up a 6 figure income and defend indigent defendants for my entire career . . . "

Insert your own life experience or just get this ad more 👀. This is an important & effective ad by @votevets.org.

We *should* be othering and marginalizing billionaires, especially when they took advantage of their student visas, overstayed them, then busy themselves with destroying the country that welcomed them in.

Go back to South Africa & try to make that work. #musk #thiel

Boasberg pounced:
[Rubio's] “revealed many operational details of the flights, including the number of people involved in the flights, many of their identities, the facility to which they were brought, their manner of treatment, and the time window . . .”
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/incredu...

Same here. 💔

Evening all,

These are tough times for everyone and it's not too hard to become overwhelmed by the awfulness. If you lose yourself in the fog, please know that you can reach out via one of the numbers below and a human will answer your call.

Take care of yourselves out there, Merlie.

I'd *just* watched it when I came on here to see what was going on . . . and there it was. Sharing is caring, Paul! lol

And if it makes PITUS cry, all the better. BTW, did you notice that they geofenced the White House somehow to ensure it's played there?

xoxo, Merlie

I loved that era. Want a traveling pal? 😍

Well done @lincolnproject.us, well done. 👏👏👏

I *love* your dammit doll, btw! Niiiice!

Dognald, dog chew toy that looks like DJT.

No problemo, amigo! lol

BT, I would've unleashed righteous indignation, 🔵 here, but I laughed b/c all I could think was,"I'm cool with that." 🤠

I dunno who hated DJT more, me or my dearly departed Merle.I had to replace this toy 5 times b/c he loved (ie destroyed) it. Small acts of resistance. 🤣

The way things are going, this 6th generation TX Dem would be fine with being a Mexican citizen and thrilled to finally have a female CiC - especially when it's Pres. Claudia Sheinbaum.

Claude Malhuret, Senator of the French Republic, speaks the truth about what is happening in the US YouTube video by Gregory Mullins

"We were at war with a dictator, we are now fighting against a dictator supported by a traitor."

French Senator Claude Malhurst succinctly describing the free world's war against fascism, heroically led by Ukraine, on March 4, 2025.

Watch the entire speech ⬇️.

youtu.be/wmDVrV7QRrU

"We’re embarked on a vast battle over the future of the American Republic, in which the executive and much of the judiciary is acting outside the constitutional order. That battle is fundamentally over public opinion."

Josh defines post-constitutionalism ⬇️:
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/towar...

UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...

I cut off their access to this ATM after the election. I sent a scathing email, which stopped the money-grubbing for a while, now I just block all the numbers.

My donation $$ is going to someone who's actually putting it all on the line for democracy and freedom. u24.gov.ua

The boycott would've been most effective. It's a striking visual & while MAGA would've dragged them, so what? They're Putin's allies not ours.

All the above assumes they had been effectively messaging for the past month, however. Hate to say it but this D party needs to go the way of the Whigs.🤦‍♀️

@algreen.house.gov thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

You don't just make me proud to be a Texan, you make me proud to be an American.

And I hate to ask, but you actually see my "rep" (Jodey Arrington), perhaps you could have a word with him? He won't speak to us, much less listen. :(

@svecrumba.bsky.social, they could've taken Green's place 1 by 1 (think Birmingham protests in '60's) & forced Johnson to throw them out individually. Would've been great political protest & forced Rs to try & censure entire D caucus. But they didn't so . . . 🙄

Yeah, they're pretty crazy. We've been in drought conditions here for almost 15 years, brief respites here & there but nothing that really helps. NWS says it's a 10,000 year drought.

Cutting NWS & NOAA hurts all of us - fires, hurricanes, derechos, tornadoes, snow, ice, deadly heat, and on and on.😡

Respectfully, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, every one of you should have stood up & made Johnson kick y'all out with Rep. Green.

The *biggest* fraud being perpetrated on Americans is that what we're seeing is not a coup. Please step aside for someone who can actually be a war time consigliere.

Nowadays, NWS refers to dust storms by their proper name - derecho. I saw a few of them when I lived in Cairo, made me feel like I was at home. :)

Dust storm TX Panhandle May 2019

It looked like this (pic is from 2019 tho). The video is from 2022, the year I'm thinking of.

www.foxweather.com/extreme-weat...

If it hadn't been for Smedley Butler, FDR might never known of the coup plot against him. I love historical quotes that are both achingly specific and frighteningly prescient.

That's why we kept the whiskey in the canoe. lol

More like can't pay for your farm equipment, can't get an accurate weather forecast, can't plant crops of any kind without equipment or forecast not to mention $$ for seed and so on and so on, farmers in my small community are about to lose everything.

And a Sotheby's auction at that. Better opposition!!!

You're making this <insert your preferred adjective> speech so much better.

When I lived in Seattle, we'd go up there, put our flimsy canoes & beer tubes into the water downstream from there & spend the day floating down the river. Good times. :)

I've been told similar stories & they're scary!

About 2 years ago my dad was at the golf course when they were caught by a derecho. He & his buddies piled into his truck to outrun it, failed, & wound up in a field next to a road he's been driving for over 70 years. Said he couldn't see a thing.