@prettylight10
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’" --Fred Rogers "It IS possible for David to triumph over Goliath." --Bill Moyers #NAFO
Sky Defense – This Week’s Toonie is Live!
This week’s episode looks at the need to protect the skies. People guard the sky so others can simply live. Under constant attacks, they hold the line for an entire country’s future. And that’s where the Toonie comes in: ... 🧵⤵️ 1/3
youtu.be/vTG1QCqtdPM?...
Kenneth Starr, who died in 2022, “appears to have been Epstein’s most substantive evangelical relationship. He represented Epstein in the 2000s, defending him against rape and sex trafficking charges in Florida. He helped Epstein get a plea deal that kept him out of prison.”
The president had his DOJ seizing ballots while he is trying to force Republicans to enact new voter suppression laws. Our democracy is in danger.
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Drawing of Rembrandt’s nightwatch with some mean wearing oversized shoes
When a president gifts shoes to the men of the Nightwatch
Flowers in a Vase
Flowers in a Vase, 1873
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/11696
This is the guy who likes to downplay non-fatal injuries suffered by US service members in combat.
Name another song that mentions the word "Be." 🎶
Written by Sammy Cahn & Nicholas Brodszky and first recorded by Mario Lanza in 1950, the song, "Be My Love" hit #1 in the US on March 10, 1951. Written for Lanza, he sang it with Kathryn Grayson in the 1950 movie,
Peasant Woman Laundering - August 1885
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/3109297
Hughes Aufray sits on the floor listening to records & smoking a cigarette. A bunch of LPs are spread out in front of him.
In this 1964 Philippe Tellier photo, Aufray has his influences spread out before him. I see three Bob Dylan albums, & a Joan Baez.
Can you decipher any others?
This is an interesting piece about how the “Church Too” movement—exposing sex abuse by evangelical leaders—was inspired by the “Me Too” movement & overlapped in time with revelations about Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking operation. #BiblicalPatriarchy #ChurchToo … 1/
I'm astounded at how the same people who now easily believe Trump has gone to war on a whim to prove US might have for yrs rejected every piece of evidence that Putin invaded Ukraine to conquer it and prove Ru might. "Ukraine is ours!" Pu pounds his chest; "Pu is cornered and fearful", they insist.
WOWZA
Well this is encouraging….
... and 30 seconds of spring peeper song, same walk:
"No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” ― Edward R. Murrow
Not really breaking any news here.
@jim-stewartson.bsky.social and I told you they want to use DHS to rig the elections using EO13848 and emergency powers.
Both the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are probing the results of the 2020 election in Arizona.
🎁 link
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Some good news.
For months, we warned DOGE's access to Americans' private data was ripe for abuse. And here it is:
A former DOGE employee stole the Social Security numbers & personal info of over 500 MILLION Americans.
Musk, Trump, & their DOGE lackies must be made to answer for this, NOW.
#SkyDefense #ToonieTuesday UPDATE
$3,675 ✅ - More protection overhead.
BUILD THE SHIELD, BLOCK THE TERROR - A Toonie helps reinforce the protective shield that stops harm before it reaches innocent people, letting you keep saving for your own needs while knowing... 🧵⤵️ 1/2
The misery machines have us engaged and enraged: Stressed out by politics? You’re not imagining it, and research shows that social media is largely to blame theconversation.com/stressed-out...
The voting technology company Smartmatic accused federal prosecutors of weaponizing the Justice Department against it to promote President Donald Trump’s 2020 election lies and aid his allies facing massive defamation lawsuits. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
If true, these allegations are as bad (in my opinion) as DOGE having “God level” access to voting machines. Arguably, these allegations present an even worse scenario because there is no recount that can help us if, hypothetically, key House & Senate races are stolen via bogus voter purges.
If true, DOGE’s alleged compromise of SSA systems threatens the security of the 2026 election bc the DHS’s “SAVE” voter purge system—which 27 states have already begun using—decides who to purge based on info from SSA’s systems. The GOP’s Save America Act wld force all 50 states to use “SAVE”. 1/
