Just a personal note here:

To all you folks who take a screenshot of a Post and put that in your post INSTEAD of Quote Posting the other person's post?

I HATE THAT. If you think their message is worth sharing, why do you make it impossible to just click over to their post?

The ease with which officials lie in 2025 is honestly terrifying

China, as an electrostate, is set to wipe the floor with Trump's regressive petro-America. There's going to be hell to pay when the USA finally wakes up to what corporate fossil fuels have done to it.
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First there was the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd.

Now the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters.

People are fed up!

Yeah, the same is true out here in WA State, too.

What makes a difference is whether it's talk to win votes or an affirmation of the life the person is and has been living.

Voters can be fooled, but having the ability to say, look here, this is what I've done, matters. At least it should.

Sure, that means Liberal, not progressive.

But what's wrong with being "unapologetically a man of the left"? Republicans are able to be proud of their 'conservative' ideals (which aren't conservative by any standard anymore), isn't the same true for liberals?

Yeah, science today is nowhere near the level required to opt in for Virtual Eternal Silicone Chip life.

Quantum computing needs about 3,000 more generations to produce any system capable of creating a real Virtual Reality hosting millions of "persons".

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

Everything I've read about him, listened to on his ads and interviews says moderate.

What he promotes is the basic American hardscrabble work ethic, with Military service and his plans appear to be based around family, community, country.

That's moderate talk. Nothing like the fractious Sanders.

There are no “progressive” states, that’s just a political philosophy.
Besides @grahamformaine.bsky.social doesn’t present as progressive, but as a moderate with a For the People platform.

Read up: gq.com/story/graham-platner-maine-senate

Law enforcement needs to rein in ICE's anti-press abuses and investigate ICE attacks on independent journalists in Chicagoland.

A coalition of press freedom orgs explained why in a letter to the Broadview Police Department and Illinois State Police.

Trump has explicitly stated that he is terminating federal employees based on political affiliation. Data is currently being collected, but layoff notices have already gone out to employees at the Departments of Commerce, Education, Energy,

#Pinks #ProudBlue

In his words ….

“Well, they did sign up for it actually, and this is what I campaigned on.”

More than 5,000 federal employees have received layoff notices. We’re working to ensure that the administration isn’t using state voter rolls to target registered Democrats for termination. More details soon.

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

But he and his NOT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL Sec of HHS want to deny the rest of us the ability to get one.

#Craptastic way to lead a nation, amirite?

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

Argentina is already defaulting on a $20 billion dollar bailout loan from the International Monetary Fund, but this $20 billion dollar bailout loan from the US Treasury will work out great. For Milei.

Stephanie Ruhle lays out the summary:

I don't know what he's looking at but it's not Portland.