"If love dwells in you, you have no enemy on earth. And if you are a true child of peace, you will do no wrong to your neighbor." -- St. Ephrem the Syrian #quotes

The U.S. Congress is largely ceremonial at this point, and so is the U.S. Supreme Court.

Each is actively complicit in the unlawful aggrandizement of the U.S. President and his regime. #Murica

Notwithstanding a clear statutory mandate that she afford ready access and cooperate with inspections, Kristi Noem refuses to admit the two Illinois senators to her fortress in Chicago.

Who knew that MAGA's "America First" posturing actually meant Muslim government military bases in Idaho?

Is this to stage an invasion of Canada, or is this regime inviting troops from "kinder, gentler" Muslim authoritarian states to exercise force within U.S. borders?

#BeamMeUpScotty

Trump is out here blowing Venezuelan boats out of the water—no trial, no due process, just murder on the open sea. And the Nobel Peace Prize? Awarded today to a Venezuelan Latina fighting for Democracy. The universe really knows how to rub salt in a tyrant’s wounds.

CNN does a segment on Trump's health issues, including photos of his drooping face and discolored hand

A little moment in my newest James Gunn interview www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Federal researchers are confronting growing uncertainty about their future, as the 10-day-old shutdown of the U.S. government is now poised to extend into at least next week. https://scim.ag/4n1uy22

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The Kremlin expressed support for President Donald Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

"Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History"

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured & dangerous psyche. But now Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses, writes John Harwood for Zeteo.

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

Thou shalt not shoot pastors in the head with smoke bombs. I shouldn’t have to say this.

Does Bluesky care about sports at all?

*We're now a garbage opinion page. Dasvidaniya.

Georgia has fantastic U.S. Senators.

Does any state have a better duo?

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

Gray Scramble by Frank Stella, 1968
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137193

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Thursday froze President Donald Trump’s attempt to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in and around Chicago, saying the president lacked the authority to do so. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Why not make the Oahu figures annual?

Is there a better indication of how superficial and unhelpful mainstream media has become than that they are cutely musing about whether the domestic terrorist who changed "The Department of Defense" to "The Department of War" will get a Nobel Peace Prize—instead of reporting the fascism/terrorism.

The Nobel Committee has standards that the U.S. Senate hasn't had over the past decade and likely never did.

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.