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"Just keep going. No feeling is final." ~ Rilke

[Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky) @ShriramKMurthi]

Sorry, @xkcd .

[sophie @netcapgirl]

“navier stokes being solved has me thinking about how we blew up in finite time. maybe i should have respected boundary conditions more but i guess every relationship has its turbulence haha. guess you never know when an old problem might get resolved, anyway say hi to your mom”

[Volodymyr Tretyak 🇺🇦 @VolodyaTretyak]

This is Marta Kostyuk from Kyiv telling you how her family survives the war.

The official US Open channel avoided posting this. Please share this video so a Ukrainian voice can be heard. 🇺🇦🙏

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

This video of Barack and Michelle Obama meeting 106-year-old Virginia McLaurin will never stop mattering.

Born in segregated South Carolina in 1909, she once wrote: “I didn’t think I would live to see a Colored President.”

When her dream finally came true, she danced through the White House and declared: “I’m here to celebrate Black history.”

She lived long enough to see history change. ❤️

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and anyone else in leadership that decided that it was okay to grab Afghan interpreters who stood by our sides in combat and deport them to gulags in Africa is a damn traitor that has turned their backs on the very people that we relied on in combat.

Without these interpreters it would have been impossible for us to accomplish our mission and communicate with the people. I had no air support where I was most of the time. There was only 4 of us on my team, me, my NCO, my interpreter and a mechanic. I had 8 Afghan police stations that I was responsible for providing equipment for to defend themselves against the Taliban. What do you think would’ve happened if we had no means to communicate with the Afghan police?????

This entire administration is criminal. These people risked their lives for us. They are disappearing these folks to third world countries. The cruelty is unacceptable. When this nightmare ends, this entire corrupt administration must be held accountability. There is nothing patriotic about this.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

All government contracts obtained during the Trump administration by any company with ownership stakes held by members of the Trump family must be canceled immediately by the next Democratic president. Reverse the corruption on day one.

[Admiral Mike Franken @FrankenforIowa]

Abdul El-Sayed is an epidemiologist, medical doctor, Rhodes Scholar, father, person of the community, and a fundamentally good guy...who epitomizes the huge difference between Democrats and a not well Republican party.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Raskin: The president talks about communists, the only communists on Earth today are his best friends and his role models, like Kim Jong un, who he writes love letters to, and XI who he's praised more than two dozen times in public. How about Vladimir Putin, who he follows around like a puppy dog? Vladimir Putin was head of the KGB. So if there's a problem with communism it's over on that side of the aisle

[zero.knowledge @0kSnarky]

High global gas prices are a result of trump’s ill-conceived war on Iran, not on Ukraine’s strikes on Russia’s gas infrastructure.

[zero.knowledge @0kSnarky]

@Dorotheecatlady @Markfry809 @grok how many registered democrats vs registered republicans in Texas?

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

The convicted felon president who spends most of his time on the golf course looked at Americans struggling with rent, healthcare, and groceries and concluded the obvious solution was fewer days off. If 11 holidays out of 365 are going to collapse the American economy, perhaps the problem isn’t the holidays.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Talarico: “I wish our government would go after pedophiles the way they go after brown men headed to work at 7am. I wish this government would close billionaire tax loopholes like they’re closing public schools across this nation. I wish this government would fund our healthcare like they fund new forever wars in the Middle East that no one asked for”

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

Americans, on average, work longer hours and take fewer vacations than most.

However, due to a colossal lapse in judgment, Americans put this silver-spooned imbecilic criminal twat in charge.

Said twat promptly proceeded to line his own pockets while giving unscrupulous billionaires and foreign actors free rein to pillage our resources.

Now said twat wants us to work more to compensate for all the things he’s done to wreck our economy.

You’re all caught up.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

A Turning Point USA influencer thought it would be smart to antagonize a girl her on her lunch break with her idiotic maga talking points. She thought wrong & was easily demolished!

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

The Court's majority rules that the National Trust for Historic Preservation has no standing to sue over the White House ballroom construction. So that raises a question - who has standing to stop a President from spending money not approved by Congress?

[Paola Poot @PootDibou]

The day after the 2020 election, the Trump campaign asked data analyst Ken Block to investigate allegations of voter fraud. He was a registered Republican at the time. His company, Simpatico Software Systems, was was paid more than $700,000 for the work.

He later wrote, "In the swing states, just a tiny handful of dead votes were cast. The Trump campaign looked extensively at this issue. I know this because they paid me to do the research."

"We examined every mail ballot vote in the swing states looking for dead voters. We found a couple of dozen...not enough to change a result anywhere. The handful of prosecutions for this crime that I know of in Pennsylvania were committed by Republicans."

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Good morning. The sky is clear. My dog is a good boy.
More and more, we're seeing this same progression:
1. Trump has a craving or impulse and says or does something stupid.
2. Trump and/or his lackeys lie about what he said or meant or did, or why he said or did it.
3. Trump and/or his lackeys try to cover up his stupidity.
4. Trump gets humiliated and America is worse off.
5. Trump doubles down, and the humiliation is worse.
6. Trump attempts to distract from the growing humiliation and says or does something else stupid.
7. Rinse. Repeat.
You can see this exact progression in so many places right now.
He had a craving to name the JFK Center after himself, artists canceled, he closed the Center, was told to take his name off of it, he put up a tarp, convened the Center's board to find another way to put his name on it, now threatens to raze the Center out of spite. It's a remarkable progression of humiliations!
He had a craving to redo the Reflecting Pool, hired an incompetent crony who was a donor - on a no-bid contract - he f*cked up the job - Trump lied about it, blamed vandals, Trump and his crony Pirro arrested someone, the case fell apart, the crony dropped charges and admitted they were baseless, Trump - unable to admit fault - blabbers more nonsense about vandalism. Again, remarkable progression of humiliations!
He had a craving to attack Iran with lots of ferocity but zero forethought or anticipation of consequence - so he does, the Strait of Hormuz get closed, gas prices rise, our munitions get depleted, he spends months making blustery threats, Iran sees through them, ignores Trump's pseudo-bluster, selectively seizes the narrative, and flexes occasionally thus hurting our Gulf allies, our bases in the Gulf take hits, this causes our carrier ships to run out of resources, thus hurting our brave soldiers, and Trump - needing an exit, keeps doubling down defiantly because - doubling down is all he knows how to do - and there - again - is a remarkable progression of humiliations!
Look at the trade war - with Canada - hurting our Northern states.
Look at the purchasing of foreign beef - hurting our ranchers - and the subsequent recall of the beef.
His stupidity hurts us and humiliates him.
It keeps happening now. I can go on. And on.
Why does he have these cravings, and why are they so often stupid? Because he doesn't think, doesn't care, doesn't see beyond himself, has no depth, barely straddles reality, is old and ill and desperate to feign grandiosity, and no aides can talk him down anymore.
Why does he double down? Because he's a malignant narcissist, owned by his disorders, in an advanced stage of his decline, with zero connection to empathy or humanity, and this is what they do. All he cares about are his cravings, his power, and his grift.
Why doesn't his stupidity and resulting lies get called out by the press? It does. Mostly by indie media, but not enough by legacy media, where he is normalized.
Why am I posting this, much of which you already know? Because repeating it adds focus and awareness.
And our awareness is important.
We are The People. We have the Power.
His polling has tanked - here's to it tanking further.
Here's to a Blue Wave - leading to a much larger and more consequential progression of his humiliations.
Have a nice day!

[Ray Suarez @RaySuarezNews]

October, 2024

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

President Trump tried to kill the single biggest transportation project in America — the Hudson Tunnel project — for nakedly political reasons, eliminating tens of thousands of jobs.

That’s illegal, so the courts stopped him.

Now he's appealing. America deserves so much better than a President putting political revenge ahead of jobs and safety.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

If we elect a Democrat in 2028, I will do everything in my power, whether inside or outside of the government, to unravel Trump’s illegitimate oil deal with the illegitimate dictatorship in Venezuela. I hope CEOs of American companies tempted to get involved in this Trump deal instead think about the long term financial interests of their shareholders and the reputations of their companies. Exploiting resources of the Venezuelan people without their permission is both immoral and not a sustainable economic play.