Spring In Vegas

Artist, Teacher, Student, Mother of two daughters, and civically engaged. “Art is a guarantee of sanity.” Louise Bourgeois

[Spring In Vegas @SpringInVegas]

So true…

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1778 that literacy was vital to the health of a nation and “tyranny” would follow if enough people were uneducated, and I do worry that the decline in reading skills is having consequences we’re only beginning to grapple with.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You see this kind of thing in struggling lower-income Southern households, and it tells a very specific story.
When life hasn't delivered much.... no wealth, no power, no real social standing.... some folks discover that white supremacy is basically a free membership card to a club that makes them feel superior without requiring any actual achievement.
It's the world's laziest status symbol.
The starter kit is always the same:
*A Confederate flag honoring a war their ancestors lost badly 160 years ago.
*A gun they'll never actually need.
*A Bible they've never actually read.
*And Fox News running 24/7 telling them they're REAL Americans.... unlike those fancy elitist Democrats who are secretly importing an army of replacement voters to steal their....
Their what exactly? Their Dollar General? Their 1987 Camaro on cinder blocks in the yard?
FOX found the formula, and they never let go of it: Take a man who has nothing, tell him the reason he has nothing is because those people are taking it.... and suddenly he's not a struggling nobody.
He's a soldier in a cultural war. He matters. He's relevant. He becomes a MAGA Warrior!
And THAT.... ladies and gentlemen.... is precisely how a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, 34-time felon, bankrupt New York con man who golfs at his own resorts became the hero of the working man.
You genuinely cannot make this stuff up.
And I write this so that hopefully they will recognize what they have done and what they are doing and snap out of it.....
I was born and raised in Appalachia ... These very people could be my relatives ..... but ... I .... got common sense from my granny ----- "question everything". VIA~Lee Murphy

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

In the USA in 1943 they produced a film 'Don't be a Sucker' about fascism.

It perfectly explains Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the entire Right.

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

This is the biggest presidential scandal in US history and no one is talking about it.

Engage with this post and spread it worldwide. Get this out there now! Let’s have this trending by the time he takes the podium tonight.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime opening dubbed to English

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism.

Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

[Spring In Vegas @SpringInVegas]

#JamesDobson from Focus on the Family died. Another soul in hell.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Taxes Paid By Illegals (2023): $89.8 Billion

Taxes paid by Tesla (2024): $0
Taxes paid by GE (2024): $0
Taxes paid by Facebook (2024): $0
Taxes paid by FedEx (2024): $0
Taxes paid by Nike (2024): $0
Taxes paid by AirBnb (2023): $0
Taxes paid by 3M (2023): $0

Do you get it yet?

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

This video is the best explanation of how the MAGA cult came into being that I’ve ever seen. Watch every second of it.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Someday Trump and MAGA will be gone, but we will always have footage of these people humiliating themselves every day to win his favor.

[Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal]

Ghouls!! $PLTR

[Donald @RealDonaldDoo]

Never gets old.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

RETWEET

[Spring In Vegas @SpringInVegas]

The MAGA cult explained.

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

Yes. Here it is explained.

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

🧵Hamas' human shield strategy is exposed in a groundbreaking new report by @HJS_Org. All NGO & UN reports omits this "missing chapter" because it proves Hamas is to blame for civilian harm in Gaza. @Mr_Andrew_Fox and I co-authored. Some key details: 1/
https://t.co/IPPEBegPKM

[Acyn @Acyn]

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

[Ben Lorber @BenLorber8]

It seems MAGA has torpedoed the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, one week after helping stall the Antisemitism Awareness Act. Last year I wrote a piece to help progressives understand this counterintuitive reality where many in the America First camp are cooling to the ultra-Zionist

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

This speaks to a wider point about Gaza. The strategies of the two sides are clear:

- Israel is committed to a post-March 2025 strategy of maximum attrition. They are grinding Hamas as much as possible to either force their collapse or achieve a hostage release deal on Israel’s terms. Right now they seem some way from achieving this goal, and we have to question if such a goal is even achievable. Because…

- Hamas still control half-ish of the Gaza Strip. Their strategy is a Taliban-like strategic patience. They are clinging to power and influence in Gaza in the hope that eventually Israeli popular support for the war will run out, or the war will prove too expensive to continue. Continuation of the war suits Hamas, in the sense that their overwhelming information war victory (enabled by wealthy backers and a human sacrifice strategy) means Israel faces continued degradation on the international stage.

As in Ukraine, the result of this kind of attritional war boils down to will and resources.

[BlueDream @58bugeye]

NPR & PBS combined Annual federal funding is about $87 million

The birthday parade Trump is throwing himself will cost taxpayers $92 million

Explain how cutting news & kids programming to fund an authoritarian birthday bash makes America great?

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

One has to be morally deranged - or totally ignorant of the grim realities of kids lingering without parents in orphanages, shelters and foster care, only to be expelled at 18 with no support - to believe that that dark hell is better for kids than being adopted by gay couples: