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Blue dot 👤 in a red state. Sci educator 📷🔭⭐🌞🪐🌛. Slava 🇺🇦 🇵🇱🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏴🇱🇹🏳️⚧️🌈 Animals have souls. Defend the US Constitution! Please use alt text. Got no $, don't ask. Disabled. Nope to: DMs, maga, crypto, porn/OFs, gym selfies.
In the 1950s we had 700 different chemicals in our food Today we have over 10,000 in our food In Europe, they only have 700 still today. Kelloggs makes the safer Canadian version and the American version. Two different options, same manufacturer. Americans have been sold out sadly.
Prosecutor Alexandra Bravo, who was investigating US boat strikes and survivors’ claims of kidnapping and torture by the military off the coast of Venezuela, was reportedly assassinated in Ecuador after allegedly being warned to stop digging. This isn’t being talked about enough
RFK Jr and wife had a soiree at their Hollywood mansion during COVID and required proof of COVID vaccination with RSVP. Watch what they do, not what they say. –Rachel Maddow
Or scare people away with bomb threats. "The Brennan Center has confirmed that at least 227 bomb threats targeted polling locations, election offices, and tabulation centers around the country on Election Day and the days after." Read about threats here: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
Etsy keeps pissing me off. Ordered fabric from an Etsy store, said it was based in Ohio. Me: 6 hour car ride from Ohio. Shipping should be a few days? Got the fabric today, 20 days after placing my order. The return address label had a place in PRC on it. Swell /s. I miss brick & mortar stores.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936
Bozeman Montana HRDC Homeward Point Emergency Shelter will remain open all day Saturday with extended hours. • Community members may arrive at any time throughout the day. • There will be no capacity limits. • Anyone needing a safe, climate-controlled space is welcome. #Bozeman #ExtremeHeat
To confirm: Tim Walz passed a bill in MN banning services that use AI to generate nude images of minors. Elon Musk, through xAI, is suing to block this bill. When we call MAGA pedophile protectors, this is what we are talking about. Post Anything Here: interactink.vercel.app
America has many ways of terrifying its working people into submission. No healthcare is one of them. The other is showing them what happens if they step out of line. Poverty makes people easy to demonize. No home, no voting rights, no voice.
Reminder: everyone on American soil, whether they were born here or not, has the right to due process. Here’s everything you need to know.
A saboteur? Or another inept hire at State? You make the call. "the map had been produced by a team member who hastily changed the slide deck before the event" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
theguardian.com
M 4 is a Globular Cluster in Scorpius. It's the closest one to Earth.
When Justice is blind, bad guys take the fifth. When justice is corrupt, good guys take the fifth. Feel free to share.
I think a telling number is the number of excellent lawyers who quit their job due to Trump's crazy demands www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
More than 10,000 lawyers have left the Trump administration report says
Between the end of 2024 and March 2026, the federal government reportedly lost roughly 17 percent of its civilian lawyers
independent.co.uk
Always a sign you’re on the right side of morality and history.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
After seeing a food picture with cabbage rolls (halupki) here on Blu, I went to the store and looked for cabbage. All of the heads had rot on them. My peasant ancestors would probably have used them as an alternative to starvation. But my decadent American self said "nope." Not that poor yet. I
Dr. Brown: In November, an international body will decide whether the U.S. still even qualifies as a country that has eliminated measles. Dr. Sloan: We earned that status in 2000. Here it is, 26 years later and we're going to lose it. Because of who?
“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you’re wasting your time on this Earth.” ~Roberto Clemente. Image: MLB via Getty Images.
