Bottom line: Americans unwittingly became decoys because President Trump wanted to use his new toy in a way it wasn’t meant to be used. Taking the Qatari plane, which hasn’t been equipped for self-defense, to a country that borders Iran was careless and dangerous both to himself and others.

9/ NMAG Torrez announced that his office is suing the US DOJ for access to the unredacted files. He said Zorro Ranch appears nearly 13,000 times in the federal material and that his office has asked for the records ten times... ...Seven years later, New Mexico is still waiting. 🔚

SAMMY DAVIS JR. tearing it up on the Drums and Vibraphone in 1963. He was quite simply, a phenomenon.

Yesterday’s beltway bridge message ❤️❤️

Today’s Beltway message

DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

I'm so glad the Capital Weather folks are available here on Bluesky now that they've separated from the local paper.

Capital Weather@capitalweather.com · 3w ago

Cool video! As severe storms swept across parts of the region Tuesday, Scott Jacobson captured this mesmerizing drone footage of a storm cell approaching central MD in the late afternoon with torrential rain spreading across the landscape. Watch the video at www.capitalweather.com/watch-drone-...

Call em whatever you like, anyone still supporting Trump at this point does not get a pass.

Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

Who wants to tell him?

John Lewis Day message over the DC Beltway

Today on the DC beltway "ICE murdered Lorenzo Salgado."

Whether they literally kill them in cold blood, or kill them by forcing them into the inhuman conditions of their detention centers...it's all murder. They must be held accountable.

Yep.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last mo.

When Lindsey Graham appears in a history book, it'll be his prediction in 2016 that the Republican Party would be destroyed for supporting Donald Trump and then a few lines about how he proved it by becoming Trump's toady. That's pretty much it. That's his legacy. Pathetic lickspittle.

This is a fantastic interview about independent media, reporting on the hill, and where the country might be headed.

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · last mo.

It was a pleasure to spend time with @hcrichardson.bsky.social and talk about fighting back against the whitewashing by Trump 2.0 www.youtube.com/live/94J9y61...

Hey so, if you use Waymo driverless car services, you are aiding and abetting fascism. Waymo helps ICE agents locate people to terrorize and abduct. The company willingly shares all facial recognition, license plate and GPS data with ICE and other law enforcement agencies—no subpoena required.

Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light

ALT: Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light

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Jan 6: 1/5/21 Gen. Mike Flynn inciting radicalized followers through Alex Jones & Infowars. Day before the Jan 6 Insurrection. Full show 1HR, banned from Youtube, etc.

In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.

Democrats are communists in the same sense that Donald Trump is a Christian: They are not.

Socialism for the wealthy, feudalism for everyone else.

He isn't going to get away with it if we all become pesky kids

dan@amerkincynic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Everyone should be extremely concerned that birthright citizenship was 5-4 and not unanimous.

Two of Donald Trump's wives would have been deported. And Don Jr. and Barron Trump would have Eastern European citizenships.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN on Sunset Strip in 1975 with a billboard behind him for ‘Born To Run’.

I recall the cover of my Weekly Reader in elementary school having a cartoon man representing the UK knocking on the door of the European Common Market begging to get let in. After they finally were accepted to the club, they voted to Brexit the EU

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A fifth of Leave voters have died.

Oh, nothing, just 'Logan's Run' (1976) predicting a future Reflecting Pool

At some point it’s time to stop asking them about the thing and start asking them about the lying itself