Another GOP incumbent not seeking re-election. They’re all panicking about the midterms.
Rusty
@rusty-baxter.bsky.social
81 yo retired teacher. Ham radio operator. Computer tech. Poetry, history, music, photography. Atheist, liberal, straight, widowed, living alone, neither a veteran nor a draft dodger. Remembers when America was great, and we ain’t headed back there.
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
I’m glad the President has his priorities straight.
States with the lowest literacy rates shouldn’t be banning books, they should be reading them
Happy birthday to an actual President, Barack Obama. 💙
Good morning Bluesky ☀️ My grandad told me he saw the Titanic - from the outset he warned all the people that the ship would sink, but nobody listened to him. He knew he was right and didn't give up. He warned them again & again, until eventually they kicked him out of the cinema.
ICYMI last night, DHS is currently being fined every day for contempt of court until it coughs up the cell phone records of officers involved in immigration stops in L.A. last year that looked like racial profiling rather than reasonable cause. short thread -->
Fed. judge holds DHS in civil contempt of court for refusing "intentionally and not in good faith" to provide plaintiffs with phone images they intend to use to prove DHS was racially profiling people arrested in Los Angeles without reasonable suspicion. Order from July 28, unsealed today.
It’s official: @abdulelsayed.bsky.social wins the Democratic Primary for Senate! The People Prevail Over Corporate Profits Once Again!
El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
A man digs a stuck turtle out of the beach. Original post
Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
Waking up to Sharia Law in NYC is crazy. Knicks won, crime is down, 2,000 toddlers are going to school for free, parents got “date night” with nyc babysitters, they’re building housing on city land, small businesses are saving money and selling ice cream. Its sunny out i should go get one.
Does anyone else have problems with Bluesky videos NOT PLAYING, especially the first time you see them. Spinning circle forever, then later in the day, see them playing on someone else’s repost- when you are no longer interested in the video? Asking for a friend who feels it can be fixed.
Watch Tesla self-driving v14.3.6 drive straight toward a curb at 40mph, forcing the driver to swerve to avoid crashing into it! Elon Musk's self-driving software is riddled with critical safety defects and must be banned immediately.
She is pandering I hope the people of Maine see her for what she is!! Traitor to women #RememberBret
Yep, and trying to look good for the election. Nice try, Susan Very Concerned.
Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."
You could have voted no on Blanche. Idiot.
Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
The older I get the more I understand why cats just walk away mid conversation.
I don’t want to alarm anyone, but we’re not even half way through this presidency.
Perfectly stated, Rusty. Let’s hope we have a free and fair Midterm… I don’t know how so many can turn a blind eye. Family members, DEMS act like everything is fine… I do Not Understand This.
BREAKING: I just offered an amendment on the floor to give Veterans fired in the Trump-Musk layoffs their jobs back. Every single Republican blocked it. Shame on them for betraying our heroes.
😱😱😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Lets make this viral again 👇