When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore. When your SpaceX rocket hits the moon like a big piece of junk and you don't give a shit, you're a moron.
Janet Flora Corso
@janflora.bsky.social
Reading 📚 Writing 📝 Persisting ✌ Writer's Flow|James River Writers| VA DFTBA IDWP NFA So many roads... ☮💀⚡🎶🌈🧙🏼♀️📽🧶🐶🌊🖋📚
A federal book banning bill is being considered in the Senate, and we need to make our voices heard! Library advocates will not stay silent: this is too important. Tell your Senators to reject S4925 and stand up for the right to read: www.action.ala.org/campaign/S4925
This shit is hilarious and infuriating both.
I think a society functions better when its people aren't constantly stressed about their healthcare and housing and, y'know, food, but I dunno, maybe it's just me.
Folks from the Women's March have been arrested at the Capitol for protesting ICE. Shout out to the women who are putting their lives and livelihoods on the line to get their message out: ABOLISH ICE.
DumbleDork probably thinks all that prevention happened up until now by magic.
Jacob Soboroff@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · last wk."Last year, the Trump administration delayed a $10 million grant that was supposed to help Minnesota thin out about 4,000 acres of dense, dry forest at high risk of burning... now, some of those areas are on fire." www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
If you’re not willing to fight rising authoritarianism, you’re not willing to fight for the people. I cannot be convinced otherwise. #bythepeople #forthepeople #fightforthepeople #couragefordemocracy #boldleadership @couragefordemocracy.com @halfwaypost.bsky.social
Virginia too! #VOTE #Election2026
League of Women Voters of Tennessee@lwvtn.bsky.social · last wk.🗳️Early voting ends on Saturday, August 1! 🗣️Make your voice heard in this primary election for Governor, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, Tennessee General Assembly, and Republican + Democratic State Executive Committees. 🇺🇸
I do cuss a lot, but still don't think Senators should be throwing f-bombs in an official hearing that is televised nationally 😒
This is what good public servants are forced to do when the GOP refers Jack Smith to DOJ for prosecution. Fauci’s lawyers were smart to give this advice but it’s regrettable.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Fauci accuses Rand Paul of having an "unhinged obsession with calling for my prosecution" and of making "repeated slanderous comments," then says "although it pains me to do so... under advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the 5th Amendment to refrain from answering your questions."
Omigod 🤣 if you saw that last exchange
Janet Flora Corso@janflora.bsky.social · last wk.Drink every time Dr. Fauci pleads the 5th
I've been imagining his inner dialog while they harass him, though tbf I may cuss more in my head than he does 😬
Janet Flora Corso@janflora.bsky.social · last wk.So this is clearly a waste of time. But I can't stop watching. Waiting to see if Fauci breaks… He's pretty tough 😏
“Read. The book is still the greatest manmade machine of all—not the car, the TV, nor the smartphone.” —American documentarian Ken Burns, born on this day in 1953
So this is clearly a waste of time. But I can't stop watching. Waiting to see if Fauci breaks… He's pretty tough 😏
This article highlights Rob Wittman’s vote against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2008). Dark Money by Jane Mayer (staff writer for The New Yorker) provides context for his and other Republicans' “no” votes. Here’s what she found. 🧵
Wittman Watch@wittmanwatch.bsky.social · 2w agoRob Wittman: "I voted against the infrastructure bill, but I am ecstatic that the Port of Virginia received the funding I have worked so hard to secure." Harbors, bridges & broadband all funded by bills he opposed - and that he later took credit for. 19 years, $0: #VA01 can't afford Rob Wittman.
‘Frozen’ animator launches an interactive ASL learning app and vows to keep it free forever Josh Staub created the app as a labor of love alongside Deaf animators, engineers, and other collaborators. buff.ly/IMjobxH via @upworthy #ASL #app #free
'Frozen' animator launches an interactive ASL learning app and vows to keep it free forever
Josh Staub created the app as a labor of love alongside Deaf animators, engineers, and other collaborators.
buff.ly
Featured story: Districts across the state are arresting and citing young children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age of criminal responsibility and floods schools with even more police.
In Texas Schools, a Crisis of Arrests of Kids as Young as 10
A groundbreaking data analysis shows how districts across the state are arresting and citing children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age…
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ICE has STOLEN an Indigenous Tribal ELDER from NM, who was on her way to CHEMO. She stopped for gas, ICE then approached her, she showed all of her proper, legal documentation. They still stole her away. They're denying her of life saving CHEMO. When will it be enough. #ShedShed #ViVaHerAlliance
Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories
@laperry2.bsky.social · 2w ago
“What we've heard is jobs, jobs, jobs." But no one in Tremont, Pennsylvania, seemed able to explain how the town could support an immigrant jail five times its population. So, the Trump-country coal town started to push back—and became galvanized to a much larger fight.
How the threat of an ICE detention center galvanized a Trump-country coal town
“We do deserve better than a plethora of data centers, detention centers, warehouses, biosolids processing plants, massive landfills.”
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I had the privilege of working with Senator Dracula on my bill offering tax cuts to family-owned mortuaries. While we disagreed on much and his horrible embrace has left me unable to endure sunlight, I'll always remember his amusing little jokes about exsanguinating my staff.
