40% in USA identify as racial or ethnic minorities. This ugly new rule is Trump's F YOU to every one of them "The Trump administration released new rules that could revoke tax-exempt status from any school offering targeted support to Black or other minority students" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...

Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students

The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

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In Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow respected Superior's real name: By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water... Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water...

Blackfoot Niitsítapi🪶🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💙🌎🐾🐾🐝🦋🦅🦬🦫🐋🦆🦉🐧🐦‍⬛🐻🦊@thoughtsnations.bsky.social · yesterday

Just downloaded #MapQuest and deleted #Google maps! MapQuest won’t change the name of #LakeOntario. 🪶🙌🏽🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖕🏽🇺🇸

This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.

It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.

This is horrific, it's villainous. That SCOTUS (the usual six) allow this should be grounds for their impeachment as well as Trump's. The linked article is behind a paywall, so here's another: www.msn.com/en-us/politi...

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3d ago

Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa www.tampabay.com/news/2026/08...

Street art seen in Seattle's Pike Place area. #EpsteinFiles

It doesn’t get any cuter than this, folks. 😍

Michelle@michelleroy78.bsky.social · 4d ago

A much-needed break from anything serious. 🥰

Saturday morning calisthenics with Rhythmatic Gymnast Alina Harnasko: 🔊 #AGoodPlace

Why after election day?

If you haven't (re)watched In Bruges lately and especially if, like me, you've forgotten how it ends, rent it ASAP. It's gorgeous and grimdark and perfect. (And I must go to Bruges this year. I have promised myself.) youtu.be/p-gG2qo_l_A?...

In Bruges Official Trailer #1 - Ralph Fiennes Movie (2008) HD

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The new presidetial decree : Canadian Geese to be RENAMED, in force immediately. They’re officially Donald Ducks.

TRUMP STANDS WITH CRIMINALS, NOT WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, as many of us knew before 2015. Democracy, our Constitution, Law, Justice, and our FREEDOM all depend and hinge upon Truth. Those who spew immoral oft-repeated fascist lies and slander (especially lies about elections), don’t abide Justice.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w ago

EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s pardons have cost crime victims a staggering $1.7 billion in restitution while wiping away penalties for wealthy fraudsters and political allies, according to a new congressional review. The full findings are damning:

Ingraham seems obsessed with the tight black t-shirt. "Are they going to vote for the socialist dreamboat?" could be the tagline of a dumb romcom. Or an ad for a wrestling match, Socialist Dreamboat vs MAGA Nightmare

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · last wk.

What is going on here

It's infuriating to see Trump grant lucrative favors to (and pretty much only to) megadonors who fake interest in his wish list items. They also donate to GOP & own the msm, ensuring neither mentions the "donations" really go into pay-to-play slush funds, taxpayers stuck paying for Trump's projects.

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · last wk.

When your flight gets canceled, you should be compensated. We had a rule in the works to make this happen. So, what happened to it?

🔥 @MapQuest ftw 🙌🏽

He was a phenomenon -- I love the occasional motion blur of his left hand on the frets and his right with the pick.

BluesMusic@bluesmusic.bsky.social · last wk.

Stevie Ray Vaughan🎶🎸 #OTD #bluesmusic

It's like The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror II episode "Bart's Nightmare" where reality changes to match Bart's wrong test answers.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Holy shit — the purpose of this Trump event is to announce that he’s changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” It will be interesting to see which if any institutions and companies go along with this

What reality do “if Dems want my vote they’d better…” princesses live in? GOP works incessantly to disenfranchise millions for not having certain papers, cuts polling places in blue districts, wants ICE at polls, hints at martial law. Get real: vote D in ‘26 or risk not being allowed to vote in ‘28.

I'm a major Buffy fan, wish I'd known this sooner.

ERod 🔨@erodbuster.bsky.social · last wk.

We wouldn't have Buffy without Dolly. The producer was a friend, & was having trouble financing the pilot, so Dolly gave her the money. For this reason the logo to her production company appears at the end of every episode & Buffy's birthday is January 19th just like Dolly.

RIP Dolly, you were magical.🙏 Dolly Parton performs "Jolene" with Pink, Annie Lennox, Pat Benatar, Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow, Rob Halford, Simon Le Bon and Dave Stewart at The 37th Rock & Roll of Fame Induction Ceremony (November 5th, 2022 at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles).

Dolly Parton - Jolene (Live at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2022)

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🧊🚸⛓️ ”ICE just arrested a 5-year-old boy on his way to a soccer game in my home city of Austin, Texas. His name, just like the name of the little boy from Minnesota, is Liam. And Liam should be starting kindergarten this week, but instead he’s sitting in a trailer prison right now in Dilley, Texas.”

Texas Lawmakers Call on ICE to Close Detention Camp Where 100+ Children Are Held

In Texas, calls are mounting to shut down the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, where it’s estimated more than 100 children are being detained by ICE. This comes after a 5-year-old boy,...

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Finances collapsed because these & other artists cancelled appearances in disgust: Washington Nat'l Opera Phillip Glass Martha Graham Dance Co "Hamilton" Ben Folds Bela Fleck U.S. Marine Band (!) Issa Rae Rhiannon Giddens Kristy Lee Magpie Doug Varone Chuck Redd The Cookers Balún Sonia de los Santos

Harvey G. Cohen@cultrhack.bsky.social · last wk.

More evidence for the "everything he touches dies" argument.

The only thing tRump is good at is corruption.

Trump & Hegseth had this man, who begged for improved conditions for son & son’s shipmates, hauled off by ICE. If he hadn’t been an immigrant, would they have had him charged with a bogus crime? Too incompetent & self-involved to notice or solve problems, they take revenge on people who report them.

Jack Hopkins-The Original@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 2w ago

1/3 🧵Remember the Dad who was being interviewed by MSNOW and CNN about his son…who was struggling with his mental health on the USS Lincoln?

It’s like a terrible movie starring Elly May Clampett as Rasputin

Fun video. Sounds I associate with '50s childhood are cigarettes tapped from packs, metal lighters snapping open, home perm curlers clicking shut, pencil boxes sliding open, metal drive-in restaurant trays/drive-in theater speakers clunking onto lowered car windows, rustle unwrapping sticks of gum.

Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 2w ago

Some sounds you'll recognize if you were alive in the 1980s. All of the sounds are created by interacting with these then-everyday objects. [📹 rerunthe80s] Original post

Benefits of Being a U. S. State: 1) No universal healthcare. 2) Your kids get shot at in school. 3) You get no disaster relief if you didn’t vote for the malignant crazy person in the Oval Office. 4) Get diarrhea from your food. Think long and hard before saying “no” to such a utopia, Canada!

Schools shut, food rotting, dark streets, a struggle to find ice for meds like insulin & keep hospital machines running…but our msm, run by Trump cronies, says nothing & MAGA pols keep quiet because governor’s GOP & the afflicted are 70% Black & Trump’s billionaire cronies/donors want data centers.

Ricky Davila@therickydavila.bsky.social · 2w ago

A reminder that Gary, Indiana has been without power for just about 2 weeks now. Gary has 8 destructive data centers that strains their power grid. Over 70% of Gary’s population are Black. Indiana is controlled by fascist republicans. You do the math. Pay attention.

Hiding evidence of animal cruelty on this scale is cartoon-level villainy. In addition to using dogs for painful testing, Texas A&M took at least 474 dogs from nearby shelters & euthanized them same day. Paxton ruled the care logs could be kept hidden based on "veterinarian-client confidentiality."

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w ago

Ken Paxton’s office helped bury records involving hundreds of lab animals, including at least 100 dogs subjected to painful testing. Now, Meidas News has obtained disturbing photos and video of what he fought to keep hidden.