I popped back in here after many months … just to be reminded of why I left. It's been real, folks! Idk how anyone can stand social media anymore at all.

Russia is once again preparing to escalate the forced removal and deportation of Ukrainian children during upcoming summer months. Russian official stated that about 53K children from occupied Ukraine will “spend their summer holidays” in children’s camps throughout occupied Ukraine and Russia

I feel like I'm burning a lot of calories lately just by wrenching myself from the clutches of cynicism.

A few months late, but ok, yeah, let's go.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · last yr.

“Voters didn’t turn out for Democrats last November - not because they don’t want us to fight for our values, but because they think we don’t want to fight for our values. We need to knock off the rust of poll-tested language, decades of stale decorum. It’s obscured our better instincts.” - Pritzker

So, globalism is bad unless we're using it to torture people. Got it.

Whoever this Mr. Spock is, they sure know of what they speak.

Mr. Spock 🖖@spockresists.bsky.social · last yr.

Americans thinking they have won over China really shows how little Americans know about China. Fox News might feed the propaganda. But the reality for America is dire to say the least. If this really escalates. China will play hardball. China will do two things

Hey, @maddow.msnbc.com have you seen this??

Sam Stein@samsteindc.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING: 500 associates and staffers at a top global law firm have written leadership begging it not to settle with Donald Trump www.thebulwark.com/p/uprising-a...

&?#@!

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · last yr.

“Meta whistleblower…says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’ *** As an example, she suggested that if a teen girl deleted a selfie, advertisers might see that as a good time to sell her a beauty product as she may not be feeling great about her appearance.”4/9/25

THIS IS TERRIFYING‼️ Dr. Peter Marks, former head of vaccines at the FDA, just had his last day—forced to resign or be fired because he wouldn’t lie about vaccines. He gives a chilling warning: the U.S. is unprepared for biowarfare—because the response team has been gutted.

I won't be out marching tomorrow (for health reasons) but I made this donation, and I'm hoping to make a couple of others in the morning. There are so many ways to show up! ✊🏻

I've heard several people describe the market response as a panic. I don't actually view it that way. It seems like a rational response to a completely irrational policy. - Charlotte Howard, Executive Editor of The Economist

The Dow is again down more than 2,000 pts, or 5%, with an hour left to go in the trading day. The Trump people and industry heads on Bloomberg are twisting logic to an amazing degree to try and make it sound not disastrous.

"The numbers have been calculated by the Council of Economic Advisors."

Drewcifer Rising 🎃😈@drewdietsch.bsky.social · 2y ago

"The numbers have been calculated by the Council of Economic Advisors."

Best parody account in ages.

Heard Island Government@heardislandgov.bsky.social · 2y ago

We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff

What kind of person does this and why kind of people enable it? That’s the question- and the answer is clear: cognitively impaired, w/severe personality disorders, such that they do inhabit reality if America isn’t calling their representatives tomorrow they are toast. Every single American-call.

Space Rockets Automobiles Government Agencies Political Campaigns Everything Musk gets involved in crashes and burns. 🔥

Wisconsin soundly defeated Elon Musk tonight. Elon's an E-normous E-loser! 🤣

I think we all just found out who is going to lead us through this. #corybooker

"You don't always win when you fight, but you always lose every time you don't." - @maddow.msnbc.com

BOOM

Cool, a new boycott list!

Live 5 News@live5news.com · 2y ago

White House asking for corporate sponsors for Easter Egg Roll #usnews

This all feels so much like the early days of the COVID pandemic, except now the disease is fascism, and the entire US is one big infected body. Nobody knows how bad it will get or how long we can survive. 1/2

Kill Tesla, Save The Country open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

What a set of bullet points

@schumer.senate.gov Please listen. You have done so much good work in your tenure, but right now you are missing the mark terribly. You must stop thinking about the midterms entirely & show us that you understand this moment. So far, you're falling. Terribly. We are begging you to hear us!

Carter Neal@carter-neal.bsky.social · 2y ago

"this worked in 2017," he says, neglecting to note that it is 2025 and it actually did NOT work in 2017 since Trump is, again, currently president.

I think we can all agree that "What the fucking fuck?" is a valid form of inquiry.

What @thedemcoalition.bsky.social should do tonight is all show up and then stand with their backs to him for the entire speech.

@maddow.msnbc.com has beautifully summarized the blatantly obvious signs that Trump, Vance & Musk are all, in fact, working for Putin. This one is a must watch. youtu.be/Zn9BTALjtLY?...

'Who's that good for?': Maddow connects the dots on Donald Trump's behavior toward Russia

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