Trump: "Veterens with heavy vehicle experience can skip redundant road tests" to acquire commercial CDL Obama: ... active duty service men and women can train and acquire skills necessary to obtain a CDL for whatever state they'd drive, while they're performing their duties in service to the U.S. 😓

Ryan Cordell@laststarfighter.bsky.social · 6d ago

Why didn't any of the former presidents push to make it easier for military veterans with those skills to get CDLs? OH WAIT... www.truckinginfo.com/news/preside...

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

By generating #renewableelectricity and fresh water from the same installation,these projects address #clean-energy and water scarcity Although still emerging, integrated solar-desalination systems could become especially valuable for islands, coastal communities, drought-prone regions #ActOnClimate

NO 👇 BULLSHIT DETECTED

When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful. When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Know the truth.

This is Trump’s Watergate. Today, the @nytimes.com released a truly stunning report on the Epstein cover-up by the White House.  Collusion, breaking the law, evading subpoenas—it’s all in there. Read the report here: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/m...

Affordable EVs for citizens? The U.S. corporate capitalists say no! Why the hell would we invest in that!? That would hinder our oil gluttony and carbon emission spewing, oh and our bloated profits.

Peter Sinclair@peterwsinclair.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NBC: Chinese EVs an Extinction Threat to US Automakers thinc.blog/2026/06/10/n...

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

I am not a Catholic, but I LOVE these words of the current Pope.

D. Earl Stephens@dearlstephens.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📌Pope Leo XIV TODAY: “The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants. Blessed are the peacemakers, but woe to those who manipulate religion and the name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.” He is NOT backing down.

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court

String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

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This is how they roll now. ....Right over the voice of We the People. Thanks for the reality check Rep. Beatty.

Rep. Joyce Beatty@repbeatty.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Chaplain breaks silence after spending 73 days in ICE detention.

31K views · 1.5K reactions | There has been an increase in stories of ICE detaining people who not only serve their community but also come here through legal channels. It’s thanks to our communities ...

There has been an increase in stories of ICE detaining people who not only serve their community but also come here through legal channels. It’s thanks to our communities who speak up and out that...

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This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

"For every 1,000 measles cases, there are between 1 and 3 deaths from breathing complications or brain swelling. If there are a million cases, that’s about 1,000 deaths that doctors consider preventable with the use of vaccines" Also: about 200,000 hospitalized (1 in 5 cases in unvaccinated people)

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Abhorrent. My tax dollars being used to handsomely reward people to destroy, to cause pain, to damage .... when so many people doing work to help, to heal, to teach, are struggling to get by. This is super hard to take.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 11mo ago

Notice ICE recruits aren’t hiding their faces. Disgraceful way to make a living! We’ve got money to hand ICE fat salaries, signing bonuses, even student loan forgiveness (no college degree required). But we can’t afford to pay teachers, fund better healthcare, or keep Social Security alive.

🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”

Schools where I work and live in California are planning on lockdowns if (when) ICE shows up. Desperate times.

Orange County Schools Prep for ICE

Here’s how five different school districts in OC are preparing in case federal immigration agents show up to one of their campuses.

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🧵1/6 Hours before a gunman fired nearly 500 rounds 🔫 into CDC HQ — killing Officer David Rose 🚔 and forcing hundreds of us into lockdown — RFK Jr.’s hand-picked vaccine advisor posted a gun photo with this caption: “Five out of six scientists have proven that Russian roulette is harmless.” 🎯

Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime…

Lesson from a battle worn warrior. Key point (and difficulty): harnessing the rage for productive action without it consuming me.

JP@johnathanperk.bsky.social · 12mo ago

“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious, is to be in a rage almost all the time. So that the first problem is how to control that rage so that it won’t destroy you.” — James Baldwin

Pointless indeed. Unless the point is cruelty via hubris.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last yr.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Awareness saves lives.

The 14th Amendment was ratified on this day in 1868. It guarantees: ✔️ due process for all ✔️ birthright citizenship ✔️ equal protection under the law Now more than ever, we're determined to protect these essential rights.

This is great because helplessness is the worst.

Waffles Mcgrawl@waffles-mcgrawl.bsky.social · last yr.

this has been updated and I think this is likely my final draft, this is solutions, let's get this circulated so people know what they can do to fight back please, it's a list of action items open.substack.com/pub/wafflesm...

Exposé by an Israeli newspaper. Primary sources are IDF soldiers. --"Gaza doesn't interest anyone anymore.... It's become a place with its own set of rules. The loss of human life means nothing."-- This is what genocide looks like. We stop caring at the risk of our humanity. 🧵

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." -Thomas Mann

This is the crux. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Winter@leftywinter.com · last yr.

I will be watching the court case closely.

We have the deets. Now we just need the courage.

Graphic Granola@graphicgranola.bsky.social · last yr.

The missing votes uncovered in the Rockland case are just the tip of the iceberg, which spans across the swing states & into Texas. The statistical anomalies were concentrated & targeted to swing states, Texas, & specific to Election Day voting. <The usual suspects in comments>