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Was @theresasmets at the X place. Old Brooklyn. Choir conductor, utility soprano; Ph.D./MLIS Musicological wraith; Mets fan. Porch gardener. Birds. Old Hollywood. She/Her. ABOLISH ICE/DHS. IMPEACH/CONVICT/REMOVE
โDear Lord Jesus, thank you for for turning a blind eye to my helping cover up for a notorious child molesterโand tracking what my โsonโ beats off to on Pornhub. And stop with that silly โdonโt pray in publicโ nonsense. Glory!โ
Hungary's prime minister is planning legislation to roll back Orban's restrictions on LGBT rights, including restrictions on adoption by same-sex couples. www.reuters.com/world/hungar...
โThese people do not talk about spreading democracy, and donโt want to build long-term relationships. They donโt care about Americaโs reputation. They are deploying the tools of American diplomacy and government for their own purposes." From @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu: buff.ly/NX3U6kW
MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Vastly less deceptive photos WaPo could have used to illustrate its empty-of-news article about Mitch McConnell -- rather than one showing him conscious: A shrine of sorts in his office, his closed office door, newspapers outside his residence. (via Getty Images)
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social ยท 6h agoA continued, complete absence of "reporting" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The Heritage Foundation and Hillsdale goobers in his inner circle might produce long reports and distorted museum exhibits, but for him itโs never deeper than โmuseum = building of famous people.โ
Itโs also how a comment like people recognizing Frederick Douglass โmore and moreโ makes sense to him, as someone who insiders have been discussing for years but is now getting serious ballot consideration for the Hall.
The Garden of Heroes list has plenty of Black Americans, women, other people whose stories would be flagged as DEI by this administration, but if itโs their name and a bust itโs fine!
See also: His Presidential Walk of Fame, the Garden of American Heroes, basically every statement heโs ever made about museums not honoring โheroes.โ Itโs all easier to understand when you realize he doesnโt care about history, he just thinks museums are halls of fame.
A lawsuit filed Monday takes aim at federal agencies' use of waivers to expedite construction of a wall along the border with Mexico and claims that landowner's constitutional rights are being violated. n.pr/4iv9QZF
Texas landowners sue federal government over border wall plans
A lawsuit filed Monday takes aim at federal agencies' use of waivers to expedite construction of a wall along the border with Mexico and claims that landowner's constitutional rights are being violated.
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PabloReports: Donald Trump keeps saying we are in a golden age. Do you agree? Massie: You need gold to buy diesel now, so maybe it is the golden age.
Ron Darling just said "baba ganoush." ๐คฆ๐
One more time: I wrote about how Trump has revealed, yet again, he doesnโt understand the difference between a museum and a hall of fame, and that Calvin Coolidge had a better grasp on the distinction between statues and history a century ago than Trump does today.
John Garrison Marks@johngmarks.com ยท yesterdayI wrote about Trump's proposal for a big, giant George Washington statue: how it reflects a long debate over what statues of Washington are good for and how statues are no replacement for museum work. johngmarks.beehiiv.com/p/america-ha...
Exceptional journalism from @newyorker.com on Jared Kushner's catastrophic diplomacy, conflicts of interest, arrogance. He represents "a new kind of Washington figure, for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Jared Kushnerโs Dollar Diplomacy
Jared Kushner represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth.
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Trump Jr.'s wedding: โ A $100k private island โ A $70k fireworks display โ A celebration bankrolled by a Russian oligarch Trump and his family are profiting off the presidency in ways never seen before. The corruption is staggering.
ProPublica@propublica.org ยท 13h agoLook at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.โs lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? ๐งต
And is glad to see that Trump and RFK Jr are working to bring back polio.
NBC News@nbcnews.com ยท 2h agoBREAKING: Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., returned to the Senate on Monday after a more than three-month absence. He said his recovery after a fall in June had been โa long and frustrating processโ that had been complicated by โlingering effects of childhood polio.โ
Triumphantly returning from Medbed Hypersleep to cast a vote on the Rural Hospital Abolition Act. That's beautiful.
WKYT@wkyt.com ยท 2h agoMitch McConnell in a social media post said that he will return to the Senate floor and cast his first vote since his hospitalization in June. See more: https://www.wkyt.com/2026/09/14/mcconnell-confirms-he-will-return-senate-cast-first-vote-since-hospitalization/ย
The Polar Bear is back in Queens. ๐ญ
A cult of losers who think you can turn a computer into god infiltrated the highest levels of San Francisco society and they want you to be scared of AI in a very specific way. www.garbageday.email/p/they-want-...
They want you to be scared of AI in a very specific way
Read to the end for Bradenโs Infinite Tour Of Italy
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Don Jr. really is a key figure in so many ways. Trump's key tentacle into the NRA, online Nazi Twitter trolls, and Russia. The America of today is as much Don Jr.'s as it is Bobby Jr.'s two of history's best examples, for opposite reasons, why you should never name your son after you.
Not just sequins! I bet this is the most remembered of all Bob Mackie designs. ๐
NPR@npr.org ยท 7h agoThe visionary costume and fashion designer was known as the "Sultan of Sequins" for his eye-catching celebrity looks. n.pr/3SNUvcl
trump has the temerity to talk about how the White House was in bad shape when he got there while my city looks like this
Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree.bsky.social ยท 7h agoThe '86 47' was painted over around June 14. Three months later, it looks like the feds have ripped up all the sod over towards the Washington Monument. Meanwhile, the Reflecting Pool is again empty
I did not realize that Trump Jr's Russian friend is literally the guy who started the hate campaign against women's Olympic boxer Imane Khalif. Holy shit.
ProPublica@propublica.org ยท 13h agoThatโs him, Umar Kremlev, all the way in the back row. He's the head of the International Boxing Association, a scandal-plagued sports group that has been financed by the Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom.
"When we think about it among the public, people say, People canโt talk to each other anymore. If they can just talk to each other, then that will solve so many things. First of all, not only is the empirical evidence on that not great..."
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๐ฏ๐. ๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ โ๐@theresamuir.bsky.social ยท 8h ago