What good are deeply held principles if they’re not also extremely flexible?

He makes me miss Harry Reid, that’s for sure.

Just as they refer to "The Ukraine" as opposed to just "Ukraine", in an effort to relegate a sovereign nation to being just a region of Russia.

Sitting comfortably in his complacency.

The crucial bit here is "and various other participating countries", which means Ukraine. So, it’s essentially a threat to halt all trade and place sanctions on Ukraine and other European nations that support them in various ways.

The greatness of the upper reaches of our society is too often won by the toil and sacrifice of the lowest among us, and here today we work to guarantee that it will ever be so. Shame on us. Deep, deep shame. 6/6

….while the rest of the country can’t help but remember Jim Crow, the demonization and brutalization of countless groups of immigrants, the subjugation and control of women, and the crushing grip of poverty for far too many of our citizens. 5/6

We are telling the dictators and autocrats of the world that they will find no opposition from The United States. We glorify a non-existent era of unblemished American Greatness, which only ever existed in the imaginations of a small, sheltered and privileged group of Americans, while….. 4/6

…..we definitely should not be surprised when they no longer feel safe around or wish to associate with us. We are telling our allies that we do not respect them, and will not stick up for them or for the values that we have long claimed to share. 3/6

We are teaching our young girls that their bodily autonomy does not matter, and that they must accept their diminished lot in life as just the way things are. We are telling our gay and trans family that we do not care about them or acknowledge who they really are, so……. 2/6

@claytoonz.bsky.social pulls no punches.

I second this recommendation.

Un Village Français is a great WW2 drama set in a French village. Very much worth watching as we deal with the rise of fascism in the U.S.

Yes. I also feel that people should also make an effort to credit editorial cartoonists and the like. A lot of the memes that go around are in fact someone’s work product.

Incredibly powerful. I’m sobbing for this man and what he’s been through, and for all the others like him.