I heard from my cat that she is willing to consider never throwing up on a rug again. So now we'll see if she's really gonna work with me.

Mike Johnson is the weakest speaker of the House in the history of the US. He’s a lapdog for Trump, and Trump knows this and delights in his control of Johnson and the House.

I hope the Republicans are delighted when TFG dissolves Congress, given that it’s unnecessary and ineffectual

Isn’t the whole idea of using an autopen to reduce writing? It’d take longer to produce a written authorization than to sign a name!

As important, or perhaps more so, as the size of the marches, is the nonviolence. NYPD announced there were ZERO arrests in NYC, and Austin PD said the same there.

The NYT is #13 most blocked site on Bluesky vqv.app/blocks/

Trump is following the fascist playbook. Read the book How Fascism Works, and look at examples from history, and it becomes so obvious.
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The majority of the resistance has been peaceful and when things have escalated, it was by the authorities. If this authoritarianism isn’t confronted, it will become normalized. We’ve seen this blueprint before.

but not before they nearly bankrupted themselves and were sold. I imagine this is what will happen with the SS systems but not before recipients are hurt and taxpayers are ripped off.

I'm old enough to remember when the company I worked for decided to "modernize" their 50+ year old. It was at the time the largest mortgage processing platform and processed 80% of the country's mortgages daily - took about 8 hours each night - and did so successfully for years. "Let's move it to

java," they said! But the deeper they would go in the millions of lines of code, the more complexity they uncovered and the more expensive that project became. Eventually, they realized (after millions of $) that it wasn't worth it and couldn't be done safely so they stopped

I think anyone critical of Putin or Trump, just CAN'T go back to the US anymore. I can only see it getting worse. Be realistic: avoid the US at all costs now. It's a dangerous place for sane truthful people.