apple cider vinegar woman

 for surgeon general 

Mar-a-lago

 

projection

Lovin Benjamin Forgey critique style

 

"a pleasant shock... Seven ghostly spaceships appear to be hovering comfortably above its front yard, keeping watch over an orderly gathering of white-rimmed, ground-hugging disks shouldering healthy mounds of grass."

a brooding, strangely graceful concrete honeycomb."

from a 1998 Washington Post article about the Marcel Breuer designed Robert C. Weaver Federal Building

Blind Blonde, Blonde Blind

Rubio said that while Khalil's “past, current or expected beliefs, statements, or associations that are otherwise lawful," the provision allows the secretary of state alone to “personally determine” whether he should remain in the country.
April 10, 2025 NBC news

Just let this sink in.  Free Speech and Due Process are under attack.

Constitutional Rights of our nation's land.

No person shall be....deprived of life, liberty, or property, without

due process of law  -5th amendment to US Constitution

No person, it says, ..doesn't indicate US citizen.  It applies to non-citizens.

Rubio's actions are unconstitutional.

Hilarious imagery

You think Newsmax wouldn’t be holding an exorcism live on air while Marjorie Taylor Greene screamed into a candle?
Daily Kos diarist, shespeakspolitics, writing about Pope Francis dying right after a visit from JD Vance and Republican/right wing response if it was Kamala Harris instead

Blessings

“I know religion better than the pope, believe me! And Romans wouldn’t have crucified anybody on my watch! Weak! Sad!” —Twitter war with Pope Francis, Sept. 5

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee: “Of course Donald didn’t mean the Savior was weak. His choice of words was unfortunate. I think the point Donald was trying to make is that religion has been under attack from liberal, activist judges from the beginning of time, really. You can draw a direct line from Pontius Pilate to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I believe Donald will protect our religious liberties, which is why I support him.”

From Aug 4, 2016 Yahoo News article, Is there anything Tr#%p could say to make his party cut and run? https://www.yahoo.com/news/anything-trump-could-party-cut-000000585.html

Job well done, Pope Francis

Also, remember to watch John Carpenter's The Fog
five minutes before the witching hour of April 21.

A severe

 

Friday egg ritual begins

 

the musk fella

 A Whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

Someone using a IP address from Russia used the same password created by a DOGE engineer minutes before to try to access NLRB data.  Access was denied due to IP location.

Top House Democrat says DOGE data access at NLRB may be 'technological malfeasance'

SpaceEx, Tesla and X have cases pending before the NLRB

Data is being extracted and security controls are disabled. 
What is the end goal with the data?  Why make our governmental systems more permeable?

 
And you shall have a tiny house,
A beehive full of bees,
A little cow, a largish cat,
And green sage cheese.

- Kate Greenaway

Thanks John Roberts

 The president can illegally manipulate markets.  Oh well!

No consent per modus operandi

 

Do you hear that, Putin?

Senator Cory Booker filibustering on the floor 14 hours and counting

No Foolin

Nationwide protests on April 5th -

No Kings

End Citizen's United

Deport Musk

15 hours and still going.  Thank you Sen. Booker!

Tax the Rich!

Keep going Cory!!!  17 hours

I hate this goddamn administration

 “It might be more than 300 at this point. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visas,” Rubio said at a news conference in Guyana, where he was meeting with leaders. 

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national with a valid student visa, is
arrested Tuesday in Somerville, Mass.Obtained by NBC News

-from NBC News

On Tuesday, people in masks and
plainclothes surrounded Rumeysa Ozturk,
a doctoral student at Tufts University in
Somerville, Massachusetts, declaring
themselves police and detaining Ozturk.

“It looked like a kidnapping.
They approach her and start grabbing her 
with their faces covered. 
They’re covering their faces.
They’re in unmarked vehicles.,”
Michael Mathis, whose security
camera captured the incident, 
told The Associated Press.

-from Daily Kos

Are we there yet?

How many more national security mistakes will be allowed?

WWWD?
Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz, who Goldberg said
added him to the chat, in 2023 suggested that Clinton and
then-President Joe Biden should be criminally charged for 
mishandling classified documents.

“When you have the Clinton emails ... on top of the fact 
that the sitting President of the United States admitted 
he had documents in his garage...But they didn’t prosecute, 
they didn’t go after these folks,” Waltz told CNN at the time.

from this article

And the White House Press secretary responds to the Bar Stool Sports guy...??!?  

We have to take this serious now, Dave Portnoy says you can't pooh, pooh it
Ah, Idiocracy is ripe.

Her emails!!

Her emails?
Reminder, no evidence of mishandling
classified information was found in 
2019, during the current president's
first administration

Now
Texting / accidental leaking (to a Journalist!)
ACTUAL WAR PLANS is totally fine
just a glitch

No investigation, No witch hunt
No jail time

Perfectly safe when Republicans do it
Not reckless, Not illegal

We are in capable hands
And you bet all hands are on deck
lockstep grand old party

Fun fact:
president claims complete ignorance

Didn't MAGA want America First?

No war?

Why even bomb Houthi's in Yemen?

"For shipping costs? For Israel? To send a "message" to Iran,
which likely no longer has control over the Houthi's anyway?"

from this article by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos of Responsible Statecraft

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Sen. Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri,
also tried to downplay the seriousness of the fact that
Trump administration officials were using cellphones—
which are vulnerable to hacking from America’s
adversaries—to discuss classified information.

"This is what the leftist media is reduced to,”
Hawley said in an appearance on Fox News.
“So now we are griping about who is on
a text message and who is not.
I mean, come on.”

nabbed from here

Maine event

 from this article 

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A new memoir by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Meta employee titled "Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism," alleges that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a "careless" executive who attempted to persuade China to allow his company to operate there by assisting in the development of censorship tools and enhancing its AI capabilities, while keeping these efforts hidden from Congress. 

excerpt from here

BBC article

Legislature is an equal branch of government

Don't give up our power, Don't privatize Social Security

 

Bullies are nothing but Bull and Lies

 At the center of Industry is dust.

Get Severed

Or get shriven

More Reps than him

 From this Daily Kos diary :

Googly eyes

                Sometimes you don't know where you stand
 

States Rights or not?

Gas says—we are the federal govt

We the people, yeah, we are

GFY weakass Pres Gas waaa! waaa! 

trying to turn out the light

 

Chris Kluwe

 What MAGA stands for

Valentine

 

Re-posted from April 2017

 

Has anyone asked..

about the little secret between Johnson and Pres Gas?
It was supposed to be revealed after the election.

Also

Why did Pres Gas keep saying he didn't need votes?

Anyway, round of applause for everyone that let this shit happen.

Weird and whiney

Making cuts to the NIH over Defense

Why is that?

Musk Melon is a defense contractor

Why would he want to stop the flow?

Pres Gas touts anti-war, but then makes a bunch of little wars

This is okay to supporters now?

I guess we need Pentagon money

Call your Congresspeople--tell Dems to obstruct everything

tell Repubs not to cut funding to NIH or whatever department is on the slate next

Maybe tell them to check the books at Defense

You know, the department that has failed auditing 7 times in a row

Call your Congresspeople today!

Tell 'em you love all this lawlessness 

That you are excited to run wild like a cowboy or cowgirl

Let your character fly a freak flag

Scare the shit out of them

Oooo!

Unprecedented! 

breathlessly 

Again.

Duh

I’m mad

but it doesn’t matter 

I guess Americans voted for this

Tech bros yo

break shit knows better 

no humility

hostile takeover 

Government cheese

President gas on everything

and ketamine

Coup coup

Elected officials? Media? Law enforcement?

Should we find and arrest the illegal immigrant?

Yes.

tis for me

 

Cheers to 70s Good vibrations

 

Lunar New Year Snakesssssssss

Look up class consciousness

The wealthy are pointing in the opposite direction

The powerless are the enemy?

Dividing people is the point

We have the power if we come together

Oppose the Corporations, the wealthy

Don't be manipulated

Bring back, bring back

Oh bring back Occupy Wall Street 

to us, to us

Bring back, bring back

Oh bring back Occupy Wall Street

to us

Inspired by this post by @TheRealSinai on BlueSky

This might be my favorite bill to date

 https://www.alternet.org/mississippi-abortion-blackmon/

Civilization crawl, caw

 

Happy New Year

Kapralik paper art