Good and terrible read. Article by Sabrina Haake in Daily Kos:
"Why" link from the end of the article above^:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/swamp-chronicles/a-theory-of-trump-kompromat
Trump is a wild animal trying to save his hide
We are forced to watch it:
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| The horror |
-Dana Zartner, Int'l Envt'l lawyer from the Univ of San Francisco
Science News article, The Dark Side of Light: A plan to redirect the Sun's rays has astronomers in an uproar by Lisa Grossman
"In March, The American Astronomical Society petitioned the FCC to deny Reflect Orbital's request to operate the test satellite."
Trump's FCC granted approval for the company, Reflect Orbital, in July.
"...DarkSky [Int'l] asked the agency to reverse its decision."
"Reflect Orbital, based near Los Angeles, hopes its satellite and others like it some day offer 'sunlight on demand,' illuminating distaster areas for search and rescue efforts, lighting up nighttime events and festivals and allowing solar farms to run all hours of the day."
The only word I can think of is horrifying * Choice words from scientists
Space, AI...It's time to catch up to technology and start drawing up REGULATIONS.
It's our planet, our universe, too.
Do you pridefully embrace its uniqueness
and call it your own?
Was it you that put it there?
Luck that the crust broke and sailed away,
landing on a latitude and longitude,
angled just so
only thing like it on this planet
a floristic province
maybe you owned it after all
response to learning about the Caatinga in Brazil
Abortion is not Govt Business
vote to never vote on abortion ever again
make it illegal to make abortion political
The United States Coast Guard escorted a historic ship from New York Harbor Saturday morning, after it appeared for the July 4 Parade of Ships bearing political messages.
The historic sloop Clearwater which had to leave the parade Saturday had appeared in a similar pageant for the country's bicentennial in 1976 and has a history of being tied to activism.
The Clearwater had two banners attached to its main sail. On one side, it read “Save the Clean Water Act,” while the other said, “Indigenous Rights, Racial Justice, Climate Solutions," per photos shared on social media.
“The owner of the sloop Clearwater was contacted and requested to remove the message being displayed or be removed from the parade of sail," they told the outlet. "They declined to remove it. So, the Coast Guard enforced the agreement on behalf of Sail4th removing the vessel from the parade.”
Those on the sloop said that no such communication had taken place. Toman told The Current he understood there was only a ban on promotional materials hanging from the boats taking part.
The Clearwater is a 106-foot replica of a traditional Hudson River sloop, built to resemble the cargo vessels that once dominated the river in the 18th and 19th centuries. The idea emerged during a period when the Hudson was heavily polluted by industrial waste and sewage.
American folk singer Pete Seeger believed that if people could experience the river firsthand, they would be more motivated to protect it. The slogan was essentially to "build a boat to save the river."
Clearwater played an important role in the modern environmental movement in New York. The organization became a leading advocate for cleaning up the Hudson River...
Read the full article here
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Emma Lazarus
November 2, 1883
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/27/800061362/community/kitchen-table-kibitzing-the-rolling-coup/
We believe that in the United States of America today we are in the middle of a “rolling coup.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/30/800063103/courts/supreme-courts-leader-doesnt-care-about-the-constitution/
In Trump v. Slaughter, the conservative supermajority allowed Trump to fire Rebecca Slaughter, without cause, from the Federal Trade Commission. The ruling overturned a 91-year-old precedent, Humphrey’s Executor, which had held that the president could not remove members of the FTC without cause. But the Slaughter ruling isn’t limited to the FTC, but now covers all independent agency members, commissioners, heads, and chairs. Well, except for the Federal Reserve, of course.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rachel-maddow-dire-warning-supreme-court-ruling-expanding-presidential-power_n_6a4396a7e4b0f4826b480d53?origin=home-whats-happening-unit
“Today, nevertheless, is going to be remembered at the court for what it told Trump he can do,” Maddow said Monday during a lengthy monologue. “In dissent, liberal [Supreme Court] Justice Sonia Sotomayor called today’s ruling, quote, ‘profoundly destabilizing.’”
The “Rachel Maddow Show” host continued, “She said the majority ruling in the Slaughter case today, quote, ‘gives the president a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once co-equal branches.’”
Celebrate the Masculine, the Expansiveness this Midsummer!
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| Helios, heel |
The 1,200-year-old Major Oak in Sherwood Forest is believed to have died after it didn’t sprout leaves this spring, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said Thursday.
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| I'm sick, St. Oak! |
I, too
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.
Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed,—
I, too, am America.
Article from CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/13/business/musk-trillionaire-government-tesla-spacex
Innards of article that I'm posting as a PSA:
The federal government awarded SpaceX more than $500 million worth of grants in its early years. And that $500 million is just a fraction of what Tesla received from government grants, loans, contracts and regulatory policies.
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Do-do-dooo!
Announcing, the one and only!
Tap-dancing maniac
Musical brainiac
Whomping hilariac
Fun-loving friend
Eleven years back, you came to us,
Always at my side
Now it's time to grow and grow and grow!
Cheers for tomorrow!
Cheers for today!
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| mija |
Much of the progress this country has made over the past 75 years was achieved with the help of government money for research. As the federally funded National Science Foundation touts on its website, “Next time you talk on a cell phone, hear a weather report, search the web, or get an MRI, remember the U.S. National Science Foundation helped make that all possible, and more.” To name just a few examples of what the “more” includes: the development of artificial intelligence, along with the semiconductors and supercomputers that run AI technologies, research into AI’s effect on the U.S. workforce and research on the social and ethical guardrails needed to rein in AI.
Historically, federal agencies have supported research not in the spirit of an investor looking to make a quick profit, but rather in the spirit of a benefactor looking to do real good in the world. That beneficence, in turn, is necessary for progress because good science is slow and deliberate, and its payoff is never guaranteed. Getting to headline-worthy developments takes far more time than private investors are typically willing to wait for a return on their capital, and far more money than private investors are typically willing to risk. And if the outcome was certain, there would be no need to do the research at all.
from here
And then the billionaires who were propped up by us, don't pay us back
AND act like they pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps
They just take, take, take.
TAX them, Regulate them
They are getting everything and we are getting nothing
Ridem cowpoke, yee-yaw!
In fact, the White House was designed with Ionic columns precisely because they are considered to be less ostentatious. Their purpose was to reinforce the notion that the White House is the “People’s House.”
from this article
and another thing..
He has also announced plans to rip out a fixture installed by President Thomas Jefferson, saying he would install in its place a "beautiful, black granite" installation to replace the Tennessee Flagstone pavers on the West Wing Colonnade. Trump said he would pay for the installation himself and send the Jeffersonian originals to a nursery for safekeeping.
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Oo de lally!
May is the final full month of increasing daylight
Today is light 14.5hrs from sunrise to sunset
On your fourteenth Earth year orbit around the Sun
A Green man,
new and fresh
Always so sonny
Oo de lally! Oo de lally!
Golly what a day!
Seemed super early, but I will have to look at my other lightning bug observations logged on here.
Despite the mounting calls to invoke the 25th Amendment, it is highly unlikely Trump would be removed through that mechanism, which has never been used to end a presidency in U.S. history.
from this MSNOW article
“Public trust in Donald Trump’s ability to meet the duties of his office has dropped to unprecedented lows as he threatens to destroy entire civilizations, unleashes chaos in the Middle East while violating Congressional war powers, aggressively insults the Pope of the Catholic Church and sends out artistic renderings on-line likening himself to Jesus Christ,” Raskin said in a statement.
Come on Rep. Jamie Raskin!
Get it!!
Hello GOP,
This is what you want? You want to destroy yourself with the rest of us?
How do we protect ourselves against you? Who do we call?
Remove the madman from top post.
To put it mildly, Trump is unraveling, he is unfit for office.
What is your goal?
FoxNews? Ellison?
What is your goal?
Mark Levin? Meta? Jeffrey Bezos? Anyone? Anyone?
What is your goal?
MAGA?
What is your goal?
