We apologize to our Ukrainian supporters. We are embarrassed by how our president and vice president have behaved. We are fighting to redeem the soul of America. 🇺🇸

Journalists at mainstream US publications are absolutely allowed to engage in activism as long as it is aimed at reinforcing existing hierarchies and undermining progressive change. NYT news reporters recently engaged in a startlingly effective campaign against trans rights, for example.

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

“Why don’t they play popular music at the Super Bowl anymore.”

— Man who thinks 1996 was 10 years ago.

Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t.

Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID!

Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

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THE ASK This week, between Monday and the vote on Vought, we're asking people from all over the country to plan a visit to Senate State Offices to demand Democrats fight and to hold Republicans accountable for their complicity. DEMOCRATS MUST USE EVERY PROCEDURAL TOOL TO SHUT DOWN TRUMP'S AGENDA Yes, we need Democrats to vote no on Vought's nomination, but no is not enough. Democrats have the power to grind Senate business to a halt and force Republicans to feel the political cost of backing Trump's extremist agenda. Here's how: 1. Deny a Quorum: If Republicans don't have 51 votes in the chamber, Democrats can walk out and shut down Senate business entirely. 2. Block Unanimous Consent: Object to every procedural shortcut, forcing Republicans to take the longest possible route for every step of the confirmation process. 3. Max Out Debate Time: Use all 30 hours of debate on Vought to expose Project 2025, Musk's Treasury takeover, and the funding freeze. 4. Delay and Disrupt: Force roll-call votes, quorum calls, and procedural delays to slow everything down. 5. Blanket Opposition: Democrats cannot continue to vote for Trump's other nominees, helping to install more MAGA loyalists into powerful positions in the federal government while this power grab continues. No Business as Usual: This is a constitutional crisis. Democrats must abandon the old rules and fight with everything they have. Bottom line: Senate Democrats must block, delay, and obstruct every step of this process-no cooperation, no easy votes, no fast-tracking Trump's takeover. To learn more about how Senate Democrats can shut down Trump's agenda with procedural hardball, check out our explainer here.

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I had the sweetest dream last night. I was driving on the LIE and there was Donald Trump in a red jumpsuit, picking up trash beside the highway.

An adorable yet regal white cat lounges in her cat hammock, morning sunshine lighting up her thoughtful gaze.

Good morning, Bluesky. Taking a break from endless scrolling to present a Saturday morning Dot. Take care of each other! #catsofbluesky

Trump is openly violating the law on a vast and unprecedented scale and everyone is acting like it's normal. NPR had a long story about finding a rare shrew. NYT said he was disregarding "legal niceties." This is an attack on the Constitution as profound as the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

again this is a full scale attack on constitutional government

A group of Ewoks getting ready to rumble on Endor's moon in 1983's Return of the Jedi.

This is the energy I'm trying to put into the world: curious, industrious, collaborative forest denizen who's always down for crushing some evil. #ewoks

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

Uuuuuugh.

Just saw Nosferatu at our local cinema and goddamn was that gorgeous.

I think that it would go a long way towards helping people fathom folks like Zuck & Jordan Peterson if they recalibrate their understanding of masculinity in a way that allows them to see that it has always included petulant whining. Men have been petulant whiners since before the written word.

hello papi

The headline should be "Trump threatens to take health care away from the people of Greenland and Canada."

I was JUST listening to Shaboo Shoobah!!! ❤️

About the start the Meta deletion process. Wish me luck.

Beauty!!

That assertion is wrong. The city was in the process of negotiating a new contract with the fire department at the time the budget was being crafted, so additional funding for the department was set aside in a separate fund until that deal was finalized in November. In fact, the city’s fire budget increased more than $50 million year-over-year compared to the last budget cycle, according to Blumenfield’s office, although overall concerns about the department’s staffing level have persisted for a number of years.

I don't know if the LA fire department is properly funded or not but the claim that the city cut its budget last year — which is circulating widely on the right — is false.

As Politico notes, the budget actually INCREASED by $50 million. A portion of the funding was approved in a separate bill.

Meta exec Joel Kaplan went on Fox & Friends this morning to curry favor with MAGA and characterize Trump as a "big defender of free expression"

Time zones are fascinating. Australia is already in 2025, Europe is still 2024, and the USA is currently in 1939.

This is the content I need. Sooty sprites forever.

Goodnight Bluesky. Heading to LA tomorrow. Thank you for getting me this shitshow week and all the other shitshow weeks.

Holidays going to be great.

Most legacy media outlets in North America are completely dominated by echo chambers of white people and men in power — to the exclusion of Black people and other types of racialized minorities.

These same folks calling Bluesky an echo chamber can kindly launch themselves into the sun.

WTAF