Happy Obama Appreciation Day

This was….five months ago

I’m just gonna say it… today’s @newyorktimeshaiku.bsky.social #connections made me mad. Trying to be cute just because it’s #aprilfoolsday 🙄

The bluebird carries the sky on his back. - Henry David Thoreau

📷: Eastern Bluebird

RFK Jr

RFK Jr

We need more songs about getting drunk with bullfrogs

This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.

You unfriend people bec of politics?

Absolutely! I unfriended some of y’all because you were on Drake’s side during the beef.

@rbreich.bsky.social:

“For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13.

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26.

Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency.

It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.”

THE KENDRICK SUPER BOWL CURRICULUM!! 🔥

by Linda J.M. Holloway, Ed.D., NCC & April T. Berry, Ph.D.

Legit great stuff here, teachers / professors:

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Reminder: @MarshaBlackburn’s last town hall was 8 years ago this month.

Have a great Sunday!

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."

-- Ansel Adams, born #OTD 1902

“If you think fertilized eggs are people but parents who've crossed the oceans with their kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious.”

“If you think fertilized eggs are people but parents who've crossed oceans with their kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious.”

On Presidents Day:

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."

-- George Washington

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

-- Frederick Douglass, born #OTD 1818

Arabica coffee prices have gone up 33% since Donald Trump's inauguration alone.

Worse yet, they're up 67% since Donald won the election.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Mitch McConnell voting no on terrible cabinet picks because he doesn’t have to run for reelection is all the proof you need that we must have term limits. You shouldn’t only have a spine because you don’t have to run again. We are breeding chicken shit power hungry electeds.

That’s nothing. I found 13 contracts awarded to SpaceX since December totaling $77M. 1/

People who didn’t understand Kendrick Lamar‘s halftime show also don’t understand how tariffs work.

Next year’s halftime show will be just a jar of mayonnaise with a confederate flag stuck in it.

A photo of Kendrick Lamar and black men forming the flag of the USA during the Super Bowl half time show, juxtaposed with Langston Hughes’ poem, “I, too”. (Credit-Posted by Nina Turner on Facebook.)

Langston Hughes was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance-a poet, essayist, playwright & activist who gave voice to Black Americans.

Kendrick Lamar is a poet, rapper, & earned the Pulitzer Prize for music.

This image of their work speaks of racial injustice & is thought-provoking.