Jon was like, "their logic is probably that a big truck is safer for the teen but the truth is it's more dangerous to literally everyone else and that's what's wrong with this country."

Side-by-side meme format. Left panel labeled “How it started:” shows three news headlines on a dark background: “Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites” (404 Media, Feb 4, 2025); “NASA Websites No Longer Promote ‘First Woman’ on the Moon for Artemis” (Orlando Sentinel); and “NASA Wipes Vow to Land Woman on Moon from Website Amid Trump DEI Purge” (Axios, Mar 25, 2025). Right panel labeled “How it’s going:” shows a dramatic photo of an astronaut’s silhouette gazing at Earth through a spacecraft window.

Three black-and-white portrait photographs of Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, and Mary Jackson, African American mathematicians and engineers who made significant contributions to NASA's space program in the 1950s and 1960s.

NASA official portrait of astronaut Sally Ride in her blue flight suit (left), and a recent photograph of Tam O'Shaughnessy, Ride's life partner of 27 years, science educator, and co-founder of Sally Ride Science (right).

Astronaut Victor Glover gazes at Earth through a spacecraft window aboard Artemis II, his silhouette illuminated against the vivid blue and white curve of the planet below.

You can remove our colleagues who are women or Black or Brown or LGBTQ from agency websites & their images from agency walls

But you can’t erase this: bc of those heroes of the past we have these heroes today inspiring future heroes

Thank you Dorothy, Katherine, Mary, Sally, Christina & Victor ❤️🚀

Homeland Security post: “These are the consequences of importing the third world.” A video of a gruesome murder was attached, but I haven’t included that.

When the Trump regime warns about “importing the third world,” they mean people of color.
The current federal government is enthusiastically racist.
Vote against hate. Vote against all Republicans.

Graphic with a quote of Julian Reyes, Chief of Staff at UCS. The graphic includes the image of Smokey the Bear: “My own experience as a civil servant at USDA working directly with Forest Service R&D scientists tells me this relocation is bad for the American people, bad for American producers and foresters, and bad for rural communities.

In his blog, UCS’s Julian Reyes explains how Forest Service restructuring is irreversibly damaging the federal scientific enterprise. It leaves the nation facing growing climate threats with fewer experts to manage wildfires just as risks are surging across the US.

🔗 act.ucsusa.org/4sqD11s

From Hatch Magazine last week (a website dedicated to the sport of fly fishing):

Smokey Knows: President Trump’s Forest Service Restructuring Is Bad News Only YOU can prevent forest fires and protect critical science on climate change.

The expansive restructuring and relocation of the USDA Forest Service is irreversibly destructive to the federal scientific enterprise, and leaves us at woefully under-prepared for managing increasing wildfire risks this summer.

Even Smokey knows: this is bad.
blog.ucs.org/julian-reyes...

Wow. "Whites only" is back in style.

Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it Foreclosures on VA loans are at their highest level in a decade. VA has a fix but it is months away and could still leave vets worse off than most other homeowners.

More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump administration shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program, the highest pace of foreclosures for VA loans in a decade.

Start wars, but don't take care of vets.🤷‍♀️

www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

We're gonna need more lawsuits...

And the military just falls in line even though they understand that our president is insane.

(2/2) But rage isn’t despair.

We are furious. Anger is a pro-social emotion. It tells us something is wrong and pushes people to act, organize, and protect each other.

Channel it. Public health is still worth fighting for.

Good night, friends. See you tomorrow💚

Of course he cut them…

Meanwhile, in Vermont…

People are getting gassed for protesting ICE. Yep, that’s still going on. America sure is great, isn’t it?
#Vermont #ICE #SouthBurlington

I don’t know dude. If James Baldwin was able to write all his work while his friends were being assassinated by the FBI, and while he was living in terror as a gay Black man … then maybe you can write without using A.I.

Shame on Senator Tuberville: Keep New York City out of your bigoted mouth.

This Jewish New Yorker is proud that we elected our first Muslim mayor. (2/2)

Trump administration underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz | CNN Politics The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, accord...

If *I* knew that the closing of the Strait of Hormuz was a major—if not THE major—risk of going to war with Iran, then Trump’s national security team should have known.

And I think they did.

They were likely advised about it by knowledgable officials and ignored the warnings.

The question is why.

I respectfully submit the Hamiltonian term "Poltroon". Current vocabulary doesn't do justice to the reckless warmongering poltroonery and fuckery. I think it refers to roosters strutting their fake-ass bluster while being cowards and traitors at heart. Hegseth and Trump.

its really interesting how report spamming by a bunch of rank misogynists always seems to get moderation's attention and anything from survivors gets knowingly ignored even when there is clear and present danger that really does make clear where @aaron.bsky.team's priorities are

Scalia, Thomas and Citizens United Reformers ask the DoJ to probe whether the justices had conflicts of interest in the case.

one person one vote went directly to hell with this SCOTUS decision, we need to take back our representitive democracy

www.politico.com/story/2011/0...

All the years, decades of Congress duking it out over campaign finance, squashed in an instant with Citizens United

bsky.app/profile/rbre...

Photo of a black and white tuxedo cat that has no external ears (pinnae), sitting on a tan carpet

I showed him a photo of my earless goblin cat, and he said "he looks familiar..." 😂

I had the good fortune to meet Shilo this weekend and hear him speak about his journey. Both powerful and inspirational, if you have the chance to see him speak, I recommend you take it!

The question is always "what if a kid is wrongfully transitioned" and never "what if a trans kid is denied the ability to transition and endures years of excruciating dysphoria and has to have multiple surgeries later in life to fix the issues caused by going through the wrong puberty."

Excellent.
We totally needed to be fighting wars and battles and ... whatever the hell they want to call it, across half a dozen fronts.

Hatred Has A Name: Transmisia It's time we called it what it is.

Great post
open.substack.com/pub/stephent...

"Transmisia—derived from the Greek mîsos, meaning hatred—more accurately describes the aversion, contempt, and prejudice directed at transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people. Where “-phobia” suggests fear, “-misia” names hatred."

Jesus and John Wayne - Wikipedia

just reading this f##kery. And I believe it.
The corruption of USian "Christianity" by fascism has been building up for a long time.

jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-...

See this book from 2020 for a great analysis
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_a...

Ummm.... we have a convicted felon in the White House, the military is patrolling the streets, people are being beaten and kidnapped on the streets, protesters are being killed, and internment camps are being built, what right do we have to assume we know what's best for others?

Dean W. Ball Y @deanwball X.com Think about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind with arbitrary other companies. In other words, every operating system vendor, every manufacturer of hardware, every hyperscaler, every type of firm the DoD contracts with—all their services and products can be denied to any economic actor at will by the Secretary of War. This is obviously a psychotic power grab. It is almost surely illegal, but the message it sends is that the United States Government is a completely unreliable partner for any kind of business. The damage done to our business environment is profound. No amount of deregulatory vibes sent by this administration matters compared to this arson.

Scary af, by @deanwb.bsky.social

ICE officer training is ‘deficient’ and ‘broken,’ former agency lawyer tells congressional forum | CNN A former US Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawyer who was responsible for training new deportation officers warned Monday that the agency’s training program for new recruits is “deficient, defect...

When ICE leadership prioritizes speed over safeguards and denies problems instead of addressing them, the consequences are predictable: constitutional violations, escalating confrontations, and collapsing trust.

It is Congress’s responsibility to rein in ICE and hold those at the top accountable.