DDonsdottir @macfoto.bsky.social · 09/08/2026The 2026 Tour de France Femmes was the best yet, exciting and beautiful with a dramatic finish in Nice. Winners, L to R: Lorena Wiebes (sprints), Demi Vollering (overall), Puck Pieterse (climbing), and Antonia Niedermaier (best young rider). Well done, all! 030
Reposted by DDonsdottirMS NOW @ms.now · 31/03/2026BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked Trump's executive order that ended federal funding for NPR and PBS, calling the move "unlawful and unenforceable"bit.lyJudge blocks Trump’s executive order that ended federal funding for NPR and PBSJudge Randolph Moss ruled that the president’s move to cease all federal funding for the news outlets amounted to “viewpoint discrimination and retaliation.” 11397111
DDonsdottir @macfoto.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Same non-assistance it gives after disaster strikes... 000
DDonsdottir @macfoto.bsky.social · 29/03/2026An estimated 6000 turned out for the No Kings rally in little Hendersonville, NC, pop.~15k. Drone shot by Richard Labunski 010
Reposted by DDonsdottirNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12/03/2026This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷) 594180507095
Reposted by DDonsdottirRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office. 1455269078307
DDonsdottir @macfoto.bsky.social · 31/12/2025We wish all our far-flung friends a very happy, healthy, and prosperous 2026! (Clock, Musée d'Orsay, photo by Will & Deni McIntyre) 010
Reposted by DDonsdottirMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17/12/2025We were married on this day in 1978... soulmates ever since. ❣️ #ForeverGrateful 🙏 3250534542814
Reposted by DDonsdottirThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 14/12/2025Bystander who tackled armed man at Bondi Beach shooting hailed as heroirishtimes.comBystander who tackled armed man at Bondi Beach shooting hailed as heroAt least 12 people have been confirmed dead, including a shooter, in the Bondi Beach attack 2112
Reposted by DDonsdottirMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/12/2025HERITAGE FOUNDATION: "Nice state ya got there. Pity if anything happened to it." INDIANA: "Oh, *do* fuck off." 925133053627
Reposted by DDonsdottirCBS News | Breaking news, top stories & today's latest headlines @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy · 14/11/2025cbsnews.comOnly 16 of over 600 detained by ICE in Chicago area have criminal historiesThe Trump administration has released the names of more than 600 people detained by immigration agents, and whose arrests might have violated a court order, and only 16 of them have been identified by the federal government as a "high public safety risk" because of their alleged criminal histories. 0159
Reposted by DDonsdottirMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/11/2025NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”cnn.comExclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN PoliticsThe United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ... 948215407360
Reposted by DDonsdottirCBS News | Breaking news, top stories & today's latest headlines @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy · 02/09/2025cbsnews.comFormer CDC directors and acting directors raise concerns in op-ed over RFK Jr.'s decisionsIn a New York Times op-ed, nine former CDC directors and acting directors who served under both Republican and Democratic administrations are voicing their concerns over HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This comes after the recent firing of the CDC director. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe and CBS News medical contributor Dr. Céline Gounder break down the issues the former directors are worried about. 063
Reposted by DDonsdottirCBS News | Breaking news, top stories & today's latest headlines @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy · 02/09/2025cbsnews.comPutin and Kim join China's Xi for powerful show of anti-U.S. forceChina's Xi Jinping has invited Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un for a display of power, and the rising tide of anti-Western sentiment. 234
Reposted by DDonsdottirMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 02/09/2025The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not? 898172063955
Reposted by DDonsdottirMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/07/2025The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 called for dismantling the NOAA, which provides warnings of natural disasters, such as the deadly floods in Texas. The irony is that Heritage wanted these cuts because it’s angry that NOAA helps prove the reality of climate change--the thing causing floods. 823168887622
Reposted by DDonsdottirElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 24/06/2025If every one of the 340 million people in America paid a new $35 copay to visit the doctor, that still wouldn’t be enough to cover how much Meta would get from just one tax break in Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." 251353408
Reposted by DDonsdottirMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/06/2025I'm not enjoying the reboot of the "Unprovoked War in the Middle East" reality TV show. It's just as pointless, but the actors are even stupider. And, frankly, I didn't think that would be possible. 30879551678
DDonsdottir @macfoto.bsky.social · 14/06/2025No Kings protest in Hendersonville, NC, pop. 15.5k #readtheroomCongress 062
Reposted by DDonsdottirLiberal Old Fart @oldliberalfart.bsky.social · 13/06/2025All this chaos is being used to distract you from another bill passed by the House of Representatives. It cuts HIV assistance/research and PBS. It will be moving to the senate. They don't want you to notice this. www.cbsnews.com/news/house-v...cbsnews.comHouse passes rescission package to claw back $9.4 billion in funding for foreign aid, NPR, PBSThe House is expected to vote Thursday on White House's rescission package to claw back funding for NPR, PBS, foreign aid. 58701423
DDonsdottir @macfoto.bsky.social · 02/06/2025How cool is Pope Leo? He gave a blessing and a sendoff to the riders In the Giro d’Italia, who started the last stage of the race in Vatican City today. 020
DDonsdottir @macfoto.bsky.social · 21/05/2025The legislation's official name is "One Big Beautiful Bill". It will add trillions to the national debt, give a tax break to the wealthy, and kick millions off Medicaid. The GOP is so proud of it that the House Rules Committee is holding its hearings at 1 a.m. tonight so nobody will observe them. 131
Reposted by DDonsdottirAriana Niko @ariananiko.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Major US retailers like Walmart raised prices by up to 25%due to new tariffs &low inventory From food and clothing to electronics,costs are up.Supply chain stress means families may spend$2,000 more this year Walmart’s CEO said they held out as long as they could.A second wave of hikes may be ahead. 2019478
DDonsdottir @macfoto.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Like Caesar’s wife, US presidents were previously supposed to be above reproach. Donald Trump has twisted that into being beyond reproach. 010
Reposted by DDonsdottirAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/05/2025"This is naked corruption on a massive scale. But at least the golf stuff is covered by a tiny fig leaf, ostensibly separating the Trump Org and the Oval Office. Now, less than four months into his second term, Trump is ripping the bandaid off and discarding all pretense." -- @lizdye.bsky.sociallawandchaospod.comQatar Bribes Trump With Bling BlimpCan a plane be a presidential record? 18935581009
Reposted by DDonsdottirJeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Why Trump's massive corruption -- crypto, the Qatar jet, using tariffs to pressure countries to making deals with Musk -- is going unchecked by courts to & congress. www.thenation.com/article/poli...thenation.comWhy Trump’s Epic Crypto Corruption Will Go UnpunishedThe president is a brazen crook, but Democrats are too compromised to challenge him. 46320
Reposted by DDonsdottirArt Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 11/05/2025The Constitution's Emoluments Clause prohibits federal officials, including the president, from accepting gifts, titles, or emoluments from foreign states without congressional consent. A luxury jet from Qatar qualifies as a gift or emolument, so Donald Trump shouldn’t be allowed to keep it. 96803278
DDonsdottir @macfoto.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Robert Francis Prevost was a surprise choice to Americans used to thinking that no native of a superpower would ever be elected pope. Maybe our status as a fading superpower made it more possible? And he's no MAGAt. 000
Reposted by DDonsdottirRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 08/05/2025Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, has been critical of the president and his actions.rollingstone.comMAGA Melts Down Over New Pope's Anti-Trump, Pro-Immigrant Social MediaDonald Trump's supporters are not liking the social media of Robert Prevost, Pope Leo XIV, which includes several posts critical of the president. 621371249
Reposted by DDonsdottirAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Robert Francis Prevost, Pope Leo XIV, called out Pope Killer JD Vance. 1434642892
Reposted by DDonsdottirJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 03/05/2025I don't know what the NEA is supposed to have to do with fostering the skilled trades, or "making America healthy again," or "fostering AI competency," but I'm PRETTY SURE that the federal government is not supposed to direct funding *specifically* at "houses of worship." 89033
Reposted by DDonsdottirNPR @npr.org · 02/05/2025It is not clear that the president has the authority to make such orders to CPB under the law. From @davidfolkenflik.bsky.socialnpr.orgTrump says he's ending federal funding for NPR and PBS. They say he can'tIn an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS. They say he can't. PBS chief Paula Kerger calls it "blatantly unlawful". 90960244
DDonsdottir @macfoto.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Pogaçar and van der Poel in the lead, Liggett and Roll commenting live—it’s a great Paris Roubaix! #bikerace #cycling #hellofthenorth 000
Reposted by DDonsdottirThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 09/04/2025You lost your 401k... and did Trump make money doing it? He posted "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!" just hours before pausing the tariffs. It's time for everyone to ask House Republicans why they aren't fighting for an investigation into this. 686102833083
Reposted by DDonsdottirRobert Armstrong @robarmstrong.bsky.social · 08/04/2025you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS" 8055631143
Reposted by DDonsdottirKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 09/04/2025One of two things is happening. They don’t understand what’s happening. They want it to happen. Pick your poison 1933406861
Reposted by DDonsdottirPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 05/04/2025I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.” 570313427059
Reposted by DDonsdottirFaith Paige @faithdenise.bsky.social · 05/04/2025@maddow.msnbc.com This is what democracy looks like HENDERSON COUNTY NC 161454236
Reposted by DDonsdottirFaith Paige @faithdenise.bsky.social · 05/04/2025@maddow.msnbc.com #Henderson NC 5869125
Reposted by DDonsdottirMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/04/2025WOW: Thousands are currently protesting in Boston. This is just one of more than 1200 'Hands Off' protests underway today across the nation as people rise up against the Trump-Musk regime. (via Rob Way) 457185574206
Reposted by DDonsdottirNPR @npr.org · 25/03/2025President Trump's alienation of allies and dismantling of U.S. Agency for International Development are welcome news for China, a scholar in Beijing tells NPR.npr.orgA Chinese scholar shares some thoughts about what Trump is doing to the U.S.President Trump's alienation of allies and dismantling of U.S. Agency for International Development are welcome news for China, a scholar in Beijing tells NPR. 16475125
Reposted by DDonsdottirProPublica @propublica.org · 20/03/2025Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects. (Published July 2024)propub.liSchool Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state… 20934581613
Reposted by DDonsdottirThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 18/03/2025irishtimes.comLast known Battle of Britain pilot, Irishman John Hemingway, dies aged 105Born in 1919, the Dubliner flew Spitfires during the Battle of Britain 3307
Reposted by DDonsdottirRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/03/2025They installed the TV... At his request... So he can play video games... In his office... In the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. www.politico.com/news/2025/03... 1233128184381
Reposted by DDonsdottirRhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Here’s my take on "Georgia Buck." I learned this tune from my mentor, the late Joe Thompson, whose old-time banjo tradition still inspires me every day. I’m honored to carry on his legacy through this song. Love, your #BanjoAuntie 928442