Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 13/03/2025 85105421963 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/03/2025AOC on senate Dems caving and backing the CR: “A wide sense of betrayal.” 12225233511801 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you. 22099436416520 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much 1148670939503 0
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘 @tblash423.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Amen. Maybe Czech Republic… 🇨🇿 020 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity. 17507564122548 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try? 31548298520680 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘tamrakat @tamrakat.bsky.social · 03/03/2025David Sipress, The New Yorker 😢 172655358 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 03/03/2025 6294607410730 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 03/03/2025🖤🖤🕊️ 319030 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Some elderly and disabled people who rely on Social Security or SSDI as their only or primary income could become homeless if this happens. 21268131 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Carole @patcarbul.bsky.social · 03/03/2025We could have been part of that. 476168782828 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Another strong woman speaks the TRUTH… 5472737511517 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025This is oh so Soviet. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...nbcnews.comU.S. Mint takes Jan. 6 coin honoring officers who protected the Capitol off its websiteThe coins are duplicates of Congressional Gold Medals issued to law enforcement officers who protected the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. 40770482625 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 03/03/2025old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.” 2814369310221 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/03/2025After we published a public audit on Saturday, Elon Musk’s DOGE deleted hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued “wall of receipts,” wiping out an additional $4 billion in so-called savings that the group had claimed to secure for U.S. taxpayers. 183122112407 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 01/03/2025NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogynymilitary.comNo More Female 4-Stars: Franchetti Firing Leaves Top Ranks Filled by MenDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's first female chief, last week without any clear explanation -- part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint... 10373057810750 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Simon Donner @simondonner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Having out of town guests over. We were going to make them a meal, as has been the custom in virtually every culture in human history, but I think instead we'll berate them, criticize their clothing choices, and demand they thank us for everything. 260109251500 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 02/03/2025The accuracy of the political cartoons recently is incredibly painful. 278281145781 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Leaders of the free world stand united in London The United States is not among them 20245797013162 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘God @thegodshow.com · 01/03/2025Thou shalt not deport hard working, good people whilst importing vile criminals like the Tate brothers and still claim you have morals. 377329116552 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Dr. René MD 🇺🇸🩺 @drrenemd.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes. 8425338114814 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL. 57759426040866 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘 Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 27/02/2025The Onion is within a hair's breadth of reporting real news apnews.com/video/robert...apnews.comRobert F. Kennedy Jr. describes major measles outbreak as ‘not unusual’ during Cabinet meetingHealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday said the nation's major measles outbreak is "not unusual," as a child who was not vaccinated died from the virus in West Texas. 6041811183 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Rogue NASA @roguenasa.altgov.info · 28/02/2025Here are our 5 bullet points of what we did this week; keep in mind that NASA receives less than 1% of the entire federal budget. 1 week. All in 1 week. 🚀🚀 1. NASA installs heat shield on first private spacecraft bound for Venus phys.org/news/2025-02...phys.orgNASA installs heat shield on first private spacecraft bound for VenusLed by Rocket Lab of Long Beach, California, and their partners at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Rocket Lab's Venus mission will be the first private mission to the planet. 602086347 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/02/2025DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works? 18503997415063 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/02/2025The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable. 1128387839408 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025This doesn’t exist and will literally save $0 41755708711914 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘𝑀𝒶𝓎𝓇𝒶°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･🫧 @lepapillonblue.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Republicans are vultures.huffpost.comGOP Sen. Josh Hawley Warns Against 'Massive' Medicaid CutsThe Missouri Republican said large cuts to Medicaid would harm many people who voted for President Donald Trump. 145732188 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025SCOOP: On his second day as HHS secretary, RFK Jr., the onetime environmentalist, killed climate change programs at NIH that research and prepare for the health effects of extreme weather and a warming planet. This is not going to make Americans healthy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comRFK Jr., one-time environmentalist, kills NIH climate change programsHe pulled HHS support from projects that aim to protect Americans' health. 49473182812 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Over 120,000 Japanese Americans forced into imprisonment in internment camps simply because they were of Japanese heritage. 277130773787 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 19/02/2025This is my favorite story from all my years of teaching: A student said, "I want to go back in time and take Shakespeare's quill so he could never write a word. He doesn't speak *my* language." I said, "Let's sit down and talk about it." The student said... 5709 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 19/02/2025"Wellness farms" = "Arbeit mach frei" www.salon.com/2025/02/19/r...salon.comRFK 's plan to make America healthy again? Round up people with mental health conditions in campsKennedy wants to replace standard psychological care with unpaid labor on "wellness farms" 111815 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Kaylan_TX @kaylan.bsky.social · 18/02/2025“If you think fertilized eggs are people but parents who've crossed oceans with their kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious.” 266160764190 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Zelensky: “President Trump, with all due respect for him as the leader of a nation that we respect greatly … is living in this [Russian] disinformation bubble” (Trump is, of course, one of the bubble’s creators, but Zelensky is too diplomatic to say so.) www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...theguardian.comZelenskyy says Trump living in disinformation bubble after blaming Ukraine for Russian invasion – Europe liveUkraine’s president says US counterpart repeating Russian disinformation over the war, and adds any attempt to replace him ‘will not work’ 633370 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/02/2025It’s not a coincidence—it’s a warning. 692185856624 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘The Onion @theonion.com · 18/02/2025Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-p... 142154542658 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2025DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement. 11456270422451 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 18/02/2025-The Question: How the hell did we get here? -The Answer: Citizens United. 1092164003686 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 19/02/2025witness it 🕯️ 325348 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The Silencing Science Tracker tracks government attempts to restrict or prohibit scientific research, education or discussion—or the publication or use of scientific information. climate.law.columbia.edu/Silencing-… 0145 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 18/02/2025 381274947071 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/02/2025Congressmen when they are asked if they will cut THEIR budgets and lay off staff as well:media.tenor.coma cartoon of homer simpson standing in a fieldALT: a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a field 528284005288 0
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘 @tblash423.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Absolutely Although with how much money DoD spends on stealth planes that don’t fucking fly, some cuts should be made there before other places that serve the American public. 000 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Barak-Har Elkin @barak-har-elkin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025In the future, when voting between presidential candidates is separated by less than 2%, let's make them both sit down at school desks, take civics tests about the constitution, and the one with the highest score gets to be president. 2174 0
Reposted by Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 19/02/2025This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...nbcnews.comUSDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire themAn Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." 1102282079362 0
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards 🫘 @tblash423.bsky.social · 19/02/2025I bring my son to the US every summer to spend a month with his grandparents and Louisiana family, sucking down poboys and Gulf shrimp like a PRO. I’m afraid to be in US airspace these days. My parents will be heartbroken. I just can’t. 000 0
