nwMarco in Burien
Lover of Democracy, art, energy efficiency, good food and friends.
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- Fascinating. Thanks!
- Science can tell interesting stories, and Global Warming is causing irreparable harm to the planet. Thanks to @novasafo.bsky.social for the link.
- Follow the money and the corruption is obvious.
- Wow. This is hard to read. Details on how Joe Biden handed the 2024 election to T2. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
- Democrats deceived the country about Biden’s abilities and, (George) Clooney said, “that’s how Trump won.”
- Let's Do the Numbers! IYKYK. 😎
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- The New Yorker is also in on the exposé: www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
- I don’t recall the Biden Adminstration firing 100’s of FAA staff, do you? 🤔https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly9y1e1kpjo.amp
- Brazenly unconstitional attempt to circumvent the separation of powers by just saying ‘you can’t challenge this law, and if you do we’ll let anyone sue the judge’ W.T.A.F.? www.texastribune.org/2025/05/12/t...
- Tell Sec Duffy "this is the Real World" 😒
- NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Air traffic controllers for New Jersey's Newark airport lost radar again for 90 seconds Friday, FAA says.
- Tell Sec Duffy "this is the Real World" 😒
- Breaking: The FDA has approved a vaginal swab that will allow people to screen for HPV — which causes almost all cases of cervical cancer — at home instead of getting a Pap smear, which can be painful and/or traumatic for many
- That was Biden's FDA. 🤠
- One thing that Trump will not tolerate is the heads of agencies saying publicly that their agency should exist.
- And look what’s headed for Florida: weather-fox.com/hurricane-he...
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- And look what’s on the way to Florida: weather-fox.com/hurricane-he...
- More evidence of T2's kakistocracy. 🤬
- When incompetent, unqualified people are put in charge, this is what happens. They do stupid things and our former friends and allies wonder in amazement. Read the thread… 🧵
- The US Constitution has language that is supposed to prevent the President from enriching themselves from ‘bribes’. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
- News outlets publish countless lists of who might emerge as pope from a conclave, Francis X. Rocca writes. "It will matter more than you might think: The media have never had so much influence on a conclave":
- Can you imagine Pope Pizzaballa? 🤔
- Deflect and blame is the name of the game. 🤨
- While the corrections to the letter were indeed a thing, Harvard U was not complicit. www.snopes.com/fact-check/h...
- This should be easy to comply with since I doubt there have been many instances of this being invoked. Right? 🤔
- NEW: In the Mahmoud Khalil case, Judge Farbiarz orders the government to give him a COMPLETE LIST of every time since 1975 it has invoked the secretary of state's power to deport someone for foreign-policy reasons—including a description of each case's facts and a copy of the official determination.
- Mother Nature knows what she's doing. We can always learn something news. Also, fungi are very useful! www.mid-day.com/technology/a... #sustainability
- T2 is attempting to re-write history by erasing things that make white people and gun owners uncomfortable.
- Cautiously optimistic about Apple helming a 10 episode series of this beloved SciFi novel 40 years after publication. www.theverge.com/24086056/app...
- Two weeks ago: “I’ve made 200 deals.” Today: 🤡
- Are the deals in the room with us now, Mr. President? 🤔
- “.. Canada is our largest trading partner," McGarvey said. "We're going to lose tens of millions of dollars in bourbon sales in Ontario province alone, not to mention the whole country, because of what Trump's policies are doing.” #StrategicUncertainty 🤡 abcnews.go.com/Politics/ken...
- McConnell could have stopped all this back in the day.
- Important to note here that this seems to be totally different circumstances than the first one
- Breaking: Another F/A-18 fighter jet from the Truman aircraft carrier has been lost in the Red Sea, the second jet lost from the carrier in just over a week, per 4 people familiar w/the incident. 2 aviators ejected and were recovered by helo with minor injuries. www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/p...
- Unfortunately, still another $60M overboard. 😿
- Train Song Downtown Train On the Nickel The Piano Has Been Drinking Tom Traubert’s Blues
- My first Tom Waits record was Anthology, a greatest hits from his early records. The first few songs, “Ol’ 55,” “Heart of Saturday Night,” are great with his crooner’s voice, but the opening chords of Tom Traubert, and then, for the first time, the Tom Waits rasp, “Wasted and wounded…” Chills.
- Rain Dogs will always be my favorite, for I am a Rain Dog too. 😎
- Another $60M overboard. 🤬
- Breaking: Another F/A-18 fighter jet from the Truman aircraft carrier has been lost in the Red Sea, the second jet lost from the carrier in just over a week, per 4 people familiar w/the incident. 2 aviators ejected and were recovered by helo with minor injuries. www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/p...
- The DOJ under Bondi has a credibility problem, that is only getting worse as seasoned professionals quit or ar fired. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
- To quote Patti Smith "People Have the Power!"
- Tell Sec Duffy "This is the Real World" 🤨
- This is nonsense
- Trump: "I could announce 50 to 100 deals right now because I'm the shopkeeper and I keep the store. I know what countries are looking for and I know what we're looking for and I can just set those terms and they can go shopping or they don't have to go shopping, because everybody wants to shop here"
- What happened to "90 deals in 90 days" ? 🤔
- Whiskey Pete Kegsbreath strikes again!
- “Across military Reddit forums and enlisted meme pages, Hegseth has become a regular target of satire, often referred to with nicknames such as "DUI Hire," "Whiskey Leaks" and "Kegseth."” www.military.com/daily-news/2...
- “Whiskey Leaks” 🥃
- “Across military Reddit forums and enlisted meme pages, Hegseth has become a regular target of satire, often referred to with nicknames such as "DUI Hire," "Whiskey Leaks" and "Kegseth."” www.military.com/daily-news/2...
- Whiskey Pete Kegsbreath Strikes Again!
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- CNN stated her decision to attend for the first time sine 2003 was a 'last minute' one. 😹
- Tell Sec Duffy "This is the Real World" 🤨
- “.. We don’t have a radar, so I don’t know where you are,” a controller told United Airlines Flight 674 .. “Another controller offered a warning to a private plane: “I want to at least get you .. clear of all the other aircraft in case we lose the frequency again.” www.wsj.com/business/air...
- Tell your children: Trump killed Big Bird, and Kermit the Frog.
- NEW: Trump Administration kills grant for PBS children’s shows www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
- “Why do you allow these men who are in power to rob you step by step, openly and in secret, of one domain of your rights after another, until one day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a mechanized state system presided over by criminals and drunks?" 🧵1/2
- "Is your spirit already so crushed by abuse that you forget it is your right—or rather, your moral duty—to eliminate this system?” Sofie Scholl 1943 - the text of a pamphlet that let to her execution by the Nazis 🧵2/2
- Wisdom of the crowd.
- I thought it was spelled "Kegsbreath" 🤔
- May I present to you, T2's idea of a National Security Threat that must be tariffed: wallaceandgromit.com/films/vengea...
- "Harvard has made a mockery of the higher education system." And more crazy bits from the person tasked with destroying the Dept of Education.
- Yeah, total coincidence. 🤨
- Some good news on a Monday. 🎉
- He stood there on Jan 20 and falsely mouthed the words to protect and defend our Constitution. Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.” Translation: No. Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.
- Isn't perjury an impeachable offense?
- So doesn't that count as perjury? Isn't that an impeachable offense?
