Mary Austin

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Trying my best to pay it forward.
Be kind, it matters.
Woman of a certain age. 🏳️‍🌈
Happy places; on the bike, in the woods, with the dog.
Using US taxpayer dollars to bomb people and steal another country’s oil for oligarchs to sell to US taxpayers. Taxpayers pay twice, the rich get richer, and climate change from burning fossil fuels gets worse, spreading disasters globally. Murder, corruption, theft, terrorism, climate destruction - all in one.
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
So when Trump decides to go get Greenland he’s just going to fly in and kidnap our prime minister. Great. You have a unscrupulous and clinically insane idiot elected as your president and he wants to own the world. I have absolutely no trust in any of you Americans whether you are pronounced MAGA or if you “didn’t vote for the guy”: Your elected president is a megalomaniac dictator and it’s your fucking responsibility to stop him.
@benroyce Not sure how anyone gets behind a guy so hell bent on distracting you from the fact that he's a #childpredator and #childrapist that he's willing to start a war with a country that never provoked us

Oh you hate socialism?

The US spends about $106b/yr out of its $10.3t/yr budget on food stamps. That's about 1% of the yearly budget.

Let's put that in perspective. If you make $50,000/yr salary, about $80 of your taxes goes toward food stamps, and about $4,000 of it goes toward corporate subsidies (defense contracts, billionaire tax breaks, farms, distributors, oil and gas, etc).

If you're mad about the 80 bucks instead of the $4,000 dollars, you don't hate socialism, you hate poor people.

In the Vermont subreddit, the upvote icon is the state of Vermont and the downvote icon is the state of New Hampshire (for those not from the US, they are inverses of each other shapewise, many people from other places can't tell them apart, but they've got fierce identities)

In the NH subreddit, the upvote icon is the state of NH and the downvote icon is the state of Massachusetts (for those not from the US, this is the sort of thing someone from New Hampshire would do)

ETA images.

A battery storage facility burned for two days in January, depositing an estimated 25 metric tons of toxic metals across nearby wetlands in Monterey Bay, California. Officials said air quality was safe, but they missed the toxic metal fallout raining down on wetlands. https://theconversation.com/when-the-worlds-largest-battery-power-plant-caught-fire-toxic-metals-rained-down-wetlands-captured-the-fallout-268848
When the world’s largest battery power plant caught fire, toxic metals rained down – wetlands captured the fallout

The Moss Landing battery fire became an unintended experiment – showing how burning lithium-ion cells scattered nickel, cobalt and manganese over a protected marsh.

The Conversation
Failed GOP Candidate Sentenced to 80 Years for Orchestrating Shootings at New Mexico Democrats’ Homes

Photo: Solomon Peña, a 2022 Republican candidate for an N.M. House seat, was sentenced to 80 years in prison Wednesday. (Photo from Peña's official cam ...

#JasmineCrockett

Speaking truth

She's not in the party in power

That can be fixed

You assholes better fucking vote in 2026

Give her the majority so she can marry some action to her words

A brilliant essay on Trump's stupidity: "Trump is stupid, there's little doubt about that . He doesn't play the naive, he doesn't disguise himself as a complete idiot, he's not a holy fool."
PLEASE, @SZ, translate this for Americans who need to read it.
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artikel/kultur/donald-trump-dummheit-macht-usa-e030105/?reduced=true