While the McDonald’s CEO gets roasted for his awkward burger taste test...
McDonald’s is among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
And McDonald's CEO recently raked in $18.2M — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
That should leave a bad taste in your mouth.
No doubt Paula White, part of the NAR (new apostolic reformation) has a hand in this war.
I highly recommend this book
Ossoff: "The president owes Americans a real explanation. 2am posts on Truth Social just aren't good enough when you're sending Americans into combat. He was dancing at his beach club the same night he ordered air crews to launch into combat & hours before our service members endured missile salvos"
"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate."
-- Ulysses S. Grant
We are all noticing and feeling the effects of corruption.
A worthy read. Citizens United ruling and the firing of oversight in military and by federal agencies are fueling the depth of allowed corruption.
#proudblue #pinks
A White House conflict of interests that should be getting a ton more attention.
Some of us are very familiar with this account the pro-Trump X account Johnny MAGA. It built a following of nearly 300,000 by presenting itself as just another independent voice in the MAGA ecosystem.
🧵
Let’s find out, shall we?
Two spiral galaxies are merging together at the right side of the image. One is seen face-on and is circular in shape. The other seems to lie in front of the first one. This galaxy is seen as a disc tilted away from the viewer and it is partially warped. In the lower-left corner, cut off by the frame, a large elliptical galaxy appears as light radiating from a point. Various small galaxies cover the background.
Hubble and Dark Energy Camera image of Arp 122, also known as NGC 6040 and LEDA 59642.
This pair of galaxies are in the midst of a collision, warping the top spiral NGC 6040.
Credit: ESA, NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey, DOE, FNAL, DECam, CTIO, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA
Source
Rising ocean temps blamed for massive die-off of marine life. "Researchers examined the year-to-year change of 33,000 [fish] populations in the northern hemisphere.... They found the drop in biomass from chronic heating to be as high as 19.8% in a single year." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fans of the musical Six will adore this #YA #nonfiction #book about the 6️⃣ queens outside of Henry’s shadow: bookshop.org/a/102434/978... #library #tlsky #skybrarian #skybrarians #book #librarian #librarians #bookrecommendation
AYMAN: Can you tell me where Iran killed thousands of Americans in America?
ANNA PAULINA LUNA: I said they are responsible for thousands of Americans being killed
AYMAN: Where?
LUNA: Are you serious right now?
AYMAN: It seems like you don't want to have a good faith conversation
www.draftbarrontrump.com
FASCISM....
This one could make you cry. (For years international adoptees became U.S. citizens only when their adoptive parents took the needed steps to get them naturalized; a 2000 law automatically naturalizes legal adoptees on arrival, but that came too late for this woman).
bsky.app/profile/miss...
So the President of the United States illegally taxed our groceries, clothes, and other basics goods for nearly a year.
Where’s our refund?
Woolf in 1902 by George Charles Beresford Portrait of Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941), a British author and feminist, with her chignon. A black and white portrait photograph of Virginia Woolf shown in soft three-quarter profile facing left. She has dark hair swept up and gathered into a low, loose chignon at the nape of her neck. Her features are delicate — a long, fine nose, deep-set eyes with a contemplative, faraway gaze, and a gentle mouth. She wears a light-colored blouse with a soft, slightly ruffled or gathered neckline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:George_Charles_Beresford_-_Virginia_Woolf_in_1902_-_Restoration.jpg
Reading at Random with Virginia Woolf
By Frances Lindemann
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/02...
Virginia Woolf at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#books #literature #literarycriticism
❗️🇸🇪Today, Sweden announced its 21st military aid package to 🇺🇦Ukraine worth 12.9 billion SEK (≈ €1.2 billion).
In particular:
≈ €400 million — for the procurement and transfer of Tridon Mk2 air defense systems,
When his daughter is kidnapped by a band of Texas Rangers after the Civil War, Antonio Baca tracks them across the plains of New Mexico and Texas using his skills as a former buffalo hunter. #cibolero #Booksky
www.amazon.com/dp/B0791LTDST/
When his daughter is kidnapped by a band of Texas Rangers after the Civil War, Antonio Baca tracks them across the plains of New Mexico and Texas using his skills as a former buffalo hunter. #cibolero #Booksky
www.amazon.com/dp/B0791LTDST/
"Cibolero" is the epic tale of a retired buffalo hunter in 19th century New Mexico who embarks on a desperate quest to rescue his kidnapped daughter. #Cibolero
www.kirkusreviews.com/book.../kerm...
Fulton Co's amended petition for return of seized voting records:
"First, the Fourth Amendment requires 'probable cause,' not 'possible cause.'"
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Fulton Co elections expert: “In all 5 areas identified by ... the [search warrant] affidavit, there are a multitude of false or misleading statements or omissions. ... Once ... corrected, the affidavit loses any basis in reality.”
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I’m working a convention today and have had many grey haired, bearded fellows come up to me and say they bought comics at my shop when they were kids. It’s giving me mixed emotions.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02... #ProudBlue #USDemocracy Home Builders in South Texas are warning Republicans that they are in serious trouble this fall. Texas Republicans love to brag about supporting Trump 100%. But with Trump shedding Hispanic voters in record numbers, South Texas is now blue
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
One of the most basic tenets of election security is to avoid creating a Single Point of Failure (SPF). Unfortunately, it appears that SCOTUS created a potential SPF by sanctioning DOGE’s access to SSA databases, which are now a key component of Trump’s voter purge election strategy. 1/
Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total.
The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.
