Shockingly, I actually got through to somebody in McCormick's office to leave a message with them instead of the answering machine.

I left voicemails for both him and McCormick.

Called my Senators and Representative today. Asked them pretty please to take back the power to declare war.

‘Diversionary war’: Trump wants to distract Americans from scandals at home | Christopher S Chivvis Iran strikes are attempt to hijack the global narrative and drown out Epstein and tariffs with the thunder of cruise missiles

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@littlebridgetroll.bsky.social you might enjoy this one

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Richard III The New Evidence YouTube video by Gemma Payne

Yeah, he's either cast as villain or misunderstood. Truth probably in the middle with a good bit of "this is how kings had to be" in there.

I thought this experimental archealogical episode following the discovery of his skeleton was pretty interesting
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Fiction or non-fiction? If fiction - Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time

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Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, dies aged 84 A trailblazing figure in the civil rights movement and Democratic politics, Jackson championed the rights of Black, poor and working-class people with his ‘rainbow coalition’

We lost a great American who strove to help us meet the vision of what we should and could be as a nation today.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I think the "warbling" is actually the interplay of two cats yowling. You only see the cat outside - my cat is ALSO yowling in response. But yes there is a rise and fall to each yowl.

This is what you don't want to see/hear - anybody starts this up and they are angling for a real fight...

Religious freedom group says US military members were 'pressured' by commanders to see 'Melania' An active-duty enlisted member of the US military said their unit was "pressured" into seeing Amazon's "Melania" documentary about the first lady.

Could you even imagine if President Obama made the troops sit through a a doc about Michelle??

Opinion | Trump Could Interfere With the Midterm Elections. You Can Help Defend Them.

Help defend free and fair elections for all eligible voters. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

Gift article

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

I’ve reached out to both Gov. Walz and Sen. Klobuchar following the latest shooting involving federal agents in Minnesota.

Marylanders have witnessed this cruelty in our own communities – during a school drop-off in Salisbury and in Glen Burnie on Christmas Eve. These are not isolated incidents.

This is a flat out lie.

They want us to ignore and question what we see with our own eyes.

Alex Pretti was supporting his community and protecting his neighbors when ICE murdered him.

Should the U.S. model its vaccine policy on Denmark's? Experts say we're nothing alike The Trump administration wants to revamp U.S. childhood vaccination recommendations to align with some other peer nations, including one tiny country in northern Europe.

You can't just copy/paste a portion of another countries approach. But if we're looking to Europe for approaches to health, how about how they handle affordable coverage for all citizens?

www.npr.org/2025/12/26/n...

Must the Military Disobey Unlawful Orders? Pam Bondi Has Said Yes.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...

@unseeliejess.bsky.social hello! This is Jaye

Trump’s Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy

This week, Trump quietly released his National Security Strategy.

It totally abandons the idea that we should stand up for freedom & human rights around the world.

Instead, it lectures our European allies & embraces authoritarian leaders who enrich the Trump family & their billionaire friends.

160 years ago, the 13th Amendment was ratified but Black Americans are still living through the effects of enslavement.

Our systems of inequity continue to sanction countless injustices from the racial wealth gap to redlining to healthcare disparities.

Things I learned listening to the new Ken Burns American Revolution - George Washington, founding father and first President, required small pox vaccination to serve in the Continental Army.

Google Wants to Power Their Chatbots By Filling Our Skies With Garbage The space data-center wars are coming—and they’re going to be ugly.

slate.com/technology/2...

Today the President of the United States called for the killing of his political opponents. People need to understand how serious that is.

This is not normal. This cannot be something only Democrats condemn. Every leader and American must condemn this.

Congressional push to sever ICE's DMV data access gains traction in Democratic-led states U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden and 38 members of Congress have called on 19 Democratic governors to prevent ICE from accessing driver license info in their states.

ICE shouldn’t have unfettered access to DMV data. The Trump Administration has proved it can’t be trusted not to politicize and misuse data—they can’t have a free pass.

The Trump administration is diverting 25-45% of highly skilled FBI agents investigating child predators, counterterrorism, and more… to focus on Trump’s immigration roundups. Does that make us safer?

What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing

Its important to remember that as vast as the internet is, it does not contain all that is worth knowing. Which means AI doesn't have all the answers
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Their intentions are clear we have to stand against every move they make to turn Trump into a tyrant, from military in the streets to desecrating our history.

Voted today! Pittsburgh has early voting (fill out and "mail in" to the drop box) this weekend.

Vote YES to retain our Supreme Court Justices

We just learned that ICE recruits are showing up without full vetting.

This is a huge hazard, risks misconduct, and makes us less safe.