There was a really great turnout at the #mayday protest on the W&OD overpass of Rt. 28 in Sterling, VA with Indivisible NOVA West today. Lots of honks and waves from the drivers below (and a few middle fingers too).

Election season is ramping up in Virginia. Picked up my yard sign and signed up for a canvassing shift for next weekend to support @abigailspanberger.com

Oh, that’s awesome. Thank you.

@booker.senate.gov is a fricking beast! Go Cory go!

@jonlovett.bsky.social Just listened to the podcast, heard your news, and I’m all teary and happy for you. Mazel tov. (My anti-Semitic phone autocorrected that to “Mazda you”.) ❤️

Thank you!

Thank you!

I have exercised my personal liberties and canceled my Washington Post subscription. I held out in support of the journalists after November but enough is enough.

The podcast is The Rest Is History BTW. One of the best out there.

Listen, I don’t always mean this but today I do: eat a bag of dicks.

I don’t know how we fix it because I’m not going to start loving racists and fascist wannabes in an effort to combat the racists and fascists in charge. /end

The hosts compared it to the Spaniards and how they decimated the Meso-American empire by turning groups there against each other. It reminded me once again how cyclical history is and left me feeling despondent because if that isn’t what is happening now, then I don’t know what is.

I listened to a history podcast this week that digs into King Leopold of Belgium and the atrocities he committed in the Congo. He was successful largely because he was able to drive a wedge into tribal factions that existed before he showed up.

36 Hours After Russell Vought Took Over Consumer Bureau, He Shut Its Operations (Gift Article) The agency had been one of Wall Street’s most feared regulators, with the power to issue rules on mortgages, credit cards, student loans and other areas affecting Americans’ financial lives.

Who wins when Trumpty Dumpty shuts down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? Big hint: Not the consumers.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/b...

Google Maps to rename 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America' for US users Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, it said in an X post on Monday.

Are fucking for real @googlesearch.bsky.social? www.reuters.com/world/us/goo... What the actual fuck.

Trump administration orders sweeping freeze of federal aid In a two-page memo, the Office of Management and Budget ordered all federal agencies to temporarily suspend payments.

I’m not an economist but this seems like a bad idea for, um, the economy

Now what do I do with my life?

Love notes between me and my son #ssdgm

As best you can, ignore him.

Does anyone else see the “bsky” handle and think “Banksy.” I cannot be just me.

I can only deal with so much politics, so @bodegacats.bsky.social is my happy space here on BlueSky. Any other cat accounts I should follow?

FB keeps pushing notifications of Trump and Vance on my feed so I keep reporting the images as “fraud” and “hate speech”.