He was 19 - legally a man, but still a teen.

Thank you for adding context. Trumps DEI prevented the Kennedy Center performance, but a group of veteran military musicians stepped up.

Renée Fleming is the 16th artist/group/production to cancel in protest of the trump administration decisions in the past year.

The previous 15 are:

• US Marine Band canceled 2/25
• Issa Rae canceled 2/25
• Balún canceled 2/25
• Rhiannon Giddens canceled 2/25
• Low Cut Connie canceled 2/25
• Hamilton canceled 3/25
• Doug Varone and Dancers canceled 12/25
• Chuck Redd canceled 12/25
• The Cookers canceled 12/25
• Kristy Lee canceled 1/26
• Magpie canceled 1/26
• Stephen Schwartz canceled 1/26
• Béla Fleck canceled 1/26
• Sonia De Los Santos canceled 1/26
• Washington National Opera canceled 1/26

Honestly I’m so far left of left, I don’t belong here. But I didn’t fall for the obvious whataboutGaza campaign, and voted D to stop trump.

But Harris wouldn’t say the words I wanted hear! How could I vote when she won’t tell me the thing?!1 ThiS Is All HeR fAuLt

I recall members of the current administration, as well as US Congresspersons, ignoring subpoenas to appear. Just wondering what would happen if nobody responded to this shit?

Armored doors? Lol our houses are made out of cardboard and sticks.

Maria Corina Machado, who just last month dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize to the people of Venezuela and to trump, has allegedly dangled oil access to the US if only trump would rid her of this meddlesome Maduro.

Lee just posted that, according to Rubio, it’s fine to attack while kidnapping the president of another country because it was in defense of the invading American forces who were there to do the kidnapping.

International law says otherwise, but whatever.

I love the idea of modeling our system on Denmark’s. Let’s start with their Universal fucking Healthcare!

Vaffanculo

Hey now. It was 9 hours and I was fine until I saw your comment, then panicked and began rummaging in Recently Deleted. Aaaaand goddammit there’s some good shit in this bin

Thank you. I read your comment, then held my breath and deleted nearly 10,000 screenshots.

They still protect free speech. Just look at their mission statement!

Mayor elect of New York City: Zohran Mamdani, democratic socialist and New York City’s first Muslim and first Asian American mayor.

Mayor elect of Seattle: Katie Wilson, democratic socialist and progressive activist.

Mayor elect of Miami: Eileen Higgins, Democrat with part progressive platform who is Miami’s first woman to become mayor.

Mayor of San Diego: Todd Gloria, Democrat with progressive leaning values who is also San Diego’s first mayor of color and first openly gay mayor.

The 4 corners are looking good.

This needs to be pinned to the top.

I worked remote tech for about ten years, and rotated through several managers. The incompetent ones were easy to spot because they “led” by squatting on bossware like toads.

I came here to quote Carl Sagan and rant about Proof, but I drank pineapple juice and now I can’t think so you’re right.

While many people were able to connect those dots in 2001, my progressive ass was in the majority of uninformed US folk. I have to admit I didn’t see through the bullshit back then. News was corporate mainstream; there was no social media to contradict what we were being fed.

First rain of the season turns the several months of accumulated oil on roads into a hydroplane free-for-all. I totalled a car that way. Nobody wants their kids in that melee.