Jack Young

UPDATE: 14+ years here on the blue bird site... will be here for the indefinite future, pending events beyond my control. Meanwhile, though not always active, I can be found on other platforms, looking much the same as I do here: Spoutible: @JackGYoung Bluesky: @JackGYoung

I get so tired of saying this, but in any other administration...

MAGA: “If you’re here legally, you have nothing to worry about.” Also MAGA: “Just comply and show your ID.” The reality: A U.S. citizen. Born in Colorado. Mother of four. Stopped in Lafayette, Louisiana. Shackled. Detained in an ICE facility anyway. She showed agents her state-issued ID and Social Security card. ICE reportedly called them “fake,” handcuffed her, chained her ankles, interrogated her, and transported her to a detention center. She was released hours later only after legal intervention. The lesson is not “show your papers.” The lesson is that papers don’t protect you when power decides not to read them. This is not “law and order.” This is state abuse. Fight Trump. Fight ICE: gofundme.com/f/PAXIS

DISGRACEFUL: ICE agents tear-gassed U.S. Senator Andy Kim at Delaney Hall detention facility in NJ today! Kim was supporting hunger-striking detainees protesting spoiled food, no medical care & extreme heat when federal agents unleashed tear gas & pepper spray. Kim struggled to breathe & injured his hand in the chaos.

@LilaL_Hrv Stupid too. The idiot! 🤦🏻‍♂️

Embarrassing 🤦🏻‍♀️

1 in 10 people in the American West get their drinking water from federal public lands. Trump just stripped the main protection those lands had. On May 11th, the administration quietly erased the rule that required conservation to be weighed equally with drilling, mining, and grazing on 245 million acres of land that belongs to every American. Here's what those 245 million acres actually hold: Over 300 threatened and endangered species. Another 2,460 at-risk species already trending toward extinction. And before this rule existed? 81% of that land was already open to oil and gas drilling. 60% already grazed by livestock. Only 14% set aside for lasting conservation. The rule said: before you do more damage, you have to weigh the cost. That rule is now gone. The government asked for public input before killing it. The overwhelming majority of responses said keep the rule. Didn’t matter. 26 retired federal land managers called the repeal legally unsupportable. State attorneys general called it illegal. 60+ members of Congress said don't do this. The oil, mining, and cattle industries said do it. Guess who won. So who exactly are America's public lands being managed for? #DemsUnited

Not the bombshell that I was waiting for… how about some specific names? Dates, times, places, and activities would be nice to identify too. 🤔

Let's cut the bullshit. With the second most infamous child rapist in history as its Dear Leader, MAGA is now recognized as the world's most notorious pro-pedophilia movement. MAGA Trump supporter Arnold Ogle — who once called for all pedophiles to be put to death — was arrested in Missouri for sexually assaulting a child. Look for Trump to pardon Ogle and offer him a position in the administration.

This is the most traitorous unAmerican thing to happen in my lifetime, and the fact that it happened at the behest of a US president is unforgivable. Never forget what our military sacrificed for American freedom. It wasn't for this.

ZELENSKYY: We attack military targets in Russia, or their energy, which they sell to fund war. Russians deliberately target civilian objects: museums, schools, apartments. They destroyed this Chornobyl museum that we built for 40th anniversary just one month ago. Crazy assholes.

VOLKER: Trump looks at Russia's war against Ukraine as a matter of who's bigger, who has power. Russia's bigger country, so Russia's going to win. Ukraine should give something up and make peace. Trump can't understand why they're not doing this. And he is making a huge mistake. Russia is not as powerful as Trump thinks. They are completely corrupt and disorganized, poorly led, poorly equipped, poorly trained, and they're not making progress on the battlefield. Moreover, this is a war of choice for Putin that even his own military and population are ambivalent about. Whereas for Ukraine, this is existential. They have got to defend their lives, country, territory, families, and so on. And they've been remarkably determined and ingenious in how they have done that. Trump is getting it wrong when he looks at the conflict as one that Ukraine is destined to lose. Conversely, I think Ukraine is destined to win.

@OPChicao Oh no! So sorry to hear, Oliver. All my sympathies and condolences. 😢

Large mass on liver. Lost my baby. Im fucking devastated

The allies at Normandy died to save democracy. We can show our appreciation by protecting ours. #MemorialDay2026

“We don’t take an oath to a King”…. “We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator” “We take an oath to the Constitution.…and we're willing to die to protect it" - General Mark Milley #MemorialDay

🇺🇸 Trump: 90% of their missiles destroyed 🇺🇸US intel: They are Nowhere near destroyed 🔥 🇺🇸Trump: Xi Jinping told me he is not sending weapons to Iran 🇺🇸US intel: China is helping them build missiles🔥 🇺🇸Trump: Iran will take 20 years to recover 🇺🇸US intel: They have recovered faster than expected and stockpiles are at 100%🔥 No one has exposed Trump’s lies quite like U.S. intelligence 🤣

I find it interesting that Trump supporters have never seen these videos. They claim there is no footage of that day. 😳 I watched it in real time on TV when it was happening, just like Trump. 1. FYI, the footage is all over the internet. 2. You can CLEARLY see them breaking windows. The law says that’s breaking and entering. 3. I’ve been to the Capitol, you have to go through security to enter. You don’t enter through broken windows. That’s just a fact.

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it. This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect. "Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage. You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail. Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates. Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you. And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again. And you're calling Greenland poorly run? Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no. 'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years. And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess. So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth." - Tony Locke

@Laurie0801 They just didn’t know any better, unfortunately. For others or themselves. My dad smoked, in the house and in the car, back in the days when cars had those little sliding ashtrays, to go along w/ cigarette lighters (which weren’t phased out until the 90s.

I hate that parents back in the day didn’t think their second hand smoke affected their kids. My sister has COPD and bronchitis and asthma, all 5 of us have bad asthma and never smoked.

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents were caught on video telling a U.S. born citizen that his driver’s license was not proof of citizenship because “anyone can get that.” In the video, the man repeatedly told them he was born in the U.S…. In Atlantic City. He showed them his license. They dismissed it. He showed them ANOTHER form of ID. They STILL kept interrogating him about where he lived, who he lived with, whether Venezuelans lived in his home, who had been in his car, and whether the vehicle was registered to him. All while illegally detaining him in his car. And in the end… The agents admitted they weren’t even looking for the person connected to the car’s registration. So, why was this U.S. citizen stopped, surrounded, and interrogated in the first place? The Fourth Amendment does not disappear because agents “suspect” someone might be undocumented. You do not have to repeatedly prove your citizenship to federal agents because they decided you “look foreign enough” to question. Yet, this keeps happening to U.S. citizens across the country.

HOLY CRAP Trump actually accomplished a miracle. Here is what he got out of Iran: - Reduce its stockpile of enriched uranium by about 98% - Limit uranium enrichment to 3.67% purity (far below weapons-grade) - Cut the number of installed centrifuges by roughly two-thirds - Only enrich uranium at one declared site (Natanz) - Stop enrichment activities at Fordow and convert it into a research facility - Redesign the Arak heavy-water reactor so it could not easily produce weapons-grade plutonium - Ship out or dilute excess enriched uranium Allow extensive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Permit continuous monitoring of nuclear facilities and supply chains - Accept “snap” inspections under expanded monitoring rules - Avoid building new heavy-water reactors for years - Stay within strict limits on uranium stockpile size and centrifuge development for set periods ranging from 10–25 years Ooops, sorry! That was the JCPOA that Obama signed with Iran, only to have him tear it up, kill 140 kids, get hundreds of Americans injured, 13 killed, and gas prices to surge 50%.

Holy sh*t. Thomas Massie says he’s going to start publicly naming billionaires implicated in the Epstein files because Trump’s DOJ refuses to convict. More courage than the rest of the GOP has combined.