While liberal democracies form sub-committees to study then evaluate then vote then appropriate funds to respond to acts of tyranny, dictators use the time to surround and cut them down. This moment in history needs fresh ideas, brave and effective action to counter the threat not Queensbury Rules.

( NYT) The C.E.O. of GE Vernova about what he was looking for in Trump’s speech: I’m always just trying to listen and try to very authentically recognize patterns and through pattern recognition, figure out how we can find opportunities that serve the administration with where their priorities are.?

I wouldn't be surprised to learn there's a secret White House memo to deport all 56,000 citizens of Greenland to Denmark post-anschluss. And another memo renaming the island to Whiteland.

(NYT) Trump announced he's (illegally) imposing new tariffs on a bloc of European nations until they come to the negotiating table to sell Greenland. Impeach this mother fucker asap! Congress (looking at you Dems) should block everything. This is a naked abuse of power. It's an existential emergency

I imagine a fresh new world where Trump, Noem, Patel, Miller, Homan, Kennedy, Gabbert, Blanche, Bondi et al are gone. Let mother nature take its remorseless course. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes.

NY Times: a man whose daughter had given millions to a Trump-backed super PAC, a former F.B.I. agent who pleaded guilty in a political corruption case and a California woman whom the president pardoned once before in 2017 but was again convicted of fraud in 2024. Republicans can shut the hell up!

(NYT) The battle over credit card rates heats up: rather than a one size fits all approach to credit card interest rates perhaps this is where AI could be employed by lenders to assign rates based on individual user history and risk. It can be done so why not roll out a trial?

Before you leave your home read this: www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspecti...

Trump claimed that he had no advance knowledge of the Justice Department’s case against Jay Powell - Trump is a lying scumbag putrid pestilence on this earth. He's a mouldering heap of parrot droppings. His sort makes me puke.

Wondering what percentage of self-professed anti government militias have taken the king's coin and joined Noem's Band of Muggers. Perhaps if the FBI stopped chasing Antifa phantoms we might have the answer. Proud Boys, 3%ers, Oath Keepers, Boogaloo Bois all playing their part for the "deep state"

María Corina Machado offers her Nobel prize to Trump as a "token of gratitude". The orange dictator says it would be a "great honor" to accept the award. And we're supposed to accept his "own morality" as the only limit on his power. If he weren't such an existential threat we might even laugh.

Minnesota bears witness to Trump sponsored murder. Who do citizens turn to for protection and justice? Not the corrupt fascist authoritarian Trump regime. Not the Supreme Court justices. Evidently not congress. And not a mewling Democratic Party leadership, stuttering and stammering into irrelevance

Message for Peacock TV Sports: stop the commentators blabbing the live results of multiple soccer games. It spoils it for fans wanting to watch match replays later.

(Forbes) Rubio Says Trump Still Hopes To Purchase Greenland: Which century do Rubio and Trump imagine, in their wet slave master fever dreams, they live in? Proposing to "buy" the indigenous Inuit population. Should the promise of gold fail to 'persuade' then out comes the whip.

After 250 years, turns out it was the Heritage Foundation aided and abetted by Project 2025 authors and the Uber-rich, who finally figured out how to render the U.S. constitution null and void. Watch these same seditionists drape themselves in Stars and Stripes in 2026.

Pirates of the Caribbean: U.S. to Control Venezuela Oil Sales ‘Indefinitely’

January 6th, 2021 a date that will live in infamy

Trump's criminality since January 6th 2021. Gavin Newsom is keeping tabs. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/12/16/t...

Trump's talk of "our hemisphere" is emblematic of a U.S. in retreat. Becoming smaller, meaner and more dangerous. A snot nosed neighborhood bully feigning swagger to obscure insecurity and weakness. The bone spurred, somnambulant, creaking, slurring, pedophile deserves to be vilified but not pitied.

When the key architect for creating and enforcing the post-WW2 international rules based order turns bad cop, it's over. When that bad cop threatens to invade a NATO member, it's over. When congress surrenders to a dictator, it's over. When Europe ponders supplicant status to the bad cop, ....?

Maduro should have followed the Irish Republican Army's lead and refused to recognize the legitimacy of the court.

today NPR ran a story about Trump increasing tariffs on Italian pasta misleadingly claiming Italian pasta manufacturers will pay the tariffs. Do better NPR!

let's see if Venezuelan refugees in Florida are still excited about Trump's kidnapping of Maduro when Miller and ICE round them up and deport them.

was Trump's decision to punish green energy (and EV's) tied to the decision to invade Venezuela? Coincidence? The US transportation sector consumes between 70% to over 90% of total petroleum consumption. Who profits off the invasion? Fossil fuel industries. What did they know? When did they know it?

Message for NBC soccer commentators (especially blabber mouth John Champion): stop blurting out the results of earlier games and spoiling it for west coast fans.

message for UK PM Kier Starmer. If appeasement didn't work in 1939 why do you think it will work with Trump in 2026?

Under Trump and the Republicans generosity to the Uber-rich and huge corporations we're forced to amend Ben Franklin's aphorism "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" to "except death and TACO"

make 2026 the year of the Democratic Party establishment dinosaur apocalypse - we need leadership advocating for the needs and ethics of a new generation of voters. Schumer and Jeffries are relics of 20th century politics.

Trump isn't the only Epstein degenerate pedophile but he's the degenerate pedophile with the sharpie.

The Fossil fuel industry and their bought and paid for Republican surrogates believe blind willful ignorance is what we deserve. Because "we can't handle the truth"? www.cpr.org/2025/12/20/n...

Friends in the UK were as startled as I was when I watched this. Such is the extent of media silence (complicity) there www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0qh...

Is the Orange Oompaloompa going to blockade the Black Sea or Baltic to prevent his bestie Putin's use of Russia's shadow fleet busting oil export sanctions?

Social media's reductive impact veers toward the destruction of community identity underpinned by value systems, norms, and laws. In the hands of adversarial actors, social media serves as an anti-societal accelerant. Long past time for strict regulation before the damage becomes irreversible.

Hakeem Jeffries thinks pardoning Henry Cuellar is something to be cheered. The hypocrisy stinks to high heaven. The Dems must do better if they are to convince independents and disenfranchised Americans that they demand clean government. Not party of country.

Another NPR word definition Christmas cracker. Sheeple "people compared to sheep in being docile, foolish, or easily led". That's a MAGAnificent word!

thanks NPR for explaining this word: onomatopoeia "the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named". I'm thinking of Trump. The sound associated with landing on an enormously fat ass. Extra credit when followed by !.

Recently reported the Tate brothers are close friends of Barron Trump. I guess the rotten apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

If, as the orange wannabe Mussolini claims, climate change is a Democratic hoax, when is his administration going to crack down on Insurers claiming their costs are rising due to the impacts of climate change? This so-called "hoax" is frequently cited as the reason insurance rates are skyrocketing.

Citizens United broke the U.S. constitution by opening the doors to plutocratic government. If corporations have the same First Amendment free speech rights as individuals how are billionaires directing policy? If Congress concedes power to the Executive where is our representation at the table?

Trump issues pardon for a former Honduran president jailed for 45 years for working with drug cartels to ship cocaine into the US. Pardons a former private equity exec convicted for ripping off 10,000 investors in a $1.7 billion Ponzi scheme. While you're auto-penning how about cutting Luigi loose!

Electing party reps to congress isn't enough. They must REPRESENT and ACT on behalf of voters. By deliberately choosing to assert their constitutional powers and slavishly chose to submit to another branch of government they break the contract and must be recalled and replaced by those who will.

It's not enough to vote the Trump regime and his congressional enablers out of office. There must be a states-wide constitutional review and overhaul to prevent this fascist travesty from ever plaguing this country, its citizens and guests ever again.

Noteefa organization threatens to gum up Trump's regime

Perugia - a medieval town on an Umbrian hilltop

Capri is more than Gucci and armies of tourists.

Just returned from visiting Salerno (Italy). Astonishing location with 45 minute bus access to Amalfi ($3 one way) and 30 minute train journey to the Greco-Roman city of Paestum (rivals Pompeii but with way fewer visitors). Temps in 70's and blue skies. South of Salerno the Cilento Coast.

It's simultaneously amusing and disgusting listening to billionaires and their political arse-wipes rant against taxing the rich despite the fact these greedy shits' rise was built on infrastructure (education, roads, bridges, energy grid, etc) paid for by us. Spare me the 'job creators' bollocks.

Trump and his sycophants threaten mass firings of federal workers. If federal workers want to take back control of their careers they should ALL walk out. Withhold labor from the terrorist threats of Vought. Every single IRS, DOJ, GSA, HUD, HHS, national park, state, Labor, agriculture, education!

The pace and extent of Trump regime's usurpation of power from a neutered congress and brazen unchecked lawlessness makes suspension of free and fair elections inevitable. The remainder of the fascist's term will extend and consolidate the grip on all institutions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKvB...

I'm trying to be more positive and forward focused so today, I urge those who can afford it, to subscribe to their local NPR and PBS station to open their wallet. Who couldn't become absorbed in Doc Martin or All Creatures.