I run my own vpn server on a $20 device. Been working flawlessly for a year. Fun project if you've a bit of a DUI inclination. Here's how I did it: bruceshepard.com?page_id=84

BREAKING NEWS: TYLENOL RESEARCHERS FIND DISTURBING LINK BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN

Proud to be considered an elderly white hippy. Just sayin’

With all the criticism of D’s, don’t hear realistic advice about on they should be doing. Frustratingly, there’s nothing effective they can realistically do. Pre-MEGA, both D’s and R’s lacked coherence. Traditional R party is gone, replaced by a personality cult showing it’s greater power.

All this angst about releasing the Epstein files. I get it. But, wouldn’t it be simpler to just believe the women!

Agree 💯.

Okay, there’s the silliness of fretting team names, pushing cane sugar in Coke, groundlessly accusing a Black President, and divulging medical conditions. Now, let’s get back to what really matters to our disgraced and flailing Pedophile-in-Chief: release the Epstein files.

I'm attending California Democratic Party's event, “A Peaceful Sidewalk Rally at La Quinta City Hall. Saturday 7/12/2025/ Democrats of the Desert” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Have read the NYT for 50 years. As a Poli Sci prof, students would ask: “You seem to know what’s going to happening before it happens. How do you do that?” My answer: “I read good newspapers.” With the @nytimes.com sellouts and pro-authoritarian slanted reporting, just cancelled. A sad divorce.

Woke this morning feeling like grieving rather than celebrating. Then rethought: like those daring patriots on July 4th, 1776, it is a day to wholeheartedly commit to fearlessly fight: this time, fighting to recapture our constitutional democracy.

Deportation is "The act of removing an alien unlawfully in the country." When removing those aliens who are legally here, or removing citizens as is happening, or, as Trump is musing about today, removing citizens he finds troublesome, that is not deportation. MSM, call it what it is: kidnapping.

He has legislative and judicial in his grasp. He has contained the media, higher ed, and oligarchs Fear it’s over. A principle protecting democracy: do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you. They are behaving as though they will never lose power. I fear they are correct.

National Guard troops Trump federalized to suppress the non-existent LA “riots” have been moved 110 miles to our peaceful Coachella Valley. Feeling safer already. Not.

At the local rally. Tons of people holding creative homemade signs and American flags. Nothing but good vibes. As we line Hwy 111, 5 or more deep, the traffic streaming by is waving, giving thumbs up, and joyfully tapping their horns. It’s offering us renewed hope in these dark times. #NoKings

Next Saturday, instead of watching Dear Leader's $45M birthday parade, we will be peacefully protesting. There are 1,000's of opportunities, bound to be one near you. Check: nokings.org.

Flags proudly flying. #PrideMonth

Now in Palm Springs. #50501

6.0 earthquake a few minutes ago. Epicenter in San Diego area. Lot's of shaking 50 miles away in Palm Springs area but no damage at that distance.

1/2 Trump's ignoring many Constitutional and statutory provisions. He is looking for a test case before "his" supreme court, expecting they will uphold largely unchecked executive power. And, if they don't, he will ignore the court. Do remember the courts command no police or troops or $'s, but

Former university pres that I am, I fear Trump/Musk will put academic freedom in their crosshairs. They have a powerful weapon, one repeatedly used, albeit for progressive purposes: conditions for offering federal student aid. No institution, public or private, can survive without that ability.

The President is making a big deal out of banning trans athletes. NCAA has 500,000+ student athletes involved in competition. Fewer than 10 are trans. So, why the hoopla? Time-tested Trump: divert from destruction of our rights and institutions with bonus of dividing and inflaming prejudice.

Ok, no questioning we are in a full-fledged dictatorship. Just check off the boxes. But I find myself wondering: as repugnant as it is, if we must, currently, have a dictator, why does it have to be an imbecile?

Canadians are some of the nicest, most welcoming people on the planet Now they are booing the US National Anthem Trump³⁴ did that. He claims he's going to bring back respect for America Bring it back? He's destroying it

Please repost to join this apt apology to our neighbors.

Google’s acquiescence to Trump’s “Gulf of …” nonsense is disgusting. But not surprising as big tech bends its knee to emerging autocracy. A small gesture but Google is no longer my default search engine. I invite you to join me.