The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

You should laugh at anyone who says the president should have unlimited power because he was elected. His power has to be limited *because* he's the president. This is fifth grade level social studies

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...

The hypocrisy is off the charts.

👏👏👏 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

House Democrat faces threat of removal after calling Trump 'grifter' www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LFF...

For Stunned Federal Workers, Sleeplessness, Anger and Tears www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

Remember the hobbit!

ICYMI: “A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing ‘harmful’ materials to minors.” apnews.com/article/arka...

Chris Matthews: 'This clown' Elon Musk knows nothing about government www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...

A politician for the people. 👏🏼

Pete Hegseth's guard left the Army after beating of a civilian, NYT reports www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...

NJ passes a law preventing cranky fucknuts from going apeshit on school libraries and librarians. www.nj.com/politics/202...

Paperback books are like velveteen rabbits — there to be loved and squeezed and read and stuffed into shoulder bags and left in the sun and read again until there's nothing left but the best kind of memories

We tried to warn them.

Fmr. President Clinton on the polarized state of U.S. politics: "People are losing faith in institutions, and in many places, they're going to reward the people that destroyed their faith. I wouldn't bet against America. So far, everybody that's bet against us has lost money." bit.ly/49pAug5

Got two auditions recently for a streaming series and network TV series. Got passed over but very grateful to get the opportunity to read for such prestigious projects; rarely get those chances these days.

Note this down

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.

Reviewing 11th draft (maybe, lost count) of short novel co-authored, posthumously, with my mom. Book's foundation is her WWII war tales bout living & surviving war in England; (including escaping being blown up by landmines 1 or 10 times.) Hoping to lock it by New Year & pitch it to literary agents.

Blue skys for me. I have “x-ed out X