I am watching Deadline Whitehouse tonight, and screaming inside. NYT: Your writers cannot refer to the females in epstein/trump's harem as WOMEN, then tell us they were teenage. It is shameful. At least one of you must have a teenage daughter or niece or grand-daughter. Would it be OK in their case?

The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned newrepublic.com/article/2042... via @newrepublic.com Thank you Toby Buckle. As a 'Cassandra' of longstanding truly appreciate the recognition. Now, when will someone listen?

America faced domestic fascists before and buried that history theconversation.com/america-face... I say again - Nothing new under God's sun. Same old same old for decades, and each person in one of these groups had families and children. "You have to be carefully taught..." musical South Pacific

A New Report Reveals the Real Reason Democrats Lost in 2024 newrepublic.com/article/2042... via @newrepublic.com The reason Harris-Walz lost in 2024 (Clinton 2016): American men do not want to elect a woman to the Presidency. Period, full stop. All the rest is political verbiage and excuses.

"Far-right influencer Tim Pool dialed up his critique of his fellow conservative influencers...,claiming he was “fucking done” with the political caucus while branding its own as “scumbags” and “psychopaths.” TNR DEC 9 From Occupy Wall Street, which was stupid, to the Hell of MAGA - All bad choices

State Universities Are Scrambling to Appease the Bigoted MAGA Regime newrepublic.com/article/2039... via @newrepublic.com Seems the author needs to revisit the history of the USA. And why is the author believing these states are "bending over backwards"? 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s bigotry ruled. Remember?

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and moral, then it’s not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power. - Dwight Eisenhower

What If Both Sides in the Birth Rate Debate Are Wrong? newrepublic.com/article/2040... via @newrepublic.com.web.brid.gy I am trying so hard to not go off on this article and the author. Perhaps it is because a man is trying to involve himself in WOMEN'S CHOICES. Just STOP, you are not helping.

Who remembers last week when all folks wanted was 'release the Epstein Files'? Amazing how the dtrump clown show finds more shiny to distract The Media (all of it!!) and the American people. Who thinks America is ready for 21st Century Viet Nam - Venezuela?? WOKE is good. Aware is better.

“There was no radio. There were two individuals clinging to flotsam, that’s what there was,” TNR, DEC 5 - I will add, there is still not one scintilla of evidence that any of these boats carried terrorists, narco or otherwise, nor one crumb of any type drug. The media never offers this fact. - WHY??

Follow up to previous post re Hegseth: Seems the Sec'y of War will be the scapegoat for all dtrump's military crimes - SignalGate has once again become part of the conversation with the talking heads. An old transgression that seemingly had gone away... "Hegseth is not a serious person" WHAT!??!!

Watching Deadline Whitehouse; it occurred to me the media continues to describe the victims of the Venezuela boat strikes as "sailors"; providing the false imprimatur they were military. There is absolutely NO evidence any of the victims were more than 'people on a boat'. Language is important.

"Liberalism’s great liability isn’t “wokeness.”⁴ It’s a lack of self-confidence bordering on masochism." Jonathan Last, The Triad Precisely! And it is what happens when folks get the feeling that maybe the ACA, SNAP and such services may go 'to the wrong people' or 'I don't want them next door'...

Transcript: Trump White House Rages at Pop Star Who Nailed MAGA “Evil” newrepublic.com/article/2038... via @newrepublic.com No need to use White Nationalism and other big words. The KKK did all of this with impunity for decades. The 3rd Reich did it with gusto. Nothing new under God's sun...

...the story of how Olivia Nuzzi, a writer formerly of New York magazine and now Vanity Fair’s West Coast editor, was involved in a relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during the 2024 campaign... makes me ask: self esteem issues? What? Why?? She demonstrably has a brain...was it offline?

Trump Threatens to Destroy Another Priceless American Landmark newrepublic.com/post/203747/... via @newrepublic.com.web.brid.gy - Well of course he does! Courts, the American People, the GOP - a lot of stuff has gone against him. Little Donnie will show all of you! You'll see!! 😖

"President George Washington’s first Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1789. There is nothing there about the Mayflower or the Pilgrims or a feast. It’s all about giving thanks for the new nation and the free government the people of the United States had recently established." The Bulwark, NOV 26

Anti-Blackness Isn’t Part of Trump’s Agenda—It’s the Very Heart of It newrepublic.com/article/2036... "Fascism doesn’t thrive because people resist comfort; it thrives because they can still go to the restaurants...can still go to the movies...can still kick people under the bus." K. Crenshaw

"As the Economist’s Mike Bird notes, DOGE exits the stage without leaving a dent in federal spending, which is tracking to end 2025 significantly above 2024 levels...they did fire a random assortment of... bureaucrats, inflicting immeasurable brain drain on the federal government..." The Bulwark

"Why Fascists Fear Teachers", published earlier this year,...the defense of public education in America....traces the history of attacks like Trump’s...calling them hallmarks...fascists fear teachers because their work creates an educated electorate...can teach young people to think for themselves.

"The most notorious political murder in recent American history occurred this day in 1963, when John F. Kennedy, the 35th U.S. president (1961–63), was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas, while riding in an open car." OMG how quickly this date has ceased to have REAL meaning, just like Veteran's Day

"...she’s [Karoline Leavitt] being deceptive. She’s lying. If you heard that video, she said that we called for people to follow lawful orders or to deny following lawful orders, which is exactly—literally—the polar opposite of what we said." Rep. Houlahan D-PA

"We have the purported leader of the free world calling for the death of members of Congress...we should all be deeply saddened by that, and outraged..., regardless of who we are—Americans, Democrats, Republicans, and anybody who loves freedom." Rep. Houlahan, D-PA

"The result is that federal data are being degraded—or deleted altogether. And deletion is especially common when statistical series measure issues that this administration would rather not track." The Bulwark NOV 20 -In other words, we can't respond to dtrump's lies about the economy with facts.

"Maya Kornberg argues in The Hill. The cost of running for and remaining in office makes it extremely challenging for people without wealthy networks to succeed." Brennan Center for Justice NOV 18 When will we realize as a country the above was the whole point? No money No office keeps out riffraff

"Meaningful change requires public awareness. Moral condemnation and aesthetic disdain are not enough. Nor is an abstract commitment to the rule of law. Rather, citizens must understand with specific clarity how an unfair system gives them the shaft." Brennan Center for Justice NOV 18

"...and I don’t even know if Trump’s guilty of anything. I really don’t. I’m not convinced he did anything wrong..." TNR DB NOV 17, guest M. Cohen re Epstein -We disregard the MANY instances of dtrump and epstein together? What happens when dtrump refuses to sign legislation to release the files?

"SENATE APPROVES BILL THAT WOULD END SHUTDOWN; NH SENATORS FACE BACKLASH FROM FELLOW DEMOCRATS" WMUR Local ABC affiliate NOV 11 And once again the DEMS enforce a litmus test on themselves that no one asked for. And the country totally does not need right now. STOP trying to match GOPs for idiocy.

"America’s economy has been increasingly bifurcated for quite some time – with the exception of a few years following the pandemic." CNN Business OCT 31 - How have Americans forgotten this truth - President Joseph R. Biden brought the country out of the Covid Pandemic and resurrected the economy?

Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer. newrepublic.com/article/2023... via @newrepublic.com -wish SOMEONE had asked about the absurdity of dragging an 81 yr old to Camp David, torturing him for 2 weeks prior to debate, throwing him to the wolves, then abandonment...

Radio Free New Hampshire: Dancing With the Stars indepthnh.org/2025/10/31/r... Even New Hampshire sees the idiocy and stumbling of the response to dtrump by EVERYONE! Please read this article, and if you have a buck, donate it to Radio Free New Hampshire. 😍

"Press Release: Ricketts Emphasizes Republican Commitment to Governance Amid Government Shutdown" By: Quiver CongressRadar, OCT 31 If this was April 1st I would call 'April Fool!'. But Senator Rickets GOP is apparently serious. Next question: Sen. Ricketts, when will we see this commitment? Ever?

www.propublica.org/article/paul... The article says it ALL! BTW - I was "steeped in religion" from a toddler to adulthood. My Grandma would be shocked and very displeased with the disastrous, implicitly biased use of Religion as this judge's excuse for his political overreach.

"Trump’s unusual tariff strategy puts America’s allies in a near-impossible situation" CNN HL Business NOV 1 Extortion always puts the extorted party in a "near-impossible situation". Someone please explain the difference between 'extortion' and 'negotiation' to CNN reporter Richard Quest

"Roughly one in eight people in the U.S. relies on the foot stamp program, which had already been scythed back by $186 million under Trump’s spending measures, introduced in July...one Rep. Congressman suggested his constituents should “stop smoking crack”... Daily Beast, NOV 1 - 'Nuff said? -

"One in eight Americans use SNAP but its halt will disproportionately hurt Black Americans...Black people are 13.7% of the population but 25.7% of SNAP recipients...White people are 35.4% of SNAP recipients, the latest data show." So more Whites use SNAP, but we continue the 'welfare queen" lies!

"Two-thirds of Americans say that the country is "pretty seriously off on the wrong track,"...just under a third say the country is moving in the right direction,...ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll..." ABC News NOV 2 The same 2/3-1/3 from 2010. Part of that 2/3 lies in every poll and we get trump

"The luxury gap: Trump builds his palace as Americans face going hungry" The Guardian HL NOV 2 "It was a feast fit for a king – and any billionaire willing to be his subject...gold-rimmed plates on gold-patterned tablecloths decorated with gold candlestick holders..." -America likes this?-

"Donald Trump Hosts Great Gatsby-Themed Halloween Party as 42 Million Americans Brace for SNAP Benefits to Expire" PEOPLE MAG HL, NOV 1 Comparisons to Marie Antoinette are too small - folks have to read The Great Gatsby. That's the only reference required here.

A Tour of a Utopian Home Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Presented by His Last Living Client www.openculture.com/2025/10/a-to... I would have walked thousands of miles to meet Frank Lloyd Wright. And this home is one reason why

An open letter to Nicole Wallace and company tonight, OCT 27, 2025: This is not so much the "destruction of the East Wing" as it is the continuation and perhaps coup de grace to all President Barack Obama represented to the reality of America. Neither arbitrary or without warning; dtrump told us ALL

Project 2025, the administration’s blueprint for dismantling the federal government...It’s Q4, and 2025 was supposed to be his year. Time to go into history, and remember Hitler's Blitzkrieg - as it raged across Europe every country thought some other country would stop him. We have to stop it.

As Trump Loses It at Canada, Here’s What Reagan Really Said on Tariffs newrepublic.com/post/202222/... via @newrepublic.com America is dying because every time journalists should stand up they sit down to 'splain Lucy' - so what if a couple of sentences are "out of order"? It is what Reagan said!

White House Stops Press From Documenting Trump’s Disaster Renovation newrepublic.com/post/202188/... via @newrepublic.com 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue belongs to the People of America. The president does NOT own the WH. All these lawyers, no one knows how to draw up a halt and desist brief??!!

"Taxpayer bailout of Argentina may grow to $40 billion", Judd Legum, Popular Information, OCT 22

"Thirteen Senate Democrats voted alongside Republicans Tuesday to instate a conservative judge to the Northern District of Alabama." TNR OCT 21 - Isn't this called 'go along to get along'? Typical of DEMS

The country? If there aren’t any principles any more…if there aren’t any rules to this game, and it’s only a question of who robs whom- I’ve got more votes than any of you; there are more workers than employers… Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand She thought she was writing about the Left

"Sargent: Well, I would like to see a lot more from Schumer and Jeffries engaging on immigration, engaging on the slide into authoritarianism..." As would we all, Mr. Sargent. Apparently the DEMS truly still believe 'just stick your toe in the water, never go for a good swim'. WOKE is not a swear!

“When we say white supremacy is thriving on the right, they call us reactionary,” Rep. Yvette Clarke, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus..“Give me a break. The future of the Republican Party proudly embraces bigotry...and every American needs to recognize how dangerous that is.” Thanks Politico