Doing a loop in Silver Lake, and Ivanhoe Reservoir is looking nicely van Gogh-esque this morning, a kind of daylight version of "The Starry Night."

My painting BICYCLE SHADOW. This is a rare self portrait. I love to bike through all the seasons.

Republicans are coming out of the elections and shutdown battered and weakened, and will now have to defend the indefensible. It isn't going to be easy for them. My latest 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/republican...

Back in the day, people had to work the land to pay debt to the landlord for eternity. The interest on the debt was such that the vassals could never get out of debt. That asshole is trying to bring that back. Fuck him and fuck everyone who voted for him.

Added note: For people who think life was better back then, remember that this show was about a guy who had to pretend to be gay so the landlord wouldn't kick all of them out for cohabitating. In 1977. This show was wildly popular and ran until 1984.

Get mad, but then get busy. Listen to her. She rants, but then she shares how we win this.

Grateful my dad made it home (wounded but alive) from Vietnam right after I was born. #VeteransDay

📷 | New Jersey (1974) Reunion Class of '75 From 1925 to 1975, one could say significant progress was made. Yet in the past 50 years we've reversed some of that progress. Either progress is an illusion, or the arc of the moral universe takes longer to bend than one's lifetime. #monochrome

The problem isn’t that Christianity isn’t taught in schools; the problem is that Christianity isn’t taught at Church. — Anonymous internet twitter.

Hey all of you untalented American losers, I'm going to take away food stamps and healthcare while eating hamberders in my gold ballroom. Fuck you. - DJT

Resign, @schumer.senate.gov.

Years ago, my Christian friend was struggling through a divorce, losing her home, and feeding 4 kids. I called her pastor — the one she gave tithes to every week. He said there was nothing he could do. I was polite, but I shamed the fuck out of him. He didn't budge.

Well, at least Kim Davis lost today.

My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.

The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.

Americans deserve better than the eight Democratic Senators who voted on a promise, without a guarantee, to protect the Affordable Care Act.

If you believe it was just 8 senators I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. This was a Schumer operation.

Every single last Democrat I know is pissed. And I know a lot of Democrats.

In the last month, the FBI has charged players from two different leagues for roles in sports-betting scandals. Either legalized gambling is exposing corruption that’s always been there. Or it’s creating it. Either answer is terrible for sports.

I repeat, if YOU are not active and vigilant in Democratic primaries, YOU are why our primaries produce weak corporate and AIPAC controlled Dems. Period. Progressives need to become Dem primary BULLDOZERS! NO ONE should be able to get through a primary while being some corrupt milquetoast who

We need to be protesting at Tim Kaine’s offices and House this week! We need to be protesting in front of Jean Sheen’s house and office. The Dems need to know this will NOT be accepted or forgiven, and they will ALL pay the price, because we know a team betrayal when we see one! We need to

"If you’re a Republican official convicted of corruption, your odds of receiving clemency from Trump are roughly 100%... "The latest move seems intended to deliver a political message: Those who assist Trump with his schemes need not worry about legal consequences..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??

Bring on the Progressives. Boot out the establishment. I am so sick of them.

No health care, no deal.

Dear Senate Dems, Republicans don’t keep their promises…

Hedy Lamarr, Judy Garland, Lana Turner “ZIEGFELD GIRL” (1941) dir. Robert Z. Leonard 🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

“I can’t govern. I can’t govern. I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing. I have no ability to manage….”

Dems held out for 40 days for nothing?

Michael Redgrave, Margaret Rutherford “THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST” (1952) dir. Anthony Asquith 🎬 Javelin Films 🎞 General Film Distributors

And I'll say it again: ‪If we had believed children and women, none of this would be happening. He'd be in jail, and she'd be President.

Hitler was appointed - not elected - Chancellor in January 1933. The Enabling Act, allowing laws to be put in place without the legislature, was pushed through in March. 53 days. So, yeah, pretty much overnight.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMtS3gD9/ Can someone, ANYONE, explain to me why the Dem Machine is not ALL IN and completely behind this excellent candidate for TN-7 Cong? Why aren’t we, as a team, doing everything possible to help her win? Not only does she help ensure release of the Epstein files, she is

Tuesday freaked them all out. They're panicking and behaving like fucking lunatics. Try to stay centered. Don't let their cruel theatrics scare you into submission. I say this to myself, too.

I was with a realtor in the late 1990s looking at houses, and I saw all these expensive homes with big trucks and kid toys in the yard. I said: This is nuts. The realtor nodded and said:" Yes, but you realize that it's not my job to tell people *not* to buy houses, right?

Dear Dem Leaders: Losing is NOT weakness. QUITTING is weakness. Not trying is weakness. We keep saying “when we fight, we win.” So where the fuck is our fight for TN-7? Why is it ME posting about it, instead of every member of the Dem establishment? Why am I the one donating, instead of

The Dems who are caving are doing so not because their base wants them to, not because the voters want them to, not because the fed workers and SNAP recipients want them to… they are caving because their DONORS want them to. And that’s really all that ever matters to the corrupt

It is ESSENTIAL that Dems relentlessly message on the fact that they and they ALONE kept Americans fed. Every American voters needs to know that and be reminded of it every fucking day!!! They will forget by next year if we allow it

Be concerned, but no wallowing and no declarations of doom. Feel what you feel but don't capitulate by declaring defeat.

Fuck this guy

Bob and Mary.

The fascists on the Supreme Court are helping donald starve human beings.

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