saddened to hear of Patricia Routledge’s death. Here she is performing in a RSC production in the 1980s, I’m not sure which one. Maybe Henry V with Kenneth Branagh or Richard III. A brilliant life well lived. Who could ask for more. Mrs. Bucket, thank you!!

Lawrence O’Donnell: “What century is the New York Times in?” Not a mention of the real and actual problem: “Donald Trump is insane,” with his madness reaching new extremes. Not business as usual, NYT.

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." ~ Jane Goodall

Don’t give the bully your lunch money.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.” Jane Goodall

“For the next 70 minutes, he spoke slowly, slurring words, delivering to the hundreds of professionals who had rushed from around the world to attend this meeting a rambling, incoherent stream of words.” —Heather Cox Richardson

Send in the clowns…

Fat Man and Little Boy. Awesome.

Pete Hegseth led the nations top generals in a Christian prayer. Whether they wanted it or not.

The 1943 class of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point was responsible for erecting a plaque: Our American Code of Military Obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law. Many other nations have adopted our principle of loyalty to the basic law.

Reckless Hegseth: “You kill people and break things for a living. You are not politically correct,” he told them, offering a succinct definition of his sociopathic and reckless “warrior ethos.” Disgusting

Arrogant Hegseth: “We unleash overwhelming & punishing violence on the enemy. We also don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt & kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct & overbearing rules of engagement.”

Trump: I am a very aesthetic person. I don't like some of the ships you are doing aesthetically. They say it is stealth. That's not stealth. An ugly ship is not necessary in order to say you are stealth.

The main job of a leader is to keep people safe. DJT: Epic Fail.

I cannot keep track of the shootings anymore. Can you? One of today’s was in my home state of Michigan. DJT said (immediately) that it was attack on religion. That doesn’t resonate with me. At all.

Assault rifles: WHY?

What next? Mass barrista arrests? DJT has given the racist young white men of eastern Oregon & Idaho permission to attack Portland with impunity. I pray that Portlanders respond firmly but nonviolently. I fear that Trump will come for Oakland and Berkeley next. THIS really is martial law.

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

Indeed

The White House was operating the teleprompter, also it was their own people who inadvertently stopped the escalator.

Not a conspiracy, not a firing offense, a mistake by the POTUS team. Cause: According to a U.N. spokesperson, an individual from the president's party ran ahead of him on the escalator and inadvertently activated the safety stop feature. The escalator was quickly reset and resumed operation.

A “hoax made up by people with evil intentions.” He urged nations to move away from efforts to shift their economies toward investments in clean energy. “If you don’t get away from this green scam your country is going to fail, and I’m really good at predicting things.” UN General Assembly- DJT

This speech is such an extraordinary combination of lies, delusions, narcissism, hatefulness, ignorance and lunacy that it could have been given by no other person than the president of the United States. It could well be the low point of US public diplomacy in our history.

That was one ridiculous speech at the UN…. Utterly pathetic.

The culture wars, the race wars, the gender wars...all smoke screens for the war they don't want you to fight. The class wars.

Don’t let the truth get in the way Donald… it’s so inconvenient.

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

*siiiiiiigggghhhh*

This is why France 🇫🇷 invented the guillotine.

Prospero in The Tempest (Act 1, Scene 2) to his spirit helper, Ariel, after a shipwreck: Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

When the state can bully organizations to cancel television shows and fire people for speech, we don’t live in anything close to a functioning democracy.

This is the big firing infraction: “The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said. The Fox guy called for lethal injections of humans. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Mark your calendars, make your signs! RESIST 🇺🇸🇺🇸👊🏾🇺🇸

Bondi's claim that there is a hate speech exception to the First Amendment is dangerous.

I really appreciate Lawrence O’Donnell.

Lisa Cook has committed no mortgage fraud. Zero.

Trump has now aligned USA with the world’s dictatorships, and ignored any NATO requests for any assistance.

The National Guard is not designed to militarize our cities. They are not trained for this. This is dangerous gamesmanship from the president is dead WRONG. 😑

VP Vance is deeply irresponsible in his unsubstantiated and inflammatory comments about the”far left”. How about for a change of pace we try to wage peace instead JD?

Stephen Colbert's Emmys acceptance speech: "I have never loved my country more desperately. God bless America. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor."

Trump has failed the country in every way imaginable this year. His economic plan has failed - prices keep rising, the economy keeps slowing and the deficit is exploding. Massive taxes have been levied against us without our consent. Excerpt from: Hopium Chronicles

The photo fades, the memory remains etched in our hearts.

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.

School Shootings are treated as routine in America but when a conservative activist is assassinated, it's time to lower the flags at half-mast & reflect. America is an inherently violent, spiritually broken, & morally bankrupt country that no other nation on Earth should emulate.

Thoughts and prayers for sane gun control in our dangerous country - awash in guns.

“We are now witnessing a full-blown war on science, on public health, and on truth itself.” He added: “Vaccines have saved millions of lives … prevented massive human suffering … Vaccines work. Period.” Bernie Sanders

It’s all so tawdry.

Moving, depressing words from Justice Sotomayor this morning: “We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, & appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

“Land acknowledgments are not statements on behalf of an issue or cause. Acknowledging the historical and contemporary realities of the university on Indigenous land is not an activist act. It’s a factual statement.”

Trumps view on domestic violence: "Much lesser things... Things that take place in the home they call crime, you know they'll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight with the wife they say 'This was a crime. See?' So now I can't claim 100% but uh... We are a safe city."