I'm amazed when men fluff off rape as a nothingburger. I wonder how many men actually get up, brush themselves off and go merrily on their way after being knocked down, almost strangled/threatened with a weapon, forcibly invaded and slapped around/cut a bit for good measure? Yeah. It's no big thing.

You need to hate war crimes to be a real man.

We don’t have to wait until ‘28 to end Trump’s reign of corruption. Give the Dems solid majorities in both Houses in November, and we can stop the Republicans from destroying what’s left of America. The alternative would be that extra two years of horror— and the U.S. will NOT survive.

...Pete Hegseth...agrees that America is a Christian nation [it is not] whose laws should reflect Christian tenets [it's a multi-cultural democracy] arguing that women should be barred from voting [they are the majority of voters]. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

See the Powell memo. And here, Reagan, Roy Cohn, and Murdoch - bringing in Murdoch and thus Fox propaganda broadcasts. No spin zone? They even told us what they were doing.

Defunding day care and/or early learning programs is just another way to get women out of the workforce. Period. If we don't support daycare services, we interfere with the intellectual, social and nutritional needs of toddlers. They're are people, too. And it takes us back to 1965, culturally.

@emigre80

Poisson d'Avril!

The analogy, pulled the arms and legs off the government is perfect. See State Department, DoJ, or virtually any function. But the train isn’t running, a least not on the tracks. It’s over a cliff into the swamp. Everything Trump touches dies. See ICE, hamstrung Congress, appalling foreign mess.

To the world: Fewer than 2/3 of Americans are in sync with our president and his insane agenda. We've lost a lot more than our jobs over recent years. Now we're losing the guarantee that we can say and do what we like without fear of retribution. If this sounds familiar, remember us. Stand with us.

What if you started a war and sent troops to the wrong country?

He's sitting in on SC arguments? This must herald the start of his "I am smart" campaign to bring up his ratings. Expect him to: 1. Start wearing glasses. 2. Mention Plato 3. Dig up an old World Book encyclopedia volume to carry around. 4. Wear sweaters. 5. Sprinkle "n'est-ce pas" into his speech.

Weird how Congress governs U.S. participation in NATO through the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Section 1250A, which legally prohibits the President from withdrawing from NATO without two-thirds Senate approval or an Act of Congress.

Trump Has a Way Out of the War - Gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/o...

33% What a beautiful number! www.umass.edu/news/article...

Trump's made money from birth tourism. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

You can't change the color of your front door in any of the city's historic zones w/o review by a commission. That can take years. How he got away with this, I'll never know. If they don't stop him this time, I'm afraid of what comes next. But, lots of law-abiding homeowners must be really pissed.

Best news of the day!

And the answer is: NO! Trump Faces a Decision on Whether to Start a Ground War in Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

I have a couple of grands getting ready for college, so I'm taking on the task of telling them -- and others -- how recently the US took its collective head out of the Middle Ages and started really educating its women and allowing them to work in whatever jobs they chose. It was about 45 yrs ago.

"The feminization of higher education has been accompanied by the disparagement of higher education in America. As males exit higher America higher education, we see increasing attacks upon college and college degrees." www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

Tant pis. How many women were prevented from entering any Ivy, Amherst, Williams, Wesleyan, Trinity, Fordham, Tulane, UVA, Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, Lafayette, Claremont McKenna because of gender? Millions! Imagine how much productivity this country lost out on before 1980. U can shove your lawsuit.

Tant pis. How many women were turned away from all the Ivies, Amherst, Williams, Wesleyan, Hamilton, Colgate, Lehigh, Lafayette, Rutgers, UVA, Bowdoin, ulane, Fordham, Trinity and others based on gender? Millions! Think of how much US productivity was lost! www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

US post-war productivity really took off in the 1970-1980s. Why? Could it be that this country looked at Europe/Russia and started educating its women as well as its men, which vastly increased # of engineers, physicians, bioscientists, economists, entrepreneurs? Yes? I take that as a thank you.

Tax refunds are falling below Trump's $4,000 promise new IRS data shows American taxpayers are seeing their refunds average at about $350 higher than this time last year but the total is still falling short of President Donald Trump’s promises of a $1,000 refund increase www.aol.com/entertainmen...

What a turn around!

Calling all patriotic accountants and insider trading experts.

Don't get me started on this, you repulsive *-Fii,s/?@2!x&dynkdsà Women’s networking event illegally sidelined men, Trump administration claims www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Trump: Smart people don't like me.

POTUS starts war, gets bored. Promises bigger/better library than Obama's. Dow falls. Gas spikes at $4-5/gal. How hot will it get tomorrow? News coming up at 11.

The visuals of this will trickle in soon: "A Kuwaiti oil tanker laden with oil erupted in flames after it was attacked early Tuesday while anchored off the coast of Dubai, the Kuwaiti authorities said"

Best sentence I have read today: You do not get to applaud cruelty as policy and then demand compassion as a personal favour.

When we turn everything over to machines to do our thinking, this is what happens. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

@o2bnobx.bsky.social Here's a Reel post with a clip of a miniature train ride in Leipzig. What interests me is the car in left corner. Is that a Trabant? I was in Leipzig in 1990, shortly after the fall of the wall, and there still were a few around. But 36 years later and still in use? Interesting.

Is this War for No Reason why Musk and Trump were in such a big hurry to start colonizing Mars? Not all MAGA are dumb so what is going on today does not makes sense. Was the war part of the larger plan? That might explain why the whole lot of them are so blase about the rest of us.

The last I looked at my checkbook, I bought my own healthcare. Maybe I bought it from a bloated and uncaring healthcare company because that's where one buys health insurance. Mine comes from a physician-owned hospital chain. Should I switch to an auto insurer? Or ask if they are bloated? Uncaring?

Vance: Donald, I really need to know: am I one of the losers you said you like to have around because it makes you feel good about yourself? Is that why you chose me as your Veep? Trump: No, of course not. I chose you to guarantee that I’d never be impeached or assassinated.

He wants a third term because the only thing he knows how to do is campaign. His only management skill is to threaten total destruction. Like a cartoon character. There's no there there.

trump exposes the fatal flaw in the founding fathers' thinking: that the people who get elected to run the country would want to make the country better

Trump saw the election as the first prize in a popularity contest but not as taking on responsibility for governing a culturally diverse nation of 340m people. He needed adulation every single day so he never stopped campaigning and never really started governing. He's still campaigning.

Donald Trump = A joke taken way too far.