Speaking of misogyny....There's something so weird about Japan having a female leader before the US will. When I was younger, I assumed I'd live to see a female president. Now it feels almost impossible, especially if the Trumpian dictatorship fully forms.

the one constant in mass shootings is the prevalence of misogyny/domestic violence/hatred toward women: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

Latinos sour on Trump over tariffs, economy, immigration raids https://www.axios.com/2025/09/26/latinos-trump-discontent-economy-immigration https://www.axios.com/2025/09/26/latinos-trump-discontent-economy-immigration

Clinton and Obama dealt with Rush Limbaugh daily, and not once did they use presidential power to take him off the air. Think about that. Not once did they use their presidential power to silence Rush Limbaugh.

Every headline should read "Health in America is entirely broken when malicious fools like this are permitted to drive policy" or words to that effect. It's not editorializing, it is simply observable fact.

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

Just sayin’ Feels like people want names but not to support the victims. When does the supporting the victims start for what happened to them as children? When does the political stop and the humanity start? When does the decency start? Asking for a few thousand (?) friends.. #BelieveVictims ⚖️💔💙🩷🍀

{𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿}: Trump brags about silencing critics, dressing it up as Kimmel’s ❝lack of talent.❞ It’s a bald assault on free speech, cloaked in flimsy excuses, with the administration leaning on networks to punish dissenting voices.

I wrote to the presidents of Hulu (ABC) and Paramount (CBS). The core of each letter: When you capitulate to Trump over the truthful & fairly mild comments made by late night comedians, how do we know you won’t do the same when Trump orders you to revise negative news stories about him?

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell could not have sold children for sex without rich perverts buying children for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.

So you're telling me a podcaster got taken home on Air Force Two and given an honor guard, when most military vets don't get that same respect? People who fought actual WARS? What did he do to deserve an honor guard and taken home on Air Force Two when he wasn't even in the military or a government…

Are some lives more valuable than others?

I figure one of the most salutary things I can do for our sick culture is set an example by making a habit of publicly admitting my public mistakes, especially though not exclusively mistakes of fact.

Villegas González is the second person to die due to Trump’s raids. Jaime Alanís García lost his life on June 10, in Ventura County, in California. ICE isn’t just a danger to our communities — they’re a danger to human life. Full stop. 🛑 latin-american.news/sre-asks-to-...

You just know Ghislaine Maxwell desperately wanted Epstein as her man, but since she was WAY too old for him, she clung to him and his orbit the only way she could figure out-- using her influence and money to bring him victims and participating in the crimes. What a depraved and pathetic woman.

Your daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH. #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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Those responsible for the murder of that despicable man should be prosecuted and held accountable. Both things can be true.

I was never a fan of Charlie Kirk in any way. But political violence is just wrong. And I believe this no matter who murdered Charlie Kirk.

The FBI right now could probably use all those experienced senior career professionals with decades of investigative experience that they fired for absolutely no reason.

It will be frankly amazing to watch the backpedaling and sidepedaling and spinning and, probably, mostly just ignoring, involved if it turns out Kirk's shooter was a MAGA partisan who was simply on the other side of the Epstein divide from him

So STOP—STOP telling Democrats to tone down their rhetoric!

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Trump won’t do shit because he’s Putin’s Bitch and Republicans in Congress are Putin’s Bitch Enablers. None of this is possible without weak Republicans in Congress who are afraid to call him out clearly and directly and instead post weak ass shit on social media.

Any Congressional Republican who supported Trump should be particularly ashamed today. You're supporting a man who's getting away with turning America into a police state due to your impotence.

Every time blood is spilled in America—from Pittsburgh to Poway - Gab’s fingerprints are there. Andrew Torba built a terror pipeline, not a platform. Hate by design, not accident. Full free substack exposé 👉 substack.com/home/post/p-...

Total bullshit. He is lying and people are dying.

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So Trump is “vetting” museums. starting with the Holocaust Museum exhibit that calls out America for shutting the door on Jewish refugees. Erasing history is the oldest authoritarian play in the book. "He who controls the past controls the future" - George Orwell

Yet more evidence that most people in the Trump regime are compulsive liars: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/h...

We spent a few days at DisneyWorld in 1992 with our daughter, then 11. Since then, we’ve focused more on Europe (as we’re history buffs). While we can enjoy traveling, we’ll go to Europe, Australia, New Zealand & Hawaii and try some more cruises. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

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Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who chose to break into an unauthorized area during an insurrection against the repeated warnings of law enforcement. She ignored those warnings and got killed through no one's fault but her own. She was a traitor. She doesn't deserve full military honors.

Saying you need an AR-15 to hunt is like saying you need dynamite to fish. Stop the nonsense.

Limiting who can get the COVID vaccine is yet another dangerous action by the science-hating Trump regime. The death rate from COVID dropped after the vaccine became widely available in 2021. If I have to go to Canada to get the vaccine in the future it’ll be worth the trip.

I’ve been doing a lot of digital photography over the last 25 years. Managed to corrupt my Photos file about a year ago. Luckily had copies of them in iCloud. Should FINALLY have all my digital photos copied back to my laptop today

I am getting old. #Worldcon was exhausting even though I mostly just sat at the FANAC table. I made it to at least six evening parties, six more parties than I had last year. Had some great dinners along the way. Our luggage got "lost" for the 2nd year in a row...it may be delivered tonight.

An Epstein a day scares Trump & the Congress away.

News 7/7/25 MSN: "That 2018 midterm election led to a GOP wipeout in the House, with the party losing 40 seats, including some districts in Trump-leaning territory," according to the outlet. "Democrats are planning to again hitch vulnerable Republicans to the cuts to social safety-net programs.""

Recent droughts are 'slow-moving global catastrophe' - UN report buff.ly/x5wPSob From Somalia to mainland Europe, the past two years have seen some of the most ravaging droughts in recorded history, made worse by climate change, according to a UN-backed report.

Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.

Only MAGAts ever called Trump's dreadful tax-the-poor, give-to-the-rich bill "Beautiful." It was the "Big Bad Bill". It's going to hurt many of the people who voted for him who are poor-middle class while helping his wealthy supporters. The rich sucking up money from people poorer than themselves.

As is usual, Republicans work hard to protect dying industries while hamstringing forward-thinking, less polluting industries like solar & wind. They’ll bring back woodcutters since people heated their homes & cooked their food using wood for thousands of years. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/c...