So someone saw my “adult scare” pumpkin? Or heard my pleas about how coffee is not grown in the US? Or my concern about local coffee roasters going out of business? (Last year I couldn’t even do an adult scare pumpkin. I was too scared about everything. I was right. I still am.)

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news... Here is how private equity destroys businesses. Overwork and stress out employees. Then be “surprised” when people leave. Then overwork those who remain, including newbies who haven’t had time to learn. Can we stop this?

Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”: wapo.st/448fDw6

A new sign for No Kings 10.18.25. I was extremely annoyed that I was being characterized as an America hater.

No Kings was a great day but every day brings fresh disaster. I can see beyond my nose, and I worry about a tremendous disaster that, due to shortsighted stupidity, we are unable to respond to properly. Hurricane, major earthquake, terrorist attack, total crop loss - there are many possibilities.

It seems Pam Bondi has forgotten (or never understood) that she works for me, and my brothers, and my co-workers, and my friends and family and the senators in that room. Heaven forfend I treat my employers the way she did! Imagine attacking the bosses like that! Nonsense!!!

so is this the fight against "left-wing terrorism"?

Is there a curator for the White House? Someone whose job is preserving the historical building that you and I own? Who is it? Where are they?

It’s not too late to help those doing good work in the Mohawk Valley. Check out mvgives.org. Donations to the Basloe Library in Herkimer will be matched 2 for 1. Many other needed nonprofits are also seeking help today.

The Supreme Court just decided that it’s okay for ICE to profile people for the way they look or the language they speak. Arizona has been here before and we remember the damage it caused in our communities. This is unacceptable.

Cheerful moment on the road: tooling along on Rte. 684 we come upon a car the exact make, model, year and color of our own car. I turn and as I offer a thumbs up to the twin, the twin’s passenger offers a thumbs up to us. Nice.

The man who had his doctor report that he’s 6’3”, 238 lbs fired the person in charge of reporting labor statistics.

Trump says he will fire the labor statistics chief after the jobs report shows his tariffs are hurting American workers. This is like getting the teacher fired because you got a bad grade.

5. “Boehlert is … known for his work on environmental policy. In the 1980s with the acid rain crisis, Boehlert became a prominent voice in the GOP for the environment…

It was 56 years ago today Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon — a worldwide event that millions tuned into, including me and my brother (even if I did fall asleep). It’s a big reason we became astronauts and a great example of what our country can do when we work together.

Tonight I saw before and after pictures of my Oval Office. That orange person will not get his deposit back from me.

Once again, I have called Elise Stefanik and begged her to REPRESENT her district. Rural health care, including within the Adirondacks, is endangered. We will have fewer tourists too. And without library funding, the homeless elders in wheelchairs won’t have a place to do business.

The administration can’t see beyond their own noses. Long term problem: will athletes from around the world come to compete joyfully in Los Angeles when masked men are picking up people who don’t look white enough? Where is the joyful celebration and competition? Not here.

The administration can’t see beyond their own noses. The evidence piles up. Recent: he will decide in two weeks whether to bomb Iran’s nuclear capability. Nice break for Iran, some time to move things if they felt it was coming. Good grief.

Juneteenth is American history. And in our fight for liberty and justice for all, the end of slavery in the U.S. marked a turning point we should all be proud to celebrate. It's up to all of us to keep learning from the past and working toward a better future.

It’s likely he won’t pay attention (he didn’t listen to my pleas in November) but I have written John Thune to ask him to use his power to save our democracy. The country deserves to live. We’ve improved over the years but now we are on life support. Please!!

It seems the Creedence Clearwater Revival song “Fortunate Son” was actually played during the June 14 military parade. No one seems to have listened to the lyrics. “Some folks are born, silver spoon in hand, lord don’t they help themselves, yeah!”

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Trump said there were paid agitators in LA. Did he pay them?

ICE arrested former Afghan Nat'l Army soldier—our ally against Taliban—at his home in TX. He entered legally and atty says he has no criminal record. Was applying for asylum. Appears to be casualty of Trump decision de-documenting legal Afghan immigrants www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

Elon Musk said he was dropping a big bomb when he said Trump was in the Epstein files. No big surprise there. We have photos, video, plane lists, and a knowledge of exactly how Trump treats women and how he sees women. Where’s the surprise?

Thank you and blessings to the families of those who fought fascism on D-Day. We must never forget the nature of the evil our servicemen fought there.

Yikes

I am the child of a Navy veteran who served in Korea and was an “atomic” veteran. I would like the USS Harvey Milk to keep that name. I think he would, too.

During the campaign Trump banged the drum daily about deporting violent criminals who he said were released from insane asylums and prisons in other countries and sent into our country. Is this 4-year-old one of them? www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

We must regain our spirit, our dignity and our freedoms.

We have lost habeus corpus. We have lost Medicaid coverage. We have lost a helpful government agency, the Social Security Administration. We have lost support for hungry children here and abroad. We have lost science advances. We have lost tornado tracking. It truly does not fit here

There will be so much winning, he said. What we are losing: Two planes into the sea. Tourists from Canada and other countries (who wants to be detained?) Dignity. Jobs in shipping and trucking. The brilliance of students who until now have come to flourish in freedom. It can’t all be fit here…