My father.

Sunrise in SE Missouri.

Maybe someone needs to tell him that there’s no “Nobel War Prize.”

November 4, 2025

Krugman on how Trump lost the trade war paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-we-los...

Delphinium and Baby’s Breath from the grocery store. #ikebana

Donald Trump deleted this from the government website. Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.

20 Billion dollars for Argentina, and Trump won’t spend the 6 billion available for food stamps. But you get a huge ballroom for rich donors.

Look out, sailor. Dawn in SE Missouri.

Remind me, when did Congress declare war on Venezuela? Or authorize the President to take military action against them?

WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.

“If People See the Capitol Going On, It Is a Sign That We Intend the Union Shall Go On.” open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Trump Posted a Video of Himself Dumping Excrement on Our Cities. It’s a Glimpse of His Deepest Drives. “This weekend, I was surprised to learn that Donald Trump seems to see himself in the same way I do: as a would-be monarch spraying the citizenry with excrement.”

Sunrise at Pioneer Forest Virgin Pine - Randolph Tract, Shannon County, MO.

Trump just upped his bail-out for Argentina from $20 billion to $40 billion. Argentina has government run healthcare that's available to all Argentinians. Yet Trump has shut down the American government while trying to take healthcare away from millions of Americans. What say you, Republicans?

My dad (left) and uncle in their Antifa uniforms, 1941.

Gov. Pritzker: "The Insurrection Act is called the Insurrection Act for a reason — there has to be an insurrection in order for [Trump] to be allowed to invoke it. He can say anything he wants, but if the Constitution means anything...the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked."

October 5, 2025

Dude what is wrong with you. It is completely and explicitly illegal. The letter of the law can't be more clear.

October 3, 2025 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-3-...

October 2, 2025

“No, Trump and his people are not playing four-dimensional chess, the response goes – we are simply witnessing the consequences of allowing a deranged man into the highest office, backed by a coterie of dim and unqualified cronies.” www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

September 29, 2025

The executive branch has probably the world’s most extensive intelligence apparatus, and our president gets his information by watching TV.

September 26, 2025

September 25, 2025

“‘This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?’” Yes. We do.

Welp.

Rest of the world: “Ignore that clown.”

After the recent rain, I had to cut a bunch of prairie plants that had flopped into the path. I didn’t have the heart to compost them, so I made a bouquet. #nativeplants #gardening #Missouri

September 22, 2025

I’m so sick of older squirrels asking when I’m going to have kits. YOU 👏 GREW 👏 UP 👏 IN 👏 A 👏 MAST 👏 YEAR 👏 GRANDPA 👏

How is this not the Onion?

September 19, 2025

“I think families are very concerned. I think there’s an increased hesitancy through all families right now,” added Kirk Milhoan” Gosh, I wonder who’s spreading lies about vaccine safety and making families so concerned?

September 18, 2025

September 17, 2025 "A republic, if you can keep it."

September 16, 2025

President Donald Trump has for years told outlandish lies about elections in Democratic-dominated California. Trump made more false claims on the subject in a Fox News interview on Friday | Fact check: https://cnn.it/41RAe73

DuBois knew how, in death, lives get sanitized: "Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, R.E. Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God."

RFK Jr. makes the most basic mistake in all of epidemiology:

Kayaking the Mississippi River with the Missouri Department of Conservation yesterday. From Trail of Tears State Park to Red Star Access in Cape Girardeau.

September 6, 2025

How Much History of American Slavery is Too Much? 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

We’re about at peak hummingbird numbers now. #birds

September 2, 2025