Happy New Year. THERE. I said it & I really mean it, even though the odds are it will be every bit as challenging & frustrating as the last one.

Trump: “My Administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable policies. Ending the massive cost of taxpayer handouts and restoring fiscal sanity is vital to economic growth and the fiscal health of the Nation” 2025 he spent $1.8 Trillion in deficit

Words to start the New Year: "Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things." -- Kurt Vonnegut

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

Here's to the smiles of the lassies we love, Here's to the friends ever faithful, Drink to the hearts so loving and true And never may we be ungrateful.

32 of the world's 33 developed nations have already sorted this.

Truth

In Moscow, they call her “our girl Tulsi” for a reason.

Sounds about right.

Sen. Jack Reed: "This is really outrageous. Mark Kelly is a veteran, he's fought in combat, he's an astronaut. And even was simply repeated what the law is. If a US senator can't do that, then this country is in profound difficulty."

Other (sane) countries manage to do both. We could too. Instead stupidity rules

Rand Paul: "The president also said, 'Be careful Colombia, you could be next.' I mean, if we're gonna go and topple regime after regime in South America, there's no amount of money that could be printed to pay for that and I don't think lives should be lost without a vote by Congress."

Yep. As noted in my other post. This is not good.

This would be the death knell for US tourism. Not that it has been growing this year anyway...

Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

If you somehow can't see the very dark place where Trump is taking us, then get out of the way of those of us who want to preserve the country, our Democracy, and the values we hold dear. #ResistTrump

What a shit show. In this case their incompetence is actually a good thing.

Yea, Trump thinks he can cancel Biden pardons... (hint - no) qr.ae/pCb4C5

This never fails to fool all the dumb ones. It’s worked for centuries now.

Napping Don is doing his best there... (well, on the naps at least)

“It’s the economy stupid” -- James Carville in 1992 Still true (particularly the "stupid" part)

If only American journalists had the same amount of integrity, or ANY integrity.

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THIS 👇 HERE

Why not both? www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/p...

dɯnɹʇ's an Epic, (twice in our country's history-level,) Fückup.

That's ... not how it works ;)

👍🤪🤣😂

Not all Villains wear clown makeup

You and me both...

Given that the original intention was for these to be part-time jobs... I'd say we dropped the ball

Sadly: the joke is always on us (the voters, the citizens)

I stand with Mark Kelly 🩵

A Breakthrough Cancer Vaccine Is Emerging—Just as the U.S. Is Gutting the System That Makes It Possible open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

A very interesting read (well, depressing too in some ways) www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Senator Ruben Gallego didn't mince words. Read the full daily bulletin: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

Cartoon by David Horsey.

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

Damn straight.

The Epstein Files bill has a lot of protections in it to prevent Bondi from doing what we all suspect she's going to do: hold back or redact because of an open investigation or national security concerns. If she improperly withholds, she'll be sued, and SCOTUS will eventually decide.

awww... I almost feel sorry (that, by the way, is a bald-faced lie)

people are "woke" now? how about in the 60's :) It is not a perjorative, no matter how much they try to make it one...

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I’ll never understand the obsession with politicians.