"Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure. The desires, repinings, sorrows, and the joys of the present time lead to no visible or permanent result, like the passions of old men, which terminate in impotence.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

"The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he." ~-Karl Kraus [1874 - 1936]

"I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss.” ― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

As a senior Texas citizen: #FuckTexasGOP #VoteBlueTexas2026. “When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.” ― Molly Ivins

If you sometimes feel like an exile in your own country, here’s a song from my Texas rock and roll past that rings true for me in 2026. “…the whole world gambles shootin’ a prayer for a happy ending, but the one nation to be tied to is freedom…” www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIYw...

Moskowitz on Noem: "Is she hiding her face like her ICE agents now? By the way - is this what the $800b went to? Every day we see her after some new tragedy, she's wearing a different outfit with a different hat. She looks ridiculous. She deserves to be removed from her job, & if not impeached."

“Men are born soft & supple; dead they are stiff & hard. Plants are born tender & pliant; dead, they are brittle & dry. Whoever is stiff & inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft & yielding is a disciple of life. The hard & stiff will be broken. Soft & supple will prevail.” ― Lao Tzu

"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.” — Germaine Greer, "The Female Eunuch"

Are ICE thugs drug-tested for steroids, ketamine, cocaine, meth? How many ICE thugs were recruited from Proud Boys/Oath Keepers after their Trump pardon? Finally, how many ICE thugs have criminal records, especially records of violence and “roid rage” behavior?

“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.” ― Voltaire

"No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb. We know now that a nation can have peace with the Nazis only at the price of total surrender." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, December 29, 1940

Just as he still listens to “YMCA” as if he were a 1970s playboy at Studio 54, Trump’s brain is stuck in 1970s thinking about drilling for oil. His denial of climate change facts and regressive policies re: renewable energy epitomize his stagnant brain and his backwards, willful idiocy in 2025.

"Lend me the stone strength of the past and I will lend you The wings of the future, for I have them." -- Robinson Jeffers, "To the Rock That Will be a Cornerstone" [1924]

“Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many—they are few.” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy

"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, but we have this consolation: The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph." —Tom Paine

THE GOP IS NOW THE AFP.

Felon Trump is freaking out over the fact that the #NoKings crowd sizes make his puny rallies look like his tiny “mushroom.” So he made an AI video of himself as a flying turd, which just makes us laugh at him even more for his desperation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL...

"Because men are killing the forests the fairy tales are running away. The spindle doesn't know whom to prick..." ― Günter Grass, "Rat"

The most insulting thing about Mousey Mike Johnson? Whenever he says “bless her heart.”

The subject of loss affects us all in 2025.

I’m reading Stacy Schiff’s book about Samuel Adams prepping for Ken Burns doc re: our Revolution. “If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” ― Samuel Adams

"The pressure of an all-powerful totalitarian state creates an emotional tension in its citizens that determines their acts. When people are divided into "loyalists" and "criminals" a premium is placed on every type of conformist, coward, and hireling." ― Czesław Miłosz, The Captive Mind

"The public is lied to every day by the President, by his spokespeople, by his officers.” ― Daniel Ellsberg

"Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe Upon a dwarfish thief.” ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish." -- Anne Bradstreet [1622-1672] "Thirty-three Meditations"

“A puritan culture’s conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism. Nothing else.” ― Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” ― Frédéric Bastiat

Twenty years since Katrina… www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyj7...

"Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.” ― William Shakespeare, King Lear

"There's a strong message of divine righteousness in dictatorships. Every megalomaniac has to believe his actions are sanctioned by God.” ― Eric Gamalinda, The Descartes Highlands

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.” ― Émile Zola

"Where are now the glorious hours Of a nation's gather'd powers? Like the setting of a star, In the fathomless afar; Time's eternal wing Hath around those ruins cast The dark presense of the past.” ― Letitia E. Landon [1802-1838]

"The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.” ― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

"Few Germans in 1933 imagined Treblinka or Auschwitz, the mass shootings of Babi Yar or death marches… last months of WW2. It’s hard to blame them for not foreseeing the unthinkable. Yet their innocence failed them…” ― Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy

Is FLABBY TRUMP afraid of all the names of the JOHNS in the SEXTRAFICKING FILES who were members at MAR-A-LARDO? Enquiring minds ask on behalf of the Epstein victims, on behalf of the American people, and curious how #HANDSOMEGAVIN2028 will meme the fuck out of it all?

I absolutely love this painting. It breathes with calmness. Yes, it is Ukrainian art. Ivan Pylypenko, The River of Time, 2020

“Exile’s around, my love A journey in a circle’s ring, Your weary feet heels down, my love, the jet is close to landing….” Years ago, w/a collaborator who died in Greece, we wrote a song in NY about exiles. Resonates in my memory for today’s world of exiles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIYw...

Gavin is SO HANDSOME!!! Gavin is SEXY, SMART, VIRILE and COOL!!! Compared to TINY HANDS TRUMP, always in the same DRAB blue suit to cover his FLAB, OUR FAVORITE GOVERNOR GAVIN is MODERN, VERY STRONG (no COVFEFE) and a GENIUS (HIGH IQ)!!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!

“Life is short, and we have but a brief time in which to explore, to learn, to experience, and to create. Let us make the most of that time, and let us burn brightly, like meteors across the night sky, leaving behind us a trail of light and inspiration for those who come after us. ~Jack London

"His life was poisoned and was poisoning the lives of others, and this poison did not weaken but penetrated more and more deeply into his whole being.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich

"Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

“A tyrant's trust dishonors those who earn it.” ― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

"When truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.” ― Émile Zola

“Science tells us the more intelligent a person is, the less conservative and more liberal they become, which doesn't say anything good about violent, hate-mongering conservatives.” ― Christina Engela, All That Remains

That's how you do it! Scotland holding no punches. Trump heads to Scotland: What to expect from his visit? www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

"For time, and time alone, will show the just man, though scoundrels are discovered in a day. ” ― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

Trump brought a convicted murderer back to the USA. Why? Because Trump is a liar, a hypocrite, a fraud who loves criminality and always has. Why else would this man have gotten a free ride from prison? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

President Obama could easily sue felon Trump for defamation, but it’s going to be fun seeing Trump’s corrupt DOJ flounder in their willful stupidity and subservience to Trump’s endless lies about Obama.

“A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince