Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Happy 4th of July.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Thank you CBS and 60 Minutes for sharing the music of our best and brightest! I was extremely touched!

Just as jarring as Trump's pro-Russia foreign policy pivot has been his embrace of Putin-like tactics at home, unfolding with a speed and ferocity far different than what Trump was able to pull off in his first term. Call it the Putinization of America. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Perhaps the most shameful aspect of this moment in our country's history is the sheer cowardice of the GOP 👇 Read more here: bit.ly/41pxP3k #TraitorTrump

Our president, everyone…. I hate this man/child! TRUMP JUST NOW: "[Ukraine] should have ended it. You [Ukraine] should have never started it, you could have made a deal." What a F-cking traitor.

Dear Leaders of the Free World, Fight him at every turn. Make his life miserable. Expose his ignorance and sociopathy. Oppose and condemn and marginalize him. The decent people of this nation are not with him. We stand with you. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...

My husband created a “Migrants Lives Matter” flag …

This Trump transition is worse than expected, and I knew it was gonna be awful. Hoping the sane republicans will reject his disgusting cabinet picks….

The people on this site are so kind…. I can’t believe 800 of you have chosen to follow me. As a 67-year-old grandmother, I don’t often post, but I read many of your comments and it makes me happy to know there are still nice people in this country.