An important part of the job for any WH Press Secretary is to clean up remarks made by the president or offer explanation/context or apology when warranted. But Leavitt never does that. She always crafts a response that makes it even worse by adding her own toxic twist.

It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika

Crow: "It just tells us everything that we need to know that reminding people to obey the law, reminding people to obey the Constitution, is somehow criminal in Trumpworld and should be responded to with death threats. It's very, very telling."

Time for this to be canceled as well

It occurs to me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one, that what is happening with the ultra rich oppressing and exploiting everyone else is a mirror of what humans have done to the earth.

W.Va. man dies months after his health insurance repeatedly denied cancer treatment westvirginiawatch.com/2025/11/20/w...

Pierced by season’s sudden changes, a landscape maple bleeds red leaves, staining freshly, fallen snow. #poetry #poetrycommunity 📸: my backyard

Mississippi River Boulevard Saint Paul Minnesota

Just a reminder because this isn’t new and anyone who served in the military already knew this. Service members must not obey illegal orders. They take an oath to the constitution not a single person.

He should be!

Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."

Our kids are watching.

Pandora likes my new filing box.

It absolutely buys happiness. It can buy necessities, like food, water, cloying. It can get you into a safe home.

sykeology219.com/2020/04/08/c... Nobody misses the Pandemic Days. It took five years to get it, but in July I got COVID for the first time. Got it again in October. My 90 days of immunity ended—I guess.

sykeology219.com/2020/12/29/n... What a disappointment this job has been.

New family addition.

sykeology219.com/2021/12/29/f... From around the time my beloved cat died in 12/2020.

sykeology219.com/2021/09/10/s... New suicide hot line. If you are despondent, or know someone who is you can now dial 988 to get help, either someone to listen on the other end your give you references, or both. I’ve been on both sides: the phone counselor and the suicidal person.

sykeology219.com/2020/08/18/v... This is an oldie that was fun to write—and to tease a Motley Crue fan I once knew.

Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, says Google's Sundar Pichai www.bbc.com/news/article...

sykeology219.com/2018/11/26/e... An oldie blog post getting new views. Pop by whenever🍫☀️

"LEED isn't what people think it is & is meant as a fig leaf for design & construction as normal." — astute commenter

Powell's Downtown, November 20th

Portland, Oregon. Photo by Brian Colleen.