This pretty much stinks. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. Dog Accidentally Shoots and Injures a Pennsylvania Man, Police Say www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

I posted today's Dave Barry's column here but was told it couldn't be opened, so here is his Substack, which I believe you can open. His very funny column today is called, "Cooking." Enjoy. davebarry.substack.com

Cooking Dave Barry is the best - he always makes me laugh. open.substack.com/pub/davebarr...

And it can't happen soon enough.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. Excellent. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Wowza! They released 23,000 pages of the Epstein file, I just read.

America is a Banana Republic open.substack.com/pub/chrished... This is what can happen if we don't fight back!

Tomorrow, Nov. 11, is Veterans Day, a day on which we honor the men and women who have served our country since its founding. Our job is to protect and nurture the country and the Constitution to which they swore an oath, fought for and sometimes died for. God bless them all.

Earth to Democrats: Do NOT compromise on your shutdown demand What are these numnuts thinking??? open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

If this story doesn't shock and enrage you, I don't know what will. What is being done in our name in this country is reprehensible. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. This is hilarious, and Lord knows we need some laughter. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/a...

Here's what I'm thinking - perhaps right now is a good time to call for/organize another No Kings Day. With 42M people deprived of SNAP benefits, millions more facing big increases in health care costs & ongoing barbaric ICE raids, I'll bet many millions more would march in a new No Kings Day.

You know, I've been thinking the Devil must be pretty happy these days - all Trump's cabinet members have sold their souls to him, along with the entire Republican Congress.

I was so happy Zohran Mamdani named Lina Khan to his administration. Kahn was head of the FTC under Biden - fired by Trump. She brought lawsuits to stop some big mergers & acquisitions that would result in monopolies & banned junk ticket & hotel fees, securing many millions of dollars in relief.

Friends - I am feeling very hopeful and happy this morning, for the first time in a long time - because the Dems kicked you-know-what last night! O Happy Day!

Boy! Does this article hit the nail on the head! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Inmates will pay up to 83% more for phone calls, thanks to new FCC rule This pretty much stinks. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

What a blessing he will be as Mayor of NYC. youtu.be/uGBQwCsIhn0?...

In Los Angeles last night. Hands down the best Halloween costume. He went as the East Wing of the White House.

I'm watching "All the President's Men" right now on TCM (part of a Redford tribute). The film reminds me of how dogged reporting can uncover the truth, as long as the news media is willing to run with it, instead of being the president's pocket.

JUST IN: Kamala Harris makes SURPRISE APPEARANCE at Gavin Newsom's 'Yes on 50' rally

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. 12 elements of authoritarianism the US is experiencing now. Excellent piece. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

All right. Let's forget politics for tonight. Who are you rooting for in the final game of the World Series. Dodgers or Blue Jays?

Great game tonight! World Series goes to Game 7 tomorrow.

Trump Can't Scare Us Trump cannot scare us; he cannot intimidate us, and he cannot make us forget what it means to be an American. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

You know, I'm watching the World Series and thinking I sure am happy for immigrants Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki. Go Dodgers!

This is ridiculous. We Dems definitely need to replace Schumer.

Excellent Adam Schiff speech at one of Trump's impeachment trials. Too bad it didn't work. youtu.be/eUm6OD_93g8?...

Are We Losing Our Democracy? The Times details 12 signs of authoritarianism and states all 12 are in place - to some degree - in our country. (I apologize if you can't reach this w/o a subscription). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Sen. Chris Murphy tellin' it like it is.

"An economy that kills, that excludes, that starves, that concentrates enormous wealth in a few to the detriment of the many, that multiplies poverty and grinds down salaries, that pollutes, that produces war, is not an economy: It is just an emptiness, an absence, a sickness." #PopeFrancis #Hope

On the eve of his second election — on October 31, 1936 — FDR delivered his coup de grace, explaining the stakes in his fight with the moneyed interests. Today’s economic royalists are backing Trump, and the fight is much the same.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. Swell. :( www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...

The Day(s) of the Dead are Nov. 1 and 2, akin to All Saints and All Souls Days, a time for honoring the dead.

And on another note...

Is Justice Done? How appalling is this? open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Podcaster Jennifer Welch Denounces 'Dipsh*ts' Schumer and Jeffries for Not Riding Mamdani’s Progressive Wave www.commondreams.org/news/jennife...

A long, but sobering article on exactly how Trump can steal the 2026 election. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

My state. No, no, no!!! www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Three men — Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos — now own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined. They own the media. They own the algorithms. They own politicians in both parties. The system is rigged — but We the People can take it back.

Donald Trump is destroying America.

Legal AF (Michael Popock via the MeidasTouch network) just reported the WSJ is advising the Supreme Court not to give Trump the power to impose tariffs because, among other things, he does so at whim - such as the new 10% tariff on Canada because of the Ronald Reagan ad it ran he did not like.

On a Monday morning in this environment, this made me happy. Perhaps it will do so for you also.. youtube.com/shorts/Y-N4u...

I'm watching this awesome interview between Ralph Nader & Chris Hedges. Nader is on the ball - I wish he were advising the Dems. He also says Hakeem Jeffries & Chuck Schumer should resign, and he explains how impeachment could work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLEm...

The NYT published a list of who donated to Trump's $300M ballroom. These are some companies on the list we might want to boycott if we can: Amazon, Apple, Coinbase, Comcast, Hard Rock International, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Reynolds American, T-Mobile, Union Pacific RR.

Question - What news sources do you look at daily? I've noticed Heather Cox Richardson quotes from sources such as: Politico, Wired, Axios, the Guardian, Mother Jones, and others like these. What do you read or watch for an honest look at the news of the day? Thanks.

October 25, 2025 The worst. Trump is not only cruel, he is also clueless. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

On another note, the Dodgers just won game two of the World Series. Yamamoto was the awesome pitcher!