The Stone Ladder

I've now completed 30% of my masters program. At this pace it will take me another 2.5 years to finish. I honestly thought I'd progress more quickly, but I'm really struggling to keep up. Still maintaining a 4.0 though. So I'll just celebrate before the next class starts - Psychology of Leadership.

As I read this article the word contradiction comes to mind.Trump preaching less government regulation for corporations yet seizing control Claiming to make our streets safer yet he pardoned all the 1/6 criminals and he is protecting a pedophile and is using the military against civilians

August 4, 2025

Add your name to the petition demanding Congress pass legislation requiring all immigration agents to clearly display their agency and name or badge number—just like other local law enforcement are required to do. sign.moveon.org/petitions/un...

We’re not just approaching authoritarianism in the U.S...we’re in it now. Trump’s power grabs (mid-decade redistricting, DOJ weaponization, court-packing, civil liberty rollbacks) are the hallmarks of competitive authoritarianism...democracy in name, but ruled by force and manipulation.

August 1, 2025

DOJ's (Ridiculous) Misconduct Complaint Against Chief Judge Boasberg www.stevevladeck.com/p/170-dojs-r...

July 25, 2025

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

they literally shut the government down in order to avoid the truth about Epstein. an entire branch of government isn’t working for the American people b/c they are terrified of the truth.

July 18, 2025

They still sound just like this!

Hehe...love this headline. MAGA Republican Falsely Claims They’re Not Trump’s “Little Bitches” newrepublic.com/post/197561/... via @newrepublic.com

May 31, 2025

Received my first graded paper in my graduate program. No promises for the future...but at this moment, I have a 4.0 in grad school.

Last week, Trump claimed that he had already cut deals with 200 nations around the world—five more countries than actually exist.

Can we develop a Project 5202 to reverse the damage?

April 25, 2025

They're flooding us with crises to fracture our focus. But pluralism isn't our weakness...it’s our power. If we don’t stand together now, we'll lose the right to stand at all.

April 20, 2025

April 17, 2025

Oh. "This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“

April 15, 2025

Important.

April 9, 2025

Just wanted to introduce my best friend, Luna.

Rare devil sunrise appears in multiple countries across earth

💙 DC never disappoints. #handsoff

State media.

April 2, 2025

April 1, 2025

NEW — This AM former HHS staffers confronted Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) about slashing budgets and staff, per video shared with me by Mack Schroeder, a former Budget Analyst for the Office of the Secretary.  Banks tells Schroeder he "probably deserved" to lose his job "because you seem like a clown."

Starting my Masters Degree program in 1 week.

March 27, 2025

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

March 25, 2025

USAID is part of the federal government and directly controlled by the administration. USIP is an independent, congressionally chartered organization, meant to operate outside executive control. The takeover of USIP violates USIP’s independent status.

John Roberts made Trump’s authoritarianism possible. He could still save his own legacy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

March 18, 2025

Trump Border Czar Says He’ll Ignore the Courts as Much as He Wants newrepublic.com/post/192826/...

March 15, 2025:

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

This. Shout this from the rooftops. Add in the propaganda that tricks voters into thinking this is the American way and you’ve got the MAGA playbook.

Republicans just passed a measure, “each day shall not constitute a calendar day”. Their legislation that a day is not a day seems to prove the truth of Burke’s observation that by trying to force reality to fit their ideology, radical ideologues will end up imposing tyranny in the name of liberty.

I don't know if the Democrats in the House and Senate have the ability to stop the GOP, but any Democrat who votes for anything the GOP puts forth at this time is a traitor to our country. Every Democratic Senator must use every Senate procedural maneuver available to stop this madness.

March 11, 2025:

I been checking out Scoopz and that's a bit of a right-wing gathering place. Someone claiming to be from California actually commented, "They say he's trying to be a dictator. I'd rather have a dictator than the hell we've been through the last 4 years with Biden!" And you know what? I believe them.

It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.

A different set of laws for him and his friends. Trump DOJ Befools Itself Over Restoring Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...