jboyno

jboyno

@jboyno.bsky.social

Retired R&D manager. PhD in nuclear chemistry. More interested than interesting. I believe in human rights.

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It wouldn't be unreasonable for Trump to name all his Secretaries as "Secretary of War". Secretary of War against Health, Secretary of War against Education, against the Environment, Transportation, Energy,.. You get my drift.

There is only one solution to our immigration problem It is improving the conditions of life in the countries from which people are fleeing. Imagine if the 168 B$ to be spent on policing were spent to decrease poverty, build industry, and weaken drug gang misery.

In a stunning turnabout, it appears as if Steven Miller is using Tren de Agua members to kidnap other immigrants. We can't see their faces, but the tactics are a dead giveaway. Perhaps selected captives will be given a choice: pay ransom or be deported.

Democrats always manage to be Republican enough to always be the bridesmaid, never the bride. Having a 'strong minority' is useless given the way the GOP plays the game. I'd rather take a strong stance so people know that we stand for something better. The results may be surprising.

Where the hell are Clinton, Bush and Obama? America needs a bipartisan push to impeach Trump. MAGA will get violent, but our nation is imploding

If you're participating in the spending boycott today, but still have an urge to lighten your wallet,send a hundred or two to the International Rescue Committee, or a similar organization, to help keep starving people alive while our government callously plays politics with dying babies.

Trump is actually a very efficient President. He sits at a desk, spends ten minutes signing orders to fuck up this and fuck up that, and then flies off to Florida to play golf. Other, less efficient, Presidents wasted time by thinking about what they did.

I grew up on Social Security. My widowed mom, who left school at thirteen to help her family, raised three young kids and cared for my grandpa on our SS survivors' benefit and grandpa's 40$ a month. We didn't have much, but the certainty of those payments gave us a life. Why fuck that up?

I'm perversely starting to hope that each of Trump's cabinet picks will be so incompetent that they get hounded out of office before they can do real damage. Public outrage may be our best hope.

This adds context to the GOP push to wreck public education, and to their efforts to demean the value of higher education. A huge pool of 'Christianized' poorly educated adults will be even more susceptible to propaganda and will willingly vote for authoritarians.

I remember the controversy when Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor, said Blacks should not sing "God Bless America", but rather"God damn America". The thought came to mind after Biden's speech tonight. God bless Joe Biden!, God damn Donald Trump!

I don't like the word 'bitch', when it's used to describe an angry woman. It's misogynistic. There is no equivalent word to describe an angry man. However, when a woman weaponizes her womanhood to unfairly and hatefully attack another woman, it just might be acceptable. Here's to you, Nancy Mapes.

When our family is all together,our Thanksgiving table is White, Black,Hispanic, Gentile, Jewish,straight, gay, and trans. It isn't DEI that brings us together, it's respect and love of family. Hate has no place at our table.

SCOTUS is the last bulwark between democracy and autocracy. Two of the demented six right wing judges have to act responsibly for that to happen. Will Roberts realize his rulings have destroyed America? Slim chance. Kavanaugh, too weak. ACB, Gorsuch, perhaps. Thomas, Alito, no chance.

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