Monica R Gulbrandsen

Anyone want to do this with me? It'll make us more disciplined and wiser for each day #work out

This should be the lead story on today’s news shows. TACO is a liar.

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

"We cannot build bananas in America" is an all timer

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Had to jump back on Twitter to watch the show

In just a few months Trump and Musk destroyed institutions and programs that had been built over decades or more. Now, they’re turning their rage on each other. How much damage will they do to the world as they destroy each other? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-ab9

Giant Bomb lives! Fandom has sold the site to us and it is now fully independent and employee-owned. We'll see you all on Tuesday for the Giant Bombcast. For more info right now, head over to www.giantbomb.com/join

Trump is hopeless when it comes to Putin - whom he both fears and admires as the Renfield to Putin's Dracula - but he has no effective national security or defense team around him to pick up the slack and actually run anything like an actual foreign policy. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Reporter: “Would you like to clarify your comments?” Joni Ernst: “I’m very compassionate.” In a Carella Deville sort of way…

Wake Forest's coach got caught on camera calling a Tennessee player the f-slur

ICE Stages South Park Raid to Make Community Afraid, Fails open.substack.com/pub/dougport...

One person and one dog, like a team of good friends, looks very warm

The first red rose of the season from our garden

Elon may be on his way out, but DOGE is still gutting countless government programs and services that millions of Americans rely on. Here are seven ways that DOGE is ruining your life. https://youtu.be/M5LD2CSOzmI?si=tyT84SUJ9sZlnjwo

Route 66 Oro Grande, California As you stroll through this charming town, its storied past comes alive, illuminating a bright future filled with promise and possibility. #photography #orogrande #California #Route66 #route66california

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Where is my treat…?

I’m starting my annual walk across Connecticut today! Beginning in the very northwest corner of the state - Salisbury. I will talk to hundreds of people over the next few days about what they want (and don’t want!) from their elected leaders. My favorite week of the year!

When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody." But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies. Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.

Trump seems to have entered into a new and wilder stage of authoritarian neofascism. No holds barred. Nothing out of bounds. But tyrants cannot succeed where people refuse to submit to them. And we will not submit. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/donald-trump-and-fascism

Our current president is severely mentally unwell, and the media needs to cover it now.

A black swan at Barker Inlet Wetlands.

reading your mind

The world is such a big place, and it's also a place where we live and we're bound to meet a lot of different kinds of people and things just like in this picture

I’m thinking it’s time for an Adirondack Summer