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What’s next Mud wrestling and wet tshirt contests on the White House lawn??

New world order Putin Trump Netanyahu

Women’s suffrage? Who needs that!

UFighters and auto racing on our streets. The shuttering of the Kennedy Center. These guys really know culture

Billions in destroyed US materiel . Hundreds killed and cultural icons destroyed. I am ashamed

Rallying matters It builds solidarity. So even if you’re discouraged and depressed get out there on No Kings Day and meet the people who cherish democracy and freedom 💪🏼

While people die Bitcoin xchange rises and the Trumps get richer

Issa isn’t running An enemy of the District of Columbia. Not sorry to see him go.

Pardon a rioter and then he’s sentenced to life.

All this administration is good at is killing and destroying. Is this what those who voted for him want?

Russia gets another boost from Trump While the world watches Iran attention turns away from Ukraine.

Watching the excellent Italian opening Olympic ceremony Beautifully done and then thinking of the vulgar thing in the White House. The dissonance was shocking

Read The Memory Police Yoko Ogawa’s brilliant take on how tyranny tries to erase a society

So they sentenced a sick man to life For not assassinating Trump. Who’s crazy?

Every day a new tragedy. Trump has announced he’s shutting down the Kennedy Center for “renovation “. Will he throw out the gifts of othet nations? No Orrefors chandeliers from Sweden. No sculpture or murals. Only gold trimmed festoons of bad taste. Somebody stop this modern day Mussolini

Don’t trust Republicans Shumer says he has a compromise with the administration. We know they cannot be trusted to keep their word. Don’t give in

This is like the Stassi The East German police state was able to create megabytes of information on citizens. ICE had modern day technology to track every protester. They’re learning from the communists. How ironic

Population down Maybe an aging population needs new blood. Someone tell T—-p we need immigrants

So the gun lovers say it’s ok to kill a licensed gun carrier because he’s carry a gun? Huh!

A nurse and a union member. He’s labeled a terrorist by the White House. Shameless liars

They canttell the difference between a gun and a camera ? Who are these goons!

The leadership of the National Park Service should be ashamed of their bowing to Trump and taking down exhibition on slavery

This man is an infant He won’t work with Norway because he didn’t get the Nobel prize??? Is this really our president?

Iran and Minnesota How do I tell the difference?

Huge demo in Olney Md

Never forget The haters are vicious antisemites. Add that to their many enemies

This is so disgraceful and dumb at the same time

Musk tells it all White supremacy is his byword

Bravo National Opera A standing ovation for ditching the center. I will immediately resubscribe wherever you land

He’s not afraid Of boots on the ground because he’s not ever risked his life on a battlefield. What a shameful thing to say

Another wag the dog scenario Nice to grab the oil and better to distract attention from Epstein files and failed economic policies.

Name calling The use of words like radical and leftist are signs that the administration is at a loss for civul debate. My philosophy professor called it ad hominem—a sign of weakness and poor reasoning.

j Street Theater Another great company

Kennedy Center off-limits? Patronize the wonderful alternative venues. Arena stage, Studio Theater, Signature Theater in Va, Wooley Mammoth and more.

Trump Kennedy center? Perfect metaphor. Ticket sales are down, artists are cancelling, donations have sunk. Just lije his casinos.

Don’t be so quick to kill The whole point of not killing those who are shipwrecked or wounded is to protect our military in similar circumstances

Andrey Kurkov A worldly Ukrainian author whose Kafkaesque novel The Stolen Heart shows us the senseless orders and changing rules of a tyrannical bureaucracy impact the lives of ordinary people

Somalia’s leader More dignified than Trump. He said “it’s better not to respond “.

Continuation But adult children cannot live in the neighborhood in which they grew up and the community becomes less diverse. We must build affordable housing homes in these communities.

Real estate One of the ways older people have gained financial security is through the sale of real property//houses. A house in DC that was purchased for $125,000 in the sixties now sells for $1.5 million. That may be good for the long term care facilities that often house older people

Criminals Like Me Trump pardons fraudsters and drug kings. He must sense a comradeship.

State socialism Not the democratic socialism that I would like. A creation of a new class of oligarchs

Mark Kelly Unfortunately he didn’t answer Rachel Madow’s question on what would he do to protect a service person who refused to carry out an illegal order in violation of the constitution

How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Epstein mania Let’s be aware of all the other things this administration is doing. Undermining environmental protections of waterways, cancelling the protections for animal species, permitting building and drilling on public land and of course undermining public health.

Words matter And words that tell lies are corrupting

Trump’s takeovers doing great Kennedy Center sales down by half and foreign student enrollment at colleges and universities down by 17%. Another hit to the economy

Texas A & M Now requiring advance review of courses to make sure they don’t feature race and gender content. So much for academic freedom

The gold in the White House is actually plastic How appropriate!

Friend waited 12 hours inDCA airport… …For her flight despite being told by AA to arrive two hours earlier. And subsequent excuses were all lies. No FAA to hold company responsible