I’ve been quiet but paying attention. Swinging btwn outrage and hope, despair and determination. Germans in thirties? Time will tell. Musk is illegal psycho. Just some random musings for a Kate Saturday night
Our DOJ will fight tooth and nail to protect Epstein et al but not people murdered with guns. We’re good with mass shootings and child rape. We are fine with environmental destruction and public land desecration. We applaud immigrant removal and white supremacy. We are all in on corruption. MAGA WTF
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
“Don’t tell me that you remember Sept. 11, 2001. I remember Sept. 11, 2001. But I heard her say she was there that day. I was there that day. I don’t remember seeing Hillary Clinton there.” - Rudy Giuliani
Breaking:
Witkoff and Kushner fly out. The missiles fly in.
Two dead in Kyiv. Seven wounded. Before the plane even cleared Ukrainian airspace.
That’s not diplomacy. That’s a photo op with a body count.
Happy Labor Day as we celebrate those who work to support their families and our society, the folks who actually produce the goods and services so necessary and who have to fight again and again against those who want to keep them down. Dolly got it. Fight on!
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
It’s not even close. This man is one of the worst humans in American history let alone the worst president. Failure across multiple fronts. You might say he’s the GOAT of failures - a failure all timer. He fails BIGLY. A reverse Midas.
History will look back on the USA AND ASK “how could you let that happen? Why weren’t they stopped?”
What will we answer? What could we do? We were powerless. We were only following orders - or laws.
Auschwitz, treblinka, sobibor, belzec.
Read the history don’t redo it.
Amazed that the righteous right would be accuse of hypocrisy. Those pillars of integrity who are preparing to erect a monument to that paragon The Great Trumpkin. Why Jared and Ivanka and Linda McMahon are all qualified on their own merits. I am beklept!
I am struck randomly at how we laughed at the moronic imbeciles who inhabited the fringe columns and cable channels of looney tunes. Pirro, Kennedy, Loomer, Miller, Hegseth, McMahon, Carson, etc and here we are paying for allowing them to run the asylum. Just a morose thought as I mourn Dolly. Rip.
There are priorities, and then there are *PRIORITIES*.
This current regime is actively destroying our own country AND much of the rest of the world. We need to fix that first. We can't do anything for anyone else if we are this broken.
So true lived and volunteered in Florida school district. I was shocked and I lived in one of their “top” school districts where teachers bought their own supplies or parents did.
Let me see if I understand this. Iran has no say over Hormuz b/c we have erected a “ WALL OF STEEL”. Therefore, Iran has no responsibility for the strangulation of energy shipments. So apparently Trump is CHOOSING to keep traffic stalled. And energy costs keep escalating. AT HIS WHIM. Right?
“Socialism is a scareword they have hurled at every advance the people have made… socialism is their name for most anything that helps the people.
1952. Truman. This is how stale their desperate fearmongering is.
cc: @MarshaBlackburn
While I own the complete chip Hilton series, the Hardy Boys was a close second for me. And my wife has collected the complete Nancy Drew. Also shout out to historical novelist Joseph Altscheler whose tales of various early American adventures colored my world. (2)
This will of course mark me as older than most but CHIP HILTON Chip and his friends played every sport in school while dealing with some surprisingly timely social issues. Written by legendary basketball coach Clair Bee the series tracks chip and crew through high school to State. Great stuff. (1)
Have to admit if Romero position is indicative of position of majority of DSA, I am out. “tons of diplomats” is disturbingly like “strongly worded objection” nonsense I have hated from Dems all along. Send guns missiles, money - all the weapons they require. There is NO alternative! Support Ukraine
I don’t agree with all Abdul El-Sayed’s views, but GOP “othering” is a disgrace. He was born in US, educated at Bloomfield Hills Andover, where he captained football team; Univ of Mich; Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar; Columbia, where he earned an MD. Debate his views, not whether he’s a “real” American.
God already built a wall through Big Bend — it's called the Chisos Mountains.
We don't need to give billions of our tax dollars to out of state vendors.
We don't need to desecrate this sacred land.
We don't need this useless, disgraceful, corrupt Big Bend border wall.
The fact that the Democratic senators are agreeing to a continuing resolution until Dec 11th with NO compromises for them is absolute political malpractice and head scratching.
Why not even try to ban like…. The arch? Anything!
Frances Perkins was the patron saint of American workers and an inspiration for me during my time as labor secretary.
She was the guiding light behind the creation of Social Security, the 40-hour workweek, the National Labor Relations Act, and much more.
Today's Prospect Patriot is Frances Perkins.
She saw the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory go ablaze in 1911 and her life changed. "The New Deal was born that day," she said. 22 years later she'd be America's first female cabinet member.
prospect.org/2026/08/04/a...
Incredible nonsense from John Cornyn.
True, the harm to Epstein’s victims can’t be remedied by a “no” vote.
But why should Blanche’s corrupt cover-up of the Epstein files—in violation of a Congressional mandate(!)—be rewarded by “yes”?
Can’t get any more craven than this.
Why is it not front page news on every major media outlet that the United States commander in chief had hundreds of his bank accounts frozen for money laundering??????