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Received my ballot October 5 right on time, courtesy of the USPS, and handed it back to that esteemed agency on 9 October, signed and sealed. Vote-by-mail has a great deal to recommend it.

I was raised a heeler, the sheepdog which drove the flock from the back, or the heels, and made sure any stray lambs stayed with their mams. But I still have enough wolf DNA to know that when the safety of the pack is threatened by one member, the renegade is driven out and excommunicated. Pack Law.

The usurper in the Oval Office must be removed and, if the House and Senate won’t do that, we will. Calling for Los Angeles and San Diego to be destroyed is a call to the citizens and neighbors to defend our cities against the enemy. Veterans and their friends everywhere will answer that call.

Listening just now to General Mark Hertling talking with John Heilemann re the convicted felon and his affection for Putin, Xi and the Mideast princes, I heard echoes of “death to America” and saw the connection more clearly than any comments could ever make. Patriotism perverted.

Democratic socialism is like a group plan for common safety, healthcare, education, economic viability and environmental sustainability. It isn’t a giveaway like corporate subsidies and tax dodges for billionaires who inherited their wealth from their parents.

The only thing Trump has built in reality is his Tower in NYC. Everything else is either a hole in the ground or fenced in chain link with seizure notices on the doors. Just show him old pictures of “tallest building in the world” being built. His senility will take it from there.

Demolishing public buildings, renaming geographic features, ordering the military to take over Wall Street…if this is what he’s on about now, imagine how nuts he’ll be by late ‘28.

Lord love a duck, I have to believe that National Geographic will ignore the “Lake America” flap. After their world-atlas update in 1988, years in preparation, the Soviet Union fell and rewrote it all in 1989, I doubt that a scribble on a Great Lake will make them blink.

A lifetime of living with less-than-perfect hearing has left me with a mental nimbleness in processing speech, making for ironic results on occasion. Today’s garble: JD Vance became Shady Vance. Hmm. 🎯?

Don’t get tripped up on labels. Universal healthcare, affordable housing, clean air and water, food safety, and economic support for children and their families are goals called for by the majority of people across America.

Mr Trump’s new ‘do is generating a fair amount of comments, including the likeness to Mother Trump’s extravagant coif, which might have been created in a laboratory in an isolated mountain castle. Oh, yeah, I’m self-medicating with grief-adjacent ridicule.

Reach out. Reach across. Reach down, deep down for the strength and courage to raise up our fellow citizens as they build their dreams and goals. Find the will to make your dreams real, for the essence of America turns immigrants into citizens of an idea so Americans live as citizens of the world.

Open pools of standing water in warm weather are mosquito paradises. Anyone visiting the National Mall this summer should procure liberal quantities of repellent to avoid contracting diseases such as West Nile virus. Or visit in November instead.

Watching 47 dozing through a presser in the Oval makes me wish there was someone who would know how to inflate a paper lunch sack. Yes, I *am* old enough to have carried my sack lunch to school every week.

The gas station at the bottom of the hill is selling 87 octane for $6.29 on the first day of May, a voluntary one-day general strike. As the cost goes up, the next strike will be longer and less voluntary. All so a nine-year-old Secretary of War can play Call of Duty with real bombs.

Here’s a novel idea: budget first for universal healthcare, support for family farms, free public education pre-K to four-year college, community broadband, housing, medical research, renewable energy, and what money is left can go towards national adventurism.

Some fun with numbers: 8+6=14. 4+7=11. 14+11=25. 8647 tells us how it’s going to be done.

Hey Hey! Ho Ho! Donald Trump has got to go! Just left the No Kings rally in El Cajon, which started at ten o’clock because defending our democracy won’t take time off. Fave signs: I identify as a pissed-off American; Don’t pet the fluffy cows! (Bison mean business!) Big, big turnout!

“…he’ll be dead by June.” Trump bleated this out regarding Congressman Neal Dunn’s health issues. Given Trump’s proclivity for admitting the truth accidentally (and based on professional analyses of his own condition) he maybe was referring to himself.

So Nuke Gingrich thinks the problem of the Strait of Hormuz is solved with weapons of mass destruction. Revising history can have life-on-Earth-ending consequences if those tender MAGA fefes start to feel bad. See Hiroshima 1945.

I’m not in the habit of critiquing religious biases since we all have our paths to enlightenment, but using a 19th-century version of Revelation as a reason to ignite a war in Iran is the height of irrationality.

This spawn of a pig’s bladder, this less than worthless eruption on the ass of a dead child sex trafficker, this rotting syphilitic-brained idiot has bought himself a death-row place in the ICC. The rest of this self-impugning chamber pot of sentient refuse we will finish off ourselves.

Let’s see…we have Trump promising a war with Iran for who knows what; Trump sending an AI-generated picture of a hospital ship to Greenland to care for all those people needing healthcare; Trump stealing $10b from the US treasury for a bogus “peace” board. Are we close to using 25 to 8647 yet?

What a show! The music, the color, the culture! The design was brilliant in making space for the snapshots of island life. And the inclusion of Mexico and Canada in the fellowship of democracy was pitch-perfect!

Donald Trump is Cujo.

Watched how Minnesotans made sport of Jake Lang and thought “I like the water balloon idea, especially in the winter. What would happen if they were frozen ahead of launch?”

A very happy birthday to a very classy First Lady, Michelle Obama! Thanks for eight beautiful years.

Germany 🇩🇪 sends military ships to the North Atlantic Defence Alliance in Greenland 🇬🇱 www.instagram.com/p/DTW7x_8Dom...

There’s one way to eliminate threats to Greenland’s sovereignty, to ICE’s domestic terrorism and all the rest of Trump’s illegal, immoral and cruel violations of US and international laws: Impeach. Convict. Remove the entire administration. NOW. TODAY.

Two rules I learned as a kid: Never walk out in front of a moving vehicle. Never walk behind a horse. Both are bigger and faster than you. They will not hesitate to cancel your subscription. So ya gotta wonder who thought this guy was smart enough to have a loaded sidearm. And a smart phone.

Listen, I get the point of warning foreign travellers about visiting the US for the ‘28 Summer Games. Los Angeles opened the Games in ‘84 at the Coliseum built for the ‘32 Games. Come share the world’s best in athletes, cultures, food, music, and joie de vivre with the angels of the coast!

I found a pair of dots to connect the other day: the flying palace that Kuwait off-loaded on Trump and the airplane hangar of a ballroom. Looks much like a sarcophagus in a burial chamber if you squint a little. But no canopic jars, okay? I mean, ewwww!

Was working a puzzle today that clued an entry “Lenin’s (blank), a Moscow monument” (4 letters), and I had a sudden epiphany: Trump isn’t building a ballroom, he’s building a tomb for himself. It won’t be ready in time but he can still dream, eh?

Behold the lowly termite! One alone can do damage on a scale insignificant to a grand edifice, but against a community of families and friends no gilt throne, no glittering ballroom, no tyrant is termite-proof.

In this season of thanksgiving let’s applaud the acts of kindness and generosity that every day make life better for everybody. Make clear to all that this is who Americans are and who we will always be, no matter our so-called leadership. Every act, great and small, bends the arc toward justice.

I concluded a few days ago that Trump, seeking an invitation to join the movers and shakers of NYC for all his adult life and failing utterly, is now trying to gain entree to the company of criminals running the gamut of human rights violations and lawlessness across the globe. He will fail again.

This has to be the best World Series in ages! The Bluejays brought so much excitement and energy to every game that we were all on the edge of our seats until the end. Tommy Lasorda and Vin Scully had to be high-fiving each other in their skybox.

Joined a joyous crowd of Americans in a San Diego area turnout yesterday. All ages, points of origin and all of one mind: No King! Shared stories, snacks, beverages, and signs. So many great signs! And T-shirts! And Operation Inflation demonstrators. A complete Hate America FAIL!!

Trump “lends” 20 billion dollars to the Argentine regime to “save” its currency as a demonstration of Trump’s skill at bankrupting a casino. Always remember Rick Wilson’s warning: Everything Trump touches dies. Take heed, America.

It’s Weekend at Bernie’s in the White House! After the opening/closing of Republicans’ Satyricon Tuesday it’s clear Trump is being used to cover the actions of Miller, Vought & Co. This country was built from scratch once in 1776, and we can rebuild it better again.

Heard a commentator say that the escalator at the UN ground to a halt with the Trumps on board. Hmm. What I saw reminded me of that Groucho Marx line: the escalator stopped with a jerk…

I’ve had this feeling for some time now—4 or 5 years—that Donald Trump privately regrets getting his sorry behind kicked upstairs to the Oval, and posting his DM to Pam was a subconscious cry for help. Let’s impeach and convict, relieve him of the burden of the presidency. Compassion for America.

Medicare for all as a policy has a number of proponents in current campaigns as well as past ones. Dr Abdul El-Sayed, running for US Senate in Michigan, says in Canada healthcare is provided as a service not a for-profit product, so Canadians spend 60 cents to every dollar we spend on healthcare.

Play with fire and you’re going to get burnt. Treat people like they’re unworthy of your respect and they’ll treat you the same way—if you’re lucky. Golden Rule, baby, Golden Rule.

“Whether we want to accept it or not, they are at war with us…” Well, Jesse Watters, in my garden you won’t be able to eat a sandwich if you’re carrying a torch AND a pitchfork. And you’ll be the only one, ‘cause Loaves and Fishes is the rule in this garden. Choose.

So, who’s surprised at the August job numbers, given that Trump has a bass-ackward approach to business and financial success. Moving pieces on the market chessboard carefully isn’t the same as kicking the board over. Making stuff up won’t change anything.

A billion dollars and more years than the 30 months left this term to refit the flying gold toilet will be flushed away because Trump won’t live long enough to ride in it as a private citizen. Time and tides wait for no man. Or his folly.