Brother’s Keeper

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No good dog will ever hurt you on purpose. But every good dog hurts you deeply at least once. Rest well, Smokey. Thank you for choosing me and letting me be your best friend and caretaker. I’ll never forget you. Smokey; 2012-2026

Dolly and Tim Curry have both been named “Honorary Muppets.” Hmm. I wonder what posthumous honors Trump will receive?

I have hired an immigration attorney to help process my Canadian citizenship. I am currently eligible due to a parent and will be a dual US/Canadian citizen. So…Canadian friends: please comment with any “Canadian Starter Kit” advice!

The future US Navy carrier, USS Doris Miller is about to be canned and renamed after Trump. No sitting US president has ever sought such an honor. Miller is a legitimate hero. No one in Trump’s entire family has ever served.

Eric Swallwell needed to be investigated. And he has been, and his case is still being investigated on California.But MAGA is so desperate to have a conviction of a Democratic politician that they sent the FBI to his home.Matt Walsh is even serving as an apologist for Richard Nixon now.These people

We are 3 weeks into the new school year. Classroom teachers at my site have spent almost 18% of our work hours in meetings already. How is this a good idea?

Can’t someone from McConnell’s state sue to determine if they still have representation? Shapiro needs to poke his nose into this as well.

It is completely surreal, to see the man who trained you as a Midshipman standing on a a stage at the National Mall being introduced as the Chief of Naval Operations.

I might not have made it without you, Rob. Miss you.

Miss you, Todd.

Behold the Golden Ass! For those who have actually read a Bible, this is how you end up crawling on all fours and eating grass.

If you have to say it isn’t idolatry…then it is definitely idolatry.

I’m no lawyer, but this sounds like an admission of capricious, whimsical, and selective prosecution.

We have a baby Catholic VP lecturing the Pope, and we have a Secretary of Defense who tried to sound tough by quoting a Bible passage that wasn’t even from the Bible. It was a made up, biblical-sounding passage from the Tarantino film, Pulp Fiction. You cannot make up this crap. Embarrassing.

MAGAts think they are experts in everything. Vance is a baby Catholic, and he’s lecturing a man with advanced degrees in theology, who just happens to run Vance’s church. Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

You gotta hand it to Vance. He’s a Catholic for 15 minutes and thinks he knows more than the Pope!

Today’s GOP would reject Ronald Reagan as too liberal, much less Jesus Christ. The Christian Right’s delusion is unparalleled.

They can subpoena anyone. A former Democratic president and a former cabinet secretary literally just testified. Bill and Hillary’s seats are still warm. So why can’t a former AG testify? MAGA has no platform without fraud and hypocrisy.

Pretty cool. But don’t we have a less expensive and quicker way to transport 4 federal employees from Eastern Florida to San Diego? Do they get to keep those flight miles for personal use?🤣 I joke; NASA is a marvel. For every $1 spent on them, they return an average of $80 to our economy.

The Heritage Foundation and Trump have likely killed the Republic already. Iran - to use a favored Trumpish metaphor- held few cards. But with a stupid adversary, they played perfectly. The Euro and Yuan, not the US dollar will now dominate oil. Worse, this is not mere stupidity - it was greed.

from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.

American intelligence was more than a decade old regarding the location of the girls’ school in Iran. The complex had apparently not been used for military purposes since 2013. This is what happens when you let Elon fire every experienced analyst with an SCI clearance.

Even when life breaks us, it is beautiful. Treasure it. www.facebook.com/reel/8648827...

Foreign policy adjustments should be glacial. It takes time to build a foundation for change, and Trump never prepares for change - he merely pronounces “ex cathedra.”

Obviously, I cannot feel at all bad about Secretary Noem’s ignominious departure. But I have to wonder, do Trump’s other cabinet member and advisors see how little their obsequious loyalty buys them? Even his friends are expendable.

I know we like to keep politics and faith separate. But faith influences psychology to great depth. And Pam Bondi’s reprehensible behavior in Congress this week out her Scientology indoctrination on full display; truth doesn’t matter, winning matters, opponents are evil, vctims are to blame.

Having seen Pam Bondi’s words and actions as AG of Florida, I know that at one time, she at least went through the motions to protect women and children from being trafficked. How does that woman live in the soulless craven who betrays them now to protect her pedophile boss?

So we are doing casual heresy at the National Prayer Breakfast and not one of the educated theologians present called him on it?

But we knew this… www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...

Abolish. ice. 💔

It is hard to keep trying. Half of the US is fine with limiting First, Second and Fourth Amendment rights, ignoring the separation of powers, and the selective application of the rest of our Constitution. If tomorrow women were to lose the vote & slavery be reinstated; they’d be great. Nevertheless

They posted this thinking it was poignant. How can grown adults, many with Ivy educations, be so dumb.

To the Christian who has married your beliefs to your politics, If you believe that extending grace and compassion are wrong, you have missed the point of the Gospels. Grace is unfair. True compassion is unearned. Is that what scares you?

The Europeans have given the world a master class in manipulating Donald Trump. They gave him nothing we didn’t already have from decades of treaties. Trump left Davos calling himself “President of Europe.” And no WWIII. Democratic leadership - take fucking notes, and get on with it!!!

But it’s not a cult, right? The real TDS is in their minds. All the Things Named for Trump, and How Long Other Presidents Had to Wait www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

I see MAGAts commenting that Renee Good’s widow has not shared her own cell phone video so she “must be hiding something.” Nope. She is preparing a lawsuit. And whoever her lawyer is, they appear to be giving good advice.

Dear ICE agents, Your ancestors (apart from the mid-century German ones) are ashamed of you.

Given the number of ICE agent caused deaths of legal residents and citizens of the US & subsequent determination by federal and local courts in recent weeks that in many of these cases, agents lied and violated protocol, it seems they want violence in the streets. Martial law? Suspend the midterms?

If it wasn’t about oil, and was all about security, regime change, and justice, then why did Trump repeatedly mention taking Venezuelan oil during his speech announcing the attacks, and why isn’t Nobel Laureate Maria Corina Machado not being inaugurated as president of Venezuela right now?

Whether you celebrate or not, I wish you all the peace and joys of the day. And may your 2026 be better than your 2025.