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Of the 98 senators who voted on Kimberly Guilfoyal’s confirmation as ambassador to Greece, all 51 Republican senators voted for her, all 45 Democrats and 2 Independents voted against her. Corruption is not a bug, but a feature, for the Republicans. Don’t argue they didn’t know. The Democrats did.

"They gave us a present, and the present arrived today," Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office. "I'm not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize."

1,2,4,5,6,8 : The constitutional rights Alex Pretti sacrificed his life protecting for us.

Maybe he should first concentrate full time on learning how to run this country first. He has had five years and he hasn’t seemed to have learned a damn thing.

“I have long believed that it is only a step from the loss of economic freedom to the loss of political freedom.” -Estes Kefauver 5/1/57 Johnson protects the pedophiles because they are also the rapacious predatory capitalists he worships and aspires with to rid us of our political freedoms.

Dr Oz: "We should make you so healthy that you flourish in life and you engage the workplace. Getting America back to work full speed, getting you to work longer if you desire, that builds trillions of dollars of value to the GDP. That's the goal of the health system."

No Kings. Oswego NY

Release the damn Epstein files already. We already know we elected a pedophile rapist, but the sooner we face that fact, the sooner we can deal with it.

It was the guns today. It was the guns on July 29 th. It will be the guns next week or the week after that. It will always be the guns till we get rid of them.

Does anyone really expect us to believe a single word Ghislaine Maxwell has to say? C’mon. Let’s be real.

Neville ChamberTrump capitulates.

Time to reiterate this: I stand with Ukraine.

MAGA: Come for the pedophilia, stay for the concentration camp.

The gutting of NOAA by DOGE may or May not have contributed to the flood deaths in Texas yesterday. But what is clear is that we have known for decades that global warming will cause extreme rain events and the GOP has attempted to cripple every attempt to deal with it.

“And so you might have good reason to pray for a tornado, whether it comes in the shape of swirling winds, or a politician. You imagine the thing doing the damage that you would like to see done, and no more. It’s what you fail to imagine that kills you.” -Michael Lewis The Fifth Risk. Pg 219

If Trump wanted us to believe him when he said Iran’s nuclear program was obliterated, perhaps he should not have said that they were eating the dogs in Springfield, OH.

I dunno. But if I were Trump, I would not be talking up the concept of regime change right now.

Says the guy fresh off spending 31 of just first 100 days in office at Mar-a-lago.

No Kings! Catskill,NY

Do you remember all the times Biden needed to call in the national guard to put down riots? That’s right, neither do I.

Zelensky has promised to stop the war between Trump and Musk in 24 hours.

So proud to be an American this afternoon. Watching two dedicated, honorable public servants having a respectful, serious policy debate with no other motives than the interests of the American public brings a tear to my eyes. We were wise to put them in charge. Yikes!

Of course not. This is a country where we elect criminals to the Presidency.

The most frightening thing about the $400 million Qatari jet is that the citizens of the US elected someone who can’t see what is wrong in accepting it to the presidency.

The US Congress has proposed cuts to Medicaid, a programme with 72 million people enrolled, reversing the Affordable Care Act expansion. In a letter, authors estimate the potential effect of the cuts on mortality & catastrophic health-care spending: tinyurl.com/mwp53v8t

Piper, NO! Shoot what I meant to say was Vladimir, STOP! Damn autocorrect.

It’s unlikely that Kristi Noem’s purse was snatched randomly. The high value target item would be her cellphone. If they got it, this administration would never admit it. And if they got it, there is no longer any point to discuss national security. It’s been obliterated.

Senator Ed Markey at the Patriots Day Parade in Lexington MA today. No Kings!

Theresienstadt, 2025.

4000 protesting the assault on democracy in Syracuse, NY.

On March 30, 2017 Clinton Watts gave us all the insight that Trump was a Russian asset. If you refract the last 2 months through that lens, it makes sense. It doesn’t make sense in any other context.

The thought that the US could conquer and hold Canada Greenland or Panama is absurd. The US could not hold Afghanistan, with multiple NATO allies helping us, much less Canada with NATO opposed.

Three days gone by. There is still no comment from the editors of the New York Times on Signalgate. Thank goodness for Bluesky and Stephen Colbert.

The people who claim that these are not war plans also claim that they won the 2020 election.

I think the police may need to go to the offices of the New York Times for a wellness check. Over 24 hours have past since Goldberg published on Signalgate and no comments from the editorial page. Kidnapped? Held Hostage?

Donald Trump on his National Security Advisor Waltz. “Sometimes people are hooked in, and you don’t know they’re hooked in” You might think a NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR would know.

I’m a bit amused by the pundit’s shock at how bad the Signal - Houthi-Waltz leak is. After all, this administration is led by the same guy who told us to inject bleach. Do they think he became any smarter in five years?

Where does the buck stop on the national security breach by Waltz, Hegseth, Rubio and Vance? I would argue the most egregious failure was that of the feckless, craven Republican senators who confirmed a cabinet they knew to be absolutely unqualified.

The morning moon in Central Park, March 23.

The person who is telling us that Elon Musk is finding fraud and waste in the Federal Government is the same person who told us that they were eating the dogs in Springfield Ohio.

The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse NY. I.M. Pei, architect.

Listening to the rhetoric (if you could call it that) that has come from Trump about how US citizens should just suck up the inflation and the recession that his mismanagement is causing I’m stuck by this: Notice how it’s the poor and middle class, not the billionaires who must do all the sucking.

The current US government, with Donald Trump as its president, appears to be a clear and present danger to its citizens and to the peace and stability of the entire world. Democratic senators should shut it down.

The best thing about the clocks going ahead today: Donald Trump was only president for 23 hours today.

“They’re blood to me They’re dust to you “ Never Mind Leonard Cohen

I think I have finally figured out what Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins really meant when she suggested raising chickens in the backyard as the solution to high egg prices. Make America Great Again: return to subsistence farming.

I’m a retired Oncologist. I did laboratory research on brain tumors. We used mice with lowered immunity implanted with human brain tumor cells. It was called the Nude Mouse Model. I feel slighted Trump didn’t mention the Nude Mice too in his speech.