Retired LCSW, E. Warren fan, lifelong Democrat, lived in Alaska 20+ yrs, now we make our home in beautiful Oregon. Spouse & I luv forest baths, neighborhood walks, laughs, our 2 adult kids, good conversations, bluesky. I’m too old to take crap from magas
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Roberts is the kind of boy scout who would support limiting membership to whites only. He supports discrimination, it's pretty simple. Roberts does not believe that universal suffrage is a good thing. Don't count on him to come out against Texas' mid-cycle redistricting scam.
Of course, it's a plain as day, but good luck selling that to the maga crowd.
Sparkle is a great name. Good on her parents. Also, Rs are whiny babies.
I look toward Melania, and an unwelcome encounter with the demented orange king.
You can't treat soldiers like shit & expect the to be loyal or obedient. No doubt they'll develop a strong dislike for the deranged orange king & his team of incompetent, hypocritical, cosplaying dipshits who wouldn't know how to run a food cart much less a standing army.
Wow, it's not safe to complain about Ghislaine Maxwell. Read 👇 www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Inmates beware👇: Don't complain about Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer to your cushy low security prison in TX. One inmate who opened her trap about it is now doing hard time in high security prison w violent offenders. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
"The lunatics are running the asylum."
Protest tomorrow, Labor Day, Salem Oregon, 1-4:00 OR State Capital. Stop the fascist bullshit. ✊ www.salemreporter.com/2025/08/29/w...
"Bill Pulte, the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), is most prominently and currently associated with directing mortgage policy. He was nominated by President Trump in early 2025 and is in charge of overseeing the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac." Google AI overview
Oh wouldn't it be wonderful, wonderful.
Ding dong the deranged orange king is dead
Can we blame them? They are probably hot, bored, and questioning their life choices. Sleep is a great escape.
Well, well, well. Isn't this the very crime he's trying to use as an excuse to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook? Spread this wherever you can. #ProudBlue
Agreed, sadly SCOTUS can't be trusted to do the right thing. Then again, sometimes they surprise us. 🙏
Good move
Seems Trump's fossil fuel buddies want India to buy US oil. At least that's the speculation I heard.
USA
so true
Even hardened criminals serving time in prison for violent offenses get to brush their teeth. Why does ICE get away with not providing detainees with basic personal hygiene items. I don't get it.
Great news: Most of Trump's tariff taxes on American consumers are illegal according to the judge's ruling. Hallelujah! That should be the lead story everywhere, but it's buried under all the other illegal, horrid stuff the Trump regime is ramming down our throats.
Lots of good news today. It feels strange, but welcoming after this 2025 summer of darkness. Maybe, just maybe, things are turning around. I hope.
My spouse & I live 50 miles from Portland OR. A couple of days ago we spotted a military troop transport plane land at the Salem-Willamette Valley airport. No doubt the troops are gathering for the assault on Portland. This stuff is real.
What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?
Yeah, it was bad. I was desperate for the covid shot. Waiting in long lines hoping to get the extra doses after those who qualified went 1st. After 3 unsuccessful waits at 3 different public vaccination sites, my spouse & I got the Moderna shots. Thankful for the vaccines. RFK Jr is a fool
Bye Felicia 😂🤣😂! This video needs to play on repeat in every city! #arrestrepublicans
I have hope for America after watching this clip. Also, my laughing is helping 😂😂😂😂
The Miccosukee Tribe successfully halted the Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention facility in Florida’s Everglades. A federal judge ruled it must close within 60 days, citing environmental law violations. The tribe raised concerns over wildlife, sacred lands… grist.org/indigenous/a...
Much needed good news - Alligator Auschwitz closed by Judge Kathleen M. Williams, Southern Dist FL & Trump's tariff taxes on Americans are judged illegal by 11 judges for the US Court of Appeals, Fed Circuit in WA, D.C.US 👇 www.npr.org/2025/08/29/n...
Such good news. Almost to good to believe. DeSantis, Trump, Noem, Miller & all the other ICE goons just got a big fat slap in the face by the people of the Miccosukee Tribe & U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams. Makes me think that the rule of law in America ain't dead yet. 👏👏👏
Trump has had security protection for last 10 yrs whether in or out of office. But, the man just cannot bring himself to extend the same to Harris & Biden. If there's away to screw with Ds who oppose him, he'll do it. Nothing is too petty.
Men who treat women and queer men badly is either insecure about his masculinity or has any number of other psychological, cultural, or status hangups. Cliches are just shortcuts we take bc human behavior is complicated. That's my opinion.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Democrats, please make good use of this clip. It's pure gold.
Yes, we need free concerts in airports. Humans deserve beauty and art and fun and surprises.
Well isn’t this lovely. Opera star sings Habanera (from Carmen) in the airport (?) What a terrific voice. #opera I don’t care if they’re staged, we need more profl free public #music and #art.
PERINO: Do you think specifically there has to be some sort of accountability on the transgender front? SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: I think so. I mean, there's a common denominator to so much of this, right? The last one of these school shootings that we all saw and remember was another transgender.
There is confusion about how this new import tax will be handled. As reported, several countries paused shipping to the US bc they claim: "new rules require more complex customs procedures" that they have not prepared to perform." (google AI overview), So, small biz loses, the paypal mafia wins?
Absolutely, beautifully said. I love Jennifer Welch & Angie “Pumps” Sullivan.
My religion is that I don't have a religion. I base that on experiences I had at Baptist churches my mother required me to attend until I reached age 18. The sermons bored and scared me. It was liberating to know that it was all absolute bs. I walked away and never looked back. Happy in my atheism.
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
Ah yes, pretext, perfect
Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.
Wow, beautiful
Bondi is a mobster. That's why Trump hired her.
The bunglers in the WH haven't set up a system for collecting the new 'de minimus' import tax. Wherever the Trump regime goes, chaos follows.
"fraud hours?" The fraud hours are those clocked in by ICE shaking down firefighters who are just doing their jobs. And since when does ICE get to investigate fraud hours? Sounds like a phony excuse to be hassling these guys.
The shitification is surging, and it stinks.
Clinging to one's idea of dignity can be paralyzing. Maybe it isn't dignified to slither on yr belly thru blood & vomit to escape a mass shooter, but it maybe it wud save yr life. maybe dignity can be shed in service of a greater good like saving democracy fr the dictator now inhabiting the WH.
These video clips are so confusing. Impossible to understand what's happening. Neither the cops nor the bystanders can figure out what's what, which, I imagine, makes our demented orange king & cult happy.
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
Uh, if prayer worked, prayer would have saved the children in the church who were at praying. Prayer may help some people cope w the vicissitudes of life, but prayer does nothing to stop gun deaths. As long as people can buy weapons of war legally in the US, children will die needlessly.
No, we should document, study, and accurately write about the trump years in detail. Future generations need to know what went wrong and how to avoid making our mistakes.
Another stupid, dangerous, uncalled for move by ICE to make Americans less safe. Where does it stop? Are we to accept these intrusions into our communities by federal thugs who don't care if we live or die?
Tulsi Gabbard is a Putin tool, that's why Trump put her in charge of National Intelligence. Putin must be very happy these days. I hope I live long enough to see Gabbard go to prison for knowingly revealing national security secrets.
Babbitt was mentally iffy and a traitor to her country. So, of course, Trump wants to honor her posthumously. I'm sure her family, now $5million richer, will be pleased.
I know what a healthy adult male looks like and when I look at RFK Jr I see a very sick man who cannot be trusted to know shit about human health but a whole lot about how to destroy the US healthcare system and make a $ millions along the way. RFK Jr, Nepo to the max & full of 💩
RFK Jr. and Donald Trump are already sending our health care system into chaos by ripping insurance away from 15 million people. Now, they’re making it harder to get a handle on measles, flu, and other public health threats. It’s Trump politicizing every part of government.
First defame scientific achievements, next sell quack cures to the gullible public while destroying their access to affordable healthcare & finally, voila, let the masses die fr preventable diseases b4 they reach Medicare age. Project 25 wins, billionaires live long and prosper w robot servants.
REPUBLICANS ARE PEDOPHILES
Ms Cook has the law on her side. If Trump is not stopped, he'll ruin our economy & financial standing in the world. An independent Fed Reserve is essential to the US remaining a prosperous, credible nation. US Fed Reserve Governor Cook & Chairman Powell are pushing back on the corrupt Trump regime 🙏
Speaking for all our kids
Well, just another day in the upside down trumpworld where the untreated psychos are in charge of our healthcare, and the demented orange king paints his bruised hand w pancake makeup while his pathetic toadies nod, smile, laugh on cue & kiss his fat royal behind. Funny, not funny
And here we have a manifestation of the upside down trumpworld in which traitors get rewarded w $millions, psychopathic sex traffickers get cushy minimum sec camp w a pardon on the horizon & migrants seeking asylum w zero crime history get sent to torture prisons or Alligator Auschwitz.
Talk about gov bloat. Trump is paying the Nat'l Guard $1million a day to clean up DC parks after firing Nat'l parks custodial crews who were doing that work on the cheap. Another stupid move by the demented orange king. www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/p...
The welcome sign should say 'Beware All Who Enter Here for this Place is the Gateway to your New Fresh Hell. Please STFU if you know what's good for ya."
Roberts will never take responsibility for the consequences of his support for presidential immunity, Citizens United, gutting the Voting Rights Act & other anti-democratic decisions he endorsed. His shock about the erosion of the rule of law is ridiculous; his decisions enabled that erosion.
Yeah, too bad Musk/Trump DOGE cut the budget for nat'l parks and fired the crew who were paid to do this work. We're living in the stupid upside down world of the demented orange king in which the National Guard is reduced to doing whatever the hell stupid stuff Trump comes up with.
So, Jesus created & loved the kids who were shot/killed by the white supremacist, antisemitic guy that Jesus also created & presumable loved. Nice try, Gowdy. All I get from this tragedy is that America is too stupid to enforce common sense gun laws so our kids keep dying needlessly.
He shot Catholics, did he think they were Jews?
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
No more Red Cross services for immigrants held in detention centers? We are in such dark times. I hope the Red Cross sues.
Except the ones like me who fell asleep during sermons and had dreams of fun, adventure, and sleep-ins on Sunday mornings.
I suspect that the people behind this cache of "dark money" are afraid of being subjected to the wrath of Trump if they were to donate openly. I think Ds should roll with this. In a more democratic future we need to outlaw dark $ in politics & kill Citizens United, but for now, take the $.
Think about how stupid it is to send Nat'l Guard soldiers in full combat fatigues to hot Washington DC to pick up trash. I think DC could find locals to do that work if they had better funding for public works budgets. It's sad & ridiculously wasteful. Send the Guard home.
Let's all write Daddy a strongly worded letter to stop this acquisition in its tracks. I'm sure Daddy won't let us down. 😏🙄💩🤮. Fuck Trump, vote Blue
A tidy package for the billionaires, eh? no competition, more profit, what could be better?🤨
I'm 74, I've seen Ds get it wrong plenty, but, in all my yrs of paying attention to politics, Rs get it much more devastatingly wrong by comparison. If voters think they'll always get their way on issues important to them, I guarantee they'll be disappointed. Sometimes ya get 75% or less. Sorry
Replacing union wkrs in gov or private sector w Nat'l Guard? - welcome to trumpworld. Soon the demented orange king will realize he could draft non-college bound (code for poor) 16-18 yr olds into public svc, pay them shit wages, put them to work in menial jobs no one else wants.
It is hard to donate to the DNC right now. Other hand, Ds have to win the House in 2026 & the presidency in 2028. We have got to agree on Medicare4All, stop Gaza genocide, voting rights legislation, SCOTUS reform, etc. Politics = compromise. No way around it, together we win, divided we're fucked.
In the richest country on Earth, hospitals are closing en masse. In rural Maine you’re driving an hour to the nearest birthing center. The hospital in Blue Hill where I was born is closed. It’s a disaster brought on by decades of pure greed, and nothing short of Medicare for All can turn the tide.
No doubt they're bored & miserable, sleeping on cement floors in some cold parking garage & want nothing more than to get back home. Their presence in DC should not be normalized, not even as a joke about public service. They are being humiliated & misused by the deranged, power mad orange king.
Yeah, OK so public works/parks & rec crews, probably city employees. In any case, I think it's stupid to import Nat'l Guard soldiers to pick up garbage in DC. There are local options.
Garbage collectors in DC are Teamsters. Trump is using the Guard to displace local workers. It's stupid.
Newsom and Pritzker got it right. Let's follow their lead.
Welcome to Trumpworld DC.
I hope it's true, but?
The proper response would be for governors of blue states to immediately activate their guards to protect against Trump's red state guards. Hmmm sounds like civil war, right?
Reversing Reagan's tax rates-in one fell swoop-like he implemented them along w/stock buy backs which killed the working class! WHY should WTP have the tax burden of BILLIONAIRES? Those are the 3 things to run on-but you have to make sure to tell folks-we can't pass this w/Dem majority & WH!
Pathetic traitor. I guess Gabbard will immigrate to Russia after her daddy gets the boot.
So much for parents’ rights. Rs are a joke.
Trump can’t stop crime but he can have his toadies mess with crime stats to appear that he stopped crime.
Takes one to know one😏
I wish someone would "stabilize" rent in my town. As apartments get smaller the rent gets higher and the homeless camps grow.
Obrego Garcia will never get a fair trial while Pam Bondi is in charge of DOJ. I hope Mr. Garcia does not end up in Uganda, but it's not looking good.
Trump loves the uneducated, and welcomes people, white preferably, who are blissfully unaware of their own incompetence. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Trump is so full of 💩 listening to him makes your head explode.
We even took public transit, can you imagine😱. Still have our watches. 😂💙