Peter Thiel is pretty intimidating, if only because he's impossibly rich. He's the reason I worry about Vance
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Peter Thiel is pretty intimidating, if only because he's impossibly rich. He's the reason I worry about Vance
😁 That was filmed there shortly after I graduated! A fave. 😃
It's getting harder to keep track. I'm glad you do.
This is very worrisome. The pres is just crazy enough to try it.
I hope the judge jails Lake for contempt. There need to be real consequences for defying court orders.
Depends where you are, but you may be able to get the vaccine later next week from Walgreen's. I have an appt. there, as do several friends. You can book online at walgreens.com, w an account.
If you've read about Yarvin, Thiel et al.'s "Dark Enlightenment," it does. They want the weak and "unproductive" to die, the healthy ignorant & powerless so they can carve out fiefdoms to rule. Seriously, it's what they think they deserve for being "smart" and rich.
When I called my senator to demand he push Kennedy to resign or impeach him, I included O'Neil. He's a lunatic, too.
Do I see a teeny tiny spot of blue? The *only* Democratic district? Incredible. Brazen.
Wow. Such adamant absolute wrongness.
Ah, yes, Blue Nun! Along with Schwarze Katz, setting off memories (somewhat vague memories).
I remember Schwarze Katz!!! I'm old. Always loved the name
The brutal way the treat people, multiple guys pushing, pulling, sitting on top of, tthrowing people to the ground. Every time I see it I'm incredulous, even now.
Good grief. How petty and ridiculous.
These two hospital staff have been indicted for the purpose of having a chilling effect on all hospital workers. It's despicable.
But no elected politician in the US could possibly say that out loud.
Hunched over.
This is what I'm worried about most immediately.
Wasn't there a video of him walking to the SUV 1st term when he was actually being rushed to ER?
Please say this is just snark! Surely you know that the Lincoln Memorial and many other buildings in DC are made of Indiana limestone? You can still see the quarries, between Bloomington and Bedford.
I have literally thought of doing this.
Ah, I mixed up public and school libraries. Thanks for the clarification.
"Conspiracy?" Good God. No way do those "facts" constitute conspiracy. Crazy. Isn't there video of his arrest? I hope the judge tosses this asap. Indictment should never have happened.
It's insane. Even worse than the earlier, similar anti-abortion law.
He lies as often and as casually as Trump.
Huh? Who the heck is she talking about?
Unreal level of lying.
Given that Miller sees the world from Oppositeland, this isn't surprising.
A crazy as a bedbug Cub Scout.
Horrifying. And terrifying, too. I want to say "how did we get here," but I know the answer.
Yes! They are clearly in contempt and need to be punished.
Canada, too? I am so sorry. I wish we could promise he'll be gone soon.
Dammit! I didn't know that had passed! It's absurd and, of course, dangerous as hell.
What a coward.
Oh, no! Sounds just like what's been happening here in the US. I'm so sorry to hear it's spreading to Canada. You're so right to nip it in the bud.
Jesus. That man is despicable. He should never have been allowed any power or authority over anyone.
What? I thought the court case halted the attempt to remove books in Llano?
There is. It posted last night, though not sure if it was here or the other place, though.
Johnson is slime. The condescending smirk on his face throughout makes you want to slap it off his face.
Biden's FTC was starting yo re-start anti-trust enforcement. Several lawsuits started in Biden years withdrawn by Trump.
Oh, no! How much longer will it exist? Will its hours go to 10 am to 4 pm? This is really bad nrws for all of us.
He has ten siblings with the same trauma who are not this terrible.
Posting this story on Dem Mayors' effort to form a united front against Trump's invasions, bc it's the kind of story people will miss and then claim Dems never attempted to form a united front. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
RFKJr definitely announces lies. Every time he speaks.
Amateurs. So far put of their depth.
It's so tragic. I can barely believe what I see happening. It must be very painful for your grandfather.
How would a metal detector have stopped the Minneapolis shooter? He shot through the windows from outside.
It's time to mount a serious pressure campaign to get RFKJr out. Anyone have ideas? Is it pointless to try to get Congresscritters to take action? Call the White House: "Fire Kennedy!?" It must be possible to persuade Trump that keeping RGKJr is hurting him. I just don't know how myself.
Does he actually know what mitochondria are?
Too late.
What are our chances of getting RFKJr fired? Or to resign?
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
When the history of this fascist period is written, special attention will be paid to some of our epoch’s most grotesque figures: leaders of liberal nonprofits and think tanks. It’s incredible to see someone, at this moment, put their name on this quote:
And he's probably the first person to burn a flag as a protest in decades. It hadn't been a thing. Trump obsesses about things that happened 40 or 50 years ago. I wonder if he thinks it still is 1980?
Yes. He's legit frightening.
Agree. I wouldn't want players and fans to risk coming here. And I wouldn't trust any assurances from anyone in this administration.
Horrifying. Every day, worse than the one before.
I hear you. The general cost of living is why I accepted that I'd have to leave. My new landlord in Oklahoma laughed at my suspicious attitude, saying, "we're not like landlords back East." And he wasn't! Shocker.
RE: John Bolton "The primary way that authoritarians are able to claim control isn't through a lot of repression. It's through occasional repression that scares people, so they 'know what to do in this administration,' and therefore they cede power right away. Power you don't use, you lose."
What was released today was not the Epstein files; it was spin to try and clear Trump’s name. Release the REAL Epstein files !
Despite what the pols tell you, most people in this situation cannot return, ever. Others would have to stay out of the country for ten years before being allowed to return. They'll miss their kids growing up. Pretty hard on marriages, too.
"REpresented" tenants. Sigh
Yes, I had forgotten. It's been a while. Probably were different executives, and yet...I never understood why they let her go, either.
Really. How many homeschooling parents are as semi-literate as this woman?
He probably will not be free for long. But, the gov't swore he would never get out of CECOT, no matter what.
Not surprised. Disgusted, though. Uganda! Just cruel.
There's a whole book on the subject called "Evicted." So harrowing & heartbreaking I couldn't finish it. And I once presented tenants in Boston's Housing Court.
Good morning, Finn!
We need both right now. And more of what both of them are doung from other people.
I hope MSNBC realizes what a mistake they made letting her go. Her show was one of the best.
It's not entertainment interfering with my pleasure reading now. It's fear and anxiety.
Whoa!
Not overwrought. Not for months.
Border Patrol in the parks. Horrifying. That will drop park visits even more. Evil.
So they can rule over a nation of poor and desperate peons. So the rich buddies can get richer.
Well, he can't more than a few steps, after all.
Can somebody find a way to remove Kennedy from HHS? ASAP? He's doing so much irreparable harm, and all I hear about is mid-terms. We need him gonecNOW.
No, no, no, no!
These are some of the reasons I haven't watched CNN in years. At least since the Santorum days. And now, of course, it's worse. Supposedly liberal MSNBC took away most (all?) The minority hosts. Why on earth take Katie Phang's show away? Alex Wagner, too? Not much better than CNN. Better on guests.
But Prague Spring was crushed. Mexican student protesters massacred at Tlateloco. It was quite a bad year. And yet, as a college freshmen, a lot of it escaped me at the time.
It was upsetting, depressing, disturbing. But I never felt that the country was going to abandon the Constitution or become fascist. It was Reoublicans who made Nixon resign. Bipartisanship existed. The Nixon gov't officials went to prison. Much worse now.
They sure seem well settled in.
Grrr. We don't even want the damn ballroom. Is there nothing we can do to prevent it?
Huh? Is he saying all former FBI agents will be investigated? For what?
Thank you for this. No wonder I get so many of these, even though I never bite. I'm old. Apparently that's enough. I'm sick to death of my texts from actual friends (or doctors' offices!) getting buried in the blizzard of these scam texts.
"Shifting" "Excessively large endowments." Translation: stealing money that isn't theirs.
Paxton & Patrick have to go at the same time or it's pointless. Lt Gov has more power over the Lege than the Gov in Texas.
So "mortgage fraud" has replaced "money laundering" as the pretext to harass Republicans' political opponents?
I’m going to say this one more time with feeling: to the public, Trump’s agenda sounds less like policy and more like theft.
The United States could have great things like this. But we like to spend our money on kidnapping people and trafficking them to concentration camps instead. #Priorities
Part of that is a failure of the major media to make clear how bad things are. Part is people's responsibility for thinking "politics" is optional in a democracy.
No. We never have, including the Civil War and War of 1812.
Bately seven months.
"It was a dark and stormy night..."
Ignoring the fact that the low crime numbers Trump claims are false came from his own Justice Department, not the City.
This citizen is stunned & furious. Not sure how to stop this childish & petty revenge theater. She's right that no one should have signed that demand. It's completely beyond the pale.
Highly skeptical of all "in running for Nobel Peace Prize" discussion. But if anything should, miraculously, come of today's emergency intervention, there's an eight-person slate that would be strong contention for the award. Here they are together.
Nothing says "I need to see what my boss says" better than that.
Newsmax reaches $67M settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in defamation case.