Baby Boomer, Proud progressive-liberal, Bates College graduate, Born in Miami, FL, raised in Portland, ME. Worked/lived in Wash. DC 18yrs. Watched Am. politics since Watergate, British TV drama and The Wire. Visited London, UK. Read murder mysteries. Leo.
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Our costumed Homeland security Chief says military in Los Angeles “saved” that city. Trump even said there’s terrible crime in Beverly Hills,causing even his supporters to say “HUH?” This military takeover of cities is huge distraction from the biggest crime of all… The Epstein pedophilia story.
Drove 4 hours thru remote NW Maine to do the Eagle Lake Ghost Train hike yesterday. It was quite the adventure! #maine #newengland #photography #outdoors #outdoorphotography #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #naturephotography #hike #hiking #train #ghosttrains #allagash #allagashghosttrains
The trial, which tracked more than 8,500 patients across Spain and Italy, found that beta blockers, long prescribed after heart attacks, offer no clear benefit for patients whose heart function is normal.
while the GOP & Trump cut school meals, crime prevention programs, healthcare services, and mental health programs. #ReverseRobinHoodEffect
www.foreignaffairs.com/china/real-c... Read this last night and really recommend it
It's his imagination and we're just lucky to be living in it.
When unions are strong, our communities and our country are strong. Every person in our nation has benefited from the labor movement. This Labor Day, we celebrate the workers and unions who have fought for fair wages, safe workplaces, and sick leave for all of us.
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
AI is void of emotion, insights, intellectual aptitude, and self-discovery....you are correct: The technology is certainly good at summarizing. Unfortunately, we are raising a generation (Gen Z attention economy) with a very short attention span that thrives on summarizing.
Back from book leave! See my latest column: on.ft.com/45Y2Z2R Why AI won’t take my job
Good night 🌙
JB Pritzker to CBS on Trump deploying troops: "He'd like to stop the elections in 2026 or, frankly, take control of those elections. He'll just claim that there's some problem with an election, and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control if, in fact, he's allowed to do this."
he is a sick puppy.
Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, our most-read story was about the European Commission president's remarks on post-conflict security guarantees for Ukraine on.ft.com/4g51y7J
In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
If only there were a Nobel Prize for crimes against humanity, Trump would be a shoe-in.
Scaring the hell out of white people. Lived/worked in DC during the crack epidemic during late 1980s/early 90s. Murders/shootings night and day. No National Guard present. Suburbanites came in the city day/night without their throats cutout. In fact, they were buy drugs in black neighborhoods.
As Trump preps military occupations of Democratic-run cities, his history as a sex predator is relevant. Trump has a lot of experience forcing himself on people.
Sick and delusional.
You've got 97 seconds to summarize the labor econ literature on how to obtain causal estimates of the returns to education. Go.
She needs to talk with Gen Z members in her family. www.cio.com/article/4033...
Our news media are so broken. There's a way to challenge someone in an interview without looking like you're the press secretary for the other side. ABC's Martha Raddatz badly misses the mark. "Why fight with the president?" she asks.
87% reduction on a short basis....the National Guard cannot be there long term and expect the same results.
Not a very long path from "Why wouldn't you want the regime to deploy federal troops in your city when it reduces carjackings?" to "Why would you be opposed to the erection of internment camps for deviants when it reduces crime?" And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
happy bday Armenian-American writer William Saroyan, b1908, Fresno, CA “The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. “You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right. “The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.”
It is a death cult.
Facts don't matter with MAGA idiots.
Trump increased his voter turn in rural areas, from 2020, in the 2024 election. This is how he repays them.
Feel safer yet? ICE made a “brave”arrest of two firefighters in Washington state who were part of a crew battling a massive fire. Are they going to march into a hospital room and arrest the anesthesiologist? Or maybe the nurse who is giving CPR? New meaning of stupid!
Trump’s targeting of Fed. Gov. Lisa Cook is a “chilling message,” writes fmr. Fed. Chair & Biden Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen. “Express disagreement with the president’s views and you are next.” Yellen joins me @ 12pET on the economic consequences of Trump’s bids to bend the Fed. to his political will
Love Detroit....been there twice.
Perhaps a little premature. Gov. Mills indicated this week she is no hurry to decide whether she will challenge Susan Collins. Even money says she will do so. If so, she will win the Dems. nomination based on her past performance winning twice statewide. www.wabi.tv/2025/08/31/b...
He made the world a better place.
The visit to China is Modi's first visit since relations between the two countries deteriorated after Chinese and Indian soldiers engaged in deadly border clashes in 2020.
Spotted, at Double Dippers in Rehoboth Beach last night. 🎥: Fred Karger
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More of this please. Generally speaking public officials should eschew funds from pro war crimes organizations.
Because he cannot govern otherwise.
Are you ready to build a better future for Florida? I’m running for Governor to make Florida an affordable home for everyone. I know there’s a brighter future ahead—and I hope you can help me build it. If you’re ready for change in Florida, share this post.
MAGA does not believe in facts...or the truth.
Used CDC information/statistics for years...well before these clowns ruin the CDC....he is full of shite.
I’m absolutely begging reporters to stop suggesting that Lisa Cook stated that she would use both properties as a principal residence on her mortgage APPLICATIONS Mortgage APPLICATIONS and mortgage AGREEMENTS are not the same thing We have no idea what she represented on the APPLICATIONS
Charlie could not handle community college courses....He is a joke.
CHICAGO…
The GOP wants her to run for the newly created U.S. Senate seat. This interaction will be a great political ad for her opponents if she decides to run. LOL.
I spoke with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social for @slate.com Plus Amicus listeners on risks to the Voting Rights Act at the Supreme Court and the new redistricting wars. slate.com/podcasts/ami...
theconversation.com/rural-women-...
The age of the Power Grab and do the American people care? A Moment of Clarity... youtu.be/pPJNhvLfTwM
Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here
When your policies are not popular, cheat.
Amen.
Pandering to faux white racial grievance.
That and slavery.....Trump believes slavery was not so bad.
For those trivia buffs out there, real spending by foreign tourists in the U.S. has fallen at a 17.4% annual rate since Trump took office apps.bea.gov/iTable/?reqi... At least the national parks that are burning out of control will be less crowded.
There is still beauty in the world. (Monsanto, Portugal 📷 unknown.)
His mother dated jazz great Charles Mingus...after she divorced Lewis's father.
"The American Slavery 2.0 project is a brilliant conceit precisely because it dovetails so many MAGA governing principles into a single, big and beautiful policy." — @schaller67.bsky.social
Doors Watercolor - 22x15 inches "There are things known. And there are things unknown." Aldous Huxley @bsky.art #art
He is trolling Trump. That is not punching back. In 2016, Obama lead the effort in punching back at Trump for HRC. He did the same in 2024 for V.P. Harris. If people had listen to him, we would be in this position.
Nothing wrong with that. Still too early to predict who will be the party's nominee...ask Jeb Bush.
He is trolling Trump. He is not doing anything to Trump. Trolling and action are two different things.
Jeb Bush was leading the GOP race in 2015 and HRC was leading the Dems. race in 2007. Both were the overwhelming favorites to win their party nominations. My point: Early polls and talk is meaningless. It is pure speculation which is worth nothing.
Amen.
Finland to remove swastikas from air force flags to avoid awkwardness
Agree...however, his poll numbers are decreasing while the tariffs are in place. Americans realize the tariffs are causing higher prices...they are mad as hell. The longer they stay in place, his numbers go down.
“Do you guys feel bad about what you’re doing? Don’t you f*cking hate yourselves?”
BREAKING: Most Trump tariffs ruled illegal by a federal appeals court. @chrislhayes.bsky.social reports on @allinwithchris.bsky.social.
We can't even play basketball 🏀 🤬
While wealthy Americans and profitable corporations receive huge tax cuts, American children suffer. Cutting off funding for enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
There are more guns than people in the US. Another deadly school shooting and all some politicians offer is thoughts and prayers. Stop voting for these pro gun politicians who think gun rights are more important than young lives.
Thank you, @pingree.house.gov Glad to hear that they are trying to stop funding crime prevention while having National Guard in DC for crime prevention. Yeah, it don't make sense.
Once again, Trump—with the help of Project 2025 architect Russ Vought—is attempting to claw back billions of dollars in funding already appropriated by Congress. This so-called "pocket rescission" is illegal, unconstitutional, and a brazen attempt by the president to further consolidate power.
Am supporting Gov. Mills for U.S. Senate Am supporting either Bellows or Pingree for Gov. La Page is running for the House in the 2nd District. as a Republican.
As the summer comes to a close, Trump's version of America is proving to be grimmer than we thought. I look at Trump's militarization of American cities and the rise of hatred across our country. Watch here: youtu.be/oIVCM9MYO2E
Jack Smith's indictment, against Trump, pointed this fact out.
Am not talking about serving as Gov. Am talking about her running for the U.S. Senate. Bellows or Hannah Pingree.
Where do they get these morons.
Excellent.
Americans told pollsters that they wanted lower prices, but voted for a candidate who promised to use tariffs that increase prices.
My play-by-play of the hearing on Lisa Cook’s request for a temporary restraining order, now up on our site: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
Although I like Bellows, she will not have a prayer in Western ME. Platner seems like a good guy, but he will not a prayer in Western and Northern ME. Gov. Mills takes votes away Collins in Western ME while winning Southern ME. A winning strategy.
Compare Gov. Mills' last campaign and compare it to Sen. Collins' last campaign. Look closely at the vote turnout both received in Western ME. Gov. Mills did very well in Western ME. That is where the race will be won for her. She can beat Collins there and in Southern ME.
rats dropping off a sinking ship www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...
Aww, not Joni Ernst! Well all fascists' careers are going to die anyway 🤷🏼♂️ www.cbsnews.com/news/joni-er...
🔥 @airborne1970.bsky.social : “When you get rid of SNAP benefits— what’s a poor family gonna do? The middle class has carried this country since Reagan said ‘trickle-down economics’. Time for the billionaires to carry this country. That’s how 🇺🇸 will get great. But not under this regime.”
They "took" child predators off the streets but Trump placed one convicted child predator, i.e., Ghislaine Maxwell, in a less secure federal prison.
Making money off suffering.....Trump war profiteering.
Thanks....well said. Peace.
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More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.
She said that Nov. will be time she will let people know.
To those who say I should talk more about the role of mental helath in school shootings. You are right. Let’s talk about Trump wanting to cut $1B from youth mental health grants and programs: nonprofitquarterly.org/how-trumps-b...
Been watching politics since Watergate. As you get older, you learn how to pace yourself.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
Hear you. Don't believe most Mainers will review her age as an issue, especially in a state with a large older age population. She is the best candidate to compete with and beat Collins statewide, especially in Western ME. Chances are she will complete one term (6 years) and be done.
Party of Law & Order, he says. * Convicted felon leading the party. * Convicted felon who let 1,500 Jan. 6 criminals out of prison. * Convicted felon who was found liable for business fraud * Convicted felon who was found liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll
Mills has proven she can compete will in Western ME, while dominating in Southern ME. She will do well in the Bangor area and other places in Northern ME. Not sure he will compete well in places she is strong, especially in Southern ME.