The happiest dog, you’ll see today

This is not a left or right moment, it is a right or wrong moment. —Sen. Cory Booker

If you have any doubt, talk with your doctor.
I'm one of those rare people who is a non-responder. Had measles in 1959. Found to have no immunity in 2006 when applying for a traveling nurse job, got boosted. Found to have no immunity in 2015, got reboosted.
Just had an MMR,will be re-titered.

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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We highly recommend y’all crack open a copy of the U.S. Constitution before you break anymore laws…

Lawmakers flooded with calls about Elon Musk: ‘It is a deluge on DOGE’ Angry and confused constituents have flooded the phone lines at the US Capitol this week, many of them asking questions about billionaire Elon Musk’s plans.

Americans are really mad about Musk, according to the @washingtonpost.com

Hundreds of farms are going bankrupt in California after Terrorist Trump flooded their land this week and then canceled $3 billion in their US Aid Farm contracts.
Grocery prices will rise SIGNIFICANTLY as a result of the Terrorist Trump Farm attacks. 🤷 🛒 🛍️ 📈 🌽 🌊

It's because he couldn't have missles and garbage trucks in a parade for the inauguration, isn't it?

Little Donny Convict — the man his cultists believe is God’s Own Avatar On Earth — is what would happen if the seven Deadly Sins became a real boy. let’s run through the list: pride — yup. greed — you betcha. lust — just ask Ivanka. envy — no shit. gluttony — have you seen his waistline? wrath — ducked any ketchup bottles lately? sloth — the lazy fuck drives his golf cart right up onto the green. with those bona fides, it’s only natural that God’s Own Avatar be chosen to speak at the National Prayer Breakfast. how’d the speech go? it was a burst trash bag of incoherence — brags, boasts, outright lies, and fairy-tale fantasy nonsense. let’s settle in and sample some of the effluvia that slowly oozed out of Donny’s rancid anus-mouth.

from today's post —
please read the whole enchilada,
the link is here: bit.ly/4jQdaNm

Buckle up buttercup, we're in for a long haul😉

Last night, I wrote in my newsletter, Civil Discourse, about Trump's new coup. I base my analysis on the facts and the law, not hyperbole. We are at a serious tipping point. I hope you'll subscribe if you feel the same way, or if you just want to learn more. joycevance.substack.com

Preach!!! You’re saying what I’m thinking (and saying) and also @hcrichardson.bsky.social in a recent podcast! We have to focus on the value of the joy in our own lives and creative contributions, find others, seek out inclusive spaces…we ARE government! He is a tacky shaman and showman!

Happy Birthday to the leader of the free world.

Slava Ukraini🇺🇦

And good luck getting local ones without migrants to bring in the crops

Community Wind Farm Empowers Hebrides Reforestation Effort Locals in a remote and rugged Scottish archipelago are planting hundreds of thousands of native trees across their isles with funding from a community-owned wind farm, setting a global example for gre...

This is how you do it. Small projects, incredibly cheap, directly involving and benefiting communities. And if it can be done in the windswept, peaty, Hebrides, deforested for so long by overgrazing and over harvesting, it surely can be done anywhere.
www.theenergymix.com/community-wi...

Fact check: Did George Washington mandate vaccines for his army? "George Washington mandated smallpox vaccines for the Continental Army," reads the text of an image that's being shared on social media with an illustration of the first president of the United States...

Actually, Washington knew...
variolation was the only means available at the time, but the connection to prevention was known.
www.wral.com/story/fact-c...

US farm groups want Trump to spare their workers from deportation Mass deportations could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in the United States illegally.

Buyers' remorse already?

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

one of my favorites...and yes, I'd go for the bagpipe intro

'Just not qualified': Trump health leadership raises red flags Alex Wagner reports on Donald Trump's picks of Marty Makary as FDA commissioner, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for surgeon general, and Dr. Dave Weldon for CDC director, who would work under the authority of ...

We need as many healthcare professionals to be courageous and speak to truth, for our patient’s sake and for the sanctity and credibility of our profession.

That starts now. We cannot allow the highly abnormal to be normalized.

www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-...

The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

Well, despite my so far empty profile, I have to say this makes me very happy.
Karma's a bitch, sometimes.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/b...