I am so grateful for all of you!! Thank you, thank you, thank you. You rock!

Intelligent, articulate champions of justice and democratic ideals . . . Thank you for fighting hard for what's right.

So good.

Seriously? Is this AI? An SNL skit?

1970, Kent State

His mother-in-law may have dementia.

This is delusional madness. Someone with big clout please loudly proclaim that the emperor, he's naked.

Seriously?! He really posted this?

I have a close family member who had their first, massive, stroke almost 9 years ago. Just looking at 40seven's face in candid photos says a lot about his mental state. I'm tuned in to subtle changes because I take my dear one on simple outings almost every week. I need to keep them safe.

That and I love Brioche.

Nice! I don't know this one but will check it out. It's classic.

How to Drink from a Firehose A former Obama speechwriter on Trump’s week-one rhetorical strategy—and how you can help beat it

Small, specific, specific descriptions of what is being done work. Broad generalizations do not register in our brains the same way. Here's a great resource describing this: contrarian.substack.com/p/how-to-dri...

I've done a lot of these too! Fun little project.

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From Mary Oliver

It's not weak. It's strong because it has a huge impact. Kindness is always appropriate when you extend it to those who aren't downright ugly acting. Those guys can fend for themselves.

Whoa! He's getting worse.

This could not have been written by TFG. He has neither the vocabulary nor knowledge of history to have done it.