Does Marco Rubio ever smile these days? Dude looks miserable. He should also feel miserable.

Ted Cruz doesn’t like the NYTimes list of 100 best movies so far in the 21st century.

Here’s his top 5 list:

1. Ted
2. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
3. Ted 2
4. Bill & Ted Face the Music
5. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Trump is blaming Obama & Trudeau for Russia being kicked out of the G-8. I’m pretty sure Harper was the PM of Canada in March of 2014. Wrong again DJT. Waiting for Trump to blame Trudeau for killing JFK.

I read that El Salvador has agreed to keep the 300 prisoners for only 1 year, with the US paying between $6-15 million.

What is supposed to happen to them in 1 year?

Bukele needs to go to negotiation class. This is a blot on the US that will follow us for generations. Have we no shame?

Singapore PM’s Chilling Warning To World Amid Chaotic Trump Tariffs: ‘Trade Wars To Armed Conflicts’ YouTube video by Hindustan Times

Worth the time to listen to a thoughtful response: youtu.be/G0swAZQeZRc?...

What are the odds that someone in the Trump Administration starts referring to the chat group leak as “CONCEPTS OF A WAR PLAN”?

By the way, whatever happened to “CONCEPTS OF A HEALTH PLAN”? Is it before or after INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK?

Same here. I just checked again. Nothing on the Hulu home page.

Every time I see Rubio in one of these meetings with Trump he has a look of total fear that taking this job was really a dumb idea. Marco, it was a dumb idea. It never ends well with Trump.

If America survives Trump it will take the nation generations to live down this moment. We are a terrible, shitty nation. Trump and Vance will be remembered in infamy forever in America…assuming there is one.

I served this nation in uniform on active duty for 26 yrs. It kills me to say this.

Now that Kash Patel is running the FBI I assume he closed down the FBI Headquarters today as he promised. So on Monday he should be all set to reopen as the Museum of the Deep State. Wouldn’t it be fun if everyone in DC shows up to the former FBI and ask where one gets tickets for the new Museum!

This evening, I picked up a meal at In-N-Out Burger. I drank my Lite Lemonade with a paper straw. It was fine. It didn't explode. Somebody tell Vice President Trump.

"More importantly," Levine said, "Bragg enthusiastically, if poorly, helped lead an armed insurrection against the United States government that tried to break up the Union and preserve slavery."
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Dear Pete Hegseth - please respond to this from PolitiFact:

"Braxton Bragg was a famously poor general, known to be so by soldiers and officers in his own command," said Bruce Levine, an emeritus history professor at the University of Illinois..."
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If it is true that the IRS Direct File has, or will be, "deleted" per Musk, there will be a lot of Trump voters pretty pissed off. By my count, there are 13 states that Trump won that are eligible to file their taxes online, for free, that will now have to pay someone to do their taxes.

Someone needs to set a Pete Hegseth - Head of Cabbage webcam (see Liz Truss)

In case he is confirmed, has anyone prepared the Cabbage Head versus Pete Hegseth webcam?

“Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.”
- Matthew 5:7

When showing mercy is controversial, we have a problem.

1.21.25 Homily by The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde YouTube video by Washington National Cathedral

Can you imagine the courage it took to preach this message directly to the president? This is what a follower of Jesus looks like. (Partial transcript below.)

This is NOT a reason for exercising the pardon power & it's not a legitimate use of presidential authority even if Trump is legally entitled to do it. Rewarding people for their political support of your candidacy by pardoning their kids is a sign of political corruption.

The White House President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are committed to lowering costs for all Americans, securing our borders, unleashing American energy dominance, restoring peace through strength, a...

www.whitehouse.gov

This used to be a website with all kinds of information about the government. Now...not so much! Click in and (don't) enjoy.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’ ‘The Atlantic’ published this landmark document of the civil-rights movement in the August 1963 issue

Tomorrow, January 20, 2025, at noon Eastern time, I will read Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL. You can also read it instead of paying attention to the DC Carnival.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Given that Musk spent a quarter million to get Trump elected, I vote that he can afford to cover the cost on his own. Welfare is for those who need a helping hand. Not a tip for political contributions.

I closed my Facebook today. However, I'm not too confident that it will be deleted.

Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook to rate/shame girls who weren’t into him. #NeverForget

“No one has ever seen this before.” Translation = “This has been seen a gazillion times. I just want to make you think I’m really smart. I’m not.”

Thank you for all the lists. I've followed all in lists 1-9.

FOMO

No worries. Kind of you to offer!