Regardless of who sits in leadership of Iran, no nation has the right to even threaten to kill a civilization. Beyond Trump’s lunacy, this is American hubris in its nakedest form. If we live past Trump, America needs to take a hard look at ourselves. What is it about us that created this monster?
Iran never had a nuclear weapon. Supposedly, it’s been “weeks” or “months” away from one at different times for several years now. Remember the last time we went to war over weapons that weren’t there? How’d that turn out? Stop being suckered!
No Kings in Woodland Hills, CA, in the quiet west side of the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, and where I’ve lived for 30 years. I was there and well over a thousand people. One of forty-one demonstrations today in the LA area, including the big one downtown.
This is the headline right now on the NY Times website. Clearly, Repubs are more interested in how things are perceived than sharing the truth. Why does anyone want to kill or die for them?
It’s typical of American privilege that there’s wide-eyed shock about possible attack on California or some other place here but we seem so la-dee-da about bombing the shit out of other lands. Bombs never fall on nothing. War is always terror. You don’t want war to visit our shores? Don’t start one!
ICE’s firing ten shots at a man with a holstered gun is proof they walk in fear. In their minds (and the minds of Trump, Noem, etc.) firepower replaces courage. They are criminals with a multi-billion dollar budget (thanks to a chickenshit Congress). They are afraid because they can be defeated.
GET THE FUCK OUT OF EVERYWHERE!
So, who thinks that the Supreme Court majority might be making these decisions because if the Dems win big we could end up with 13 Justices, and these current folks would be just small, old fish in a different pond?
Are they eating the dogs and cats or bringing in the cows?
I’m so confused!
Another 3 people killed today by American attack on a boat in international waters. Even if there were drugs involved—and has that ever been proven?—drug smuggling is not a capital crime. These are simply murders. How is this tolerable? We have a government led by a man who kills illegally.
Check out the latest episode of South Park. Truth cannot be denied. Anything is possible.
No, there’s no corruption here. Nothing for you to be concerned about. Just keep your eyes down and walk on. Oh, you think 230 million could pay some of your medical bills?
This is a free article. Who does Trump think he is serving as President? I mean, besides himself. And who does his supporters thinking he's serving? Them?? Do they own boats that don't leak?
In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes Escalated at a Record Pace www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/c...
Today's report from Heather Cox Richardson. Among other things, she talks here about the role Project 2025 author and Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought plays in the govt shutdown and how Trump plans to gut the Affordable Care Act.
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Ask yourself: Why is Trump threatening to use the Insurrection Act, a law giving the President certain emergency powers, to override judges and local officials when there is no insurrection?
Could it be….fascism??
Heather Cox Richardson’s newsletter for Oct. 2, about the military raid on families in Chicago, Trump’s slipping and more.
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Yup! Me too!
Yup! Me too!
Re Portland:
Trump is declaring war on America. Really, who is the terrorist here?
Every day there is a new piece (or many) of the saddest news I've ever heard, and it's especially brutal to consider that this is being done on purpose by our government.
Does anyone still believe all this is about the hostages?
NYT headline:
IMO, this is a good overview of the various studies on the relationship between autism and vaccines and Tylenol, as well as a look into the nature of autism itself. It should be free to you.
What to Know About Painkillers, Vaccines, Genes and Autism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...
A report from Daily Variety written Friday about Kimmel/ABC talks moving forward.
The Business of Show is exploding where art and commerce collide.
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Zieg Heil!!
Got my updated Covid vaccine today.
One of my goals is to live long enough to dance on RFKjr’s grave.
The Supreme Court just, in essence, gave the government the right to detain anyone for no reason. And you thought you lived in the land of the free. Sucker!!
(To be clear, non-whites have lived with that understanding for centuries. So I guess you can say now we are all equal UNDER the law.)
From the US supplied bombs dropping on Palestine to blowing up Venezuelan boats in international waters to renaming it The Department of War, Trump is trying to save his Presidency by driving us into a war. Presidents are always more popular once a war starts. For a while.