Living the fall colors here in West Michigan. Received some badly needed rain yesterday and the sun came out today.

We have a winner…🏆

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...

Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

“Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.”

Whatever happened to #abolishICE? It needs to be abolished. This is torture.

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This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny.

Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.

Every day, a new low.

“In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps.”

— WHCA president on PressSec’s bid for the White House to choose the press pool

Republicans are voting today to cut healthcare for 72 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. Dems, don't give them even one vote.

Leadership is doubling down, but GOP members are getting nervous about the budget’s extreme unpopularity.

You can call your Representative now at 202-224-3121.

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Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

I was here two weeks ago... currently it's 17 Fahrenheit outside my house.

NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNDER ASSAULT: They’re coming for our history.

The US archivist & staff resigned after Trump officials pushed to replace them w/loyalists.

Not just records you’d expect—slave records, immigration records, Native American treaties—all at risk. Will they rewrite or destroy history?

NBC News confirms: An IRS employee affiliated with Elon Musk's DOGE has accessed an IRS system that holds sensitive taxpayer information. @msnbc.com

Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America's nuclear weapons The National Nuclear Security Administration is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy that oversees the U.S. stockpile of thousands of nuclear weapons. Officials were given hours to...

www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...

To The People I Know Who Voted for Him, To the people I know who voted for him,

No matter how you’ve chosen to justify your allegiance to him, ultimately you made your decision, and quite frankly, I have lost the respect for and the affinity I had with you. There is a divide between us now that will never be completely removed.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...

Texas measles outbreak 2025: Dozens of cases reported in last 3 weeks In the last three weeks, 48 cases of measles have been identified, sending 13 patients to the hospital, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.

In the last three weeks, 48 cases of measles have been identified, sending 13 patients to the hospital, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. The number of cases has doubled in the last 3 days.

Lucky! We have a forty-five minute drive to get to ours so we always need to loop it in with other errants in the 'big city
of Grand Rapids.

Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number The billionaire and his DOGE agents were reportedly granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.

"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."
nymag.com/intelligence...

this is theft on an unimaginable scale

"The buck stops here"- Harry Truman

"I don't take any responsibility at all."- DJT

yyyyyeah maybe we shouldn’t just “relax”

AOC spot on , this is what leadership looks like.

Excellent post

FINALLY we are seeing some pushback from SOMEBODY! Lawyer up, Donnie

Heeding Trump, Air Force won't teach recruits about Tuskegee Airmen A video on the pioneering Black pilots, famed for their World War II exploits, was stripped from an Air Force basic training curriculum this week.

The Air Force will stop teaching recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen after an order from Donald Trump.

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first Black US military pilots and excelled in combat during World War II.