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My piece yesterday in the Asheville Citizen Times. Happy Labor Day!

www.citizen-times.com/story/opinio...

Time will tell whether #PopeLeoXIV will have a positive impact on the world, but it does make me happy to think how annoyed Trump must be that is not the no longer the most powerful American.

New York Post headline says: Trump mulls $5K 'baby bonus' for moms in bid to reverse declining birth rates: report By Isabel Keane Published April 22, 2025, 8:57 a.m. ET

After spending decades *accusing* Black women of having babies to get payments from the government, they want to encourage white women to have babies to get payments from the government.

Shame on UNC

This part. This is why I beg yall to stop conflating cowardice with complicity.

Columbia, Paul Weiss et al are like Dem party leadership. [source: I was an elected Dem.] For the most part they’re not capitulating, not even cowering.

What they are is complicit; they’ve just had their cover blown.

I'm not joking. The U.S. is disappearing people and sending folks to concentration camps domestically and internationally.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back. - Henry David Thoreau

📷: Eastern Bluebird

The media can (and should) reject the Right's deceptive frame. This is not about "references to diversity, equity, and inclusion."

It is a neosegregationist attempt to erase everyone but white males from the nation's history.

Opinion | It Isn’t Just Trump. America’s Whole Reputation Is Shot. What happens when a superpower goes rogue.

Bingo: "This is not just a Trump problem. I don’t care if Abraham Lincoln himself walked into the White House in 2029, no foreign leader can responsibly trust a nation that is perpetually four years away from electing another authoritarian nihilist.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...

Why does a US president try to destroy the US federal government, the US economy and the US international alliances???

holy shit this question at the Rep. Chuck Edwards town hall 🔥🔥🔥

It’s impossible to state how spineless, ineffectual, and dumb Schumer is as leader. Just reprehensible. AOC should announce she’s primarying him right now and she’d have enough donations by tomorrow for the rest of her career.

I need a printer. Eco tank.

Democrats stop electing right wing assholes as NYC mayor challenge.

Andrew Cuomo @andrewcuomo Follow All New Yorkers, including Jewish New Yorkers, deserve equal protection under the law. This is especially true in our schools, where every student should be able to learn free of discrimination, violence, and harassment. The antisemitic agitators at Columbia University & on campuses across the country have gone unchecked for too long. 3:07 PM • 3/12/25 • 19K Views

Andrew Cuomo is even worse than you imagined.

Cuomo going down

This is how you write a headline @politico.com

We actually want Reagan to be rolling in his grave.

Like that should be a litmus test for us, not a comeback.

You’re allowed to be a Reagan democrat. But you will lose. Again and again. So consider stopping being that.

“This is the portion of the story where we lay out the facts.

Now is the portion where we get a historical opinion from an expert.

Now an ideological pundit.

Now public opinion.

Now your turn to make an opinion.”

What an about creating or converting a news agency that actually breaks down very clearly the building blocks of journalism and critical assessment.

Very obvious deconstruction and give license to viewers.

It irks me when people ground their complaints of Trump by how good Bush was.

Disappointing dem response.

“Reagan would be rolling in his grave.”

NC Republicans: “Don’t worry, we haven’t even *started* with Helene Relief.”

Advocates: “Exactly! We know! Please start!”

‘America First’ is such a misnomer for this trade war lobbed at allies.

A better name would be ‘America Handing Away Power Like Beads at Mardi Gras’

Trade war has me feeling happy that I have two mid-mileage Toyotas.

Makes the pain of being inept at private selling a car a little less.

Let’s not kid ourselves that primary-ing the shit out of a large swath of centrist democrats isn’t a critical part of any solution going forward.

If I had to guess, maybe they vote in red districts but aren’t red voters?

I live in a red district. I would be doing backflips if this happened the next time Chuck Edwards comes to town.