Toni Blackwell Rhodes

November 17, 2025 (Monday) President Donald J.

The signs were clear: Trump had lost control of the House Republicans …

Here’s envelope of a letter (dated Dec 29, 1941) that my father wrote to his girlfriend, who would later become my mother. My father was in training at the US Army Signal School in NJ. The letter is addressed to Fleischer Studios, where they met. Fleischer made Betty Boop and Popeye cartoons.

Here’s envelope of a letter (dated Dec 29, 1941) that my father wrote to his girlfriend, who would later become my mother. My father was in training at the US Army Signal School in NJ. The letter is addressed to Fleischer Studios, where they met. Fleischer made Betty Boop and Popeye cartoons.

November 16, 2025 On Thursday, November 13, Michael Schmidt reported in the New York Times the story of the 17-year-old girl the House Ethics Committee found former representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) likely paid to have ...

In Lincoln’s day, and in the Gilded Age, and in the 1930s, Americans pushed back against those trying to establish an aristocracy in the United States …

November 12, 2025 It turns out Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and House Democrats were right to call it the “Epstein Shutdown” for the last several weeks on social media and in interviews.

This is the beginning of the end …

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

November 14, 2025 In a transparent attempt to distract from the many times his own name appears in the documents from the Epstein estate members of the House Oversight Committee released Wednesday, President Donald J.

Putting out a fire that they started and claiming it as progress …

November 13, 2025 We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J.

This “is not law enforcement,” they wrote; “it is terror.” …

November 12, 2025 It turns out Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and House Democrats were right to call it the “Epstein Shutdown” for the last several weeks on social media and in interviews.

This is the beginning of the end …

November 11, 2025 In 1918, at the end of four years of World War I’s devastation, leaders negotiated for the guns in Europe to fall silent once and for all on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month...

World War II gave power to the idea of trying to stop wars by establishing a rules-based international order …

November 9, 2025 In order to pressure the Democrats to cave to Trump’s demands that they sign on to the House Republicans’ continuing resolution to fund the government, the administration has been refusing to fund the...

Astonishing how hard this administration is working to keep people hungry …

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

The colors and textures of this are just perfection. ::Chef's kiss::

November 6, 2025 “None of this is complicated,” political data specialist Tom Bonier wrote yesterday about Tuesday’s dramatic Democratic victories around the country.

Trump is following House speaker Johnson’s lead and getting out of town, heading to Florida for the weekend …

November 5, 2025 New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a member of both the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, began his victory speech last night with a nod to Eugene V.

Democracy belongs to ordinary people …

November 4, 2025 (Tuesday) So much for obeying a court order, even if begrudgingly and with manufactured delay.

Today voters resoundingly rejected Trump and Trumpism …

November 3, 2025 At the end of her interview with President Donald J.

Astonishing act of cruelty …

Post your space art!

GEORGIA DEMOCRATS — today’s the last day to vote in the PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION race. TAKE BACK YOUR POWER! VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!

October 31, 2025 Yesterday a reporter asked Representative Joe Neguse, a Democrat of Colorado, about the administration’s withholding of reserve funds Congress intended would fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...

The Trump administration needs to follow the law …

I’d be allowed to do whatever I want …

October 29, 2025 Today is the twenty-ninth day of the government shutdown, and the House of Representatives is still on break as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to force the Senate to pass the House...

War and peace …

October 28, 2025 In the election of 1920, Americans handed a landslide victory to the Republicans and their presidential candidate Warren G.

October 29, 1929, it all came crashing down …

October 26, 2025 Economist Paul Krugman probably didn’t have the Erie Canal in mind today when he wrote about the rise of renewable energy, but he could have.

The Erie Canal …

October 25, 2025 Yesterday the Trump administration said it would not use any of the approximately $6 billion the U.S.

What are we doing here?

October 24, 2025 Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has canceled House business again next week, meaning that over the last 17 weeks, the House of Representatives will have worked on Capitol Hill for just 20 days.

Republicans have embraced the destruction of the modern government …

October 23, 2025 Julia Ainsley and Didi Martinez of NBC News reported today that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s rush to get new recruits onto the street has meant they have pushed into their training program mo...

There will come a time where people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law …

October 22, 2025 “It’s not his house.

It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it …