Gayle

"...a female Bloomberg reporter at a press gaggle aboard Air Force One November 14 asked him if there was anything “incriminating” in the Epstein files, he pointed a finger in her face and said: “Quiet! Quiet, Piggy.”

We know his natural inclination is to dismiss women.

#trumpisapig

Kash ordered a team of FBI agents to go through the Epstein files many months ago to redact Trump’s name based on FOIA exemptions 6 and 7. It is highly unlikely they are going to be unredacted before they are released. ONLY victim info should be redacted, but much more will be.

My nephew eventually ended his own life. We know this played a part in that, too.

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 ...

November 16, 2025

Nineteen year young Snickers is demanding a refill of his food dish. Where's that lazy server???

#SeniorDogs #Dogs #GottaLoveThem

Tonight Aaron Rupar of Public Notice wrote: “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[?]”

As usual, the cruelty is the point.

Political strategist Simon Rosenberg commented: “If Trump wags the dog in Venezuela it is going to do enormous damage to his already degraded brand here in the US. Zero support for this in the public. Will be seen for what it is—[a] transparent attempt to rescue his flailing Presidency.”

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He's undoubtedly planning the Mother of all Distractions but can't think of anything to top flying over a city in a crown dropping poo on American citizens.

We know where his priorities lie....

Fall / Winter in Central Indiana, where getting outside is breathtaking as the seasons collide, adding to their natural beauty.

#hiking #photography #trails #nature

Cruelty is the point: President Donald J. Trump did not want the shutdown to end this way. He was trying to use the pain he was inflicting on the American people to force Republican senators to end the filibuster and pass a series of measures that would essentially have made him a dictator.

A cool quite: ... CNN asked Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy “how many Americans will not be able to be with their families for [Thanksgiving] because of this,” Duffy answered: “I think the number is going to be substantial.”

Obviously, once again, the cruelty is the point.

My granddog Frosty on her adoption day.

From the letter: Abha Bhattarai of the Washington Post reported, U.S. employers have announced 1.1 million layoffs so far in 2025. That number rivals job cuts during the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009.

#depression? #arewewinningyet?

A good read as always, with so much critical information we need to digest. And here, finally, we find some hope.

"But in fact, today voters resoundingly rejected Trump and Trumpism, and tomorrow, politics will be a whole different game."

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The President is openly defying a court order just to rip food away from starving families. So much for the rule of law. So much for basic humanity. This cruel, lawless man is hell-bent on inflicting pain on the American people—because that’s all he knows how to do.

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

November 3, 2025

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...

October 31, 2025

19 year young Snickers sleeping in on Halloween.

It's hiking Friday! The colors are still slow to arrive in Indiana, but there are some gorgeous ones if you look closely.

#hiking #trails #photography #moundsstatepark #autumn

I've been to Turkey Run but sadly never to Shades yet.

I just can't get enough of cool reflection pictures at Mounds State Park in Indiana. Fall colors in Indiana have been delayed as we're in a drought. But finally there is some color happening.

Let's see more recent fall pictures!

#Nature #Photography #woods #trails #Reflections

When did making kids go hungry become a Christian value?

An excellent read as always.

Indiana....a walk and the local scenery as seen from the Cardinal Trail.

#photography #railstotrails #freshair #trails

What are we doing here? Heather has a great question!

Hope is not a sentimental optimism that things will somehow work out; hope is the subversive conviction that injustice and death will not have the final word and acting on that belief. Hope is not passive waiting it’s active persistence. Hope prays, peacefully protests, weeps, and keeps showing up.