A Perennial Philosopher

In his seven story townhouse, Epstein hosted the elite, displayed photos with press, and showcased a first edition of Lolita. Really. Can’t just subscribe to Penthouse?

Sixty years ago tomorrow, on August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. The need for the law was explained in its full title: “An Act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution, and for other purposes.” I graduated from high school then called Robert E Lee

Don Trump has fired all the professors looking after us. That would be like firing out doctors. Oh, he’s doing that? Crap.

Absolute truth!👇

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The jobs numbers aren’t ‘rigged.’ Trump owns this economy.
The president keeps trying to distance himself from the U.S. economy, which has been roiled by the chaos of his tariffs and trade wars

Statement on Gaza and Peace in the Middle East

In Gaza, deliberately caused starvation has placed 500,000 people at immediate risk, amid the killing of over 50,000 and the continued displacement of 2.1 million, which is 90% of the population. Horrendous human suffering and continues.

Illinois governor says Texas Democrats who left will be protected amid arrest threats
JB Pritzker said lawmakers are ‘doing the right thing’ after a group left Texas to prevent House vote on redistricting

Another REALLY good message for your refrigerator door!!

You are not fragile. You are not weak. You are climbing mountains that nobody sees. Whitney Hanson.

I want to make 80 so I can vote in general elections. Writing postcard to swing states. For the midterms check out Sister District. On line. They are working on 2026

The brazen partisan redistricting underway in Texas, with Republicans attempting to entrench themselves in office and Democrats weighing a counter-offensive in blue states, was greenlit by the US Supreme Court six years ago. I won’t live long enough to see a fair court.

Texas’ congressional districts are already heavily gerrymandered. In fact, under the current map, Republicans in Texas tend to get roughly 55% of the vote but end up with roughly two-thirds of the state’s U.S. House delegation. I have been in Texas 78 years and nothing gets better.

Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has spent nearly $21 billion in taxpayer funds on employees who’ve been paid not to work, according to a new Senate report. If this is how a businessman runs his organization, I think a ninth grader could do better.

Stumpy Trumpy is not draining the swamp. He is the swamp.

Today, Democratic lawmakers from the Texas House of Representatives left the state to deny Republican lawmakers the quorum—the number of legislators required to pass legislation—they need in order to push through a new district map that would take five seats currently held by Democrats.

This is a political time to wake up EVERYDAY prepared to Speak Truth to Power!.....

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Your School House Rock moment......

Republicans in the Texas legislature want to redistrict the state before the 2026 midterms. State legislatures normally redraw district lines every 10 years after the census required by the Constitution, President Trump has asked Texas Republicans to redistrict now to cut five Democratic districts.

Today I learned that in 2021 the United Nations voted on a resolution to declare FOOD a fundamental human right.

The vote count?

✅ 186
❌ 2

Any guesses who the two no votes were?

digitallibrary.un.org/record/39514...

This says it all!

President Donald Trump has fired Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, whom he accused, without evidence, of manipulating the monthly jobs reports for “political purposes.” If we can’t be honest on simple numbers how can we be honest about anything

On Monday, at a meeting with U.K. prime minister Keir Starmer in Scotland, President Donald Trump boasted that he was solving all the world’s problems: “I’ve stopped six wars” Wow. I guess it’s true. Dictators get elected by scamming voters and then taking them for a ride. Will we ever learn?

Is Trump an incompetent negotiator, easily hoodwinked? Maybe. But more fundamentally, he just doesn’t have the juice. The U.S. market is big, and denying other countries access to that market hurts them. But it doesn’t hurt them that much, and anyone imagining that America can win big is mistaken

Employers continued to create jobs but pulled back on hiring, a sign that more businesses are putting expansion plans on hold as they deal with economic uncertainty created by President Trump.

The economy added just 73,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department, lower than economists estimated

We just confirmed: the chair of Texas’s redistricting committee admitted he hasn’t even looked at the 2020 census data, even though GOP lawmakers are racing to redraw the congressional map in the middle of the decade.

That means the 2025 redistricting scheme isn’t based on demographics

official in charge of emergency management in Kerr County, Texas, admitted today that he was sick and asleep when deadly flooding arrived in the area this month, killing more than 100.

It's clear where MAGA extremists' priorities are, and it's not the people who actually live here. Here is Texas.

Donald Trump says he was “saved by God” to make America great again. In Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney rarely evokes religion in public. Well. I doubt God saved Trump. But God will show up at his trial. Some of us might not make it, but keep trying.