Been busy running my two companies and enjoying the summer. Still cannot keep my eyes away from what is happening in this country. A crazy, racist, lying old man occupies the White House while a bunch of cowards control Congress.

Am using this time to rest and be ready to fight in the fall.

Opinion | How many more Gazan children need to die of hunger before the U.S. takes a stand? Israel is permitting supplies to enter the territory in quantities catastrophically insufficient for its approximately 2 million residents.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

"Suffering is an inevitable part of life, but its meaning is not inherent; we give it meaning through our response to it." - Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning.

People in Gaza are ‘walking corpses’, says Unrwa, as agency says it has 6,000 aid trucks ready to enter – Middle East crisis live Philippe Lazzarini says Unrwa findings show one in five children is malnourished in Gaza City and says agency has food and medical supplies

Have not posted in a while, but I had to do so today.

The world is watching and not doing a damn thing to stop it.

This is beyond horrific.

BiBi Netanyahu and his Right-Wing govt. are directly responsible.

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Thomas Jefferson is spinning in his grave.

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

I will agree with dump he old when you fully explain the alternative.

In my early senior years, I have a problem with idealism when experience and reality has taught me to ask questions first and be sure the alternative is worth it.

#Seniorthought

In last few days new polls show Trump's approval ratings at all times low: Gallup 40%, Quinnipiac 41% and Reuters 41%. Have you heard about these polls #s? Probably not because corporate media ignores them to bolster Trump. In contrast when a Dem president got bad poll #s we would hear all about it!

“No Right Is Safe” Podcast Episode · Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · 06/28/2025 · 50m

With @mjsdc.bsky.social

We were so fortunate to have such a good and decent man as our president.

happy bday Swiss philosopher/writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau, b.1712.

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"

"Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves."

“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”

Political combat against a former Gov., who left office in disgrace, most Dems. did not like or want.

This is Trump's America.

I just did the math, and yes, this checks out.

Done under a black mayor with a DEI city-wide policy.

Violent crime drops to levels not seen in a decade in Chicago during first half of 2025 Chicago is poised to close the first half of the year with its steepest statistical drop in recent memory, with fewer than 200 homicides in the first six months of a calendar year for the first tim…

Chicago is poised to close the first half of the year with its steepest statistical drop in violent crime in recent memory, with fewer than 200 homicides in the first six months of the year for the first time in over a decade, according to city and county figures.

It’s probably not great to wake up this pissed off. Then I think of how pissed off Justice Jackson must be.

happy bday writer Luigi Pirandello, b.1867, won Nobel Prize for Lit in 1934.

“And the air is new. And everything, instant by instant, is as it is, preparing to appear. [...] This is the only way I can live now. To be reborn moment by moment. [...] I die at every instant, and I am reborn, new...

Assuming the Court make up is not the same, which can never be predicted, the Court may agree with the Dems. president.

The Court's make up in Plessy v Ferguson was different from Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Separate but equal decision was decided differently in each case.

on this day in 1969 the Stonewall Uprising, "a pivotal moment in the LGBTQ+ rights fight, began and sparked a movement led in part by two transgender activists: Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera." Let us honor them today by fighting for love and equality today.

The tables will turn some day when a Dems. is in office. The GOP/Conservatives will miss using nationwide injunctions against the Dems. president like they did against Biden.

Biden pays respects as former Minnesota House Speaker Hortman, killed in shooting, lies in state Melissa Hortman lay in state in the Minnesota Capitol rotunda with her husband, Mark, and their golden retriever, Gilbert.

A good, decent human being. He is not perfect and made mistakes, but he always demonstrated his humanity to others.

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Former VP Kamala Harris will travel from California to Minnesota to attend Saturday’s funeral services of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, per a source familiar with her plans.

Governor Walz extended an invitation on behalf of the family.

Read the words and weep for our future.

4 obviously true facts that mainstream media refuse to say in a direct manner:
/ MAGA is a fascist movement assaulting democracy.
/ RFK Jr.’s downgrading of public health will cause people to die.
/ Trump is a white supremacist.
/ Trump lies every day. He’s not deluded or mistaken – he’s lying.

People actually believed that @kamalaharris.com would be worst.

Too many people sat on their behinds and did not even vote.

Too many people believed the lies and voted for a liar.

This is how we got here.

To clarify, for the next 30 days, birthright citizenship is still the law—every baby born in the U.S. is a citizen. But after that? Uncertainty. The Supreme Court paused Trump’s order, but unless states win again in court, citizenship could depend on which state you’re born in.

This is a lie (as usual). While I disagree with the decision, IT LEAVES THE INJUNCTIONS OF THE BIRTHRIGHT EO IN PLACE, just narrows them to the plaintiffs. And it does not limit nationwide class actions, which will be filed to achieve the identical outcomes. The EO remains unconstitutional.

After today’s Supreme Court decision limiting nationwide injunctions, Trump announces that he will end birthright citizenship and impose other new changes to the laws and Constitution by executive order.

“The economy is so bad that they can hire a spy for five-thousand dollars.” Maziar Bahari shines a light on the corruption of Iran that leaves their leaders even more vulnerable to Israel’s attacks.

What the Supreme Court Knew in 1803 And Why it Matters Today

What the Supreme Court Knew in 1803
and Why it Matters Today open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...