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I hope that ALL that crassness (gold, ballroom, ....) is removed, not 'repurposed', post haste after Trump is gone - no matter the cost - of course, we should take it from those who benefited from his corruption

Horrifying!

Republicans: They state that work requirements honor the dignity of work - what they mean is "we need (near) slave labor".

Evil, evil man

I believe people who damage others through deceit, theft, or violence should pay a price. I hope that a time comes when the lawyers who are lying to the courts and the people are held accountable. Those people lying to the courts in defense of Trump's actions need to lose their licenses.

I feel certain that Trump has been silencing people for a lot longer than 40 years. Seems very likely he learned it from his father but Roy Cohn (lawyer for Mafia figures) was very clearly an important teacher.

I support voting in a real hard ass as the Democratic President of the United States at the next election. No Mr./Ms. nice guy/gal.

Of course, that is the outcome that the Republicans fear.

Interesting (scary) times.

The very scary aspect of the Supreme Court's decisions allowing Trump such leeway is that, under normal circumstances, a following Democratic president would be doing the same to the Republicans. But, apparently, that is not a concern - do they anticipate a one way triumph of the right?

Went to Adopt a Station, found KUHB on St. Paul. Link on Adopt a Station no good but did go to kuhbstation.com and posted a query about how to give money and whether giving money would help save the station.

Is there a way to contribute generally to public radio stations in Alaska? A challenge to find all the different stations and then determine/guess which has the greatest need for my modest contributions.

Do I focus on Fairbanks where I have my greatest connections?

Grew up in Fairbanks, dying this week in Vermont

I wish I could be confident that, in fact, the "wealthy and connected" will actually be held accountable for all the lives lost. Not me.

Not so gradually

He really wants to destroy his namesake's (1932 - 1972) memory.

We were proud of Nick.

This is real? Shaking my head in disbelief ... but this is Trump from months ago. I see "available at discount"

Agree that we are very far from improving, indeed harming, the lot of people who do the hard work that isn't management.

Agree that a lot of the work that immigrants do is back-breaking work. So are many other jobs. But miners, for example, spent decades fighting for better pay and conditions.

Perhaps we ought to work to improve pay and working conditions for all people and not just allocate some jobs to "others".

I wonder how well American farm workers get paid and what the working conditions are. How much profit sharing?

It might be that if workers performing such tasks were treated with respect that more might be willing to perform the work.

Can they work with pride?

Hard to believe the governor is so evil - but he demonstrates it again and again.

And why?!

Who is he trying to impress - or - who is he beholden to?

My son works for one - he tells me that instead of having each person processing the freight, including the tariffs, they had to create a special group to keep up with all the changes, in order to avoid errors. More costly and a little slower, even in the best businesses.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was NOT 'mistakenly' deported. He was deported with ill intent on purpose in violation of his rights in the United States of America.

Bullshit phrasing

Yup, the rationale by the powerful is 'too bad'. And people KNOW that there are minerals that are going to be exploited in an uncaring, destructive way?! If so, why weren't those riches taken earlier? (Yes, rhetorical question, but ...)

And of course we ought to know protections will be removed.

Yes, but the 'value' of the 10,000 opinions, as contrary as it sounds, is that people will still act on a consensus, as if it were based on facts.

Ha Ha Ha

The fraud is on the part of the insurance companies and some providers - not the patients!

And our failure to hold people/authorities in Saudi Arabia who supported Bin Laden after 911 still rankles. As far as I could tell they got a big pass.

I'm guessing the Chinese have enough patience to avoid engaging with gas bag Trump. And TACO.

I know several people who routinely go through their closets and, if an article of clothing hasn't been worn for a period of time, perhaps a year, it's put in a pile to take to the local thrift shop as a donation.

On the other hand, anything I stop wearing is see through.