Outraged Octogenarian

Hoorah! My first Hoorah for the night. I'm going for a hat trick.
Virginia. New Jersey. California

Two NYT Headlines today:
1) Trump Says He Is Prepared to Send "More Than the National Guard Into U.S. Cities
2) Military Destroys 4 More Boats U.S. Says Were Carrying Drugs

Edging closer to Trump invoking the Insurrection Act

Trump Pardons Founder of the Crypto Exchange Binance

Hey Hey Ho Ho - another criminal is let go! Convicted Billionaire Crypto guy, who helped terriorists and drug traffickers move money, was pardoned after making a deal with Trump that is poised to generate tens of millions of dollars a year to the Trump family's crypto business.

Still hoping for a miracle in which republican politicians choose democracy over autocracy with three equal but separate branches of government running our country and following the rule of law. Our country cannot survive under the rule of a mad king and his court of cruel, incompetent loyalists.

So glad I could participate in this glorious No Kings peaceful protest in Collingswood, NJ.

Show up.

It matters.

The United States Supreme Court made possible this dehumanizing, illegal raid on a Chicago apartment building.

Fact-checkers working hard to keep up…

China’s Snub of U.S. Soybeans Is a Crisis for American Farmers

Negotiations for this potentially disastrous situation for American farmers created by Trump's tariff policies has a "fox guarding the hen house" twist given that U.S. negotiator Treasury Secy Scott Bessent has more than $25 million dollars invested in farmland affected by the soybean crisis.

Evidently each media outlet is playing to their viewers. MSNBC still (incorrectly) thinks it needs to take the high road while Fox thrives in wallowing in the gutter of cruelty and hatred that appeals to their viewers.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters

Another nail in America's Coffin hammered in by the Trump Administration. The damage they are doing to our country is beyond comprehension.

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

Cuts to the Food Safety System Threaten Americans’ Health

When the republicans in Congress put the health of their families before their own cowardice and greed they will be able to stop the Trump Administration Killing Fields.

Welcome to our new America thanks to the Supreme Court Republican majority. Democracy is dying.

In the blink of an eye we have untrained, overweight thugs wearing balaclavas invading our communities, schools and businesses to seize and “disappear” men, women and children based on racial profiling, with the approval of the republican majority on the Supreme Court. Democracy is dead.

Keeping in-line with the rest of the Trump Administration's dismal level of decency, humanity and intelligence.

Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding

It is difficult to imagine the level of cruelty and inhumanity empowered by Donald Trump, Steven Miller et al, and carried out by a weak, despicable, republican congress. A perfect storm that is destroying America.

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

This article was written by nine former directors or acting directors of the CDC and should be taken very seriously.

This is the way

Opinion | Vax Quack Lacks Facts

From the article: "Our health secretary is a certified quack. But the president, who is letting Kennedy run wild, knows better. " Kennedy's anti-vax push has already led to major drug chains cutting back on covid vaccine availability in three states. And this is just the start.

C'mon..this has to be an AI clip.. No sane person would say these things.

This is another Trump slight-of-hand trick similar to sending thousands of troops to the border to safeguard the country from the non-existant roving bands of dangerous criminals. If you say it enough and the press keeps printing it.. the magas will believe it .

A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply

Read this and weep.

SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes.

All I can think of are the thousands of men, women and children who are suffering from Musk's brutal funding cuts.

Draft of White House Report Suggests Kennedy Won’t Push Strict Pesticide Regulations

Draft of White House Report Suggests Kennedy Won’t Push Strict Pesticide Regulations . Of course they won't. God forbid they invest funds and effort into something that might save American lives.

Bondi Tightens Trump Administration’s Grip on D.C. Police

The Trump Administration comes up with another "fake" emergency and an Emergency Commissioner.

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