betty deville

Watching Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince when Draco watches the deatheaters enter Hogwarts and cries hits different today.

Also, they are on a nice paid vacation while government workers sit in limbo without a paycheck.

The way we should all be screaming with rage about the government shut down cannot be understated. The tax $ that we are so worried about feeding children with are the same tax dollars that are also used to pay these buffoons who cannot get it together at the expense of people’s livelihoods.

Staten Island: are you ok?

Even Dick Cheney hated all of this.

Cuomo getting 41% was still too much considering his history. Our tolerance for the abuse of others never ceases to shock me.

The leopard is biting everyone’s faces now.

Mosquitos have touched down in Iceland.

With regards to my earlier post, this is what I mean. We as New Yorkers are only going to allow our own craziness, we will not allow this mess.

If you voted for our current mess because you were worried about grocery prices, are you at all concerned about your tax dollars knocking down the White House, kidnapping people off the streets, funding foreign atrocities, or potentially paying a felon’s legal fees?

To the mentally and anatomically small humans who are ICE: I would say running up on NYC is not a smart move

Opinion | America Darkens

I think this is worth a read. Bret Stephens, who I typically read through gritted teeth, and Frank Bruni discuss our moment. Multiple perspectives and open listening is our only way out.

America Darkens www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

Gorgeous Sunday message

It’s almost like destroying public education over the past 45 years and ending up with 60% of the population literate at a 6th grade level with low critical thinking skills was the plan.

I think it's time to admit that our entire planet is at active war with fascism. And that the war is existential, not just for minorities, for everyone.

Turns out I know a lot of really awful people if Facebook is any indication. Instagram too.

Today I feel a heaviness that is not related to 9/11. Today feels like a turning pt, though I have felt it since the political assassination of Melissa Hortman & her husband. Despite teetering on the loss of civility for so long, we have finally fallen. The discourse on the internet is unbearable.

I met a woman who had a very traditional marriage by choice. She told me she went behind her husband‘s back to change all of their investments after reading a similar discussion. I think about her a lot.

I would love it if it would become earth shatteringly embarrassing to have somebody find out that you’re a pedophile, rapist, or racist. Like world ending.

When did it become all or nothing? You can be a Republican (believing in the central principles of small gov, low taxes, etc.) and not want to destroy the world and human rights. Where are the normal Republicans? I was raised by some great ones who have since abandoned political affiliation.

And by respect, Republican views, I am open to debate about fiscal responsibility and small government, not the modern dog whistles of Republicanism - stripping people of human rights, destroying bodily autonomy, bigotry, and cruelty. These are not up for debate and have no place in gov.

A Trump themed bus (yes) parked in the center of my town. Taking up spots, being an eyesore, daring confrontation. I love political freedom and can respect republican views on governance, though con camps, pedophilia, idolatry, and hate are not part of this equation. Get out.

I should say I was driving UNDER the bridge and the banner was posted on the bridge.

Driving over a major bridge in the northeast U.S. and saw a few white men with a large banner. I was scared as to what I was about to read bc of the amount of flags, but the banner read “remove the pedo in chief”. I’m here for this type of bait and switch and I’m sorry for stereotyping (not really).

On vaca, went to a crystal gift shop, owner was telling ppl about the lion’s gate portal and 5 retrogrades making dogs act nuts and bringing desires. 5 retrogrades sounds like too many, but I want to believe my life is dictated by planets being silly.

Not to be dramatic, but I’ll never take for granted being able to breathe through my nose again. Summer colds are gross and I feel like sinuses and the whole ENT system is a design flaw.

“In a less depraved time….”

Can someone explain to me how it is status quo for senators and reps to vote with their own interests (financial and otherwise) rather than with the will of their constituencies? I wish people would spare us the bogus interest in protecting our constitution when they clearly have never read it.

BBC headline of RNLI crew rescuing people from the Channel

What state have we got to as a country when saving human life has to be justified?

This! There should be no celebrity figure (or anyone really) in your life that you love so much you’ll excuse blatant pedophilia and trafficking.