Tom Stock-Hendel

No, there’s no corruption here. Nothing for you to be concerned about. Just keep your eyes down and walk on. Oh, you think 230 million could pay some of your medical bills?

In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes Escalated at a Record Pace

This is a free article. Who does Trump think he is serving as President? I mean, besides himself. And who does his supporters thinking he's serving? Them?? Do they own boats that don't leak?

In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes Escalated at a Record Pace www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/c...

October 6, 2025 If White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is at the head of the administration’s deployment of federal agents against undocumented immigrants, it appears that Office of Management and Budget...

Today's report from Heather Cox Richardson. Among other things, she talks here about the role Project 2025 author and Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought plays in the govt shutdown and how Trump plans to gut the Affordable Care Act.

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Ask yourself: Why is Trump threatening to use the Insurrection Act, a law giving the President certain emergency powers, to override judges and local officials when there is no insurrection?
Could it be….fascism??

October 2, 2025 At about 1:00 on Tuesday morning, federal agents from Border Patrol, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) raided an apartment b...

Heather Cox Richardson’s newsletter for Oct. 2, about the military raid on families in Chicago, Trump’s slipping and more.
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Yup! Me too!

Yup! Me too!

Re Portland:
Trump is declaring war on America. Really, who is the terrorist here?

Every day there is a new piece (or many) of the saddest news I've ever heard, and it's especially brutal to consider that this is being done on purpose by our government.

Does anyone still believe all this is about the hostages?

NYT headline:

What to Know About Painkillers, Vaccines, Genes and Autism

IMO, this is a good overview of the various studies on the relationship between autism and vaccines and Tylenol, as well as a look into the nature of autism itself. It should be free to you.

What to Know About Painkillers, Vaccines, Genes and Autism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...

Jimmy Kimmel and Disney Working to Reach Compromise to Bring His Show Back Jimmy Kimmel and his representatives are working with Disney and ABC leaders on a compromise to allow 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' to return to ABC.

A report from Daily Variety written Friday about Kimmel/ABC talks moving forward.
The Business of Show is exploding where art and commerce collide.

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%

Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%

Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.

As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

Zieg Heil!!

Got my updated Covid vaccine today.
One of my goals is to live long enough to dance on RFKjr’s grave.

The Supreme Court just, in essence, gave the government the right to detain anyone for no reason. And you thought you lived in the land of the free. Sucker!!
(To be clear, non-whites have lived with that understanding for centuries. So I guess you can say now we are all equal UNDER the law.)

From the US supplied bombs dropping on Palestine to blowing up Venezuelan boats in international waters to renaming it The Department of War, Trump is trying to save his Presidency by driving us into a war. Presidents are always more popular once a war starts. For a while.

Bad employment numbers again today.
Who is Trump going to fire?
Facts are stubborn things.

I’m sure Netanyahu is so-o-o sorry. He’s only been doing this for 20 months. He, and the Israeli government, are war criminals and murderers. This is genocide, and our tax dollars support it. It must stop!

Stephen Miller seems to have poked the bear with his comment about 90 year old hippies. Although I’m “only” 73, I was one of those students protesting. One thing I’ve learned: the students are always right. Even if you think they may be wrong, they’re right. They have nothing to lose but the future.

August 11, 2025 President Donald J.

Usually I find Richardson to be too establishment Democrat for my taste, but her report on today’s events are on target. A new page of the Trump saga has been turned.

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Reality.

It is obvious that he is attempting a “dry run” of military take overs in our cities. He wants a military that will have already accepted the kind of request they turned down on Jan. 6. It is no exaggeration to say he is planning dictatorship.

Our “democracy” is a sham. Biggest joke: the US Senate. First, it’s wrong that it exists at all. How do 2 officials from a small state have the same power as 2 from a big state? Then, the Senate is the more powerful of the two parts of Congress, with specific powers that the House doesn’t have.

Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyone A U.S. Army veteran arrested during an immigration raid at a California marijuana farm says he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his vehicle on his way to work.

ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days.

They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention.

Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...

This is a real quote.
If we tolerate this shit, no one can even try to say this is the greatest country on Earth. But my guess is that’s no longer part of their rhetoric, not really. America has the biggest bombs and most guns on Earth. That’s really all they want to say.

Is this who we are? We construct concentration camp prisons while firing those whose job is to prepare and warn people of imminent weather.

What do you think the role of government should be?

Unless we’re bombing them, the rest of the world is laughing at us.
Happy fourth.