Wilder Ideas

Opinion | A Congressional Candidate Feared by the Tech Oligarchs

Concerned about AI? We all should be. As Michelle Goldberg explains, we need people who know how this newest, disrupting technology to help control it.

Opinion | The Rot Goes Deeper Than ICE

I say Yes! to all Ben Rhodes writes in this NYT opinion piece. We have to get out from under the shadow of 9/11 and instead work toward a stronger, freer democracy that has no room for ICE and other bullying, freedom-strangling agencies.👏👏👏

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Democratic Upset in Deep Red Texas District Rattles Republicans

We can only hope for more Repub defeats like this one. 👏

Pretty Lights

Grabbed this from the archives, it's the big May 11, 2024 storm.
It's one of the better ones that I have showing the Auroral Dunes formation.

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#Twizel, #NewZealand
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"Looks with your eyes, See with your Soul."

#Aurora #Nightscape #Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin #BucketList

Go, Philadelphia!!👏

CNN Data Guru Predicts Melania’s Humiliating Box Office Flop The numbers aren’t looking good for the Amazon investment.

CNN’s data expert Harry Enten has made a dire prediction for the box office success of the vanity documentary ‘Melania.’

Opinion | Minneapolis May Be Trump’s Gettysburg

One can only hope Jamelle Bouie is right.

The difference in the current scenario is that we have a senile, narcissistic idiot and his fascist zealots in charge. Let's hope they slink away like Lee and are ultimately be driven out of their hellish venture.

Opinion | This Theory Explains Trump’s Baffling Foreign Policy

Trump is just a narcissistic crook of a manbaby using his presidency to get richer. Authors Stacie Goddard and Abraham L. Newman take us back to the 16th century, where this a-hole belongs. Anybody have a time machine we can use to get him there?😈

List of Minnesota businesses closing for Jan. 23 anti-ICE strike First announced by faith leaders and unions on Jan. 13, Minnesota businesses have begun announcing plans to join the action.

This is a list of businesses across Minnesota that are closing tomorrow in solidarity with the economic shutdown. Huge thanks to every one of them for stepping up. If your business is also closing, drop it below.

Today is the most humiliating day in the history of the United States of America.

At least until tomorrow.

Davos LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum YouTube video by Associated Press

I'm with this guy from the Great White North! Brilliant speech!👏👍

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Dear Jonas’ Letter Is No Prize

Another good take from Jamelle Bouie on Trump's slide into dementia

Video: Opinion | Dear America, Greenland Is Not on Zillow Trump wants Greenland? Its previous colonizer has some thoughts.

A Danish comedian tries to explain why Trump's lust for Greenland is not going to get him anywhere, asking to speak on the phone to Trump's manager, Congress, who won't pick up. 👏👏👏🤣

YouTube video by Pod Save America Political Experts React to Democrats’ BEST New Ads

Excellent discussion of Democratic candidates for taking back the Senate.

Opinion | This Is Not How a Normal President Speaks

Jamelle Bouie sums up Trump at this juncture.

Dementia walking and talking

🙄🙄 Trump suddenly interrupted a meeting with oil executives

“Hold on, I need to look at my beautiful ballroom” — then got up and walked to the door.

“Wow. What a view! This is the door to the ballroom!”

The Messiness of Friendship The complexities of sharing feelings is what relationships require.

“Friendship isn’t about setting perfect boundaries: It’s about making room, sometimes messily, for one another,” Rafaela Jinich writes. In The Wonder Reader, she explores stories about the small, imperfect ways people show up for their loved ones:

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

ICE shoots, kills woman in Minneapolis The White House wastes no time gaslighting the American people

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Opinion | America Doesn’t Need ICE

Jamelle Bouie's on point here. Get these ICE thugs off our streets!

Trump Hit by Humiliating Poll as His 2026 Nightmare Looms New figures suggest voters are under little illusion as to who’s to blame for their financial woes.

Nearly half of U.S. voters believe their financial situation is rapidly deteriorating under Trump’s market-busting second stint in the White House.

‘He’s a Maximalist’: Inside Trump’s Gilded Oval Office Take a 3-D tour of the president’s office, where he covered a third of the wall space with gold.

Gag me totally. This proves you can't buy class.🤮

Reporter: “Why are the president’s fingers all bloody?”

Karoline Leavitt: “Because he shitposts at least 200 times on holidays.”

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