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Putting myself in the shoes of a physician trying to convince a vax-hesitant parent to trust me, because the Actual Consequence of alienating them is them drifting away into the love-bombing arms of more strident anti-vaxers and doing nothing good for their kids.

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The reason the Constitution requires congressional approval for war powers is to ensure the nation is fully mobilized and prepared to win the war, not just to decide whether the President's instincts and reasoning are correct

So disrespectful.

Thank you. I often want to yell the one thing, which I squelch and keep inside of me. To learn to do the other will be helpful.

Trump has fully shattered the world we all grew up in. It’s a dramatic break from how things worked before, even compared to the Iraq War and other misadventures - the United States abruptly tumbling over a cliff and becoming literally more reckless and domineering than Putin’s Russia.

Good! My dandelions often have their gummy slugs, which I too often encounter when deadheading 😳 (Yes, I deadhead -- a compromise with my husband, so we can keep a few dandelions in the yard.)

Some folks on the left told you you shouldn’t vote for @kamalaharris.com. They had a role in producing this.

How much of the world will Trump destroy before he’s brought down is the question.

America sank an Iranian ship and let the survivors drown! How is this not a war crime. #iran

The US has not declared war on Iran. So how is the ship a flagged enemy? There's no way to describe it other than calculated murder with absolutely no military advantage or gain. Shock and awe for the sake of the body count.
Absolutely without honor, and cowardly.

The US sunk an Iranian ship in international waters that was defenseless and a non-threat.
The ship had no munitions on board as it was coming from a peaceful, international naval exercise hosted by India.

The US left the survivors to drown.

U.S. torpedoed an Iran ship and let everyone drown. That’s called a war crime. America under trump has sunk to new lows in 2026.

Nightly votive in the porch garden.

"Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves and focused on happier things than 'politics.' They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters." — Naomi Shulmam
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Incredibly sad. I grieve

You am Spartacus!

Donald Trump has bombed more countries than any other president in American history:

Iran🇮🇷
Venezuela 🇻🇪
Iraq 🇮🇶
Syria 🇸🇾
Libya 🇱🇾
Nigeria 🇳🇬
Pakistan 🇵🇰
Somalia 🇸🇴
Afghanistan 🇦🇫
Yemen 🇾🇪

Your clue was 'Department of War'.
Your gaslighting was 'Board of Peace'.

fun game I just invented: trying to spell southern indidigenous-derived place names in italian

way down yonder on the
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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Matt Reuter. #NewYorkerCartoons

Thank you! I'll look into it.

Target is offering solutions for things that are not the problem. The new head honcho scrupulously avoided answering direct questions in the interview. Target used to be my 'happy place.' It was hard not to go at first; now it's easy. I expect a similar withdrawal frim Amazon will become easy.

The Iran war does not erase the domestic war on immigrants - America's Voice Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: Now that ...

“While Trump calls on the Iranian people to take control of their destiny, authorities here beat, tear-gas, or fabricate cases against those protesting violent immigration operations across U.S. cities,” Maribel Hastings writes in her latest column: americasvoice.org/comunicados/...

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

"Character " no longer "counts." The GOP slogan from the Clinton years is today's farce.

Opinion | Anthropic is fighting a battle the country needs Trump and his team have gone too far — again — in trying to bend a private business to their will.

We all should cheer for Anthropic in its lonely fight for responsible guardrails on AI.…A victory would help rein in an administration that has made a habit of improperly leveraging its gargantuan power to bend businesses and other institutions to its will. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Now that Republicans have done Trump's bidding by blocking limits on his war powers, remember that in doing this, they are also relieving *themselves* of the obligation to vote on the enormously consequential decision of whether to go to war. Craven abdication.

newrepublic.com/article/2072...

every R US Senator but Rand Paul owns this war, failed to uphold the Constitution and needs to get booted out.

GOP Senators: All the suffering and death in all the upcoming, unsupervised wars that Trump will wage, is on YOU!

You are COWARDS.

Every time you look in the mirror, I want you to especially remember the CHILDREN who died in agony, and never got to live their lives.

Because of you.

There are catalogs! I just did a Google search -- several responses! It's so amazing.

There certainly should be a catalog for arthritic people!