Anne Exum

The same guy telling you Portland is war-ravaged, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall and people were eating your pets in Ohio.

The name change is a waste of resources — and historically wrong! — but also it’s a sign that there are guardrails left for Trump. In his first term, the “grown-ups” would have stopped this. Now it goes from “random musing” to “mad ming edict” in days. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/on-war-dep...

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.

If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.

If you're under 28, the number is 100%.

Happy Labor Day.

I usually add diced red pepper, cheese, turkey sausage crumbles, and/or spinach to a frozen Margherita pizza.

In total agreement.

Never too tired for a scoop (pint?) of ice cream.

Trump to Canadian PM Carney: "You see the new and improved Oval Office. As it becomes more and more beautiful with love and 24 karat gold."

Trump to kids in the US: “Less dolls for you this Christmas, you greedy little bitches.”

Here it is. A timetable of 100 days of corruption.

Breathtaking. Heartbreaking.

We cannot let this stand.

When my son was stationed there, I got to walk and wander many parks and streets. Charming and beautiful.

I'm rarely if ever ahead of the times, but I've been saying this for two months. Nationwide strike, anyone?

I admit that I sometimes have to reread what he writes and explains; his knowledge is beyond mine, but I always learn from him.

Are we thinking of the same people??

If the US government requires passports for you to practice your rights such as voting then passports should be provided for free to all and within a reasonable timeframe by said government.

LOL indeed

Can't wait! When I no longer get my social security $$, I can go back to work. And by "screwing," Lutnick seems to mean two different things.

I've been thinking that this could be effective, and sooner than later!

Embarrassing

Gary mistakenly thought Trump got A's in his history classes?

At this point, I'd just like to move to Edinburgh.

Just murderous. These USAID cuts.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

Applies to so many other people...

I messaged my doctor, who said, "You should not need a measles booster. If you were born before 1957, you are considered immune to measles as all children born during that time period were exposed to measles." I trust her.

Heather Cox Richardson is not part of this effort. If you know who typed this up, please let them know.
Thank you.

We who have been there have all kinds of feelings about your post. I never sighed so much as when caring for my 93-year-old mother. Now I sigh because she's not here to answer my questions, cheer my successes, or comfort me when I'm sad.

Mmm...

These are Fort Campbell-based 101st Airborne Division soldiers escorting the Little Rock Nine in 1957. Fort Campbell is erasing *its own* history.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.