Diane K. S.

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Opinion | Chuck Schumer: Trump and Musk Would Love a Shutdown. We Must Not Give Them One. A government shutdown would lead to real pain for the American people.

Infuriatingly, I think Schumer is right.
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From today’s Wordsmith:
“A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (14 Mar 1879-1955)”

On Thursday at 7pm in New Jersey, fmr Dem Rep. Tom Malinowski will be hosting a town hall meeting—since the sitting GOP Rep. Tom Kean won’t. Malinowski’s invite reads that Kean “refuses to hear his constituents’ concerns … remaining invisible in both Washington and his district.”

War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge The purge could delete as many as 100,000 images or posts in total.

Outrageous. “The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets.” - Wikipedia
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More reasons for modest optimism This week’s ten

More reasons for modest optimism
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WTF?

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‘Hamilton’ Cancels Kennedy Center Show Run In Protest Of Trump’s ‘Purge’ President Donald Trump was appointed as the performing arts center’s chairman last month to combat its “woke” programming.

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Socialism is what they called public power. 

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

Trump Live Updates: Supreme Court Denies Bid to Freeze Nearly $2 Billion in Foreign Aid (Gift Article)

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

From today’s Wordsmith:
“A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. -William Beveridge, economist and reformer (5 Mar 1879-1963)”

Only when enough voters are seriously hurt by the administration’s policies, especially among the maggot voters, will voters turn away and oust the party of billionaires. Sad. It has to get very bad before change comes.

Yep.

Dress Code Dress Code Drama at the Oval Office

Dress Code
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Any Questions?! 👇

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

We'll be losing Allies as long as the current president stays in office.

Norwegian fuel supplier refuses U.S. warships over Ukraine Haltbakk Bunkers will cease supplying fuel to U.S. forces in Norway and American ships docking in Norwegian ports, citing dissatisfaction with recent U.S. policy towards Ukraine.

A major Norwegian fuel company is refusing to provide fuel to U.S. warships after the “shitshow” in the White House yesterday over Ukraine. This is the way. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/norwegian-fu...

Donald Trump is not fit to be President of the United States of America. His presence in the Oval Office is a stain on the legacy of this country.

Two valuable things Ukraine has: rare earth metals and a president

Resist in every way you can!

Oh, yeah!

Hahaha!

We survived the first 4 years of the Orange Regime, may we do the same for the next 4 years.