Jean Molesworth Kee

Good Gifts 2025 Use your Secret Santa or present giving to support charities, museums and small businesses.

My annual good gift guide - just out!

A round-up of where to buy gifts from charities, museums and small businesses. Includes 80+ links.

Welp!

2 0 2 5 Updates Key Races N.Y.C. Mayor Va. Gov. County Margin Shift from 2024 pres. T Votes Loudoun Spanberger +29 * 12 pts. 164,366 Prince William Spanberger +34 × 16 pts. 161,419 Portsmouth Spanberger +47 * 8.1 pts. 29,956 Washington Earle-Sears +49 * 4.5 pts. 20,927 Louisa Earle-Sears +20 * 6.5 pts. 18,719 Orange Earle-Sears +15 * 9.3 pts. 17,127 Powhatan Earle-Sears +40 * 4.4 pts. 16,957 Pulaski Earle-Sears +38 * 7.1 pts. 12,466 Dinwiddie Earle-Sears +17 ~ 6.3 pts. 11,974 Harrisonburg Spanberger +41 × 15 pts. 11,753 Manassas Spanberger +30 * 16 pts. 11,514 Carroll Earle-Sears +57 ~ 6.1 pts. 11,277 Wise Earle-Sears +59 ~ 4.6 pts. 10,962 Fairfax City Spanberger +45 * 11 pts. 10,232 Fredericksburg Spanberger +43 * 11 pts. 10,191 Salem Earle-Sears +12 6.9 pts. 9,374 King William Earle-Sears +34 * 7.1 pts. 8,999 Russell Earle-Sears +63 * 4.9 pts. 8,860

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

A Confederacy of Toddlers The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.

At once sobering, hopeful, and defiant...

Possibly the best among many excellent recent essays by @radiofreetom.bsky.social...

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.

BOSTON… (those are people, not ants)

#NoKingsInAmerica 🇺🇸

Unfit for Office Donald Trump’s narcissism makes it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires.

"[Trump's] 'mental state,' according to Justin A. Frank, a former clinical professor of psychiatry … , 'include[s] so many psychic afflictions' that a 'working knowledge of psychiatric disorders is essential to understanding Trump.'"

Tim Walz: "We're in a massive misinformation campaign. The president himself tweeting out AI videos of fake news reports on healthcare. This is really dangerous. I cannot express to you the concern and absolutely bafflement and fear of our European allies asking me, 'Is this stuff really going on?'"

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

A statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands in D.C. is removed as fast as it appeared The group behind the statue says a second permit, to reinstall the piece after Wednesday's removal, was revoked without explanation. It has since posted free 3D printable copies of the statue online.

The group behind the statue says a second permit, to reinstall the piece after Wednesday's removal, was revoked without explanation. It has since posted free 3D printable copies of the statue online.

“.. I absolutely couldn’t care less what he [Trump] thinks about me … He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”

@time.com
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They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.

Such an embarrassment 😖

A spray-painted bronze statue titled “Best Friends Forever” showing President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands was placed on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol early Tuesday.
https://wapo.st/42Dy5vU

Vote with your dollars.

Someone at some point will figure out when exactly this happened… but we have completely normalized psychosis. Trump. Stephen Miller. Speeches that were completely unhinged from reality. Delusional. Psychotically paranoid.

I think it’s time to admit that the Washington Post is not the Washington Post anymore.

RFK Jr’s horrendous leadership of HHS threatens to undermine the health of an entire generation of kids. He must resign or be fired.

Congratulations @colbertlateshow.bsky.social

As a Washington Post colleague emailed me last May, "winning a Pulitzer is the best revenge!!"

So is an #Emmy

Happy Birthday! 🥳

Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣

NEA cancels decades-long creative writing fellowship For decades the program has supported writers who would become big names – Alice Walker, Michael Cunningham, Louise Erdrich and more. Last week, applicants got an email saying the program would be no more.

For decades the program has supported writers who would become big names – Alice Walker, Michael Cunningham, Louise Erdrich and more. Last week, applicants got an email saying the program would be no more.

Same.

Trump says he's placing Washington police under federal control and activating the National Guard President Donald Trump says he’s taking over Washington’s police department and activating 800 members of the National Guard in the hopes of reducing crime, even as city officials stressed crime is al...

In another transparent ploy to distract America from his coverup of the Epstein files, Trump now wants to militarize the District of Columbia.

Give D.C. statehood and the billion dollars Republicans impounded.

Trump has given the District of Columbia the opportunity to make its case for statehood to the American public. Long overdue.

Donald Trump complaining about violent crime in DC is rich.