May 21, 2025 Just after 1:00 this morning, the House Rules Committee began its hearing on what congressional Republicans have officially named The One Big, Beautiful Bill.

“Republicans’ tax-and-spending cut bill will take from the poor and give to the rich, Congress’s official scoring body has found.”

YouTube video by Guardian News Trump quarrels with ABC interviewer after he is corrected over MS-13 tattoo photoshop claim

“If you tell a big enough lie and repeat it…”.

American Conversations: Senator Angus King (I-ME), on Paul Revere's Ride YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

"Hey folks: I was just supposed to interview Senator Angus King on Paul Revere's ride, and he just dumped the whole script and UNLOADED on President Trump and his Republican colleagues. I'm sitting here sort of gobsmacked. You might want to check it out. It's... wow."

April 14, 2025 Today, U.S.

“If I understand this correctly, the US president has launched a trade war against the world, believes he can force the EU and China to meet his terms, is determined to annex Canada and Greenland, but is powerless before the sovereign might of El Salvador. Is that it?”

"Here’s the thing: Once you have replaced the principle of equality before the law with the idea that some people have no rights, you have granted your approval to the idea of an authoritarian government. At that point, all you can do is to hope that the dictator and his henchmen overlook you."

"Here’s the thing: Once you have replaced the principle of equality before the law with the idea that some people have no rights, you have granted your approval to the idea of an authoritarian government. At that point, all you can do is to hope that the dictator and his henchmen overlook you."

April 13, 2025 This evening, lawyers for the Department of Justice told a federal court that the administration does not believe it has a legal obligation to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States,...

"Let’s be very clear about exactly what’s happening here: President Donald J. Trump is claiming the power to ignore the due process of the law...declare someone is a criminal, kidnap them, send them to prison in a third country, and then claim that there is no way to get that person back."

April 8, 2025 Stocks were up early today as traders put their hopes in Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s suggestion that the Trump administration was open to negotiations for lowering Trump’s proposed tariffs.

“No free man wants to be at the mercy of a king”

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April 1, 2025 Today Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made history.

“As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls,” Crawford said in her victory speech, “I never could have imagined that I’d be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.”

"Hundreds of people have been phoning the BBC wanting to know how they can grow their own spaghetti tree. To this query the BBC diplomatically replied, "Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."

"For those who love this dish, there's nothing like real, home-grown spaghetti."

The BBC news show Panorama broadcast a three-minute segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland. The success of the crop was attributed both to an unusually mild winter and to the "virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil."

Elon Musk to Campaign in Wisconsin Ahead of Supreme Court Election The billionaire is reprising another of the moves he did to help elect Donald J. Trump in November.

I hope protestors find him... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

"The screenshots make clear that administration officials insisting that there was nothing classified on the chat were lying." heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-26-2...

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Email your lawmakers and ask them to protect social security It’s time to speak up right now so that lawmakers can hear us loud and clear. Tell your members of Congress: Social Security must be protected and saved!

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"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - H. L. Mencken

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“Value what is necessary, leave what is not”

The Sir Crackers EP is available for digital download on Twin/Tone Records!

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