Tom Lawrence

This is probably one of the most iconic pictures of the last century.
I remember it well as a 12 year old kid but interested in space and science.

Amen to that as I see from my viewpoint in GA.

Did not you have a user name the same or similar on Twitter / X?
No big deal, just curious as I remember that.
I left Twitter after Elon screwed it up.

When I was still working and a state employee, this would be so illegal that I likely would be fired.
But for DJT, all in a days work grifting the system.

In many cases I see this as legislatures voting to have the state cover the cost of their sending their privileged kids to the private school they are already attending.
It's a scam and a sham.

This sums up my conversion from the GOP (from Lincoln Square)
"the only honest conclusion was that Trump didn’t hijack the Party, he revealed it. People don’t abandon deeply held beliefs in a matter of months. "

Pretty much sums up this "financial geniuses" career, before he learned how to grift off the MAGA base.

Good questions!

I had a dream last night that I lost my cell at airport security. It was very real and was happy to realize it was just a dream when I woke up. (Yes DJT I am now "woke" up).

Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding

Trump is showing his mafia roots here. This is a f---ng shakedown if I ever saw it.
Hopefully UCLA tells him to go "FUCLA" himself.

Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

We can only hope so!

And I might add we can do the same at the engineering professor conference bar!

But we all have been cursed by this Kennedy for some time now!

“We’re watching the worst president in history manipulate the worst White House press corps in history every day,” says MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.
And to that I say amen.
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com

The people are speaking up!

Looking forward to seeing this. (We watch the Colbert show the day after on Paramount).

That would be a great first step.
And yes a Dem president starting 2029 will have their work cut out for them, if the country can survive that long...

We can all choose a couple of paths.
1. Fight like hell and call out those sycophants who enable the Dear Leader
2. Give up and quit and watch the country go to hell (or just move to Canada or some other country like Ireland or NZ).

Ah yes, the "family values" party strikes again.

And imagine the holy hell that the so-called patriots in the GOP would raise if this had been a Dem president and a Dem state doing this.
Of course, I can't imagine any Dem president doing such a corrupt scheme.

Not so much robbing us, but fleecing a lot of people using his position.

RFK Jr. announces end to some mRNA contracts, including for flu, covid The targeting of the vaccine technology once considered revolutionary follows intense criticism by conservatives and anti-vaccine activists.

Make America Unhealthy Again is the Trump and that idiot RFK Jr's slogan now.

wapo.st/47fFjcy

This is not a coding error.

I read the article for Sci American online today.

It is part of the deflection game away from Epstein now.

It's all part of the deflection game.
Trump taught them well.

Although the GOP hatred of NPR is more than this, thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten about that.

Great to see and he really has been effectively an non-GOP for a while now.

I don't really want to think about it!
(but it seems to he true now)

Yes, but we need to get through this current s---show in politics.
I am a glass is half full person, so I too hope that we will do so again.
But that is only 1/2 full. Potentially the US will sink into autocracy and 1/2 the people will be fine with that until too late. (Germany had the same)

Unfortunately we can't lump whole states as stereotypes.
Lots of TX is FOS, but OK similar.
Tulsa is not really a full sample of what goes on in the rest of the state.
There are good people everywhere and 'not so good'. It is just the combined effect of everyone, included in gerrymandered states