Michael A. Shea

No part of the 1787 Constitution did more to break with Europe than the requirement that Congress, not the Executive, declare war. That the Congress has spent the last 80 years passing laws that fritter away their sole authority to declare war does not change the Constitution or the history.

Four people pose for the camera.

Here comes the judge! joined by William McClennan, Matthew Sullivan, and Sasha Wall to judge student entries in the Technology Student Association Northern Regional Fair. Park View High School in Sterling.

Whoops: US military laser strike takes down CBP drone near Mexican border Trump admin "incompetence continues to cause chaos in our skies," Duckworth says.

Hegseth’s “meritocratic” Army is making a name for itself in friendly fire. The Confederacy was also infamous for that.
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Confused Trump Says the Civil War and Reconstruction Were the Same Thing: ‘A Fancy Way of Saying the Civil War’ President Donald Trump botched 19th-century U.S. history on Friday, telling a crowd of supporters that the Civil War and Reconstruction were the same thing.

Examples of Trump being a moron should no longer run in the news. This isn’t “news.”
I mean good grief, news is a scarce resource. Don’t waste it on frivolous things.
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Melody Starya Mobley at a film premiere.

Grateful to meet trailblazer Melody Starya Mobley at the premiere of The Dark White Forest, a doc directed by Brandon Cooper. Melody brought racial and gender barriers in the US Forestry Service.

The Statue of Liberty, with googly eyes added.

From your favorite Boomer Substitute Teacher.
I’ve been inspired by many signs and art on the classroom walls this year, but this wins top prize for eloquently speaking to the urgency of this moment.
Googly eyes on Lady Liberty is pure genius.

Sad to hear there was never a blanket. Missing her blankie gave Puppy Killer Barbie an endearing human touch she is sorely lacking.

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

I should post this often.
Corrupting justice like this in Minnesota is grounds to investigate, impeach, convict & remove Trump. Far worse than Watergate crimes. Shredding any trust that DOJ and the White House are following the rule of law.
THIS ain't about politics.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

This is grounds to impeach, convict and remove AG Pam Bondi. Not political, not even really about Trump's guilt in those claims.
Bondi has lost the confidence of the American people that we are a rule of law country on her watch. She has shredded any trust due to DOJ.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

Senate Democrats might have to give speeches to filibuster & stop the anti-voting rights SAVE Act.
If they read the three million unredacted docs in the Epstein Files into the Congressional record from the Senate floor, that would take us past the November elections and into the era of impeachment.

Cruz reads Dr Seuss children's story Republican Senator Ted Cruz reads Dr Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham to his children as part of a marathon speech on the Senate floor against the US healthcare reform law.

Republicans are itchin’ to force the Senate Democrats into a old school talkin’ filibuster to push thru the anti voting rights SAVE Act.
In 2013, Ted Cruz filibustered using Dr. Seuss
If the Democrats want content, read the 3 million unredacted docs in the Epstein Files.
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A community meeting in a restaurant.

Come for a taco, stay for the housing policy discussion. Biked to Taco ‘Bout Housing at Tortas y Tacos La Chiquita, a community meeting organized by CSG and the YIMBYs.
Having been to community meetings on housing in our region many times over the last 15 years, it was energizing to see a new crowd.

An audience for a panel discussion at the Institute for the Study of International Migration.

I’m at Georgetown for a panel discussion on the 1980 Refugee Act with Faith Akovi, Roya Hakakian, Liz Holtzman, and others.
So much good work was done in the wake of that act. It has been both kindness and economically smart.
Room is packed because our hearts are full of hope we can return to that.

So here’s the piece I wrote about how Epstein didn’t corrupt the people he reaches out to, he found the already corrupted.

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Kash Patel chugging champagne in a locker room.

Sheriff Ric Bradshaw of Palm Beach County.

Who should be leading the investigation into the Mar a Lago shooting? The hockey puck on the left or Ric Bradshaw on the right?

Bradshaw has 21 years as Palm Beach Sheriff, plus 8 years as police chief. Before that, Marine Corps.

Bradshaw is also a Democrat so the hockey puck is taking over.

The Epstein Files are basically Linkedin for the Trump Cabinet.

What's missing in Virginia's agenda for affordability is understanding the root. Biggest problem is not inflation or tariffs. It's that workers are routinely underpaid.

The best affordability agenda is a union contract.

I support security for everyone. The incident at Mar a Lago with someone fatally shot needs to be thoroughly investigated. The FBI has no credibility and should not be involved. Kash Patel is still drunk in that Italian locker room. Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office should lead this investigation.

Copy for a billboard showing photos of crushed grass on the National Mall and a demolished East Wing. Text refers to the grass as The guy who did this much damage is in the slammer for 18 months. Refers to East Wing demolition as The guy who did this just wrote himself a $10 billion check for his slush fund. Last text says This ain't right.

I don't have a budget for billboards, but if I did, I'd run this. Curtis Lear in jail and paying for "damage" to the grass on the Mall. Trump still on the loose and stealing from the US Treasury.

Trump is so using AI for his posts. He posted a long ramble about being allowed to do terrible things to other countries. If you take the text from Trump's rsvp to Epstein before his first visit to the island and Trump's claim he was allowed to do terrible things to the children, it's the same post.

Democrats should skip the #SOTU. They can offer their seats to anyone in the country who supports everything the mad king has done and can coherently explain all of his baby tantrum ramblings.
There are enough seats in the House for them.

The over-boiled hot dog in charge of our health is fighting to end the flu vaccine because he baselessly claims it gave him a raspy voice.
Two things to tell him about that-
- You are an over-boiled hot dog.
- The raspy voice is your ONLY endearing quality. Lean into it.

Do a Starter Pack!

Dana Milbank is the Pete Davidson of the Washington Post.
Davidson, when still on SNL, said to the "Host of the Future" in a skit "How is it I am not yet fired by SNL?"
The Washington Post has banished a thousand journalists. How is it that Milbank is still there?

I owe Trump an apology.
Have been saying he is un-American and anti-American.
Trump pulled the US out of the WHO. He is putting in place a replacement that will work much less effectively for health AND cost the US three times as much money.

This is the most American thing Trump has ever done.

There is always a clip or a tweet to expose the hypocrisy.

That is an insult to Cap’n Crunch! Leave him out of this! (8 yo me vowed to defend his honor.)

A post from Aaron Blake, saying Trump is takomg $10 billion for his Board of Peace that he will control.

Anyone else old enough to remember when it was discovered that Nixon’s slush fund at CREEP was as much as $1 million? And how that accelerated impeachment?
There’s been some inflation, but Trump’s $10 BILLION is more than enough to impeach, convict and remove.
Good grief.

Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'

Trump’s OBBB gave Bezos & Amazon a tax cut of about $8 BILLION a year. Bezos only had to give Trump $1 million for his inauguration and $75 million for “Melania.”
Bezos had to lay off reporters so nobody would write about how Trump should’ve demanded a bigger bribe.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Did not have enough space to mention- ran into the Minard poster in a classroom where I was substitute teaching two days this past week.