VaDowager
@vadowager.bsky.social
Reader, free-thinker, anti-authoritarian. Retired, but not a boring old person.
Of the many great signs in RIchmond, Virginia yesterday, this one was the best: This message is a perfect match for the man who designed our Capitol building--and also was a major writer of the Declaration of Independence: Thomas Jefferson.
He would surely "endorse this message."
He would surely "endorse this message."
October 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Of the many great signs in RIchmond, Virginia yesterday, this one was the best: This message is a perfect match for the man who designed our Capitol building--and also was a major writer of the Declaration of Independence: Thomas Jefferson.
He would surely "endorse this message."
He would surely "endorse this message."
Did James Carville want us to engage his ideas or notice the very operatic hotel room or the very rumpled bed?
A friend wise in the ways of DC said, “I think a bed in the background of any news or commentary is unprofessional unless the bed is the situs of your professional activities.”
A friend wise in the ways of DC said, “I think a bed in the background of any news or commentary is unprofessional unless the bed is the situs of your professional activities.”
October 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Did James Carville want us to engage his ideas or notice the very operatic hotel room or the very rumpled bed?
A friend wise in the ways of DC said, “I think a bed in the background of any news or commentary is unprofessional unless the bed is the situs of your professional activities.”
A friend wise in the ways of DC said, “I think a bed in the background of any news or commentary is unprofessional unless the bed is the situs of your professional activities.”
RFKjr may accomplish something rare: he may resurrect a word.
For most people, 'diphtheria' is just a word in a spelling bee, but the Sec of HHS--irony really is dead!--is working to bring it back into everyday conversation. 😡
For most people, 'diphtheria' is just a word in a spelling bee, but the Sec of HHS--irony really is dead!--is working to bring it back into everyday conversation. 😡
September 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
RFKjr may accomplish something rare: he may resurrect a word.
For most people, 'diphtheria' is just a word in a spelling bee, but the Sec of HHS--irony really is dead!--is working to bring it back into everyday conversation. 😡
For most people, 'diphtheria' is just a word in a spelling bee, but the Sec of HHS--irony really is dead!--is working to bring it back into everyday conversation. 😡
It will take great effort on my part to summon compassion when we eventually see Stephen Miller himself marched to the scaffold.
June 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It will take great effort on my part to summon compassion when we eventually see Stephen Miller himself marched to the scaffold.
Is anyone familiar with either this abbreviation or the symbol above it?
Seen recently at Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Rome, GA.
Seen recently at Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Rome, GA.
March 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Is anyone familiar with either this abbreviation or the symbol above it?
Seen recently at Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Rome, GA.
Seen recently at Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Rome, GA.
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Absolutely stunning. This is MAGA: a celebration of violence.
Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.
Each defendant assaulted him.
January 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Absolutely stunning. This is MAGA: a celebration of violence.
After all the excitement yesterday, I am sitting here want to see the announcement of the new President's first pardon of a Black man who is in prison for assaulting a policeman.
It will be hard to stp away for lunch....
It will be hard to stp away for lunch....
January 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
After all the excitement yesterday, I am sitting here want to see the announcement of the new President's first pardon of a Black man who is in prison for assaulting a policeman.
It will be hard to stp away for lunch....
It will be hard to stp away for lunch....
It's too bad that the newly-inaugurated President doesn't have a Rose Castorini in his life, someone to say,
"Cosmo—I just want you to know no matter what you do, you're gonna die, just like everybody else."
"Cosmo—I just want you to know no matter what you do, you're gonna die, just like everybody else."
January 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
It's too bad that the newly-inaugurated President doesn't have a Rose Castorini in his life, someone to say,
"Cosmo—I just want you to know no matter what you do, you're gonna die, just like everybody else."
"Cosmo—I just want you to know no matter what you do, you're gonna die, just like everybody else."
I hope that some enterprising investigative reporter will cultivate the right person to find out how much Melania was paid to appear today. She is known for charging appearance fees, so why should she spend a whole day doing boring stuff for free?
January 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I hope that some enterprising investigative reporter will cultivate the right person to find out how much Melania was paid to appear today. She is known for charging appearance fees, so why should she spend a whole day doing boring stuff for free?
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Let’s keep this in mind, devout Christian Speaker Johnson tried to keep the house from releasing this report because he wanted Gaetz to be attorney general.
Typical
Typical
December 23, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Let’s keep this in mind, devout Christian Speaker Johnson tried to keep the house from releasing this report because he wanted Gaetz to be attorney general.
Typical
Typical
The pious reluctance of House Republicans to release their committee report on Matt Gaetz, when he might be headed to a Cabinet position, certainly curdled quickly.
Somebody should have told him the Russian proverb: “Don’t spit in the well—you might need to drink from it someday.”
Somebody should have told him the Russian proverb: “Don’t spit in the well—you might need to drink from it someday.”
December 23, 2024 at 9:04 PM
The pious reluctance of House Republicans to release their committee report on Matt Gaetz, when he might be headed to a Cabinet position, certainly curdled quickly.
Somebody should have told him the Russian proverb: “Don’t spit in the well—you might need to drink from it someday.”
Somebody should have told him the Russian proverb: “Don’t spit in the well—you might need to drink from it someday.”
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"President Musk" is now trending on Truth Social.
This has to be killing Trump.
This has to be killing Trump.
December 20, 2024 at 11:56 PM
"President Musk" is now trending on Truth Social.
This has to be killing Trump.
This has to be killing Trump.
