Musk plans to fire 7,000 Social Security Administration employees while calling Social Security “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.” However, Americans have paid into the system their entire working lives!

Chatting with a friend from Denmark and she told me this: In Denmark some supermarkets have marked American goods with black stars, so we can avoid american goods and select european goods instead, if he adds tariffs.

"Key congressional Republicans have powers they’re choosing not to use...

"Senator Susan Collins, for example, believes the White House and DOGE may be breaking the law. She doesn’t, however, seem eager to use her considerable influence..."

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

3. The Trump administration has ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to indefinitely postpone a public meeting of its vaccine advisory panel, a key forum for discussing vaccine safety and effectiveness.

My prediction: Trump will get tired of taking the back seat to Musk and they will have a big falling out. Hopefully it happens soon.

Listen to the @civics101pod.bsky.social podcast. They explain government in plain language. Fun and informative.

If undocumented farm workers are afraid to go to work and therefore we have a shortage of locally grown foods, does that mean we'll have to import fruits and vegetables from other countries? Seems counterproductive.

Trump is the consequence rather than the cause of the anti-democratic surge.

Here's how the Supreme Court's infamous Citizens United decision — issued 15 years ago today — overwhelmed our political system with money and brought us to our current moment.

I worry about the unhoused during these bitter cold days.

Ripping off the bandaid - my first bluesky post, and about cleaning house. I am going through a trunk of papers, photos, memorabilia from my college days and early years of my marriage. Bittersweet, some great finds, and much that needs to be released.