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Democracy Today. Democracy Tomorrow. Democracy Forever. Read a lot, write a bit, help wife, love kids, pet cats, play klezmer. Retired. Slava Ukraini. Save the Republic. (No DMs please.)
Next stop: the good ol’ days before government overreach.
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Next stop: the good ol’ days before government overreach.
Never forgotten.
November 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Never forgotten.
Theres a blue moon rising
over the lakes, the peaks, the plains,
there’s a blue light shining
from California straight to Maine
over the lakes, the peaks, the plains,
there’s a blue light shining
from California straight to Maine
November 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Theres a blue moon rising
over the lakes, the peaks, the plains,
there’s a blue light shining
from California straight to Maine
over the lakes, the peaks, the plains,
there’s a blue light shining
from California straight to Maine
The GOP is not the first cult to praise cruelty as holy.
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The GOP is not the first cult to praise cruelty as holy.
Spread the word.
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Spread the word.
Art.1, Sec 5. Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
“Constitution? We don’t need no stinking Constitution!”
“Constitution? We don’t need no stinking Constitution!”
October 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Art.1, Sec 5. Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
“Constitution? We don’t need no stinking Constitution!”
“Constitution? We don’t need no stinking Constitution!”
No words for this shameless GOP-sanctioned destruction of the White House and our government.
October 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
No words for this shameless GOP-sanctioned destruction of the White House and our government.
Like Sgt. Schultz, Speaker Johnson is being paid to pretend ignorance.
The difference: John Banner did it for laughs and really hated Nazis.
The difference: John Banner did it for laughs and really hated Nazis.
October 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Like Sgt. Schultz, Speaker Johnson is being paid to pretend ignorance.
The difference: John Banner did it for laughs and really hated Nazis.
The difference: John Banner did it for laughs and really hated Nazis.
Media Bias in Action: Plain Dealer ignores tens of thousands peacefully protesting Trump/GOP tyranny in Cleveland but runs a dismissive blurb about a smaller demonstration somewhere else. Wonder if the PD will writes about Trump’s execrable “King" videos? www.cleveland.com#section__news
October 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Media Bias in Action: Plain Dealer ignores tens of thousands peacefully protesting Trump/GOP tyranny in Cleveland but runs a dismissive blurb about a smaller demonstration somewhere else. Wonder if the PD will writes about Trump’s execrable “King" videos? www.cleveland.com#section__news
~ 20,000+ marched against GOP tyranny in downtown Cleveland
October 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
~ 20,000+ marched against GOP tyranny in downtown Cleveland
Cleveland Rocks for Liberty— the real thing, not the fake stuff the GOP sells
October 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Cleveland Rocks for Liberty— the real thing, not the fake stuff the GOP sells
Spread the word.
October 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Spread the word.
Civil War poet Walt Whitman on #NoKings
"To the States or any one of them, or any city of the the States:
Resist much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty."
"To the States or any one of them, or any city of the the States:
Resist much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty."
October 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Civil War poet Walt Whitman on #NoKings
"To the States or any one of them, or any city of the the States:
Resist much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty."
"To the States or any one of them, or any city of the the States:
Resist much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty."
The GOP has successfully canceled the federal government as a source of coherent law and policy designed to protect our rights, ensure domestic tranquility, general welfare, and those other blessings of liberty.
October 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The GOP has successfully canceled the federal government as a source of coherent law and policy designed to protect our rights, ensure domestic tranquility, general welfare, and those other blessings of liberty.
We show our gratitude for living in a free country by fighting those who would take — and are taking — away our freedoms, especially our Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear.
October 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
We show our gratitude for living in a free country by fighting those who would take — and are taking — away our freedoms, especially our Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear.
Or the time President Hardin ordered an aerial assault on striking coal miners.
October 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Or the time President Hardin ordered an aerial assault on striking coal miners.
Just like the opening number for Springtime for Hitler.
September 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Just like the opening number for Springtime for Hitler.
If the GOP wins on this spending bill, insurance premiums soar across the board. Example: 64-year old couples in Ohio will pay an extra $2k a month.
Call your delegation and tell them to keep ACA subsidies.
Call your delegation and tell them to keep ACA subsidies.
September 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
If the GOP wins on this spending bill, insurance premiums soar across the board. Example: 64-year old couples in Ohio will pay an extra $2k a month.
Call your delegation and tell them to keep ACA subsidies.
Call your delegation and tell them to keep ACA subsidies.
The question is why aren’t the market pressures that affect wages also affecting executive compensation?
And if executives lack confidence in the market to deliver a fair wage to the C-Suite why should anyone expect it to deliver a fair wage to truckers, office workers, or anyone else?
Bueller?
And if executives lack confidence in the market to deliver a fair wage to the C-Suite why should anyone expect it to deliver a fair wage to truckers, office workers, or anyone else?
Bueller?
September 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The question is why aren’t the market pressures that affect wages also affecting executive compensation?
And if executives lack confidence in the market to deliver a fair wage to the C-Suite why should anyone expect it to deliver a fair wage to truckers, office workers, or anyone else?
Bueller?
And if executives lack confidence in the market to deliver a fair wage to the C-Suite why should anyone expect it to deliver a fair wage to truckers, office workers, or anyone else?
Bueller?
And when will Trump send in the troops to stop the blood-sucking monkeys of West Mifflin, PA?
September 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
And when will Trump send in the troops to stop the blood-sucking monkeys of West Mifflin, PA?