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Godat
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Retired optimist.
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
September 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Summer read.
July 4, 2025 at 4:47 AM
‘nihl-lion-aire’ — a person of extreme wealth who believes that life is meaningless, that moral values are baseless, and that knowledge is impossible.
June 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
If these 3 swing-district Republicans resigned or switched parties TODAY, Trump’s Big Bill will cease to be.

1. PA Dist 1: Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R), Philly Bucks County area
2. NY Dist 17: Rep. Mike Lawler (R), North NYC, Rockland, Westchester areas
3. NE Dist 2: Rep. Don Bacon (R), Omaha metro
June 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Sending my deepest condolences to the good people of Iowa.
June 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Adjust your outrage accordingly.
May 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Extortion is now America’s Number One export.
May 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
What hath Tesla wrought…
April 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited.

sherwood.news/power/shop-t...
April 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
🇸🇻 El Salvador: Bypassing judicial and democratic processes.
🇬🇪 Georgia: Firing civil servants for supporting pro-EU protests.
April 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🇷🇺 Russia: Authoritarian control over media and elections.
🇧🇾 Belarus: Rigged elections and protest suppression.
🇨🇳 China: One-party control over political expression, media, and society.
🇳🇮 Nicaragua: Crackdowns on opposition and the Catholic Church.
April 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
My Chat GPT morning recap of countries governed by authoritarian regimes. Isn’t it time to add the USA 🇺🇸 to this list?

🇦🇫 Afghanistan: Most authoritarian in the
world.
🇰🇵 North Korea: Totalitarian with absolute control over all aspects of life.
🇲🇲 Myanmar: Military suppression of dissent.
April 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I have written a will, designated a medical power of attorney, and created an advance medical directive … but what if I’m stripped of my Social Security number, or if I am arrested, or deported, or disappeared … how can I prepare legally for these new Trump-era ‘end-of-life’ scenarios?
April 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
And then, all in a whoosh, the military occupied our back yard.

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Trump grants military control over strip of federal land along US southern border
It marks an escalation in the president’s use of the military to facilitate his sweeping immigration agenda.
www.politico.com
April 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Meanwhile, our robot overlords are limbering up in China by shaking their biomorphic booties. youtu.be/QKU5BzcucBM?...
Tech Meets Tradition: Robot Dancers Shine at 2025 Chinese New Year Gala! | DRM News | AQ15
YouTube video by DRM News
youtu.be
March 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
March 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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We're living through not a "constitutional crisis" but a "constitutional crash" — the sudden, ER-style flatlining of the healthy biorhythms of our 249-year-old constitutional order. Our national system is dead on the table—can it be shocked back to life? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...
America's "Constitutional Crash"
This isn't "just" a crisis.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
March 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Tucson! Tesla Takeback: Our Democracy/Our Future
Saturday, March 15, 9:30 am – 11:00 am.
Intersection of Oracle & River Roads Near Tesla

Where: The four corners of Oracle and River roads
Why: The Trump administration is threatening our democracy and through our actions, we must protect it.
March 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Jeff B. must be feeling the heat of the impending boycott. I just watched back-to-back commercials on Rachael Maddow touting ‘Shop at Whole Foods’ and ‘Amazon Is a Great Company to Work For.’
March 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Can anyone verify which UA research has been shut down?
The University of Arizona has already received some "stop work" orders from the Trump administration
February 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Phoenix today. There is some life left in this democracy yet!
February 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM