Gerard
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Tired but cheerful. Reading and writing. Silly or serious.
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Imagine choosing that hell instead of standing on your principles. Or maybe they just like the guy.
“Companies sending representatives to the East Room event include Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon.com and Palantir Technologies, according to the White House.”
October 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Imagine choosing that hell instead of standing on your principles. Or maybe they just like the guy.
If you need a moment of good news….
BREAKING NEWS: We just won the largest ever verdict against a gun dealer in American history.
Today’s $62 million verdict will make the city of Baltimore exponentially safer from the scourge of gun violence.
This is the kind of action we need to reduce violent crime in our country.
Today’s $62 million verdict will make the city of Baltimore exponentially safer from the scourge of gun violence.
This is the kind of action we need to reduce violent crime in our country.
Largest Ever Verdict Dealt Against Gun Dealer Rendered for the City…
Brady is uniting Americans against gun violence. We invite everyone who wants to end our epidemic of gun violence to take action, not sides.
www.bradyunited.org
August 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If you need a moment of good news….
I ❤️ Baltimore. Men’s bathroom, BWI, late arrival, accidental beautification. There has to be a backstory, but we’ll never know it.
June 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I ❤️ Baltimore. Men’s bathroom, BWI, late arrival, accidental beautification. There has to be a backstory, but we’ll never know it.
The Trojans were smart when they accepted that horse, apparently.
May 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The Trojans were smart when they accepted that horse, apparently.
I can’t be the only one whose first thought was: what a great way for the Qataris to gather intelligence on the prez and his people.
Not that this needs to be said, but bribery out in the open is still bribery.
May 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I can’t be the only one whose first thought was: what a great way for the Qataris to gather intelligence on the prez and his people.
It was a perfectly normal day in northeast DC and then….
May 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It was a perfectly normal day in northeast DC and then….
More of this. Thank you, Senator @vanhollen.senate.gov!
I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia.
I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.
I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.
Just landed in El Salvador to discuss release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
April 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
More of this. Thank you, Senator @vanhollen.senate.gov!
Uh, what?
A powerful US official is extremely cracked. www.wsj.com/politics/elo...
April 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Uh, what?
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Turns out Ireland could single-handedly put a stop to this entire nonsense.
April 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Turns out Ireland could single-handedly put a stop to this entire nonsense.
This is my happy place.
NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
March 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
This is my happy place.
Very much this.
A thing I think about a lot is how I was raised in a Catholic parish by very religious parents and had little contact with non-Catholics til college, and as a result absorbed the message that Catholics were a persecuted minority jeered at and oppressed historically and in the present. 1/
March 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Very much this.
Assuming there is an election in four years - big if, I know - I hope the GOP enjoys it as much when President Ocasio-Cortez makes good use of all of the expanded Executive powers, freed from Washington’s pesky restrictive norms.
February 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Assuming there is an election in four years - big if, I know - I hope the GOP enjoys it as much when President Ocasio-Cortez makes good use of all of the expanded Executive powers, freed from Washington’s pesky restrictive norms.
Exactly this.
we are getting a national version of red state governance, where the people in charge do everything they can to impoverish the state under the view that the more wretched things get, the easier it is for them to stay in power
February 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Exactly this.
“…not a real department.” From the valuable Baltimore Banner. @thebaltimorebanner.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
“…not a real department.” From the valuable Baltimore Banner. @thebaltimorebanner.com
Herman Melville speaks, across the centuries, to our most fervent hopes and dreams.
February 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Herman Melville speaks, across the centuries, to our most fervent hopes and dreams.
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Did Elon just come out as intersex?
February 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Did Elon just come out as intersex?
This is what I mean.
we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
January 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This is what I mean.
This is me traveling north away from DC for a few days.
January 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is me traveling north away from DC for a few days.
Good news: Maryland’s more-than-reasonable gun-control laws stand.
Supreme Court rejects petition to review Maryland handgun laws
The Supreme Court denied a petition to review a lower court’s decision to uphold Maryland’s handgun licensing requirements — a win for gun safety advocates in this nearly 10-year-long battle.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Good news: Maryland’s more-than-reasonable gun-control laws stand.
How I’m feeling these days, parts 1 and 2. From the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
January 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
How I’m feeling these days, parts 1 and 2. From the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
December 30, 2024 at 3:51 AM
At the National Gallery today: the founding fathers as painted by Gilbert Stuart all have the dyspeptic look of guys about to reject your mortgage application.
December 27, 2024 at 9:23 PM
At the National Gallery today: the founding fathers as painted by Gilbert Stuart all have the dyspeptic look of guys about to reject your mortgage application.
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Shadow docket ruling: 6-3 against making the Yuletide gay
December 25, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Shadow docket ruling: 6-3 against making the Yuletide gay