I love winter hikes, rockhounding in the winter. But where I live winter is 2 months late. It's still shorts and tshirts when we should be having snow and below freezing temp. At sunrise it's already 51F/11C

In Friday afternoon in Silver City there are 2 demonstrations. In front of Walmart there's a couple with their ban abortion signs, and closer to downtown there's about 40 people with their anti fascism signs . It's a telling contrast, even better for us because we lived in Carlsbad for 38 years

Trump's determined to destroy the US oil industry. If he can just hijack tankers and keep the oil there's no point in drilling wells domestically. It goes well with his push to have the Saudis increase production to lower gas prices. But the US producers can't profit at these prices and will fail.

Finally Rand is back to being the dripping dick I've become accustomed to. He's said a few reasonable things about war crimes and Epstein, but I knew he couldn't stay honorable for long.

From now on the definition should include references to trump.

I took a group of rockhounds from Carlsbad/Artesia/Eunice out a couple of weeks ago. They asked what was going on, I explained, and they couldn't understand so many people protesting against trump. Not every part of the state is on our side

Down south in Silver City there's an anti fascism /trump protest every Friday afternoon that's well attended for such a small town.