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Army brat, Army wife. "All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all." Also, "He who made kittens, put snakes in the grass." Still, we must get back to the garden.
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Take me back! I look at this picture & I see civility. I see people that we know have differences with each other being cordial to one another. I see normality. I want it back.

Moral squalor. Truth. A perfect statement of Trump and a chunk (not all) of his followers. Moral squalor.

Multiple eyewitnesses, geolocated videos, and weapons experts all point to the same conclusion: On Sunday, the IDF opened fire on Palestinian civilians, killing dozens and wounding dozens more. Respect to CNN. This is real journalism. t.co/lXva8Gunh3

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

Madness! White House proposes shutting down chemical safety agency - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

“As the book of Leviticus says, ‘the strangers who reside with you shall be to you as your citizens; you shall love each one as yourself’ (Lev. 19:34),” they continue. “Yesterday’s actions by ICE were without honor, instilling fear in our community rather than enhancing our safety and security.”

WW took home six prizes, four of them first place, at the 2024 Excellence in Journalism Awards, a five-state contest.

This is obscene. We don't have to live like this. And we don't have to die like this.

This is really chilling. It's not clear that the Boulder suspect's family did anything illegal or that they were even residing in the U.S. illegally. If that were the case, then the Trump administration is lawlessly arresting whoever it wants, whenever it wants.

Trump regime revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions. “The Trump Administration would rather women die in emergency rooms than receive life-saving abortions,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights apnews.com/article/abor...

Thanks to DOGE: -NASA employees need multiple rounds of emails to buy basic materials -FDA food tests are delayed over approval for simple expenses -FAA staffers can't easily pay for air traffic control tower window washing DOGE is making government LESS efficient.

Breaking News: Israeli troops opened fire near a Gaza aid site, the military said. Gazan officials said at least 27 people were killed.

We’re waiting, JD.

Russia planned operation Zeus' Lightning, largest-ever cruise missile attack on all of Ukraine for the night of June 1 to force Ukraine's hand at Istanbul the next day. Ukrainian drones destroyed many of these very bombers, already fueled, hours before they were to take-off. (via Igor Sushko)

“Patricia Hyde, [ICE] field director… defended the arrests of immigrants with no significant criminal history. ‘Every person we arrested was breaking our immigration laws,’ Hyde said.” They abduct people attending immigration appointments… 1/2 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/02/m...

(Reuters) - FEMA staff left baffled after the disaster agency's head said during a briefing that he hadn't been aware the US has a hurricane season. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/

Anyone who saw th travesty of th 1stTrump term should hav known this. But Trump voters w good hearts may just hav been totally clueless. Not surprisingly, in my timeline, this post was followed by one fm @atrupar, noting that this morning's Faux News had 39 mentions of Biden, 1 mention of medicare.

“The prophet Isaiah warns us: ‘Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless’ (10:1-2).”

Department of Homeland Security barged Congressman Jerry Nadler’s office Accused staff members of “harboring rioters” And handcuffed one of his staffers “‘The Trump administration is trying to intimidate members of Congress..They’re behaving like fascists,” Nadler said youtu.be/2d2GCrqIgXA

Magical thinking does not persuade bond markets

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says

The Trump administration is working with private companies like Palantir to create detailed reports on every American, which could help them weaponize our personal information in their quest to deport immigrants and punish critics. This is a huge threat to our constitutional rights.

This is do much fun! She is so talented!

This is so Soviet. Appalling.

At a time when people are understandably focused on the daily chaos in Washington, these articles describe the rapidly accelerating impact that AI is going to have on jobs, the economy, and how we live.

Trump ripped children from their parents at the southern border during his first administration. He showed us his cruelty in so many ways. And people signed up for a second helping. Yes, they did vote to deport moms.

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Trump is so fragile, and vindictive. Hillary warned us the first time around -- a man who could be so easily triggered is not emotionally stable enough to be president.

Does anyone really like falafel? (Ducking and covering .. ) Really -- I do love hummus, but, fried chickpea?

I think this points up some of the failures of coverage of Trump's lawlessness: You could've read dozens of articles on Trump's tariff policy with no inkling of how unprecedented & legally dubious was the legal authority he claimed to impose them. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

Charlie Kirk called Martin Luther King Jr. “a bad guy” and called anti-segregation legislation a mistake. Trump hosted him at the White House yesterday.

No words www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...

Playing the player with a play on words 💙