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Retired math teacher taking each day as it comes here near the Swedish Riviera
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Don't let facts get in the way of conspiracy theories and politics

May 30, 2025

May 27, 2025

We love to see it.

Trump’s revenge spree on Harvard echoes well beyond education | Jan-Werner Müller

And when will Americans realize the majority of these people aren't criminals? What is their crime? (And that question is rhetorical.)

Hahaha

May 26, 2025

The Wall Street Journal had a piece last night that the Judicial Conference of the United States — the policy making body for the federal judiciary — is discussing whether the Judiciary should have its own armed security force rather than rely on the U.S. Marshals for federal judges’ protection.

Police reform and civil rights activists joined thousands of ordinary people Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder at religious services, concerts and vigils nationwide and decry the Trump administration for setting their efforts back decades.

My goal has been to make Illinois the best state to raise a family — that starts with kids having access to what they need so they can focus on learning and growing.   Illinois was among the first states to implement SUN Bucks, and this year is no exception.

Ya gotta read this one But we ALL should always read @hccmal.bsky.social The mad king is deteriorating right in front of our eyes The GOP is doing all it can to hide the facts heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-23-202...

THIS is someone who respects the military

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington

May 25, 2025

This should be seen as evidence of the crisis: federal judges fear that Trump will order U.S. Marshals to stand down on securing the safety of judges whose decision they don’t like. This is just devastating. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Wow. This is major news. Judges discuss moving the U.S. marshals from the executive to the judicial branch. Not only would they protect judges from trump threats, but it would also make it easier for courts to order marshals to carry out court orders.

The cruelty is the point.

Make this make sense. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Scores of staffers at the White House National Security Council have been abruptly dismissed as part of a sweeping overhaul that slashes the staff from over 300 to just 50. The move shifts the NSC’s role from policymaking to simply carrying out the president’s directives.

Kristi Noem's leadership of DHS has been nothing short of disastrous. But while she seeks to turn the Department into a reality TV show – real people are hurting. Today, I want to talk about it. youtu.be/nvyuVK3bN4k?...

May 23, 2025

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Warnock: You literally have, in real time, the leader of another nation-state—in this case, South Africa—there to talk to him about trade, and he’s saying, “Sorry, Mr. President, we don’t have a plane to offer you.” And you see why we have an Emoluments Clause in the first place.

Dementia or insanity. Does it make a difference? Time for 25

May 21, 2025

It makes no difference, children can't vote. 😠

They just don't care

Amen

If Republicans were proud of their bill, they'd debate it in the light of day. Instead, they're trying to move it under the cover of night like the cult of cowards that they are. They know that ripping away healthcare and food assistance from millions is harmful and unpopular.

Trump: "Elon is from South Africa. I don't want to get Elon involved. That's all I have to do -- get him in another thing. This is what Elon wanted."

Fine: Rome is burning McGovern: One of the previous Republican speakers got up and said Rome is burning but I hate to tell him but Republicans are in charge and Trump is your Caesar.

The bill is still a mess but this is a win. Thank you, America. They heard you. House Republicans have dropped the provision that would’ve sold off 500,000 acres of public land in Utah and Nevada.

China to give $500 million to WHO in next 5 years, official says reut.rs/3ZsSMsT

The World Health Organization's member countries have approved an agreement to better prevent, prepare for and respond to future pandemics in the wake of the devastation wrought by the coronavirus.

This is extraordinary. The Secretary of Homeland Security doesn’t know what the right of habeas corpus is (the ancient right to go to court to challenge government detention) and offers an incoherent definition which suggests she thinks it’s a presidential power to deport people?

You thought he cared about Americans?

This should be bigger news, no? www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

He's deranged

The Trump administration is once again trying to rewrite reality to fit its agenda and this time, it’s pressuring U.S. intelligence officials to go along with it.

May 16, 2025

Just a reminder for any member of Congress who seems to have forgotten...

May this be the first of many wins

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

They wanted a Pope as evil as Donald. Instead, they got one who follows Christ. And lo, what a rich bounty of papal schadenfreude was found for thine enjoyment.

When the HHS Secretary is telling the American public that trusting expert scientists is not a function of democracy, it’s well and truly over for science in the USA. I can’t stress this enough. If scientific expertise is believed to be an enemy to democracy, we are finished. Complete catastrophe.

To be a fly on the wall....