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800-year-old oak tree.

I was privileged to know Gene Hackman because he played tennis with another Gene—Gene Wilder. And that Gene told him about a little role called The Blind Hermit in our movie YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN…

Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.

Scarlet flax, backyard February 22, 2025

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Sunrise, backyard February 21, 2025

February 21, 2025

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Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Flopsy

Please watch www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2UaJuM8/

"Today we will study the psychotic mind." —Alison

Just to underscore the tension at DOJ at the moment, here's what one federal law enforcement official told me about the acting deputy attorney general: "I, along with other career FBI and DOJ personnel that I’ve spoken with, really have one message for him and that is, “go fuck yourself, traitor.'"

This is a must-read (gifted) article. "The NAR vision was not technically conservative but radical: Constructing the Kingdom meant destroying the secular state with equal rights for all and replacing it with a system in which Christianity is supreme." tinyurl.com/2s43xcbs

Katherine Stewart: “…they intend to demolish the system of justice as we know it and replace it with a form of policing in service of the ruling party and its chosen leaders. In its first two and a half weeks, the Trump administration has delivered on that promise.” tinyurl.com/dh9r68j4

"In Sokoto, Nigeria, toddlers are starving because emergency feeding centers supported by U.S.A.I.D. have run out of the nutrient-rich paste used to save the lives of severely malnourished children." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

In a blistering statement, the American Bar Association describes "attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize" diversity initiatives as "wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself." https://buff.ly/4bb7dqp

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

I was just told by a fed employee whose office is getting digitally ransacked that people are “shocked” at how utterly lacking the musk engineers are - I’m shocked they even thought these children would be competent?

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“These pauses in funding violate the plain text of the T.R.O.,” Judge McConnell wrote. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

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Yesterday's cover of Le Journal de Montréal, the largest newspaper in Quebec, Canada.

We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!

Crockett: I am tired of the white tears. When you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

Remember: The tariffs aren’t about economics, and DOGE isn’t about fiscal responsibility. They are both about ••psychopathology**.

This is a national emergency:

As of 2/1/25, Musk is worth $433B. If you started spending $5,000 per day, 365 days a year, it would take you 548 years to exhaust $1 billion dollars. (For perspective, Christopher Columbus landed in America 532 years ago.) This man turns my stomach. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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👇Great quote👇

Now he’s going after NPR and PBS 🥵 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

8 days before the crash… “The aviation security committee, which was mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over … will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports.” apnews.com/article/coas...

Do you wonder why you haven’t heard much about this massive TB outbreak recently? Cuz the CDC can’t hold any press conferences or issue public statements of any kind. abcnews.go.com/Health/kansa...

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"Bobby preys on the desperation of parents of sick children — vaccinating his own children while building a following by hypocritically discouraging other parents from vaccinating theirs." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/h...

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

I will not give in to the lies. I will not give in to the fear.