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Retired automotive writer who worked on.CAR and DRIVER, Automobile Magazine as a staffer, and contributed to many other publications. I started this trip writing reviews of motorcycles and also worked on the UK’s Bike magazine. I now live in Maui, Hawaii.
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Well, the data theft from NLRB explains that there are people smarter than the low-IQ agent orange - likely Russians - behind the coup. This plan is clever and deadly.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump blitzkrieg continues. The courts can’t help us. It will require more vigorous resistance.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

If you not watch Rachel Maddow every night on MSNBC, you’re unlikely to know, fully, how far down the road we are towards pure tyranny

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

It feels like we lost the war and the invading army is running the country. A Stalinist authority.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

If you can’t see what kind of people we’re dealing with after you watch the Q&A about the Signal gaffe, then I hope your social security and medical cover disappears along with your character assessment skills

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

The bald faced attempt to downplay the big Signal blooper shows clearly that the only way we can get rid of this clown car administration is for Republican Congress men and Senators to come to their senses. How likely is this?

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

You think perhaps that Hegseth may be sending war plan messages out after a couple of shots?

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Just heard NATO chief Rutte say that it’s Zelensky’s duty to make it up with Trump, saying that Trump’s supply of Javelins was a key aspect of the country’s defense against Russia. He must not have watched the meeting in the Oval.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

So China can now go after Taiwan knowing that Trump will do nothing. When he accused Zelensky of starting WW3, he was projecting

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Voters who chose Trump think they won. Actually they surrendered to an invasive totalitarianism.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Verizon doesn’t exactly have a clean record of pro-democratic policies, but the company did win the FAA contract before Musk initiated a theft of that same contract. So much for avoiding conflicts of interest.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Now I know how Parisians felt watching the Wehrmacht march down the Champs-Elysee

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like we’re all on a bus, and the driver has left to change his Depends

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

The GOP senate and Congress should look up the Night of the Long Knives. The Proud Boys too. It’s interesting reading.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

If the Trump administration defies the court orders, then we effectively already have a dictator.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

It’s all very well having judges and members of the public responding to Trump and Musk’s coup, but if armed members of Homeland Security or others back up the tech bro’s intrusions, who can enforce any rulings against their action?

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Every day is bad news day. Where is the boring normality of the Biden era?

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Someone wrote that the electorate is to blame for this fascist takeover, but it’s the Republican Congress and Senate that enabled this crisis. This is hard to watch

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk is the new Heinrich Himmler. I’m sure he’d love the comparison.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments