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I split my time between Chicago and Bangkok. Southern California climate refuge back in the Midwest. University of Iowa graduate, MBA from Pepperdine University. Retired law enforcement and active volunteer.
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Governor Walz has it right. I miss hearing his plain, common sense talk.

what a day

My Anger Over Trump's Attack Today Is Boundless open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Watching Putin’s little stooges try to bully Zelenskyy in our goddamned White House is pretty repulsive.

Clown.

The Trump right hates Zelenskyy because he exemplifies integrity and courage, and the price of following Trump is to abjure those qualities forever.

President Trump’s simpering fealty to Vladimir Putin and Russia is embarrassing and dangerous. Illinois stands with Ukraine, and so should the White House.

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

Former French President François Hollande said the United States government under Donald Trump is "no longer an ally." www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Oliver Darcy has some very good points here

My hand to god right before they took this photo I told Gene “Smile like you’ve never actually met me before” and this is what he did. #RIPGeneHackman

RIP Gene Hackman - One of the most influential screen actors ever. There was nothing he couldn’t do. His work was searingly truthful and often brutally honest -he never let you off the hook . Not afraid of ambiguity- a lost quality these days . Lucky & grateful to have share screen with him.

They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.

Rest in greatness. Although rarely a leading man, his performances were often the best in whatever film he was appearing in. So versatile he could be extremely funny or dead serious and sometimes both in one film.

We have lost one of the true giants of the screen. Gene Hackman could play anyone, and you could feel a whole life behind it. He could be everyone and no one, a towering presence or an everyday Joe. That’s how powerful an actor he was. He will be missed, but his work will live on forever.

This news truly breaks my heart. We are calling on HHS to take immediate action. Secretary Kennedy needs to bring back weekly measles tracking from the CDC, rehire the health experts, and roll out a serious vaccine campaign. Our kids' safety is on the line! abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-m...

SHAEDON SHARPE, MY GOODNESS

Q; What is considered tacky when you are poor but classy when you are rich? A: Government handouts

BREAKING: A mass resignation rebellion has erupted at DOGE. Over 20 employees, including engineers, data scientists, and product managers, have asserted they refuse to use their expert technical skills to “dismantle critical public services.” “We swore to serve the American people and uphold…

While MSNBC shit the bed firing the best talent they had, FoxNews is busy mixing up white women

Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com Not a good look at all. A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network. www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...

I'm watching the press conference between President Macron and trump, and the President of France speaks and understands TWO languages way better than trump does, struggling with just English. It's such a colossal embarrassment having trump representing the U.S.

The official policy of the United States of America is that having values or believing in the rule of law is the equivalent to having a fetish for watching your wife get nailed by a stranger. That’s Trumpism.

Put me out of my misery.

Explicitly fascist language. Hitler and Mussolini would easily recognize this language. Merging the fate of the nation and the law into the actual person of the supposed 'great man'.

Yeah man. Fire all those other losers who work for DEI and didn’t vote for Trump.

If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

General CQ Brown is a patriot and hero. Firing him makes America less safe, but it will help bring about a Golden Age. For Putin.

👇🏽

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

Nick misses the old days when the Nazis were more competent.

I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

Words fail.

People have gone to jail for less.

I'd like the congratulate the Canadian hockey team on their victory last night over the team fielded by Russia's vassal.

LITERALLY EVERY FBI DIRECTOR HAS BEEN A REPUBLICAN. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

Republican allegations that the FBI has been "corrupted" and "politicized" boil down to this: they are upset that the FBI investigated Donald Trump, who is, after all, a notorious criminal.