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Retired legal services lawyer, civil rights, poverty law generally. Reviewed over 200 books for national publication centered on publishing, science and law books.
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I’ve been faltering in my attempts to avoid Trump. The administration is just cruel, callous, mean, and heartless. Trying to describe them requires opening the thesaurus for words meaning inhumane. Every word enshrined by Trump’s agenda, nowhere a hint of human kindness.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

The Republican war on the sick, the needy, the endangered will be catastrophic for many and cost lives here and abroad. Ethically the purveyors of this outrage are not far different than those who pull a trigger with real guns. The Republican War on decency has no bottom.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The way Trump is suppressing black history, women’s history, LBGT history coupled with taking control of the government is how Nazi Germany’s and Stalin’s propaganda machines worked before their brutal murdering of millions. I don’t fear that yet, but I fear where the impulse will lead.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

In order to secure control of government Stalin purged his diplomatic corps and other high government officials. His methods may have been more brutal but this appears to be precisely what Musk and Trump are doing. It is a purge and coup. One can only hope the court’s make a difference.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Trump, Musk, and Republicans see the role of government to enrich the rich and not to enhance Americans well being. The damage to the infrastructure will soon begin to show cracks and in another year catastrophes. Then it will be then up to voters, if allowed to vote.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s sitting down with Putin and excluding Zelensky is horrible. It’s as though in 1940, Lindbergh won the presidency and sat down with Hitler, excluding Churchill, to negotiate a treaty with Germany, threatening to withdraw all aid to England if Churchill refused the deal, which he would have.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

It has been the Republican’s goal to undo the safety net of the federal government since the New Deal. Their perfidy makes me wish I believed that after they leave this earth there would be comeuppance for their sadistic, selfish, cruel assault on decency.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Why is it necessary for me to read the final seconds of those on the D.C. plane crash?

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Trump and the Heritage Foundation, not his MAGA marks who are clueless about what government does, would like to destroy the already insufficient safety net. It is a cruel vision infused by racism, disregard for the lives of others here and worldwide and the corrosive dream of a white American.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Birthright citizenship - without it none of my grandparents would have been citizens. Since we were East European Jews that would have been just dandy with today’s cult Republicans.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

We return to the US from our Mexico sojourn in a few days. We will not be returning to the America we left. Trump is an abomination. The ignorance of voters on what government does and how it does it is shocking and the consequence of that ignorance is already devastating.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Still in Mexico where Trump seems not to be on anyone’s mind. It is instructive and means when not actively resisting living as if Trump is invisible is possible.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

We’ve been in Mexico City a week and it has been a pleasure to not have to hear the next President’s name or anything about his rogue cabinet. In Europe people asked “how Trump.” Not here. Being here is a good antidote for thinking the US is the only place in the world. Life goes on everywhere.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment