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DWM, technical writer, skeptic, avid reader, never-Trump conservative who votes Democratic, Renaissance and Baroque music, walking for fitness, museums, historic sites.
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Oscars 2025 Review: It Was All Downhill After That Thrilling Opening www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/osc...

Canada’s Trudeau Bites Back With Multibillion-Dollar Trump Tariff Revenge www.thedailybeast.com/canada-bites...

Democrats Privately Fume Over Zelensky’s Oval Office Row puck.news/democrats-pr...

Small, spiteful, pathetic little man. Trump Live Updates: U.S. Suspends All Military Aid to Ukraine, Official Says - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social.

Donald Trump names 4 things more 'worrying' than Putin as he launches scathing attack on Europe www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

Playbook: Democrats in despair - POLITICO www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Trump tests limits of executive power and US democracy | AP News apnews.com/article/trum...

‘Trump Gaza Number One’ | Zadie Smith | The New York Review of Books www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

GOP Sen. James Lankford defends Zelenskyy as Trump officials question his leadership www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

"They want to destroy democracy. So now I am activated.” - Amy Paris, fired Federal worker

"What they’ve done is they’ve radicalized me. What they’ve done is they’ve taken someone who would have willingly served under their administration to help all of the American people, and what they’ve done is they’ve made me think that they want to destroy the republic.

Federal workers fight back as Trump dismantles their work: 'They've radicalized me' www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

“If we lose a shipment or there’s some delay, that’s something we’ve been through many times before. But if we lose our self-respect, that’s not something you can ever compensate for or restore.” - Andriy, Ukrainian military officer

Ukraine confronts a future without America, and perhaps Zelensky www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

with slick production numbers and some moving moments, such as an 86-year-old Olivia DeHavilland making a presentation 22 years ago. Tonight, alas, is definitely second- or third-rate, by that standard.

I remember big, gala occasions, in the Dorothy Chandler pavilion, with the likes of Billy Crystal, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Denzel Washington, Helen Mirren, and others in a crowd of probably a couple of thousand,

It would have been fun to see Goldie Hawn tonight, but she is either on some medication or had too many mimosas before the show.

Conan O'Brien got off one very good zinger about the film Anora using the F- word 479 times--"That's 3 more than the record set by Sofia Karla Gascon's publicist." Gascon is there tonight, by the way, and it will be interesting to see the response if she is a presenter.

For another, they WON'T TELL YOU WHAT FREAKIN' CATEGORY OF AWARD they are announcing! What a ridiculous lapse in professionalism.

but it's as if most of those who are really important in that town just decided to stay home. I see most of the faces and have absolutely no idea who they are. And the venue and the crowd are much smaller than I remember.

Something about tonight strikes me as lame and threadbare. For one thing, I recognize almost no one there. Sure, there are Edward Norton, Robert Downey, Jr., Guy Pearce, Andrew Garfield, Timothee Chalamet, and about half a dozen others,

I've watched the Oscars every year since 2000. Occasionally, I've turned the program off early, though not usually. Tonight, I've turned it off after 50 minutes, and I'm not sure I'll ever watch it again.

U.S. Lawmakers React to Zelensky and Trump Oval Office Clash | TIME time.com/7263376/trum...

Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend got into the White House impersonating a reporter and taunted President Zelenskyy over his cargo suit. He may have forgotten that Winston Churchill wore a jump suit to visit President FDR at the White House in 1943. Or perhaps he never heard of Churchill.

Conservative commentator questions Zelensky over attire: 'Why don't you wear a suit?' thehill.com/policy/inter...

Zelensky Gets Tea With King Charles After Getting Kicked Out of White House www.thedailybeast.com/zelensky-get...

Across U.S. neighborhoods, this house color is signaling gentrification - Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

Trump Wants to Be President for Life—and He’s Already Preparing for It | The New Republic newrepublic.com/article/1918...

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Sadly, it’s time to revive this 2017 TIME cover.

‘Saturday Night Live' Skewers Trump-Zelensky Oval Office Showdown With A Cameo From Mike Myers As Elon Musk www.msn.com/en-us/tv/new...

Protestors Ambush Vance During Vermont Ski Weekend: ‘Go Ski in Russia’ www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

World Leaders React: Zelensky and Trump Oval Office Showdown | TIME time.com/7263291/zele...

Opinion | A Day of American Infamy - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

When America has your back — the weekly illustration from The Economist

"...we are in completely uncharted waters, led by a president, who — well, I cannot believe he is a Russian agent, but he sure plays one on TV.​" Opinion | This Never Happened With an American President Before - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

Zelensky’s nightmare in Washington - New Statesman www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

President Zelenskyy has continually shown himself to be a hero and a statesman, and yesterday was no exception. I stand with Ukraine.

Trump's idea of "peace" is to sell out Ukraine to Trump's husband, Vladimir Putin. Vance wants nothing more than to become popular with people who don't even know where Ukraine is, so he can be President in 2028.

President Zelenskyy's post following the disgraceful circus put on by President Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance tells the truth and stands firm for his people, as we all knew he would. He's correct--peace for Ukraine without US assistance would be harder--not impossible.

Volodymyr Zelensky seeks to thaw relations with US after White House spat thehill.com/policy/inter...

Democratic activists fueled anti-Trump protests at GOP town halls but also rage at their own party www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

Five takeaways from Trump-Vance-Zelensky Oval Office blow-up thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Volodymyr Zelensky won’t apologize for Oval Office clash with Donald Trump thehill.com/policy/inter...

Brooks and Capehart on the implications of Trump’s altercation with Zelenskyy | PBS News www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...