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Retired. 40 years in news. Now P/T Uber driver. Learning one ride at a time. Love travel, nature, books, music, edibles, immigrants, anything funny, Scrabble, the NBA, the Mets, walking, poker and especially grandkids. Believer in facts.
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Lucky to be in old San Juan, PR, enjoying stunning colonial architecture, beautiful beaches, gentle, warm breezes and delicious food. Thinking Tony Hinchcliffe had to be looking into a mirror when he "joked" about this beautiful isand being "garbage." A remarkably ignorant comment. A total DB!

Trip with Venezuelan rider. His English bad, my Spanish worse. Told me he had been divorced twice -- both after 8 years. I taught him the phrase, "7 year itch." He told me his parents divorced after 40 years. I then taught him the phrase, "quarento annos itch." Learning & "teaching" each ride!

Join me in subscribing to the Des Moines Register to help finance its fight against Trump's bogus lawsuit against pollster Ann Seltzer. help.desmoinesregister.com/subscription...

Bring back summer soon!

Absolutely Stunning timelapse of Earth rising over the Moon captured by lunar orbiter spacecraft Kaguya. 💫👏💫👏💫👏💫 📽: JAXA/NHK

The questions now: --Will GeoSteph and other ABC News employees have the cahones to protest this Trump-groveling decision by Disney corporate that the vast % of producers and reporters surely oppose. --Will David Muir and his production team even cover the story on the evening news tonight?

Uber passenger update: Two 20-year-old women -- studying geophysics! -- explaining how New Mexico offers significant financial aid to virtually every kid trying to attend college. A very good thing! More and more women in the sciences. Another very good thing!

the media, especially right now, needs to do a lot better on the inherent instabilities, contradictions and lack of clarity in "public opinion" of migration policy

Concentration and Focus - Great Blue Heron at the local marsh #birds #ornithology #heron #birdphotography #photography

The image shows a young man, Abdul Wahab Daddoush, who was released from Sednaya yesterday, having lost his sanity and memory. He was identified as a former medical student who disappeared 13 years ago at the age of 20. His grieving mother, who believed he was dead, went blind from sorrow. #Sednaya

FoxOfTheDay 🦊 Beautiful Red Fox cubs at play. 💚 Please DON’T harm them. 🙏 🎦 Credit: Willem Visser. #WildlifePhotography #Wildlife #Nature #Foxes

New here and wondering: anyone interested in reading what's it like to be an Uber driver? If so, please show me some love and follow me. Lots of interesting stories to tell. Maybe an occasional observation, too. 40 years in print & broadcast journalism. Better credential: 4.95 Uber rating!

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---------- Past is prologue Progressing backward, the eternal Russian contradiction, is obviously ever so popular. I think it fits well into the idea, that Russia is a society, built on the premise of its own destruction. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Uniforms of Syrian soldiers from the dictator Bashar al-Assad’s army, abandoned as they fled Damascus. A historic image marking the end of the dictator and his army.

Let's celebrate the millions of legal immigrants doing critical but low-paying jobs. Most of all, health workers putting in long, diffult hours caring for our very elderly. Just today, I picked up a woman from Cameroon and her elderly client. Recently, another from Botswana.. Thanks to them!

@frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social Reassuring thoughts today from my passenger - a Justice Dept. lawyer, fraud division - about phony criminal charges being brought against Trump's political rivals. She was confident independent-minded grand jurors would never go along. Let's hope she's right.

So many feelings driving an Iraqi war vet today. Even tho I was against the war.. I felt such GRATIDUDE to my passenger. He did 3 tours of duty there... He LOST 28 (28!) young guys in combat... He himself has endured 15 surgeries. An IED. I need to remember and honor their sacrifices.

Anyone else start the day hearing a total stranger talk about her husband's erections? Proof you can hear absolutely anything as an Uber driver!! P.S. It was no come-on. She's 81 and her husband is being treated for prostate cancer. Even so...

@wsj.com Want to learn what it's like to Uber drive? Follow me to help me launch my blog. Please!

Part 2 And help me with the title of my soon-to-be launched Uber blog... The contenders: "Gramps is Coming for You" "Ubrrrring: Chill Tales from Behind the Wheel." Or, your ideas. Free (super short!) ride -- or the equivalent -- for the winning suggestion. Coming in January!

Want to hear how angry President Obama was about the economic mess he inherited? From a black woman cop on duty during the "Black Lives Matter" protests? And how immigrants from around the world are faring? My Uber passengers say they know. Follow me to find out. I need 1k followers first!

Me: "Alexa, turn on Fox. I want to hear the news." Alexa: "You'll have to choose one or the other."

Routine childhood vaccination rates have been declining precipitously in recent years. The MMR vaccine is one of the most important. Today 14 states have an MMR vaccination rate for kindergartners of less than 90%. In 2019, just 3 did.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by @shannonwheeler.bsky.social. #NewYorkerCartoons

Americans Celebrate Thanksgiving theonion.com/americans-ce...