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Fun-loving user experience (UX) designer, former newspaper journalist, and USAF veteran. Enjoys classic rock and funky jazz, bocce, cycling, progressive politics, CDXX, smart writing, skillful photography, and cooking. #post4ever R.I.P. Tom Robbins
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Trump administration shuts down national database documenting police misconduct Database, first proposed by Trump in 2020 and created by Biden administration in 2023, is now offline www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Yeah, baby! Truer words were never written. They are also both hateful and unconscionable criminals (though that is not a DEI category). πŸ˜’

Happy Caturday to all who choose to celebrate! Don't get too deep into the 'catnip,' or the day will be done and gone before you can fully appreciate it. 😏

This article from Politico Magazine on Trump's first visit to what was then the USSR is most fascinating. It provides some gripping insights into the KGB leadership's thinking, Trump's motivations for making the trip, and how he got played like a cheap violin. 🀨 www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Trump, Musk, and corrupt AF flunkies like Karoline "Lyin' Leavitt" spout lies in their defense of all day, every day. But the MAGAts have begun to awaken from their propaganda-induced coma. Many now realize they'd been had, and made the worst voting mistake imaginable in their support of Felon³⁴.

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

Did you know that Medicare does NOT pay for long-term care. NOPE. 2/3s of longterm care for your parents is paid by MEDICAID. If you want Medicaid cut, your parents wiil need to move into your house when they need long-term care & YOU will be providing it.

Six months from now, when food is a luxury, no vaccines are available to protect them from highly communicable diseases, and gangs of gun-toting thugs and troglodytes are roaming the streets of their neighborhoods, mom and sis will say to you, "Why didn't you warn us that this was happening?" πŸ€”πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has invited Elon Musk to testify at an informal hearing on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau next week. "Musk has said that he is trying to kill the agency β€” he should have the courage to show up in public and answer questions." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I made this earlier, using a fun news widget from Mapquest. Poor folks must be bored stiff, these days. Try it, you'll like it. gulfof.mapquest.com 😎

QUOTE OF THE DAY…

Isn't it though? 🀨

If this order issued by the Trump administration is not illegal, it damn sure should be! πŸ˜’