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Writer. Polymath. Author. Extroverted introvert. American Britophile. Living among the Lakes. Working on my 2nd novel.
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Trump order saying only he and attorney general can interpret laws is limited to executive branch www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

Analyzing Musk's claim that '150-year-olds' are collecting Social Security payments www.snopes.com/news/2025/02...

It’s a good thing that Trudy Stiler married Sting. She played the villain in Body in the Library and she was terrible. Spoke all her lines barely above a whisper. Good thing she didn’t have that many lines. #MissMarple #AgathaChristie

For the 100th time, I am cycling through episodes of the original Miss Marple with Joan Hickson. It’s my go-to comfort series. I love A Body in the Library. I love Dolly Bantrey. Love the houses and clothes.

Musk is indiscriminately firing NPS Rangers -- people who have dedicated their lives to protecting our precious national parks and those who visit them This now unemployed ranger asks that we write. Congress via npca.org/jobcuts

Here’s your deep breath. Everything will be ok

When even the New York Post has to publish this, you know you fucked up.

@khanna.house.gov knows. Telehealth is a necessity to many seniors with Medicare. They’re either homebound or live in a rural area where they’d have to travel long distances for in person care. The cruelty is the point. #HandsOffOurMedicare

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

Hey GOP: Great words of advice here: Don't come for Medicaid unless you want the fight of your life. The Tax Scam will literally cause people to die to fund tax breaks for the rich.

Good advice ⬇️

The wind has been (and continues to be) savagely pounding us all last night and through today. Sugar had a very bad night with anxiety, neither of us slept well. I have trazadone to give her, but can’t seem to disguise it well enough for her. 😕

I need someone to answer this damn question!

Made calls to Rep. Claudia Tenney (R), Sen. Gillibrand, and Schumer using the site 5calls. org. First about the U.S. (Trump) “taking over” Gaza, and then about Medicaid. We have a voice! Check out 5calls.org!

We’re done here. Right?

Hey, check your local libraries for free access to news sources that you might otherwise have to pay for. Many libraries offer online access and you can even copy article links and share them. 👍

Censorship. Retaliation. Erasing dissent. Trump’s slow, deliberate attack on the arts and his latest takeover of the Kennedy Center is another step on the road to full control. More in my latest: www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com/p/erasing-di...

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Wait, have we even tried this yet? 😅🤣😂

There's now a FOURTH plane crash on Sean Duffy's watch. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

MEMPHIS — taco truck workers raided and taken away by unidentified *ICE agents* in hoodies for no apparent reason 👇🏽😳 Original (disturbing) post: www.facebook.com/share/v/1BHp...

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

So speaks The Tick, Johnson.

There’s a feeling of comfort knowing that Pete Buttigieg is now on Blue Sky.

So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

Let us not forget.

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Super Bowl USAID Save Foreign Aid

We’re thrilled you’re here, Pete!!

Lots of voters didn’t want to vote for JFK because he was a Catholic, fearing that he would bring religion into the White House. He did no such thing, because our nation established the SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.

I’m so glad I watched PBS’ Super Sunday marathon of programs rather than watch any part of the Duper Bowl. As always, thank you, PBS.

Google has just removed Pride Month and Black History Month from the calendar app. This comes as they obeyed Trump by changing the Gulf of Mexico’s name to “Gulf of America.” L

Did you know Lofoten has a beautiful golf course? Who would think it?

One of my sons is flying to San Antonio today and for the first time, I’m worried about his safety. Much more than I worry about him driving on snowy, icy roads. Another plane crash in Arizona at an airport.

Rep. Jamie Raskin: "I want to thank the people of the CFPB who have saved the American people more than $21 billion from con men and scam artists like Donald Trump." BOOM! 🔥

I hate him. I’ve always hated him. I will always hate him. We hate him. We’ve always hated him. We will always hate him. [What…? Oh, nothing. Just conjugating verbs.]

Rep. Jamie Raskin with workers of the CFPB: "These people need a basic lesson in the U.S. Constitution. Elon Musk didn't create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Representatives of the people of the United States Congress created the CFPB." Something that seems to escape MAGA.