Great article! After college, in the early 90s, I worked in Tribeca. One day, walking to work, I was confused by a man at a distance who seemed to be wearing a belt around the outside of a suit jacket. When I got closer, I saw it was a bike chain lock. When I got even closer, I saw it was JFK Jr.
We did a live recording of the Blue City Blues podcast at Seattle Town Hall last night - thanks to all who came!
www.youtube.com/live/_kNjIBE...
You were, unsurprisingly, excellent! Thank you for sharing your understanding of autocracy and how to challenge it effectively. (And I later confirmed my guess, after your friend and former roommate described small dorm rooms with bunk beds, that she was talking about Yale -- as a fellow alum. 😉)
Plus, not even a century ago, his Jewish ancestors were considered the equivalent of "third world." I have Jewish relatives who tried to get into the US both before and after the Holocaust and could not (so went to China and then Israel, not their first choices either time).
Wait, I thought a couple of weeks ago he said we should now dress up while flying? So we should exercise at the airport in a suit and tie or a dress?
Senate Republicans just handed David Bragdon a LIFETIME judicial appointment— a man who compared abortion to murder and said women "must face the consequences" for their "poor judgment."
Republicans are stacking the courts with anti-choice extremists and hoping you don't notice.
Even across the country, in Seattle, my 15 year old son was absolutely jubilant about Mamdani. (He also did an analysis for his high school data science class that concluded with a probability of 90% that prop 50 would win in CA. ☑️)
And as Wikipedia notes, not a surprise, given it's baseline testing.
I became concerned about my memory (as a woman in her 50s) and went to a neurologist. Before the doc came in, her MA gave me the MOCA. Oh my goodness, the anxiety! "What if I can't do the thing Trump keeps claiming he aced?" (Luckily, that anxiety didn't affect my results: 30/30.)
Even if he "donated," it would be from all of the corrupt crypto, etc. funds he's gotten by profiting from being president...
Trump's supporters say we call his policies "racist" too casually.
But let me tell the story of a new policy - about to be unveiled - that is racist on its face.
1/ A short thread on Trump's reported new "whites only" refugee policy. It's truly vile.
Thank you for sharing this assessment and for all you're doing to try to preserve our democracy and values.
Just got the audiobook from Libro!
What's interesting to me is that he's been making this claim for a while. Is there no one on his staff brave enough to explain it to him? Or does he know what he's saying is crazy but figures his MAGA base won't get it, along with the many other insane things he's said that they believe?
I love my aunt very much but got concerned about her cognitive state when she was HERE, visiting from the east coast, and claimed it wasn't hilly.
John Oliver's recent segment about the Baileys was hilarious.
So he hopes Ukraine could give him a twofer, right? Nobel Peace Prize + forget Epstein files
Sad but true...
I remember how the West Wing gave me some peace and hope during the George W. Bush presidency. These days, even the George W. Bush presidency would give me peace.
As an anti-Trumper in a fat (but healthy) body myself, can you please skip using his body size when you have SO MANY other things about him to critique?
So I assume that MAGA billionaires are ok losing millions or billions due to tariffs imposed by their dear leader Trump—but god forbid they should lose even a dime in taxes to help pay for housing, healthcare, food for people in need…and medical research, education, safe transportation, etc., etc….
Oh, yes, we need to take care of our police — except the ones who protected Congress on January 6, 2021.
Glad to see this, @nytimes.com:
“Dole Out?” Seriously, @nytimes.com, why use this headline and thus lessen the value for the recipients of this important honor? Why not just say “award”?
Kaunis!
Oops: should listen to SS episode before commenting, which noted she doesn’t need to audition now. I guess I meant she had already auditioned with all of her previous pro-Trump decisions.
Well, she really put her all into her audition…
I love this idea — especially because I imagine it’s going to be very tough to be a Dem in Congress for the next two years (hopefully not four — and assuming loss of the House this year). This could add purpose and focus beyond trying to stop horrible legislation as the minority party.
