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Quick now, before it's too late!
A song recorded and released 3 years ago (by myself, my friend Rick and my bro-in-law Jimi). Seems even more appropriate today.
Give it a listen and share if you agree.
open.spotify.com/track/5C5iDW...
A song recorded and released 3 years ago (by myself, my friend Rick and my bro-in-law Jimi). Seems even more appropriate today.
Give it a listen and share if you agree.
open.spotify.com/track/5C5iDW...
Unfinished Business
Lethgrove Chamber · Unfinished Business · Song · 2022
open.spotify.com
July 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Quick now, before it's too late!
A song recorded and released 3 years ago (by myself, my friend Rick and my bro-in-law Jimi). Seems even more appropriate today.
Give it a listen and share if you agree.
open.spotify.com/track/5C5iDW...
A song recorded and released 3 years ago (by myself, my friend Rick and my bro-in-law Jimi). Seems even more appropriate today.
Give it a listen and share if you agree.
open.spotify.com/track/5C5iDW...
This just in....
June 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This just in....
Just sayin'...
June 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Just sayin'...
/*humor warning*/ Fox News reports that South African police have detained their only suspect in the recent rash of the murders of white Afrikaans farmers.
June 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
/*humor warning*/ Fox News reports that South African police have detained their only suspect in the recent rash of the murders of white Afrikaans farmers.
'In the world’s richest country, in which mass poverty exists beside unprecedented plenty, we’re tired of just fending off the worst attacks... Amid Trump’s cruelty and avarice, it’s time to fight for a new social contract – one that lifts from the bottom of society so that everybody rises."
How to fight back against Trump? Look to poor people’s movements | Rev Dr Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back
How to fight back against Trump? Look to poor people’s movements | Rev Dr Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back
Anti-poverty activism has provided a model for transformational power, based on four strategic principles
www.theguardian.com
June 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
'In the world’s richest country, in which mass poverty exists beside unprecedented plenty, we’re tired of just fending off the worst attacks... Amid Trump’s cruelty and avarice, it’s time to fight for a new social contract – one that lifts from the bottom of society so that everybody rises."
A year ago today we personally witnessed sheep who were no longer going to take it gathering for a siege of Alnwick Castle. In some times, it is just what is called for.
May 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A year ago today we personally witnessed sheep who were no longer going to take it gathering for a siege of Alnwick Castle. In some times, it is just what is called for.
Trump posts: "CHINA SHOULD OPEN UP ITS MARKET TO USA, CLOSED MARKETS DON’T WORK ANYMORE!!!" Here's the truth: China isn't a closed market. They are the the 3rd largest importer of US goods (see attached), behind only Canada and Mexico. Lies and hipocracy per usual.
www.uschina.org/wp-content/u...
www.uschina.org/wp-content/u...
www.uschina.org
May 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Trump posts: "CHINA SHOULD OPEN UP ITS MARKET TO USA, CLOSED MARKETS DON’T WORK ANYMORE!!!" Here's the truth: China isn't a closed market. They are the the 3rd largest importer of US goods (see attached), behind only Canada and Mexico. Lies and hipocracy per usual.
www.uschina.org/wp-content/u...
www.uschina.org/wp-content/u...
Tyrants like Trump always fall – and we can already predict how he will be dethroned | Simon Tisdall
Tyrants like Trump always fall – and we can already predict how he will be dethroned | Simon Tisdall
The US constitution protects incompetence. But don’t underestimate the self-destructive power of the president’s own hubris, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Worth a read. Thanks NY Times and The Guardian. Just keeps getting "great"-er.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth shared Yemen attack details in second Signal chat – report
US defense secretary texted strike information to his family in group chat he created, sources tell the New York Times
www.theguardian.com
April 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Worth a read. Thanks NY Times and The Guardian. Just keeps getting "great"-er.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is a long clip (19 mins) , but if you get the time, it is well worth it. Chris Murphy is absolutely dialed in to what’s happening and he perfectly articulates what we are bearing witness to in real time.
politicsusa46.substack.com/p/what-would...
politicsusa46.substack.com/p/what-would...
What would be a bridge too far?
This is a long clip (19 mins) , but if you get the time, it is well worth it.
politicsusa46.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This is a long clip (19 mins) , but if you get the time, it is well worth it. Chris Murphy is absolutely dialed in to what’s happening and he perfectly articulates what we are bearing witness to in real time.
politicsusa46.substack.com/p/what-would...
politicsusa46.substack.com/p/what-would...
/sarcasm on
Thanks, "Liberation Day".
/sarcasm off
SMH
Thanks, "Liberation Day".
/sarcasm off
SMH
April 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
/sarcasm on
Thanks, "Liberation Day".
/sarcasm off
SMH
Thanks, "Liberation Day".
/sarcasm off
SMH
"One country that did not feature on Donald Trump's list of tariffs on US trade partners was Russia." Trump has a soft spot for Russia. Heap punishment on our allies, and and love on the greatest threat to world peace since Hitler. Wake up folks before it's too late. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Russia not on Trump's tariff list
US media quotes the White House press secretary as saying this is because of sanctions on Moscow.
www.bbc.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
"One country that did not feature on Donald Trump's list of tariffs on US trade partners was Russia." Trump has a soft spot for Russia. Heap punishment on our allies, and and love on the greatest threat to world peace since Hitler. Wake up folks before it's too late. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Democracies die when people just sit on their asses and complain. Do something. handsoff2025.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Democracies die when people just sit on their asses and complain. Do something. handsoff2025.com
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
From the "Judicial branch: Eliminate barriers to absolute power" chapter of the "Dictatorship for Dummies":
This week, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson floated the idea of hobbling our lower federal courts and hence undermining our delicate system of checks and balances.
youtu.be/1QOZiN8_N-4?...
This week, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson floated the idea of hobbling our lower federal courts and hence undermining our delicate system of checks and balances.
youtu.be/1QOZiN8_N-4?...
Speaker Mike Johnson floats possibility of Congress eliminating federal courts
YouTube video by NBC News
youtu.be
March 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
From the "Judicial branch: Eliminate barriers to absolute power" chapter of the "Dictatorship for Dummies":
This week, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson floated the idea of hobbling our lower federal courts and hence undermining our delicate system of checks and balances.
youtu.be/1QOZiN8_N-4?...
This week, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson floated the idea of hobbling our lower federal courts and hence undermining our delicate system of checks and balances.
youtu.be/1QOZiN8_N-4?...
Reposted
@raskin.house.gov explains why Republicans are ramping up their attacks on the judicial branch—and what it has to do with Donald Trump's (and Elon Musk's) pursuit of absolute, unchecked power.
Rep. Jamie Raskin explains why the GOP is ramping up their attacks on the judicial branch
YouTube video by House Committee on the Judiciary
youtu.be
March 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
@raskin.house.gov explains why Republicans are ramping up their attacks on the judicial branch—and what it has to do with Donald Trump's (and Elon Musk's) pursuit of absolute, unchecked power.
Reposted
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
Reposted
Trump tried to extort Zelenskyy and was impeached – now he may succeed
Trump tried to extort Zelenskyy and was impeached – now he may succeed
The Ukrainian president is expected at the White House on Friday to sign a multimillion-dollar minerals deal with echoes of a notorious 2019 phone call
Alexander Vindman remembers the phone call – and what he did next. Serving on the national security…
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Trump tried to extort Zelenskyy and was impeached – now he may succeed
I marked up this map to highlight The United States' legal Territorial Sea* related to The Gulf of Mexico. Hey Google...you're free to use this map if you like.
*US Territorial Sea extends 12NM from the coastline.
*US Territorial Sea extends 12NM from the coastline.
February 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I marked up this map to highlight The United States' legal Territorial Sea* related to The Gulf of Mexico. Hey Google...you're free to use this map if you like.
*US Territorial Sea extends 12NM from the coastline.
*US Territorial Sea extends 12NM from the coastline.
History repeats, despite our other advances.
February 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
History repeats, despite our other advances.
Reposted
Looking forward to getting my public health info from, like, my dog's vet's friend in Canada. Gift link.
Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review
The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.
wapo.st
January 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Looking forward to getting my public health info from, like, my dog's vet's friend in Canada. Gift link.
Went to check current flu situation. Politics of all kinds should be kept out of CDC, NIH and other public-protecting science-based organizations.
February 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Went to check current flu situation. Politics of all kinds should be kept out of CDC, NIH and other public-protecting science-based organizations.