If you were to read the "newsletters" my congressman, Not Your Buddy" Carter sends every week you would know they have no conscience. Last weeks, before the shooting it was how trump was making America safer. Today it's After our one-week free trial of 2026, I'm ready to subscribe to a full year of trump's America First policies. BTW, he trying to be the republican candidate to run for Senator against Jon Ossoff. And naturally he voted against extending the ACA supplements. He is one of the richest men in Congress but poses as just a pharmacist from a small town. (Doesn't matter his pharmacies made their money providing opioids to nursing homes and assisted living.) We protest every week in front of his office because he hasn't had an in person town hall in over 10 years.
It’s gobsmacking yet typical MAGA hypocrisy that Trump and his cabal would be threatening the Iranian regime for its brutal war against Iran’s valiant protesters while using the same deadly tactics and demonizing language against anyone here who opposes them.
Israeli news analysts are already pointing out Trump’s threats and insinuations of intervention are inducing Iranian leaders to deploy maximum force against the protesters in order to show strength.
Some Israeli analysts add that - as in Venezuela - Trump would at most act for spectacle and attention but never actually help depose the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and ayatollahs.
Truth.
Here’s to rituals that keep us sane and renewed for the challenges ahead.
Well, Senator Merkley is in town, speaking to the masses early in the day and then a rally downtown on the Plaza. We are heading downtown for lunch while the speech wraps up so that we can meet the marchers as they come down the main drag from the speech. He may also have remarks there as well. We all just have to do what we can, when we can and keep doing it every day in some way. If my mother was still alive she would castigate these Republican fools for what they are...cowards. She was the president of our town's Republican Women's Club for many years. She and my 8th grade Civics teacher shaped my world view and I couldn't wait to register to vote my way.
Suggestion for Mary - Do a piece with your description of Job Description for those elected to Congress during trump. Conclusions about job satisfaction would be welcome.
Before Renee Good’s name was even out of reporters’ mouths, federal authorities had already locked down the narrative, sealed off evidence, and declared the killing “self-defense.”
The message is sickeningly clear: if you “impede” law enforcement, they’ll decide whether you live, and ICE now gets to play judge, jury, and after-action PR shop. If that’s not impunity, what is? This isn’t about one trigger pull — it’s about a government that would rather protect its enforcers than its citizens. That’s why people are in the streets, and why they’re not leaving quietly.
I offer a possible solution for Trump/Venezuela: María Corina Machado keeps the Nobel Laureate title and honor, and she gives Trump a cheap copy of the medal (which he will think is the original) in exchange for his resignation as U.S. President. Trump is sufficiently narcissistic and demented to believe he is actually being honored, and he just might take the bait. I'll take my chances with JD Vance, until the Democrats regain control of House and Senate and Vance can be impeached and removed. Meanwhile, as Democrats take the majority in the House, the new Speaker will be a Democrat, who would then be appointed president. I know, it's unlikely. But one can dream!
Remember how inflamed right wing tantrum throwers would become when they accused the "woke" population as trying to silence them with "cancel culture"? We now see the MAGA version of cancel culture, promoting indiscriminate violence and now murder as acceptable rebuttals to criticism.
Kristi Noem is baffled why anyone would object to Donald Trump trying to make our (Democratic) cities safer. This administration's incomprehensibility that in fact, they are making our cities unsafe, is nested in their incontrovertible insistence that they reflect the only noble, moral, and just vision of American culture.
MAGA not only viciously attempts to cancel competing viewpoints, but they actively assassinate those contrary viewpoints with lies, defamation, and ridicule. Only the courts now remain the delicate arbitrator of co-existence.
Do you think any of the Republican Congress members ever stay awake at night wrestling with their conscience- or are they all sleeping like babies?
If you were to read the "newsletters" my congressman, Not Your Buddy" Carter sends every week you would know they have no conscience. Last weeks, before the shooting it was how trump was making America safer. Today it's After our one-week free trial of 2026, I'm ready to subscribe to a full year of trump's America First policies. BTW, he trying to be the republican candidate to run for Senator against Jon Ossoff. And naturally he voted against extending the ACA supplements. He is one of the richest men in Congress but poses as just a pharmacist from a small town. (Doesn't matter his pharmacies made their money providing opioids to nursing homes and assisted living.) We protest every week in front of his office because he hasn't had an in person town hall in over 10 years.
I like Jon Osoff, he seems like a real up and comer. Smart guy.
Thank you Mary. An excellent piece as always. Keep shining those moonbeams of hope, we need them desperately.
Democracy dies not only in darkness, but also in silence...
Like we said in the 80s: Silence = Death
It’s gobsmacking yet typical MAGA hypocrisy that Trump and his cabal would be threatening the Iranian regime for its brutal war against Iran’s valiant protesters while using the same deadly tactics and demonizing language against anyone here who opposes them.
Israeli news analysts are already pointing out Trump’s threats and insinuations of intervention are inducing Iranian leaders to deploy maximum force against the protesters in order to show strength.
Some Israeli analysts add that - as in Venezuela - Trump would at most act for spectacle and attention but never actually help depose the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and ayatollahs.
Truth.
Here’s to rituals that keep us sane and renewed for the challenges ahead.
Yet Congressional Republicans continue to remain silent.
Well, Senator Merkley is in town, speaking to the masses early in the day and then a rally downtown on the Plaza. We are heading downtown for lunch while the speech wraps up so that we can meet the marchers as they come down the main drag from the speech. He may also have remarks there as well. We all just have to do what we can, when we can and keep doing it every day in some way. If my mother was still alive she would castigate these Republican fools for what they are...cowards. She was the president of our town's Republican Women's Club for many years. She and my 8th grade Civics teacher shaped my world view and I couldn't wait to register to vote my way.
Suggestion for Mary - Do a piece with your description of Job Description for those elected to Congress during trump. Conclusions about job satisfaction would be welcome.
Thanks for the shared warmth...it's appreciated and needed!!!!🧡
I could use Marz right now.
He’s with you in spirit!
Before Renee Good’s name was even out of reporters’ mouths, federal authorities had already locked down the narrative, sealed off evidence, and declared the killing “self-defense.”
The message is sickeningly clear: if you “impede” law enforcement, they’ll decide whether you live, and ICE now gets to play judge, jury, and after-action PR shop. If that’s not impunity, what is? This isn’t about one trigger pull — it’s about a government that would rather protect its enforcers than its citizens. That’s why people are in the streets, and why they’re not leaving quietly.
Thank you for your creative clarity!
I offer a possible solution for Trump/Venezuela: María Corina Machado keeps the Nobel Laureate title and honor, and she gives Trump a cheap copy of the medal (which he will think is the original) in exchange for his resignation as U.S. President. Trump is sufficiently narcissistic and demented to believe he is actually being honored, and he just might take the bait. I'll take my chances with JD Vance, until the Democrats regain control of House and Senate and Vance can be impeached and removed. Meanwhile, as Democrats take the majority in the House, the new Speaker will be a Democrat, who would then be appointed president. I know, it's unlikely. But one can dream!
Trump, his administration, and ICE are domestic terrorists.
Remember how inflamed right wing tantrum throwers would become when they accused the "woke" population as trying to silence them with "cancel culture"? We now see the MAGA version of cancel culture, promoting indiscriminate violence and now murder as acceptable rebuttals to criticism.
Kristi Noem is baffled why anyone would object to Donald Trump trying to make our (Democratic) cities safer. This administration's incomprehensibility that in fact, they are making our cities unsafe, is nested in their incontrovertible insistence that they reflect the only noble, moral, and just vision of American culture.
MAGA not only viciously attempts to cancel competing viewpoints, but they actively assassinate those contrary viewpoints with lies, defamation, and ridicule. Only the courts now remain the delicate arbitrator of co-existence.
They got a nice warm place for Noem in hell.
VIP accommodations!