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My God. Totally pathetic. The man can't complete a sentence. And this man truly believes that he can order our military to do anything that crosses whatever he's using for a mind.
We're in big trouble, folks.
Following is additional information from current coverage in The Guardian:
Trump's claims about Greenland are misinformation, Denmark's foreign minister says
Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the foreign minister of Denmark, told reporters on Tuesday that he h…
Following is additional information from current coverage in The Guardian:
Joint statement by Nordic foreign ministers on Greenland rejects US advances on territory
The foreign ministers of five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway a…
Well, I sure don't think that converting large chunks of Greenland into radioactive ice is such a great idea. Maybe something well short of "nuclear" would suffice.
Only two Republicans oppose Pete Hegseth’s censure of fellow Senator Mark Kelly
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:
Pushback from Susan Collins and Thom Tillis is striking amid tepid response from most other Republican se…
'The future of Greenland' is solely up to the people of Greenland and Denmark Canada's prime minister says
The Guardian is reporting:
As the White House says that a military option for seizing the Danish territory of Greenland is under active consi…
Israel Tells Doctors Without Borders to End Its Work in Gaza
Following are excerpts from a current report in The New York Times:
The move against the medical aid group enforces policies limiting criticism of Israel’s conduct in the war and requiri…
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:
European leaders are pushing back against US president’s desire to seek takeover of the arctic territory
Donald Trump and his team are looking into “a range of options” in an effort to a…
Pesticide industry ‘immunity shield’ stripped from US appropriations bill
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:
Democrats and ‘make America healthy again’ movement pushed back on the rider in a funding bill led by Bayer
In …
Our political system actually seems to have nothing effective in the way of checks and balances to mitigate this. If just a few years ago someone had tried to convince me that this was even possible I would have written them off as a ridiculous alar…
@Crash has posted:
But it's OK for grown-up schoolyard chickenshit masked ICE bullies to THROW women across the street????? Pepper spray? Teargas? Rubber bullets? How many fatal casualties have there been? SHIT.
Following are excerpts from a current report in The New York Times:
The ruling on Monday upheld a lower court’s judgment in April that the Trump administration could not drastically slash funding from the National Institutes of Health.
A federal a…
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
JAN 6 (Continued)
In November 2022, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed special counsel Jack Smith to investigate Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. On August 1, 2023, a federal grand jury indicted Trump for…
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
JAN 6 (Continued)
As early as 2019, Trump had “joked” about staying in power regardless of the 2020 election results, and on October 31, Trump’s ally Steve Bannon told a private audience that Trump was going to declare that …
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
JAN 6
Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to stop the process of counting the electoral votes that would make Democrat Joe Biden president of the United States. They tr…
@sma3- Thank you for your response. Our income is derived from three sources: SS, pensions, and investment income, which at this time is from fixed income and MMKT funds. The SS income will "only" drop less than $5k (due to IRMAA), the pensions have…
"These thin-skinned lackeys have repeatedly failed to uphold the First Amendment of the Constitution."
And yet, our political system actually seems to have nothing effective in the way of checks and balances to mitigate that. If just a few years ag…
Well, we're back in SF, and looking at the SS notice it is indeed IRMAA, and the increase is based on our 2024 income. So this is going to go on forever. Doesn't make any difference why or what they call it- the result is lower SS income every year-…
You would think that this should not be happening- from YBB's link-
"Starting with the month you reach full retirement age, we will not reduce your benefits no matter how much you earn."
But they have been. I guess that I should try to contact SS,…
"Social Security provides an annual COLA which makes it more attractive than
most (all?) single premium immediate annuities or deferred income annuities.
I recently retired at age 62 and I'm single."
Be aware that the SS COLA can be a significantly…
So what is our response when observers point out that we are right there on the same operative level as Putin with Ukraine and Xi Jinping with Taiwan? Sauce for the goose and all that...
I'll drink to that! And indeed, I'm going upstairs right now and tuck into a decent bottle of Italian red.
Wishing everyone (well, almost everyone) a very happy and financially safe New Year.
@JD-co- Yes sir, you must have been reading my mind-waves. An ironic aspect of his political sabotage is that in many important areas his beliefs are in direct confrontation to those of the criminal he helped to empower. I certainly hope that he thi…
@FD1000 doesn't give a damn about "law and order". As long as he's making his money he's just fine with the outrageous attack on our Capitol, and his president's pardoning of the attackers.
Care to reply to that, you slimy parasite? It was you who …
I should clarify that we do have a large clothes dryer for larger items, but my wife prefers to use the clotheslines for the smaller stuff. Also, since PG&E has some of the highest electric rates in the US, the clothesline is a small economy. I …
