Oklahoma born and raised. Older than most everyone I know. I play,sing,write and sit. Not necessarily in that order though. I take up more space than I used to.
Robert De Niro: I'm pretty close to being a free speech absolutist. Even speech I don't like. But when I hear something I don't like, I use my own free speech to respond. When I hear Trump say, "I don't think about Americans' financial situation." I say, "shut the fuck up."
The richest man on Earth dismantled the organization that feeds the poorest children on earth.
The definition of evil is being a trillionaire in a world where millions of children are starving.
Scientists at Trump’s EPA say they are being told to make chemical risks “disappear on paper.” Not to study or manage them, but to make them vanish.
When a safety test on a household chemical shows danger, supervisors reportedly ask to keep shrinking the scenario until the poison looks safe.
They have reassigned senior scientists to paperwork and handed life-and-death risk assessments to staff with less experience. They have installed former chemical industry lobbyists to run the very offices that are supposed to regulate the chemical industry.
A gift to industry, paid for with your family’s health.
They are even throwing out research on how certain chemicals hit certain communities harder, calling decades of established science “DEI.”
You can make risk disappear on paper.
The cancer does not disappear.
The birth defects do not disappear.
The infertility does not disappear.
The kids drinking the water and getting sick do not disappear.
The EPA exists to protect people, not to protect the profit margins of the people poisoning them.
Every American deserves to know what is happening. #TrumpMakesUsSickcnn.com/2026/06/08/politics/…
In the midst of an Ebola outbreak: we have no confirmed CDC Director, Surgeon General, or FDA Commissioner. Half of NIH's Institutes & Centers lack permanent leadership.
Meanwhile, RFK Jr. is leaving work at 4pm & spouting conspiracy theories. This is public health under Trump.
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New: On April 1, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George requested an in-person meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — an effort to calm months of tension between Hegseth and senior Army leaders, three officials said.
The meeting never came. The next day, he was fired in the middle of a meeting with Army staff.
“The staff proceeded to, one by one, either go and give him a handshake or a hug,” a Pentagon official recalled. By the next morning, George’s office had been emptied.
Inside Hegseth’s Pentagon, where distrust and suspicions of loyalty are rampant
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Trump's DOJ has canceled all election rights trainings, deleted a guide to prosecuting election offenses, and has refused to appoint a director of the Election Crimes branch.
Every single Privatized Immigration facility needs to be shut down immediately.Think about it Mass murderers in prison have better living conditions than the Immigrants especially children & pregnant women in these facilities which are getting rich off them & so are Politicians.
It appears that Trump never posted anything about D-Day, though he had plenty of posts on June 6. It's as if all pretenses are gone, and he's given up even pretending he's interested in honoring anything about America other than himself.
An appropriate post from Zelensky on the anniversary of D-Day. Nothing from Trump. Which is appropriate, since Zelensky is a fighter against tyranny, unlike Trump.
🚨 ICE announces it will no longer report deaths of recently released detainees.
This comes after the deaths of recently released detainees surge to a two-decade high.
Let’s not forget that he’s using our tax money for his vanity projects, but won’t use it for why we pay taxes, namely to help the less fortunate whether it’s SNAP, or Medicaid, or WIC, or any of the other social programs that this lunatic has cut or eliminated!!
Eva Cassidy - A Musical Decathlete
Anniversary Song
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Eva sang in no less than ten genres. Blues, Jazz, Folk, Gospel, Sour/RnB, Pop, Country, Rock, Americana Traditional. She had no audible home base style but rather sang each style as if it was her most proficient.
In each genre Eva found the emotional truth of a song underneath the genre clothing which the song was originally wearing - and sometimes the truth lived in a completely different style than the original song suggested.
"Anniversary Song" is perhaps the least discussed but genuinely striking — she found a melancholy in it that the original sentiment doesn't obviously contain.
“We all should be ‘really, really freaked out.’ Trump’s power grab over the executive branch is intensifying. Trump is less popular…But it’s as if he doesn’t expect elections to matter because he’s going to do everything he can for them not to matter.”
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Trump has just destroyed the US beef industry. No country in their right mind is going to import US beef.
After Trump cut funding for Screwworm monitoring programs, the dangerous flesh-eating parasite has been found in US cattle for the first time since 1966.
From the heartbeat of the bodhrán to the hauntingly beautiful uilleann pipes to the bouzouki that only arrived in the tradition in the 1960s, here are the instruments that make Irish traditional music one of the great sounds on earth. zurl.co/0mRIb