Ellen Dibble 🌻🇺🇸

Trump is not angry with Putin, he is not frustrated with Putin, he is not about to punish Putin. Trump is protecting Putin--he just wants you to think he is not to cover himself politically. Its not TACO, its TAPP (Trump Always Protects Putin)

The amount of money Trump is stuffing into his pockets is unprecedented and unfortunately barely noticed. But what really pisses me off is he's making hundreds of millions of dollars while taking food from kids, jobs from veterans, and health care from people with disabilities.

By dawn she's bleeding out; she knows Paris; once in an ER, she's inaccessible to Billy. His aristocratic lineage is no use at the embassy, him at very loose ends. When a week later the hospital has visitors, her funeral is finis by the embassy, her body buried in Colombia. 12/

The prick on her finger is a trope, I think it's called. A rose did it, which is denied. Is this Snow White? They land in Spain, having made love in the airplane lavatory, though they have a private cabin (1950s, I guess?), and cross the Pyrenees with him driving. 11/

Next installment of Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM): I choose the last story, dated as first, 1976, but the narrator's voice puts it decades back, 1960 maybe, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, I think, and Paris. 1/

“We need to be very clear: this is an authoritarian government that is using the machinery of… the state as a weapon to punish, to bully, to silence,” argues Harvard Prof. Steven Levitsky, adding the targeting of Harvard “is part of a much broader attack on American democracy.”

God Bless that person, that poor scared puppy just wanted some ❤️

To repair the US, us, start with reversing Citizens United (money out of politics, anonymous included), and the immunity for the executive, and Chevron, and get the representation/electoral college in sync. Otherwise, beg to be part of Canada, with values.

I want to tell you about a woman I met on my walk today. Her husband needed a kidney transplant and even though they had insurance, her family lost everything to pay for his care bc the insurer still left them with $100,000 of out of pocket expenses. Outrageous.

NEW: Everything wrong in America is because of the ultra-wealthy. My latest: muellershewrote.com/p/its-the-olig…

Leaving the far more dangerous and insidious Russell Vought to continue the billionaires’ mission to destroy American government from within. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…