CurmudgeonAtLarge

Since Trump’s election:

🔵 Democrats have flipped 28 state legislative seats

🔴 Republicans have flipped 0

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3/10/1850 — b. Hallie Quinn Brown, American clubwoman, educator, author, activist, orator. Leader, Af-Am women’s club mvmnt; principal organizer, Colored Women’s League of Wash, DC (1893). Dramatic elocutionist; key role in Harlem Renaissance #WomensHistoryMonth #EduSky #PolSky #WriterSky #woc #BHM

The president had his DOJ seizing ballots while he is trying to force Republicans to enact new voter suppression laws. Our democracy is in danger.

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Trump’s Assault on Higher Education Has Hit a Snag Universities and their allies have been able to block many, if not most, of the White House’s moves in court.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
#krasnov #education #university #resist

“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
- Pres. George W. Bush

Not great when the only people in the free world who believe and trust Vladimir Putin’s word on critical things despite all evidence to the contrary are currently running the government of the United States.

🎩 Either our government officials are being blackmailed by Israel with the Epstein files

Or

They are profiting off of this war, either way these people are traitors to the United States Of America

(POTUS) has put us ALL in danger because he raped & killed children with his billionaire buddies

A black-and-white historical portrait photograph of Edmée Chandon, the pioneering French astronomer (1885–1944), shown as a young woman. She has short, curly dark hair styled in a bob with soft volume, adorned with a dark headband featuring two prominent vertical barrette-like pins or clips. Her expression is calm and direct, gazing straight at the camera with a subtle, composed demeanor. She wears a dark velvet or satin dress with a high neckline accented by a white lace ruffled collar or jabot, and a small decorative brooch or button at the center. The image has a classic early 20th-century studio style with soft lighting, a plain background, and slight vignetting, evoking elegance and determination.

Astronomer Edmée Chandon died #OTD in 1944.🔭

She was the first professional female astronomer in France, working at the Paris Observatory from 1908 until her retirement in 1941.

She is one of the 72 pioneering women whose names are to be engraved on the Eiffel Tower.

#WomenInSTEM #astronomy #WHM

Release all the Epstein files.

Stop the Trumpstein war, prosecute the Trumpstein oligarchs.

Shouldn't Melania the movie star be testifying before congress about the Epstein Files soon? We know she's in there.

The Goldfish Doctrine

Congratulations!
I wish you great success!

They hate me because I fight. They attack me because I win.

I will do everything I can to protect free and fair elections. I will never back down.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

Top DOD Official in Charge of the ‘Golden Dome for America’ Project Has Financial Ties to Contractors This article first appeared at ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of...

At least four of the companies awarded contracts so far to build a "Golden Dome for America" are owned by Cerberus Capital Management, founded by billionaire Steve Feinberg.

He is now the deputy secretary of defense, but he ran Cerberus until last year.

Democrats threaten more Iran war powers votes, call for Hegseth, Rubio to testify Democrats are vowing to interrupt normal order in the Senate unless Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio testify publicly.

Leader Thune needs to bring Secretary Hegseth and Secretary Rubio in front of the Senate immediately to explain why we’re in this war, how it will end, and why they are prioritizing it instead of lowering costs for American families.
www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/i...

A statue depicting Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein styled like Jack and Rose from Titanic appeared on the National Mall today, showing the two figures standing on a ship’s bow with their arms outstretched in the film’s famous “King of the World” pose.

😕 🍪

A new whistleblower complaint is raising alarms over a potential data breach tied to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The Social Security Administration’s inspector general has launched an investigation into allegations

I believe it's at the end of the very first episode of Carl Sagan's Cosmos. The age of the universe is displayed as a single calendar year.
The view keeps zooming in, zooming in...and then -

All of human existence is contained in the last few moments before midnight on December 31.
That's us.

NEW: DOJ sued Washington State for access to the state's unreacted voter data. However, it failed to file proof that it served the complaint. So now the federal judge has asked DOJ to show cause as to why this case should not be dismissed. www.democracydocket.com/cases/washin...

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.

Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is hilarious.

Also, completely enraging.

Kegsbreth

Proven heartless

Shrinking Pentagon staff to 40 from 200 focusing on Iran girls school casualties

What are they covering up now 😡

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1/ Vladimir Putin is said to be concerned about a possible coup by the Russian military following the arrest of former First Deputy Defence Minister Ruslan Tsalikov. Mobile Internet in the centre of Moscow has been turned off for the past week, with no official explanation. ⬇️

The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.

"The actual Trump is so solipsistic, so plainly consumed with narcissism, so deeply indifferent to the details of governance and so eager to satisfy his basest impulses that there was little chance he’d ever complete the authoritarian consolidation of his dreams."

Schatz: We don’t know for sure, but the likely bombing of an elementary school with one of our Tomahawk missiles is not a one-off mistake. It is the result of a change in policy so that the United States has way looser rules of engagement — way more tolerance for civilian harm.

Mark Carney has called the widening Iran war a “failure of the international order” and said the U.S. and Israel launched offensive strikes on Iran without consulting Canada or key allies. Trump then mocks Canadian sovereignty. #holdfast