Ghost of Maxine Cheshire🐎

Opinion | How to Think About Trump’s War With Iran

My column: How to Think About Trump’s War With Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/o...

My editor rolling over in his 🪦

Trump & his billionaire buddies have exhausted Americans' most natural resource: virtue & civility

A man who launched his career by creating an online bookstore which helped kept our citizenry informed, will begin his trajectory downward by shrinking the information market and limiting Americans' access to news📰 He knows how to economize it, but he values his bottom line more than his country 🇺🇸

The Epstein rot goes deep [FREE TO READ] America must now ask itself if it can restore a culture of shame

"In a self-valuing democracy, the only defensible stance is to call for release of all remaining files." My column on why the latest Epstein dump gives America the opposite of closure. as.ft.com/r/9553eceb-2...

"Real liberty 🗽 is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy🇺🇸, but in moderate governments." - Alexander Hamilton 📜
⬇️This path simply isn't the way to go.

🐎Since the Civil War, ⛏️Kentucky is where 🇺🇸's ideological 🛞rubber hits the 🛣️road. As '28 nears, all 👀 will be on one of the most popular Democratic governors in 🇺🇸, Gov. Andy Beshear. A top tier Biden donor said Gov. Beshear would’ve won the presidential nomination if the '24 DNC had been brokered🔮⏳⏱️🎱

Trump Tests Presidential Power: Venezuela Operation, Iran Bombing and More A breakdown of the presidential powers President Trump has sought for himself, including what he did to obtain power and what’s next.

Trump’s massive and myriad power grabs, visualized and explained

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

There is no strategy
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Here’s Andy Beshear’s Case for President The Kentucky governor is laying out an early argument for why he could be Democrats’ best bet in 2028.

If #DNC had been brokered, @andybeshearky.bsky.social may have won. Our current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue echoes 🎞️ expert Howard Suber’s words, “The outsider becomes the insider… it goes back to Shakespeare, couldn’t be a more classic dramatic structure.”
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents

Really working their way through the ol' First Amendment.

Harold Russel - For What YouTube video by Call Me Irrepressible

"The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy." - Harold Russell🪖🇺🇸
youtu.be/DkTjZJXW0LE

Harold Russel - For What YouTube video by Call Me Irrepressible

"The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy." - Harold Russell🪖🇺🇸
youtu.be/DkTjZJXW0LE

Harold Russel - For What YouTube video by Call Me Irrepressible

"The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy." - Harold Russell🪖🇺🇸
youtu.be/DkTjZJXW0LE

Harold Russel - For What YouTube video by Call Me Irrepressible

"The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy." - Harold Russell🪖🇺🇸
youtu.be/DkTjZJXW0LE

Harold Russel - For What YouTube video by Call Me Irrepressible

"The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy." - Harold Russell🪖🇺🇸
youtu.be/DkTjZJXW0LE

📘🎞️Can't help but be reminded of a line from "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold"🌬️

📘🎞️Can't help but be reminded of a line from "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold"🌬️

Bloom Democracy YouTube video by Call Me Irrepressible

🇺🇸Americans are losing their ability to evaluate & verify info. Howard Bloom's warning: “If as a nation, we stop thinking well, someday we will yet cease to be a democracy. It really matters, reading the best that has been written, the best that has been thought ever.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=33oF...