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Born on a cusp (23 October 1949). Living in Marblehead MA. Die-hard fan of the Boston Celtics.
Graduate of The Western High School in Washington DC (President of the Class ’67).
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The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
by Walter Issacson
Senator Mark Kelly is a retired Navy captain and former astronaut who has served in the U.S. Senate since 2020. The Arizona senator was one of six Democratic lawmakers who released a video urging military members to refuse unlawful orders.
“Our servicemembers should know that we have their backs as they fulfill their oath to the Constitution and obligation to follow only lawful orders.“
The (so-called) justice department attempted to indict Kelly and the others for treason(?). The grand jury told them to pound sand.
Without consent of congress, taking lives, costing billions, with a mission of-the-day strategy, betraying another promise to MAGAmerica … President BoneSpur loves the bombs and the bully mentality of a child on his xBox.
… covers the personal experiences of Melania Trump in the 20 days before the second inauguration of her husband on January 20, 2025. Directed by Brett Ratner, the film was a box-office bomb, grossing $16.7 million on a $40 million production budget from Amazon, the highest price ever paid for a commissioned documentary.
In 2017, numerous women in Hollywood came forward with allegations of rape and sexual assault by Ratner (69 references in the Epstein files).
Marc Elias is an American elections attorney for the Democratic Party. He founded Democracy Docket, a website focused on voting rights and election litigation in the United States, in 2020. He left his position as a partner at Perkins Coie to start the Elias Law Group in 2021. According to The New York Times, “Elias has arguably done more than any single person outside government to shape the Democratic Party and the rules under which all campaigns and elections in the United States are conducted.”
The woman shot dead by a federal immigration agent in the US city of Minneapolis, a 37-year-old mother of three who had just moved to the city. She was a prize-winning poet and a hobby guitarist, who city leaders have said was there as a legal observer of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities.
… a 37-year-old American intensive care nurse for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, was shot multiple times and killed by two US Customs and Border Protection officers in Minneapolis. The incident occurred amid widespread protests against Operation Metro Surge, following the killing of Renée Good on January 7 by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
… was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent in October 2025 while in her vehicle – and miraculously survived. She was charged with a felony after Homeland Security officials accused her of trying to ram agents with her vehicle. The case was dismissed after videos emerged showing an agent steering his vehicle into Martinez’s vehicle.
Stephen Miller is credited with shaping the racist and draconian immigration policies of President Trump, including the quota driven directives behind the constitution busting behavior of DHS/ICE.
… and was then handed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), promising to cut $2B from the budget in the name of eliminating fraud, waste and abuse. After much chain-saw wielding bluster, he accompllished one tenth of his goal, and then alerted the world that “Trump was all over the Epstein Files!”
Pam “CoverGirl” Bondi unable to face Epstein survivors during house briefing.
“Do I look like someone with a worm in my brain” RFK Jr. explaining his plan to cull the human herd.
Kristi “SkySlut” Noem, the first 2.0 cabinet member thrown under the bus.
Pete “FoxHole” Hegeseth, former weekend host, always ready to bomb someone, anyone.
Don Lemon along with fellow journalist Georgia Fort were arrested after reporting live from inside a Minneapolis church where activists gathered to protest ICE. Journalists have long been able to cover the most dangerous and controversial events across the globe without facing criminal charges. Under Trump’s orders, Lemon and Fort are accused of conspiracy and violating the First Amendment, according to the federal indictment.
Bundled up in his tiny plaid coat and blue knit bunny hat, 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos stared ahead with a blank look as agents huddled around him before bringing him into federal custody with his father.
there’s a beautifully framed and draped copy of the Declaration of Independence. This summer we celebrate the 250th anniversary of its signing. Recently he selected this corner of his office to display for the cameras his newest badge of usurped honor, the plagerized Nobel Peace Price along with its original and legitimate recipient.
The NFL invited Puerto Rican MegaStar Bad Bunny to headline the half-time show at the Super Bowl on 2/8/26. What nobody fully anticipated was the scale of what came after — 4.157 billion views in the first 24 hours across global and U.S. broadcasts, YouTube, and other digital platforms, making his halftime show the single most-watched Super Bowl halftime performance of all time.
On March 25, Rumeysa Öztürk, a graduate student living in Somerville MA, was arrested by six plainclothes officers as she left her home to meet friends to break their Ramadan fast.
