Rod Williams
@rbwms
Dad, husband, and believer in the freedom of each person to live the life they want. New York Yankees fan. Bruce Springsteen fan. From Vermont in 🇺🇸 and I stand with our friends in 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇲🇽 and those from our longtime northern neighbor 🇨🇦.
Trump doesn’t look too good there with Modi. And Roosevelt didn’t look too good at Yalta with Churchill and Stalin in February 1945. He was dead two months later. Trump’s fellow evil soulmate in this picture, of course, is Stalin.
Might have to think about agreeing with MAGA: perhaps celebrities *should* stay out of politics.
media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload... Is this what Donald means by “winning”?
Well, Donnie, Bubba just called your bluff. Yeah, that’s right, “you don’t have the cards”! Oh, go ahead. Let’s see. Whaddaya got there, Donnie Boy? 2♣️ 7♠️ Oooh. Well, sucks to be you.
“You can tell a lot about a person by the way they react when someone dies.” - Charlie Kirk
Whoa - MAGA’s 14-point lead in identification among Republicans has completely evaporated … just since April! You’re really winning, Donnie. Not even able to keep people MAGA! substackcdn.com/image/fetch/...
“The decisions to remove experienced career officials from US Attorneys Offices, the FBI, and other critical parts of DOJ undermines our country's ability to counter terrorist organizations, malign nation-state actors, and countless others that seek to harm our nation and its citizens.” - Fired AUSA
On a fun note, saw this on @pinstripealley.bsky.social, so, yes, Yankees, please bring back Dandy!
After the public TV defunding, there’ve been posts of Fred Rogers’ 1969 appearance before Senator Pastore’s subcommittee, imploring against cuts then. (BTW, turns out Pastore married a distant cousin of mine!) Here’s one more tribute, my pic of Pittsburgh’s monument to its native son. RIP Mr. Rogers
cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/14427... Cheers for Walmart heir Christy Walton! Interestingly, we now have progressives wanting to boycott Target for abandoning any shred of DEI and MAGAts wanting to boycott Walmart for Walton’s message. Of course Walton exhibited courage while Target did not.
static01.nyt.com/images/2019/... MAGA: Just remember, that’s *your* boy Donald there, who partied with Hollywood elite like Jeffrey Epstein, flew on his plane, and did who knows what else? Are those *your* working class, Christian values? Time to see Don for what he is: “He’s for them, not you.”
Today, baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson Day, the 78th anniversary of the breaking of its shameful color barrier. This is an important historical commemoration, and one that should ALWAYS continue. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
Why do so many, or any, states - see the orange ones below - require a “certificate of need” before someone can open a major healthcare facility? USA has a huge need for more health care, but industry insiders as regulators are giving themselves monopolies! healthcareappraisers.com/wp-content/u...
media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload... @sanders.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social Thank you for fighting for us!
cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/14003... We fought a revolution against a king. ‘Nuff said.
Introducing the Green Mountain Boys flag for some essential inspiration in these times:
www.electoral-vote.com/evp2025/Imag... The Venn diagram of MAGA, put together by the great folks over at electoral-vote.com. They left Elon out, though. I’d put him in the middle, over Don, or at least with Fuentes as Don’s “right” hand.
Here’s what the plane had to do … make that sweep out, instead of follow the dashed line.
By the way, check out the beautiful sight of the Vermont State House at dusk on New Year’s Eve